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Indlæser... If I Was Your Girl (original 2016; udgave 2016)af Meredith Russo (Forfatter)
Work InformationIf I Was Your Girl af Meredith Russo (2016)
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. My usual "I'm not the right audience for this" YA disclaimer applies. I am almost always annoyed by teenagers in real life and in books. However, I thought the book was super interesting even if I think the behavior of the high school kids is a little hard to believe in the long run. I think reading books from this POV is important for people so if you feel the same way you know you aren't alone and if you aren't the same it's good to get a glimpse of what that experience is like. It serves us all to try to learn more about people. Last but not least I was INCREDIBLY annoyed with how often the author chose to use the word ain't. 99% of the dialogue is perfectly eloquent and then she throws on ain't. Totally took me out of things. I was hesitant to embark on what appeared to be an "issue" book. I am so glad I dove in, because it felt like a human book, and while the character has a unique perspective, the feelings and relationships all felt very real. I think my favorite think was the nature of the friendships, and the ways in which those relationships were more important, and even more life saving, than the romantic story that seemed to drive much of this novel. I am very much looking forward to this author's next books, whatever they may be. CW spoilers, suicide, rape, outing, mental distress. Huh. I don’t know what to think about this book. This book is quite raw, it covers a lot of difficult topics that our society doesn’t like talking about, in particular when they happen to trans folk. But there are a lot of gaps left, both story-wise, but also in how suicide, rape, and being outed as trans on more of a meta level are dealt with. It’s a good book in the sense of bringing up these difficult topics, and for cis folk it surely could be eye opening to the “trans experience”. I’m not sure I’d recommend this book to a younger me, I would have needed to talk about some of the heavier stuff in the book - heck, I think I need to talk to someone about this at my current age. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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Amanda er den nye pige i klassen. Ligesom alle andre vil hun gerne passe ind, få venner og måske blive kærester med klassens sødeste fyr. Men Amanda har en stor hemmelighed, der gør at hun ikke tør at stole på nogen. Hun er døbt Andrew og har kun været en pige i et år. No library descriptions found. |
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In Lambertville, going to football games and parties with her new friends, she meets and falls in love a handsome boy, Grant Everett. It was a complication she did not expect; her plan was to have a quiet, anonymous senior year before going to New York for college, where she figured she would fit in better. Grant calls her “one of the prettiest girls [he’s] ever seen” and that no girl he kissed before every made him feel the way he did. Although Amanda tries to tell Grant about herself, he tells her that whatever is in her past, he does not need to know. However, she is outed in a public way at the homecoming dance by someone she trusted. The story is not really a romance and the ending is left ambiguous, but the romantic parts were sweet, and I feel Ms. Russo gave us a good glimpse of trans life. I don't think the writing was strong enough to earn four stars, but it was definitely a high three-star rating.
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