Review:Have you ever listened to a wonderful storyteller tell a wonderfully long story with an ending that just makes you say, tell the story again? That is Aristotle and Dante. I finished the prose-like story and wanted to go back - to see the clues that were so obvious now.

I want to say more, but I will give too much away. It is a story that touched me and I have already passed the book on to two other friends.

You fascinate me, Benjamin Alire Saenz. Read more

Review:I gave this book 4.5 Stars but rounded up to 5 since it was closer to 5 than 4.

This book has an absolutely amazing concept. It was engrossing from the very first chapter and I found the characters to be extremely likable while also being real, flawed human beings. I found myself wishing so many times that *somehow* they won’t both die at the end. I knew this was going to be a very painful journey.

I loved how it hops to different people and that it specifies at the beginning of ea... Read more

Review:With twenty-six crushes and zero kisses in her life, Molly Peskin-Suso wonders if she needs to step outside of her comfort zone. Her twin sister, Cassie, is the the totally opposite. Cassie is an extrovert and she can get a girl's number super easily. The problem for Molly is finding the right person at the exact right moment which is hard to come by.

Becky Albertalli opens up The Upside of Requited with humor. Molly is introduced and she is very likable from the start to the point where ... Read more

Review:While I enjoyed the journey back to Creekwood, and the familiar tensions of change that the end of high school brings, I could not stand Leah. I am (apparently) in the minority with this, considering the glowing reviews, but I find her a tremendously unsympathetic character. If she was unaware of her faults, it would have been much easier to get through, but she REPEATEDLY exhibits how self-aware of her attitude she is, and her reluctance to change is just disgusting. Her situation is understand... Read more

Review:I read this book for a class assignment with dred. It was written by two people with two different styles, about two people with two different lives and too different for me to immediately like it. I won't lie, it took me to about 40% of the way into the book to get into it but when I did it was truly amazing. I feel so overwhelmed with thoughts and feelings that I just had to write a review, my first on this site.

Give it a chance and prepare to be inspired. Read more

Review:I bought this book as a follow-up to reading "Rapture Practice." RP was a memoir, based on a true story. This work is fiction, but the characters seemed so real to me. Rafe is gay, with accepting parents and friends and in a supportive school, but he just wanted to escape being "the gay kid," so he changed schools and hid his sexuality. In the end, he comes to terms with being being "the gay kid", with being who he is. There is joy, and there is angst.
This is classified as a Young Adult nove... Read more

Review:***Spoilers****
Starts out as promising but ends so glum & gloomy that i was sorry i read it. i don't know if the author had a target audience in mind. He is gay, as am i, and any gay person knows the risks & difficulties of being so, even with all the progress. But this book is not so much overshadowed as completely subsumed by homophobic events and their aftermath.The main character suffers 2 severe gay bashings, the second one nearly fatal as he is thrown through the glass lobby do... Read more

Review:Annie on My Mind is the quintessential story of two young women exploring love for the first time. It is the reminiscience of Liza, now a freshman in college, about her relationship to Annie during the previous year. First published in 1982, the story aided the cultural validation of lesbian love. Thsi 25th edition includes an interview with the author which complements the story. Annie on My Mind is included on school reading lists, and usually cannot be found on the library's shelves. What rea... Read more