Boy Meets Boy | 
Fun fact: as a reader, i‘ve always been super into setting... and i haven‘t read many books that do setting better than Davjd Levithan‘s Boy Meets Boy, a queer love story set in a magical small town in New Jersey where everyone is accepted, quarterbacks are prom queens, cheerleaders ride motorcycles, and quirky school traditions abound. YA author Ashley Woodfolk joins me to chat about this book on the new episode of my pod. Link to listen in bio!
Love this full cast recording! Wholly recommend it!
#audiobook
pick3.5/5. This wasn‘t the best, but it definitely gets to the heart of what being a high school student in the midst of friendship and relationship drama feels like, all while trying to avoid people in the halls. I could relate to a lot (a lot) of what Paul is feeing. I love a book that makes me feel nostalgic. This was a good one-sitting light read in between longer books.
Happy Valentines Day! Perfect time to read this book!! Ignore the awkward reflection of me taking this pic 😂✌🏻
#currentlyreading “Boy Meets Boy” by David Levithan 💞
#boymeetsboy #davidlevithan #vday #love #lgbtq #yalit
pickThis book was a bit different from what I have read or listened to before. The audiobook had a cast that “played”/read each part, which was kind of cool. I loved how inclusive the characters in the story were. It dealt with the dramas of being a teenager & while the main character was a gay male, it wasn‘t the main point of the story, if that makes sense? It felt like it was a teenager dealing with life. 👨❤️👨👨❤️👨👨❤️👨👨❤️👨👨❤️👨
so-soI didn‘t love it. I didn't even really like it. Unfortunately for me the characters were flat and implausible and the plot nonexistent. A YA book that focuses on LGBT teens, I found it too cliche and out of touch with any reality I‘m familiar with. The story overall was to contrived, unrealistic and juvenile even for a YA novel.
panI just didn‘t like it. Maybe because I‘m not a teen? Maybe because I think that it was an unrealistic high school group? Maybe because it felt like random stories? Anyway. It just wasn‘t for me.
So listened to about an hour so far and don‘t really like it. Just seems like random stories. But maybe I need to give it some more time before I bail ...
so-soI liked it, but far from loved it. It was such an important story to exist in this world that I hesitate to say anything bad about it. Even so, there didn't seem to be much of a plot and IMHO there were too many characters and too few pages for their stories to get told effectively.
so-soThis was cute and sweet. I think it could have done with more of a plot, though.
pickTHIS WAS SUCH A GREAT READ. I seriously love how relateable all the characters were and all their struggles made me clutch my heart and wipe at my eyes so many times!! It's a very simple contemporary read will a lot of heart. Definately one of my top 5!! #boymeetsboy #davidlevithan
"I once told him that the beat way to break up a fight is to step between the two people and start singing ancient folk songs." #boymeetsboy #davidlevithan Omg ???
So there's this #romance package on #audible. I debated getting it and when I saw free trial I did it. These are some of my next #reads! ✨✨✨ basically a lot of #books that have been on my #tbrpile for ages. I just browsed the list quickly but hopefully there's more #gayromance included #amreading
The final discussion for #TheWomenInTheCastle starts now! Look for the post marked spoiler to join!
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panI‘m sorry David Levithan, I usually like your books!!! This one was too eye rolly and ridiculous for even me. Essentially Paul lives in an inclusive utopia and then “falls in love” over the course of like -a week- and other shenanigans ensue. Props for lots of drag queens, and good narration, but this was too silly.
pickThis is held up as one of the great gay books of our lifetime. I must disagree. The character development is extremely weak except for one particular character which is a drag queen football player, who is barely used in this book. There's no twists or plots or anything other than a straight beginning to end book with no surprises. Plus gay life is not this simple. It paints too pretty of a picture of how we wish gay life to be, but it's just not.
pick#Rocktober Day 19: #AllYouNeedIsLove plus Love is Love is Love. Had to purchase this title in Manila because Singapore libraries don‘t carry titles with these themes.
This isn't David Levithan's book. This is, however, from the photoshoot for MY BOOK's cover!!!! It happened last week (took me several days to recover, i knowwww!) but huhu, my #romanceclass2017 story will be an actual book soon! 😭
No release day yet, but make no mistake, your feeds will flood with updates from me when we finalize everything! 😘😘😘 #romantsy #lgbt #romanceclass
pickThis book is so beautiful and, from now, essential in my life. This is one of those books that you read and after finishing it you see how important it is. I don't know, that's what I feel. Now, i want to read more books from this author because this one is a 5/5 for me💚
pickWhat a cute love story between 2 guys. I have all the feels. I really recommend this book. 4/5 ⭐️
#boymeetsboy #davidlevithan #gay
Ok. I started this one on audio and so far I HATE it. As an LGBT YA romance, this is totally in my wheelhouse. I can't tell if I'm just not feeling the narrators or what. Did anyone else feel this way? Does it get better or should I bail?
"Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore."
#JuneBookBugs #LGBTQauthors
@RealLifeReading
pickWhat a sweet, quirky, adorable book!
Serendipitously, an excellent follow-up to The Argonauts, which discusses homonormativty in theory, because this book defines homonormativity and it's pretty effing great.
#QueerBooks #OwnVoices
P.S.: shout out to my fave indie @RoscoeBooks
One of the central reasons I read YA is because it reminds that high school was a cruel, cruel place. Everyone who made it out is a survivor.
#HighSchoolWasTHEWORST
Dinner is white rice. All I could manage because it basically cooks itself and I could not tear my self away from this book. So delightful.
Related: I do not have a really comfortable reading nook in my apartment. Working on it.
12.45 a.m.: A little over 7 hours into #readathon, I'm in my "blanket fort" listening to this audiobook. Might even sleep for a while. Hope y'all are having fun!
My fellow book nerd recommended I buy this one when I specifically asked for #HappyBooks. I hope it delivers. #MarchIntoReading
#MarchIntoReading I started reading this on a whim and found myself unable to put it down. Yes, I initially rolled my eyes at the progressive utopia Levithan created but as he stated in the author Q&A why CAN'T that society exist? Today's young people make me confident that it can. And that makes me happy. For the LGBT community. For all of us. #HappyReads
Loved this one! And "boy" is in the title twice! #feistyfeb #boyinthetitle
#FeistyFeb Yet another David Levithan that I bought super cheap way back when. #BoyInTheTitle
pickAnother wonderful Levithan story. Regardless of where you sit on the sexuality spectrum some issues bleed over. As a straight cis male being a teen seemed hard, I can't imagine how tough shit must get for those who don't share my box. If we all got to grow up in the world Levithan has created in this story, we'd be surrounded as adults by a more tolerant world. The book gets 4 pride flags. 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
I don't wanna get all fanboy, but damn, David Levithan is the fucking master of this genre 🏳️🌈
Just started this and like all things Levithan it's wonderful ❤🏳️🌈
pickBecause who doesn't want to live in a world where the trans captain of the football team is also homecoming queen? I love this book, and even meet David Levithan at YallFest, but was too star struck to tell him how much I loved this book! #feistyfeb #diverselovestories
pickAnother sick day means a light-hearted read to fulfill the "LGBT+ romance" category of #ReadHarder2017. I loved this book, some have called it unrealistic, but I see it as a portrayal of a world we should aim for. Overall a fun read that left me smiling (and I don't even like romance novels!). The authors note at the end of this edition was also a lovely little extra.
Yay for books that fulfill requirements for multiple book challenges! #LitsyChallenge2017 #LitsyReadingChallenge #LitsyRC18 #ReadHarder2017
pickI wanted to love this book. I love the idea of this book - YA queer fiction filled with happiness and ease where a quarterback can be the homecoming queen in a queer positive utopic town but it was a bit too schmaltzy for me. I almost couldn't get through it before I had to return it to the library. Conversely, I loved the author's chapter at the end of the book. His description of the reasons for the book and what it's meant to people was great!
pickI'm just super vulnerable for all of the happy queer books right now, I guess. Boy Meets Boy is ridiculous and campy, but it made me effortlessly happy, which is a giant plus in these post-apocalypse times. 😂 #ya #yalit
"How come I've never seen him before?" I ask. "Maybe you were just waiting for the right time to notice," Tony says.
"There is a truth that never rings wrong. I'll give you that boy"
pickGood. Overly-optimism. I do wonder if such an optimistic outlook is real for most teenagers. The audio was what really sold this book for me.
"On the second day I give him words and definitions. This isn't to say I talk to him. No, I don't do that at all. Instead, I start a list of the words I love: resplendent, giddy, trollop. And then I add definitions..." #FeelGoodBook #AugustPhotoChallenge #AugustOfPages
bailedThis book and particularly the audio version was painful. The voices detracted so much from the story. At the same time the story seemed so bubblegum pop happy and perfect that was also painful. I've read others of his books and enjoyed them, this one was just too unbelievable for me.
