Status Updates From Simon Sort of Says

The narrator butchering the Tagalog words is a bummer, but this book rules so far.

Favorite quotes, so far:

"... I'm so tired I can taste color."

I FEEL SO BAD FOR SIMON OML.

i lowkey wish I didn’t read the synopsis for this before “reading” it bc that was jaw dropping

THEY FINALLY SAID HALO-HALO RIGHTTTT

becoming my favorite bob book ngllll (🇵🇭bsf, catholicism, autism awareness and messed up 🇺🇸🔫laws)

GUYS THE AUDIOBOOK NARRATOR SAID “HALO-HALO” as “HAYLOW HAYLOW” IM LOWK PISSED

I downloaded this book on accident and it is excellent! The voice actor is so good. Really enjoying this surprising middle grade book.

I simply love this book. ❤️

i’m tearing up. this book is SO GOOD

the emotions I’m feeling bc of this book

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Actually physically barking with laughter and actually physically feeling cold dread in the pit of my stomach. This book is so tender and so powerful and such a gift

OSP mention!!!

the author just (potentially) set up a metaphor that will probably pay off in over 100 pages and make me cry! and if she didnt … then I am just overthinking

I wish we knew his past secret already. The teasing of it is getting a bit much.

Shout out to Simon's parents. They are hilarious.

Love it! Great humor, sensitive treatment of an important topic, well-realized characters... highly recommended. Thanks, Ally!

“When my family fights about who the traumatized one is, I always say it’s me, and Mom’s on my side, but Dad always says yes it is me, but also it is all of us. When I hear my parents’ shoes come through the sliding door into treatment, I know it’s them. I know it even before I hear Dad’s voice asking, ‘Which way which way.’ … he’s kind of right. It is all of us.”

“I think there’s never going to be a now. I think there’s always going to be a before, and an after.”

Reading about Hercules the puppy. Hard to understand people wanting puppies in their house, destroying things and peeing everywhere. I am definitely a cat person.

“Something big. Something big has happened. It’s happened inside me, like…like something getting born, stretching out, like I just hatched and have wings. I feel light and heavy and super weird and like I could be a tornado and like I could run across America forever.”

This is about a boy who survived a school shooting in elementary school and it is every bit emotional that you’d think it be 😭 I also appreciate the autism representation.

Ha! His father helping at the Catholic Church. Ash Wednesday and then, the episode with the squirrel in the tabernacle. What a hoot!

This book is AMAZING

Have you ever been halfway through a book and you can already tell that it’s going to be one of the best books you read all year? Even though it’s only January? This is it.

Absolutely stunning and beautifully written. I loved every moment of listening to this…I teared up and laughed out loud. Just a fantastic book.

lahh knp bahasannya agak dewasa🫣 baru kali ini nemuin mg yg gini

Damn that was good....

😩😩😩 this book is about to make cry….Gosh it’s so heartbreaking 💔

Was worried about reading this but it is wonderfully written by Erin Bow! Perfect selection for me at this time.

my heart is not okay.