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“Everyone in my life is a stranger, and that includes me.”

Holding Up the Universe by Jennifer Niven

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I enjoyed the heartbreaking All the Bright Places so when I saw Jennifer Niven’s follow up, Holding Up the Universe, I snapped it up. Niven again focuses on two teens who, up until now, have had no reason to spend any time together but are weighed down by similar stories. Jack Masselin is a popular high school baseball player with an on again off again relationship with the star of the drill team. He also has Prosopagnosia, a disorder where you cannot recognize faces even the faces of […]

We Don’t Ever Leave the Old World Behind. We Just Create a New One.

Holding Up the Universe by Jennifer Niven

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A delightful way to officially begin my 2019 reading year.  This novel by Jennifer Niven was part of a pile of YA novels I checked out of my college’s library before winter break and so far it’s been my favorite.  Similar to her first novel, All the Bright Places, this novel focuses on the developing relationship between two Indiana high school students, and the story is told by both characters in alternating chapters. Libby Strout is excited and dreading her first day of school since […]

Blah blah blah…great book…great characters…BRAD PITT CAN’T RECOGNIZE FACES…

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Seriously, I’m not sure I can even get past the news that Brad Pitt has a disorder that prevents him from recognizing faces. According to Holding up the Universe, one in every 50 people has this disorder, and I’m overwhelmed with this information. Brad Pitt must be so surprised every time he looks in the mirror! Or when he sees his handsome friends, beautiful children, or gorgeous ex-wives. I really can’t get over this. Like Brad, one of the two narrators of this book has […]



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