Caitlin_D wrote a review for this one like, 24 hours after I picked it up from the library. Her review was pretty meh, but I already had the book so I figured I might as well read it. And I felt pretty meh about it, too. “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.” You Know Me Well alternates between two teenage narrators: Kate, who’s about […]
“As that famous homosexual Winston Churchill once said, if you find yourself heartbroken, keep walking.”
You Know Me Well is an LGBTQ YA book that Nina LaCour & David Levithan coauthored after three years of back and forth. The acknowledgements say, “It is safe to say that neither of us in October 2012 imagined that the hypothetical book we were talking about would be completed the weekend of (a) Pride Week when we were both (b) in San Francisco right after (c) the Supreme Court ruled in favor of marriage rights for people like us.” The probably had no idea their […]
Day After Day
I read David Levithan’s Every Day on a family vacation in 2014; Every Day is told from the body jumping teen A’s perspective and the sequel (ish), Another Day, shows the same events through Rhiannon’s eyes. “One last song. One last turn. One last street. no matter how hard you try to keep hold of a day, it’s going to leave you” Rhiannon goes to school one day and her typically distant boyfriend, Justin, is much warmer, happier and he uncharacteristically takes her on a […]
“The door opens with a rusted jingle, and an animatronic Santa insults my moral virtue three times. Ho, ho, ho.”
I definitely borrowed this book based solely on the presence of a short story by Rainbow Rowell, but I’ve read books by some of these other authors, too — David Levithan and Gayle Forman (Forman’s story in this was one of my favorites). And I know Holly Black’s name (The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, which I will eventually get around to reading, I promise!). Basically, if you like young adult fiction, you’ve probably read at least one of these authors. And you should probably read this, […]