I enjoyed this book. It was a quick read. This is my second Levithan book and I have a hunch he writes almost exclusively in first person. I like the use of the three interconnected stories. I didn't really care for the love story part of it, as I felt it actually took away from the point of the ...
This book is way different from the other books I usually read.A story about three persons with different beliefs and life values, and how these three persons deal with the 9/11 terrorist attack. David Levithan successfully expresses the pain, sorrow and suffering of the characters (which almost ...
Lets just say.... Its totally NOT what you think.I thought this novella will explain why A is taking over bodies for one day..Its not.And now i don't know if A is originally a boy or a girl because he possess both.But i really liked the writers style and definitely will continue with EVERY DAY “t...
This story collection was included in my edition of "Every Day" at the end of the book...so of course, you know, I read it! It was nice getting to see A at a younger age as well as his teenage self. But the problem that I have with this story is the same problem I have with "Every Day" which is t...
I want you to believe me when I say that David Levithan really is one of the best writers in YA. I won't pretend he's consistent, but when he's at his best (Every Day, Will Grayson Will Grayson, Love is the Higher Law), he creates complex characters, with strong voices, and unique premises that ...
To be more specific, 4.5 stars."Here’s what I know about the realm of possibility— it is always expanding, it is never what you think it is. Everything around us was once deemed impossible. From the airplane overhead to the phones in our pockets to the choir girl putting her arm around the metalh...
A few years ago I posted a far-too-personal blog on MySpace (ok, so maybe it was more than a few years ago) offering a retrospective analysis of select mortifying excepts from my circa-age 14 journal (note: not a diary). It's the only year I kept one, and thank god, because while it's perhaps wor...
Just in time for Valentine’s Day comes a confection from David Levithan that is sure to appeal to fans of Boy Meets Boy. Here are 18 stories, all about love, and about all kinds of love. From the aching for the one you pine for, to standing up and speaking up for the one you love, to pure joy and...
It’s like his personality has spoiled from lack of use. He’s in school, but he still thinks he’s in bed. I can’t take it personally that he’s not happy to see me, because he’s not happy to see any of us. He won’t say more than two words in any sentence, and after a few minutes I decide to leave h...
I broke. Ariel, what did I do to you? What do you think I did to you? I always thought you were the strong one. I thought you could take anything. When you talked about the Truth, I thought you knew something that I didn’t. I was just following. I didn’t realize how bad it...
Elijah isn't surprised that his brother hasn't waited. Really, it doesn't matter. Elijah is happy to be here, is happy to be with Julia. His buzz is just right—enough so things seem real close, but not so much that things seem real far away. He and Julia are surprised by the length of the line; l...
There are about twenty minutes total while we’re watching Gilbert Grape that I actually forget what’s happening to me. Ryan has stepped out of the room and it’s just me and Katie and the movie. My mind can relax. My body is comfortable. I am not a wreck. But the movie ends and my parents come hom...
I was a junior in boarding school, heading back to campus the Monday after Thanksgiving. After three rounds of leftovers, I was ready to return to the dorm, to our well-honed methodology of procrastination, to that last gasp of late-night madness before exams settled in and Christmas came. ...
Gullah land. The way the sunlight beats down and down and down on a body. Sea sounds always but the sun so hot how do you move? The women fan. Sit on their porches. Fan and fan. Child, they say. It too hot today. And it is. So they sit. Just gotta set, they say. Just set...
I tell you about Sal Kinsey, the boy who spit on me every morning for a month in seventh grade, to the point that I could no longer ride the bus. It’s just a story, nothing more than that. In fact, it comes up because I’m telling you how I don’t really hate many people in this world, and you say ...
TINY (spoken): Sometimes a long, dark night of the soul can last for weeks, months, or even years. In my case, it was weeks, but still. Those weeks had years behind them. Because even though I was born gay, and grew up gay, and liked boys in that way and didn’t like girls in that way, there was s...
I make a loud game-show-buzzer noise. "I'm sorry," I say, "we don't recognize 'fine' as an acceptable answer. We see it as a conversational cop-out. So please, try again." Tony sighs again, but not that heavily. He knows he's been snagged. If I ever say "fine" to him, he reacts the same way. &nbs...