Didn't finish, such a mixed bag. The letters by authors and artists I love were predictably fabulous (Erika Moen, Michael Cunningham), and it was sweet to read their reflections about their younger selves, but really I think this book is marketing itself falsely. I got two thirds through without a singe letter by a trans person, at which point I gave up. If you can't even be bothered to tokenize one trans author by putting them in the first half of the book, then you really are not trying at all...

An okay read as long as you don't expect to find a single entry by a transgender person.

A friend let me borrow this book. I had to take breaks from it. It's heartbreaking and hopeful. Too real. I identified with so much in each letter. We have come a long way, but we still have e a long way to go.

I inhaled the first one hundred pages of this volume in one sitting, and then I was trying figure out why that was. Moreover, I was trying to figure out why I was enjoying this book so much more than It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living, which I anticipated loving... and then didn't. After another hundred pages of The Letter Q, I figured it out: I liked the specificity. The authors, actors, artists, and other creatives in this volume are addressing th...

Prepare to laugh and cry and relate way to hard to every word and finish in an afternoon.

As a young queer person who has struggled with their mental health, this book literally felt like a breath of fresh air. I started crying a fourth of the way through the book because this book just made me feel so valid and so seen. It really makes me wonder about my future and what thats going to be like. I dont know, I just really enjoyed this book.

This is a collection of letters, notes, and comic strips from sixty-four award-winning writers and illustrators such as Michael Cunningham, Terrence McNally, Amy Bloom, Armistead Maupin, David Leavitt, Christopher Rice, and Susan Stinson. Each of these “letters” are messages the authors have written to their younger selves to ease the bumpy road of growing up an lgbt youth, all in the tone of “It Gets Better.” They give bracingly honest reasons for young people to tough it out, and hold out for

The Letter Q is a series of letters written from several gay authors to their younger selves. Many of these letter are affirmations, positive declarations about who the younger person will become. This collection is edited by Sarah Moon. Within the pages of this slim book the reader will find 64 of the most provocative, sad, enlightening, inspiring tales you may ever read. The tales vacillate from comic to tragic and all of the in-betweens. I found a little bit of wisdom to come out of ever sing...

What a wonderful collection of stories written by adults to their younger selves. It is basically 64 people saying to young people to hang in there because life really does get better with every life experience you have.

I’m going to give this one a 4 because it seems wrong not to (but I had to double check my own rating system...this is really more like a 3.5). There were some gems in here; there were other bits that just didn’t speak to me. Nevertheless, it is a worthwhile read. For me, it is probably serves more as a source to mine for some great bits to pass on in my classes than something for my own pleasure and growth.

I stayed up (not all night, but only because I read very quickly) reading this book.Books don't make me cry, but this one brought me pretty close. In a good way.

Had some trouble deciding on four or five stars for my rating of this book. There are some precious gems in these pages. There are some powerful passages in these short and poignant samples of prose, with some lovely graphic pieces as well. But then they a few that for some reason, perhaps incorrectly, didn’t quite ring true. Some are so strong that I was almost in tears with wishing that I could have gotten a letter from my older self at those moments when it felt like i just wanted my own hear...

actual rating: 2.5 stars.I really wanted to rate this higher. On the one hand, I love the concept: a bunch of adult queer writers and the advice they'd give younger versions of themselves. It's a beautiful concept, and one that I think could really help today's teens. That being said, this book is marketed as a queer / LGBT+ book, when it's 85% L/G with a splash of B for color.Assuming I didn't miss something super subtle, none of the 65 essays are written by trans authors. Not a single essay m

I found this book a mixed bag, but that’s a good thing. The letters are usually short, 3-4 pages of the small format hardcover, and some of them were absolutely heartbreaking and so relatable for me. Others were “meh.” And there are A LOT of them, so near the end of the book I got tired and started skimming. I kept it fresh by usually only reading a few a day.

I really wish there were letters from trans folks in this. So, that was disappointing.

In this eye-opening non-fiction book, The Letter Q. The editor Sarah Moon found and asked sixty-four gay, lesbian, and bisexual writers, illustrators and publishers to write letters to their younger selves. This is a collection of letter and comics, giving themselves advice on what they could have done better to make their lives a little brighter growing up as LGBT. Making reference to the painful times such as bulling, self-harm and thoughts of suicide. These letters can be a very powerful and

What a lovely, lovely idea. Now I think I'm going to write to teenage me...

I felt like I was in an in-between stage with this totally missed me. I knew I wouldn’t be the target audience, as I’m no longer (thank god) a teen, but it was hard to relate to the letter writers either, as it seemed the youngest were still a decade older, and many were closer to my parents in age. I’m not sure how helpful I would’ve found this as a teen - of course it’s easier to judge how your life improves when you’ve gotten to live the majority of it! I was sad, but not surprised, to not fi...

The Good StuffDavid Levithan's essay was so hilarious yet sweet and honest - will now be looking for some of his writing A good mixture of humour, sadness and anger The message of hope and forgiveness is so prevalent and beautifully and honestly done Very powerful and inspiring Brian Selznick's essay was extremely funny and tender Martin Moran's essay is heartbreaking, so brave to have told his story - such strength of character and a very inspiring story to those LGBT youths with thoughts of su...

3.5 stars. Perhaps it would have been a better experience if I hadn't wolfed down the book in two or three sittings, because at times the stories started feeling redundant. But all the pieces were heartfelt, many were beautifully written, and there are diverse voices in here, though a little more diversity is always a desirable improvement. The comics were great, especially the ones by Lucy Knisley and Michael DiMotta. And I loved Diane DiMassa's piece for its grit and refusal to sugar coat adul...