How Beautiful The Ordinary: Twelve Stories Of Identity (2009) - Plot & Excerpts
This book really represents the feelings of kids who are lost or feeling afraid to tell the world who they really are. Gay teenagers,gay adults,transgender people of all ages; they all have trouble finding their love and trying to express their love to other people. In Eric Shanower's story two gay boys find it hard to be who they want to be with. "'Then i wish...for Mark and me...to be totally in love with each other and live happily ever after!'...'What? You IDIOT! I WISH I WASN'T GAY!(28)" Two gay teenagers in love with each other, but with one wanting to take it even further while the other still confused about what to do with their love for each other. The other authors also succeeds with telling their stories from a transgender boy meeting love online to a story of a gay man being jealous taking place in the olden days. There isn't much to say about this book or a lot I really want to say to be honest, so this will be shorter than my other reviews.I liked what this book was all about, I really did. The title jumped out at me and so did the subject matter. What didn't really capture me was a lot of the stories. I had my 2 favourites and then I skimmed over the other stories because their beginnings just did grab me like the couple I liked.It seems that nowadays the subject of being an outcast, whether gay, straight, transgendered, bisexual or any of the other colourful arrays of orientation you might be is more of a social and accepted topic than it used to be, and I welcome it for everyone, because what I realised that this book was trying to say is that we are all the same in many ways, but the little differences that make us who we are or seem to rub people the wrong way are the things that make us great, and they should be embraced and welcomed, because no matter who you love, its still love and its still beautiful. I will happily walk down the street holding my boyfriends hand one day and if I see two guys holding hands walking past us, whatever! So this book did have a strong message, even if I wasn't a fan of all the stories.I would recommend this book to anyone who has an identity issue, or like me, who finds these controversial topics interesting.
What do You think about How Beautiful The Ordinary: Twelve Stories Of Identity (2009)?
I didn't finish this. Some of the stories were too super natural or weird for me.
—marisa
Some stories were 2, some 3 and some 4 stars so I averaged.
—emjarlata
