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“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 |

Surprisingly, This is Not for the “Book is Better” Square

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

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Bingo Square: Home, Something, Home I started watching the movie adaptation of this on a recent plane trip, and only realized once I was further into it, that Love, Simon was based on the novel Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, an often reviewed novel on Cannonball Read. My main motivation for starting the movie is that I quite liked the lead actor in Everything, Everything (I like that both the lead actors in that movie are basically working their way through YA film adaptions – can’t wait for The Hate You Give) – I’d like to think he is […]

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8/1/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:143 |

Becky Albertalli is three for three.

Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

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As always with a Becky Albertalli book, I flew through it. I haven’t read an entire book in a night in quite a long time, but I felt compelled to keep going even though it got pretty late. And then I figured I might as well just finish it. No regrets here! A good time was had. I do think this is my least favorite of her three books, so far, though. Surprisingly, it has nothing to do with Leah herself. Leah is a tough character to like for me. I bounced off her a little bit in Simon vs. the […]

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7/11/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:83 |

40: Ugh. I do not like the “cool, caustic sarcastic girl” trope.

Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

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I wasn’t sure I wanted to read Leah on the Offbeat, the Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda sequel. I wasn’t in love with the first book (after really loving the film), so I didn’t know how a different book would change my perception of the world Becky Albertalli created. I really liked the world and the friend group she created, and I was curious about how a Leah-centered novel would work. I did find the representation of Leah in the book to be a bit anemic, so I was game to try the book. Plus, my husband blazed through […]

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6/10/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:40 |

38: Another case of “I liked the movie better.”

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

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I don’t see a lot of movies in the theater, partly because our area is kind of expensive, partly because I want to spend quality time with people talking and connecting and not just sitting in front of a screen, partly because I’m picky about what I plunk money down on, and partly because I can’t sit with my pajamas and snacks and play games on my tablet in a movie theater. Our local library book club had planned an outing to see Ready Player One, but the theater cancelled its showings in order to accommodate Avengers: Infinity War. In […]

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6/10/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:38 |

Maybe it’s a holy freaking huge awesome deal

Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

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I am not a quick reader, but I blazed through Becky Albertalli’s Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda in one sitting. I haven’t seen the movie yet and didn’t know much about the book before I saw it while browsing bookstores on a recent trip, but I’m really glad I read it. The story begins as teenage Simon is blackmailed by a fellow student who inadvertently read Simon’s email exchange with another boy Simon knows only as Blue. They’re both closeted and want to keep it that way, but now this other student is threatening to out them both if […]

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6/7/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:31 |

She kissed a girl and she liked it

Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

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While this book can be read as a standalone, it is a sequel of sorts to Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda and I suspect you might get more out of it if you read that one first. The movie adaptation of said book; Love, Simon is currently in cinemas now (and it’s just as delightful as the book it’s based on). Leah Burke has a big secret and she doesn’t really feel comfortable telling anyone apart from her Mum, even her best friend Simon. Leah’s bisexual, but doesn’t really know how to tell even her openly gay BFF. Simon was involuntarily outed online […]

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6/7/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:42 |

As a Professional Crush-Having-But-Doing-Nothing Kind of Person, I Feel You, Girl…

The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli

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After having read Becky Albertalli’s novel Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda earlier this year (which I LOVED also with the super sweet film adaptation Love, Simon which left my heart full of warm fuzzies), I decided to pick up this companion novel, The Upside of Unrequited. And boy, I must say, that just like in my previous Albertalli read, she sure has a knack for personally calling me out through these relatable characters, feelings, and emotions: I swear, a lot of the lines she writes are things that have literally come out of my own mouth, or it wouldn’t […]

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3/29/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:14 |


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