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Two authors is one too many

What If It's Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

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CBR11 Bingo Rainbow Flag square. This is a collaborative book written by two authors who have had individual success in the Young Adult market. Arthur and Ben meet cute at a post office when Arthur follows a cute guy who is trying to mail a package to his ex-boyfriend. They don’t exchange information before they are separated by a flash mob and then spend a third of the story thinking about how to find the other, and if it is even worth the attempt. Arthur is a junior in high school in an Atlanta suburb. He is in New York […]

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8/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:46 |

“Can ambiguous social situations kindly go fuck themselves?”

Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

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CBR11Bingo – Pajiba! This book was briefly reviewed on Pajiba here, seems we feel similarly! Leah Burke seems to be on an even keep as she navigates senior year, stepping closer to her future college career at the local state school, where she’ll even have her friend Abby there. But naturally things start to shake up, as tends to happen in senior year.  First, Abby and Nick break up. Abby doesn’t think their relationship can hold-up long distance, and Nick is heartbroken – as is Leah’s best friend Simon and most of the group.  Then some in-fighting happens when one […]

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7/31/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:53 |

Leah on the Offbeat – Fun Visit Back to Creekwood

Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

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Finished on March 26, took 2 days to read 3 stars on Goodreads, actually a 3.5 Genre: Young Adult Rating 4/4 Young Adult Leah on the Offbeat is a follow up novel to one of my favorite books from last year: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda. I devoured Simon in one night, and immediately watched the movie (not as good as the book but still fun). So I was very excited to visit the characters from the point of view of Leah, one of Simon’s best friends from the first novel. We follow the Creekwood gang as they navigate […]

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5/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:14 |

What If It’s Me

What If It's Us by Becky Albertalli & Adam Silvera

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I have to preface this review by saying that I haven’t read anything by either Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera though I did watch (and enjoy) Love, Simon.  The premise of this YA novel is cute as is its origin story.  The two authors didn’t know each other but their debut novels were sold and published at about the same time and they connected and bonded over e-mail and social media.  They decided soon after to collaborate on a novel and this is the result. The novel is told in alternating chapters by Ben and Arthur and tells the story […]

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1/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:3 |

I mean, I don’t want to bust out the ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ again, but I guess I just did.

What If It's Us by Becky Albertalli & Adam Silvera

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I feel like I can’t really even muster up enough energy to review this. It was okay, not bad. I just didn’t really enjoy it all that much. Parts of it were very cute, and then parts of it were just there. I guess I just never really felt Ben and Arthur’s connection, it was just told to me over and over again, amidst a staggering amount of dramadrama, which I do not like. Ben is a NY native who has recently broken up with his boyfriend Hudson, and is at the post office to mail a box of his […]

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12/11/2018 's CBR10 Review No:162 |

More secrets from the Creekwood gang

Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

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I’m still three reviews behind, so I’ll get right to it with this one. Having read and loved Becky Albertalli’s Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda earlier this year, I figured I may as well read the follow-up, Leah on the Offbeat, especially since it was one of the few finalists for the 2018 Goodreads Awards that I already owned.  The whole gang from Simon is back for senior year, and Simon’s long-time best friend Leah gets to tell her own story. The title is a perfect encapsulation of Leah: a drummer in an all-girl band but not really a […]

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12/10/2018 's CBR10 Review No:66 |

Falling in Love with Love, Simon

Simon vs the Homosapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

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I reached out to members of my lady tribe looking for an uplifting read after the awful heartbreak that was The Radium Girls and one of my friends recommended YA in general, and Becky Albertalli specifically. I don’t read a lot of YA though I have enjoyed my share of John Green and Rainbow Rowell, so I figured I was on the right track. My pal did not disappoint. This book was a warm smile and a fluffy embrace and just what I needed. Simon is a closeted teen in a suburb of Atlanta who, through Tumblr, makes an anonymous […]

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12/9/2018 's CBR10 Review No:44 |

I Had High Hopes for This…They Didn’t Pan Out

Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

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Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli My rating: 3 of 5 stars “Leah on the Offbeat” is the “sequel” to “Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda.” It doesn’t take the plot forward so much as delves into the lives of some of the other characters from the first book. Leah had a minor role in “Simon” as his best friend (although for a best friend, she didn’t appear in a lot of the book). In her titular book, we get to see her conflicts as she feels pressure to come out as bi, now that Simon has come out […]

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12/2/2018 's CBR10 Review No:19 |


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