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“I learn that I am a tiny piece of a miraculous world.”

We Are Okay by Nina LaCour

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I struggled with this book for quite a while. For reasons I now don’t remember I believed this book to be a graphic novel and had filed it as such as a different task for Read Harder challenge than I eventually recorded it under. Then, once I began reading it for what it truly was, I found myself struggling through the chapters. Marin the protagonist is in such a low place, and Nina LaCour writes it so well that I felt myself being pulled under as I was already feeling a bit out of sorts. There were a few times […]

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3/28/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:15 |

A Moving Look at Grief, Love, and Friendship

We are Okay by Nina LaCour

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We Are Okay by Nina LaCour My rating: 5 of 5 stars “We Are Okay” explores grief, discovering a dark secret about someone, and transitions in life. Heavy stuff. In fact, I was worried I would hate this book because I tend to read for entertainment not to be confronted with topics such as these. However, Nina LaCour weaves characters, emotions, and a mysterious plot into a very good read. The book is organized in which we start in the present and then flashback to the past until towards the end we’ve basically caught up to the present again. For […]

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12/2/2018 's CBR10 Review No:22 |

Thank you, Julie Murphy, for continuously not sucking.

Meet Cute by Jennifer L. Armentrout, Dhonielle Clayton, Katie Cotugno, Jocelyn Davies, Huntley Fitzpatrick, Nina LaCour, Emery Lord, Katharine McGee, Kass Morgan, Julie Murphy, Meredith Russo, Sara Shepard, Nicola Yoon, Ibi Zoboi

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I’m sorry to say that Meet Cute was my biggest reading disappointment of 2018 so far. It had everything I thought I wanted: how-we-met short stories from some of the best YA authors out there — including Julie freaking Murphy — and a recommendation from Rainbow Rowell. I assumed it would be a delight. And some of it was. I had never heard of Ibi Zoboi, but her story “Hourglass” was my favorite of the bunch. She told a story about Cherish, a tall African-American girl in a small town filled with white people. Her best friend is kind of […]

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6/15/2018 's CBR10 Review No:24 |

“The trouble with denial is that when the truth comes, you aren’t ready.”

We are Okay by Nina LaCour

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I’ve been somewhat slow with my reviews lately, mostly because the books that I’ve been reading have taken me a bit of time to process. In fact, I’m not quite sure I’m done figuring them out yet. I first saw We are Okay at the library on the new YA shelf. The cover drew me in, it had those same dreamy pinks and blues as the Paper Girls cover, and it just looked so familiar to me. Going in to read it, I had no idea what it was about. The blurb on the jacket was pretty vague: You go […]

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5/30/2017 's CBR9 Review No:35 |

“I feel it – I’ve been living in a world, but what I have is a universe”

You Know Me Well by Nina LaCour, David Levithan

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Caitlin_D wrote a review for this one like, 24 hours after I picked it up from the library. Her review was pretty meh, but I already had the book so I figured I might as well read it. And I felt pretty meh about it, too. “I’m ready to lose myself, but I’m not ready to lose you. I’m ready to find myself, But I’m not ready for you to know what I find.” You Know Me Well alternates between two teenage narrators: Kate, who’s about to meet a girl that she’s loved from afar for years and is terrified at […]

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7/25/2016 's CBR8 Review No:137 |

“As that famous homosexual Winston Churchill once said, if you find yourself heartbroken, keep walking.”

You Know Me Well by Nina LaCour & David Levithan

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You Know Me Well is an LGBTQ YA book that Nina LaCour & David Levithan coauthored after three years of back and forth. The acknowledgements say, “It is safe to say that neither of us in October 2012 imagined that the hypothetical book we were talking about would be completed the weekend of (a) Pride Week when we were both (b) in San Francisco right after (c) the Supreme Court ruled in favor of marriage rights for people like us.” The probably had no idea their novel would be released on June 9, 2016- just days before the Pulse Nightclub shooting […]

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7/11/2016 's CBR8 Review No:58 |


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