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A friend of mine recommended Simon as one of her favorite YA contemps for 2015. That, coupled with the fact that it's on the YALSA Hub Reading Challenge list (William C. Morris YA Debut Award, YALSA Top 10 Fiction for Young Adults, Rainbow List YA Titles) meant that I was determined to read it. I had several false starts before I really began to get into the flow of this book. It's told from Simon's point of view, and y'all, Simon is (obviously) a teenager. He uses a lot of slang, like, you know
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Loved this book so much that I ate it up in a day - so sweet, and strangely cathartic to read! It was long listed for the National Book Award, which I was initially surprised by but now have to agree with. In some ways "Simon" is a light read, since at heart it is just a super adorable romance. However, there are deeper nuances about friendship and coming out which make it powerful at times. I really appreciated the complicated relationships Simon had with his friends and family, not just Blue.
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So much adorableness.
Love love love. This book caused just the right amount of nostalgia without sentimentalizing high school. There is strong character development for even the most minor characters, which I appreciate. I may be biased as a former theater kid, but I adored those scenes especially. The emails between Simon and Blue add depth to the story (thought it's certainly not a fluff book without them), and I enjoyed that the book shied away from a lot of conventional tropes. The blackmail aspect did get a bit
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Pretty much adorable. Lightweight and cute.
It was fine except that they kept talking about going on "the Tumblr" instead of just Tumblr.
You don't go on The email, or The Facebook do you? It was just very jarring and made me feel like it was a grown-up writing and giving me a wink like "see how cool and with it I am? I know what the Tumblr is?"
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You don't go on The email, or The Facebook do you? It was just very jarring and made me feel like it was a grown-up writing and giving me a wink like "see how cool and with it I am? I know what the Tumblr is?"
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The reviews & descriptions of this book had me excited to read it. Reading it changed my enthusiasm to boredom. It was very blah. Simon had a very real family - everyone had their own faults. He should have known they would support him and should not have been so timid. However, why wasn't he more upset with the blackmail? And when they finally meet, it was like they never communicated before. Not my favorite LGBT book.
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The perfect mix of angst, humor, romance, and classic American high school concerns (the politics of cafeteria seating, the insular world of theater rehearsals, diner chains that serve breakfast all day), driven by utterly believable characters getting themselves into circumstances both emotionally wrenching and entirely relatable. I'm always extra-happy to find love stories woven organically into a larger tapestry of social goings-on, and Simon's maneuvering with his friends were just as compel
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Funny, honest, and an all-around good read, even better the second time!
Jun 12, 2015
Emily Childress-Campbell
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