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Chargement... Symptoms of Being Human (2016)par Jeff Garvin
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, YES!!! Oh, this was excellent! I feel like I've read a few books recently that have represented an underrepresented point of view but have been annoying or poorly written, but this book was EXCELLENT, a lot of fun to read, a fantastic story with compelling characters and a clear plotline, and it did a superb job of portrarying a genderfluid character, which is a perspective I don't see in many YA books. Oh, I am just so excited about how beautifully this was done. Thank you, Garvin, I'm so excited to read more of your work. I greatly enjoyed the book. I found Riley to not be the most likable protagonist at the start, but I recognized that a large part of that was where they started and that they would grow, which they did, exceptionally. The one thing I wish I had had some warning about was aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Young Adult Literature.
LGBTQIA+ (Fiction.)
HTML: Starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist * YALSA Top Ten Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers * ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults List * 2017 Rainbow A sharply honest and moving debut perfect for fans of The Perks of Being a Wallflower and Ask the Passengers. Riley Cavanaugh is many things: Punk rock. Snarky. Rebellious. And gender fluid. Some days Riley identifies as a boy, and others as a girl. But Riley isn't exactly out yet. And between starting a new school and having a congressman father running for reelection in über-conservative Orange County, the pressureâ??media and otherwiseâ??is building up in Riley's life. On the advice of a therapist, Riley starts an anonymous blog to vent those pent-up feelings and tell the truth of what it's really like to be a gender fluid teenager. But just as Riley's starting to settle in at schoolâ??even developing feelings for a mysterious outcastâ??the blog goes viral, and an unnamed commenter discovers Riley's real identity, threatening exposure. And Riley must make a choice: walk away from what the blog has createdâ??a lifeline, new friends, a cause to believe inâ??or stand up, come out, and risk everything. From debut author Jeff Garvin comes a powerful and uplifting portrait of a modern teen struggling with high school, relationships, and what it means Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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"uncanny valley" is another way to put it. some things Garvin does really, really well---the particular anxieties of having a blog and communicating with other people online jumped out at me. and then... every time there's an opportunity for Riley's parents to misgender them, they handle it like pros, which is necessary to further the gimmick of never specifying Riley's assigned gender. and the trans support group scenes were truly bizarre, getting it wrong on basically every level possible. they didn't even do a pronoun go-round at the top, for chrissake. (if you're curious about what trans support groups are really like, that scene in [b:Refuse|12685513|Refuse|Elliott DeLine|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1368425906l/12685513._SY75_.jpg|15968782], also reprinted as a short story in [b:The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard|15713728|The Collection Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard|Tom Léger|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1347857275l/15713728._SX50_.jpg|21382135], is painfully on the nose.)
i cannot say i recommend this to anyone. but when someone has just dropped a large bag of groceries on concrete, sometimes you just want to stop and take it all in. ( )