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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 |

In Which I Think the Movie is Better Than the Book

Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

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Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli My rating: 4 of 5 stars Simon is a junior in high school and early on we learn that he’s feeling isolated and lonely because he’s gay, hasn’t come out to anyone, and is looking to find a community where he can feel like he fits in with who he is. Right around this point in the novel, a post comes up on the school’s unofficial Tumblr page from a use by the name of Blue who’s expressing the same idea of being gay, not out, and feeling alone and isolated. […]

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12/2/2018 's CBR10 Review No:17 |

CBR Bingo: Listicles

Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

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Leah on the Off Beat is on numerous listicles for 2018 but for CBR Bingo purposes it is located on BookBub’s 20 of the Biggest Teen Books for Adults coming in Spring 2018. Albertalli revisits the Creekwood social circle of Simon Spier with the narration falling into the less capable hands of  his friend Leah Burke. Leah is an overweight, Harry Potter obsessed drummer who has always known she was bisexual but failed to come out to her best friend Simon even after he had a dramatic outing himself the year prior. This point really stuck with me because, for all the good […]

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9/9/2018 's CBR10 Review No:95 |

“I’m basically your resident fat Slytherin Rory Gilmore.”

Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

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I’m using this review to fill my Birthday! square, as Becky Albertalli’s birthday is November 17th. “Imagine going about your day knowing someone’s carrying you in their mind. That has to be the best part of being in love- the feeling of having a home in some else’s brain…” I loved Simon Vs. the Homosapien Agenda and The Upside of Unrequited, so of course I wanted to read Albertalli’s newest book. Leah on the Offbeat is more of a direct sequel to Simon, as Upside focused on different characters on the very outskirts of the universe. Here, Simon’s friend Leah […]

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8/7/2018 's CBR10 Review No:6 |


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