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The thing about this life is that the good comes with the bad.Work (bad) in exchange for money (good). Cooking (bad) in exchange for food (good). Reading David Levithan's parts in this book (bad) in exchange for getting to read Nina LaCour's (good).Basically what I'm saying is that this year I learned I love Nina LaCour (by reading everything she's ever written) and that I do not care for David Levithan (by realizing that I've never liked anything he's ever written) and then I read this book by
Find all of my reviews at: http://52bookminimum.blogspot.com/ Is this the beginning of the end? Am I officially getting too old for this shit???? Say it ain’t so!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I refuse to believe that could be the case. Instead I’m going to blame the “meh” factor on (1) I’m in a horrible book slump and not really loving much of anything; (2) NetGalley is all-knowing and I should listen to them when they deny me a request instead of immediately putting myself on the library waiting list lik...
I would like to thank Net Galley, St. Martin’s Press, and the authors for an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an unbiased review.Why didn’t they have books like this when I needed them decades ago? You Know Me Well is a YA novel exploring the angst of young LGBT love. Back in the day there was nothing, I repeat nothing, nada, zilch out there for us who were realizing we were different and not understanding why we were “not normal.” Thanks to the changing times, there is now plenty of l...
A fast-paced caper about a budding love between two girls and a dissolving one between two boys, set during the rainbow-splashed high of Pride Week.
“I'm ready to love myself, but I'm not ready to lose you. I'm ready to find myself, but I'm not ready for you to know what I find” This book had the most iconic mlm/wlw solidarity and I am HERE FOR IT. To be honest, this was the exact kind of queer book I needed and I didn't even realise that until I read it. I loved the friendship between Mark and Kate, a lesbian and gay character and just how this whole book played out. I read it pretty much in one sitting and enjoyed all of it so much. Yo
I'm starting to think that David Levithan is my spirit animal. With every one of his books, he just gets me, you know?Despite the fact that they sit next to each other in their high school calculus class, Mark and Katie have barely spoken to each other. So their official "meet cute" encounter is unlike any you've heard ofKate is hiding in a gay bar at the start of San Francisco's Pride Festival, running away before she gets the chance to meet the girl she's been dreaming about for months, when
There's nothing like happy queer books during Pride month. Especially when said books are set during Pride month themselves.I loved how queer this was. Every single character but the parents is queer, and there's almost no homophobia. This isn't to say that there's no conflict - I love low-conflict queer romances too, but this isn't exactly one of them - it's just that the conflict is never driven by homophobia.⇝ Kate has always idealized her best friend's cousin, Violet, but is afraid to get to...
"I'm ready to lose myself,but I'm not ready to lose you.I'm ready to find myself,But I'm not ready for you to know what I find."This was my first book by Nina LaCour and my fifth by David Levithan (and compared to the other 4 books I've read I liked this one best).You Know Me Well is one of those books that you can easily read in one sitting. It has a great pace, relatable characters and never once gets boring. It's also incredibly romantic.I have nothing to criticise. I enjoyed this a lot. It's...
It was okay. I listened to this in audiobook :)
*2.5/5I'm so sad to be writing that I gave this book 2.5 stars. This was my most anticipated release of 2016, by two authors I adore. It is #ownvoices and stuffed to the brim with queer characters and it should have been perfect for me. But it wasn't.Stuff I loved: -How Pride was written. Every scene that was more focused on Pride than the characters themselves was well done and fun to read. -The attention to queer spaces as safe spaces, and the fact that there was an acknowledgement that older
I’m afraid to say but this book has finally made me realize that Mr. David Levithan and I should officially call it quits. Like I said, his writing is always thoughtful and beautiful but there’s just always something in his stories that makes a premise with great potential become quite too unrealistic. I don’t know how much of the story is on Ms. Nina La Cour but I’m still giving her a chance with Hold Still. I’m not discouraging people to read this though because it could still be a quick, enjo...
Received from: St. Martin's GriffinReceived Via: NetGalley.com THE REVIEWWhy this book?This seemed like a book for meWhat I thoughtI loved this book!! Mark and Katie had a beautiful friendship in just a matter of days. They found eachother just when they needed one another. I felt so many emotions reading this book. I was happy, sad and even frustrated. Katie is the type of girl who runs away from anything good that happens to her, because she doesn’t think she deserves it. Mark is broken hearte...
This was such a fantastic read and utterly adorable! I think what I loved most was the fact that we were almost dropped into the middle of a story already in the process of unfolding. The majority of the characters, having already come out, were happy and secure in their sexualities and relationships were already established, all of which were different but with an equally honest, real feel to them. I loved that although this had a focus around romance, as a reader we got to watch a strong frien...
2.75 stars maybe? I didn't really enjoy this book, but the ending definitely pushed my rating up by half a star. I don't know. I'll think about it for a little bit longer...
“you’re becoming. you’re in the process of becoming. you just don’t know what yet.” sad to say that i really expected more from this, considering i love both authors, but that left me all the more disappointed in the end. i never really connected to a single character in this book, never felt compelled to read more about them or find out, you know, anything. the only thing that kept me reading was the length, since this is a quite short book. and that is where it went wrong first and foremost.