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I really really liked this. I really, really, REALLY liked it A LOT.
“I love you,” I say to him, only it comes out, “Hey.”
“So damn much,” he says back, only it comes out, “Dude.”
He still won’t meet my eyes.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
Artistically gifted twins Noah and Jude, once best friends, hardly speak to each other anymore. Narrated by Noah when they're thirteen and Jude when they're sixteen, the reader feels the twins' pain and loss of each others' companionship, but the cause of the estrangement remains clouded until the arrival of a beautiful ye ...more
“So damn much,” he says back, only it comes out, “Dude.”
He still won’t meet my eyes.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
Artistically gifted twins Noah and Jude, once best friends, hardly speak to each other anymore. Narrated by Noah when they're thirteen and Jude when they're sixteen, the reader feels the twins' pain and loss of each others' companionship, but the cause of the estrangement remains clouded until the arrival of a beautiful ye ...more
I listened to this audiobook as part of an April book discussion with a Goodreads group I joined, YG,MG, Seriously. Since I LOVED this book and did not want to read it again, I choose to listen to this book narrated by Julia Whelan and Jesse Bernstein and this venue DID NOT disappoint!!! I recommend YA and adults should read and then listen to this book. There is so much to totally love about this book- family lies, secrets, jealousies but also deep abiding love, compassion, and artistic brillia
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Oct 02, 2014
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it was amazing
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Love, love, love this author and this second book by Jandy Nelson has so much to savor and enjoy. I have to agree with my friend, Tiff Emerick, I did not want it to end. I kept reading small bits, hoping that would make the love, drama, brother/sister dysfunction, family sagas, and the art that wove its way through the plot, the characters, and healing last forever. Twins Jude and Noah tell parts of the story at different ages. At a certain point, what they once had so much of- love, honesty, an
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I'd give it 4.5. I enjoyed it so much.
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This book was so freaking good.
This. Book.
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