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OCD leaves her with some glitches that make it hard for her to socialize with the other seniors in her class, Luckily, she has a quirky cast of characters surrounding her that begin leading her toward selfacceptance, Told through notes, email, letters, essays, and journal entries, OCD, The Dude, and Me gives us a character whose spirit shows the way to hope,

The film The Big Lebowski is a factor in the last third of this book, Readers unfamiliar with the film will still get along fine, and those who know the movie will relish the references, OCD, The Dude, and Me has a lot to say about writing, teachers, and books, You can give this one to Englishy kids in your school, and they will see themselves reflected in Danielle, Danielle is an ugly, redhaired, fat, senior in high school who is destined to be crazy and have no friends, Well, at least that is the way she sees herself, Others who know her would disagree, They would say she is a smart, articulate, an amazing writer, a size, and had a horrible tragedy take place in front of her that has left her somewhat, well, crazy.


Danielles story takes place during her senior year through various English class essays, personal journal entries, emails, and short notes to her shrink, Marv, She has some issues with social skills, OCD, and likes to hide in bathrooms under piles of towels with special hats and matching Chuck Taylors to calm herself down during panic attacks.
The good news is she has amazing parents shes adopted, an uber fabulous fashion designer aunt, and a new best friend, Daniel, whom she met in her social skills class.


As you read and get into Danielles head, you understand that the person she sees and the person you are reading about are two different ones.
Not knowing what the “incident” was that created these changes in her will keep you reading, hoping for her to see how good she really is will keep you reading, and at the end, hugs all around.
I really, honestly dont know what to say about OCD, The Dude, and Me, Its one of those books that you will either fall completely in love with or youll hate it,

I loved it, Danielle was hilarious, broken, and stubborn, I appreciated her sense of humor, how socially awkward, dramatic, and OCD she was, Shes dramatic, sensitive , selfish, but has a huge heart and is so real, Her method of pushing everyone out of her life to prevent herself from getting hurt is so relatable, I adored her as a character, Danielle is a wonderful example of a character who is so much more than just words on paper,

There is a huge spoiler halfway through, so I cant really talk about the plot much without giving anything away, But you should brace yourself, I didnt bawl my eyes out, but I teared up, Alot. Lauren Vaughn did a wonderful job of conquering such emotional and deep issues while still including plenty of humor,

Usually I rather despise books written in diary style because they often end up doing a whole lot of telling instead of showing, However, that was not the case with this book, Sure, the way its written should not have worked at all, But it did. Danielle has such a brilliant character voice and the way this novel was written was perfect for this story,

Granted I had a few minor, minor issues with the plot that werent completely tied up, But the overall message of this book was just genius, Your past always catches up with you, you cant forget people you once loved, people are never what they seem to be, and you shouldnt change yourself to make others like you.
OCD, The Dude, and Me was funny, emotional, and is one of my favorite releases from this year, If you like YA contemporary then you need this book, Stories that carry more than what they lead on are the best, Like this book for example, I expected to find a girl with is OCD just because, Because this book went farther than that, I was taken away,

The plot of the book is nicely done, Easily being able to step into Danielle shoe's, the reader is able to relate to her, I love getting indepth with her emotions and how wonderfully it was written, Just reading her emotions made me angry, happy, sad cause I understood her, Not to mention Danielle wrote down things so bluntly you just get it,

Now, there's no real love interest but simply Danielle finding herself again, I don't want to spoil it but Danielle face a horrible tragedy that took her away, After what was happen was revealed in the end, I can see the way she coped with it, I can piece together every emotion, every sarcastic line and understand, And that is amazing.

In the end, Danielle figures it all out, She needed time but she got there with some great

help from friends who believed in her, She had an awesome Aunt and great parents that never gave up or got frustrated with her antics, They took her as is and loved her dearly,

OCD, The Dude and Me is a great read, Taking the reader by surprise by the confidence that Danielle has, Her personality has a charisma you want to read, Delivering a worthy read with an unexpected ending, OCD, The Dude and Me is inspiring, Actual score:.stars. I was going to give this book only three, but the last fifty pages or so brought it up to four,

Danielle has OCD and has been sent to an "alternative" school where the learning environment is better for her, Something happened to her in junior high to trigger her OCD, but she doesn't like to think about that, This book consists of her writings journal entries, correspondence with various people, and assignments for English class, We follow Danielle as she travels to England with her class, attends a socialization support group, and begs her aunt to rescue her from all the required activities in her life.
Eventually, interesting things happen to Danielle and we do find out what happened to her to trigger her OCD,

First off, this girl doesn't seem like any character or genuine human being with OCD that I've ever met, Second, the book is random, scattered, and severely lacking in the plot department, I only kept reading so I could find out why there's a purple bowling ball on the cover, Yes, really. Third, if Danielle is at a special school, why don't any of her classmates have any disabilities

This book was okay, but not really worth the time to read it.
It's just too fluffy for a book that supposedly tackles some very serious issues, Meh. spoilers a tiny bit

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I was very on the line about this book, It's not a romantic plotline which is amaxingly refreshing after being forcefed love triangle after badly written love triangle, but at the same time, the premise of the main character's emotions and personality is very annoying she only has OCD due to a very traumatic experience, which pissed me off because god forbid she was simply born with a disorder that affects such a huge group of people so deeply.
It is only after she reads an essay on her disorder to her class that they accept her like they need some reason to not judge her, besides basic human kindness.

Secondly, she thinks she's fat, Like, fat fat fat. she says she's ugly, eith rolls of fat over stomach and chunky thighs and arms the size of treetrunks FAT,
she's a flipping size eight,
Really what kind of a message is that sending to teenage girls SIZEIS NOT FAT EVERYBODY, NEWS FRIGGIN FLASH.
thirdly, the writing was really bad, it may be that the author wanted to sound like a girl writing her diary, but it made me want to punch myself in the face, .