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 […]
More secrets from the Creekwood gang
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 […]
Falling in Love with Love, Simon
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 […]
I Had High Hopes for This…They Didn’t Pan Out
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 […]
In Which I Think the Movie is Better Than the Book
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 […]
CBR Bingo: Listicles
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 […]
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