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My absolute favorite book! Besides being the most fun read I‘ve ever had, this book also helped me get through struggles with my own sexuality and identity. Essential reading for understanding what makes me me!

Still, history will show that patient boys with a #sense of humor, who can also dance, tend to have more opportunities to participate in the evolution of the species than boys who give up and mope quietly on the sidelines. #QuotsyJan20

You know those books that never leave you? I have to give credit-- this is one. Plays out a bit like a Ray Bradbury, a Goosebumps, Lovecraft... Definitely a Kurt Vonnegut. And if they had solved the love triangle with an Ot3, and stuck the landing, I might have recomended it... But instead they remove all agency of the sole female character, eventually reducing her to nothing but a biological function-- Handmaid's tale-esque in a real bad way.

This book is completely bonkers and whip smart - I loved it! There is a ton of swearing, violence and sexuality- so wouldn‘t recommend this for younger teens. But it rocked my world and I laughed so many times. Can‘t wait to dive into book 2 🦗🦗🦗

This book is completely bonkers in all the right ways! I‘ve been bouncing back and forth between print and audio, and am so happy I have an ARC of the sequel I can dive into when I finish book one.
Warning: this book is full of swearing, sexuality, and violence. Not for the easily offended.

Read this book Grasshopper jungle by Andrew Smith !!!!
Holy Lord!!!!
What a book!!!

It's supper funny and thought provoking too

The ending amazed me a little bit
The climax scene is very crafty haha !!!

It's a pretty decent and the way the author build the plot is just amazing

It sort of seemed like Kurt Vonnegut's influence in it

This is a fucking weird book. It's about a confused teen boy who's in love with his gay best friend and his girlfriend Shann. It's also about the end of the world via secret government experiments causing giant praying mantises who eat humans. Austin is constantly thinking about being "horny." His voice is very authentic. I can imagine teen boys really digging this book. Caveat: I was pretty disappointed with the shallow characterization of Shann.

This book is super crude and quite weird but I kinda love it? It feels very authentic teenage boy. #YA #BisexualBooks #WeNeedDiverseBooks #LGBTQBooks

1. Grasshopper Jungle and Mortal Word
2. Check, please!, Hey Kiddo and The Case of the missing marquess - all graphic novels
3. Morning is when I have most energy but I Love night for relaxing

#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain

Just some books I may read in March. See any you love? I‘m rereading The Outsiders which I love so much and cannot wait. I‘m sure I‘ll read a ton more than this but I‘m hoping to get to all of these this month! #tbr

School was cancelled today because we had freezing rain and the roads were terrible. So while the kids napped, I started Grasshopper Jungle and made a little monster. I don‘t care for the narrator, so I think I‘ll read this in paper format next month. #audiocrochet

“It‘s difficult to avoid the truth when you‘re undressed.”

I mean, how can you not want to read it?!?

We interrupt the TBR deep dive for this important reread ahead of book club. I love the book & am excited to have a reason to read it again. I have talked about it forever with my YA book club but didn‘t make it a pick because, well, I wasn‘t convinced they were ready...Ha! This summer the group said they were ready &, wow, the texts I‘ve been getting as they read it are hilarious. Can‘t wait to talk about this brilliant book tomorrow!!!

Grasshopper Jungle is absolutely wild at times and just nonsensical at others, and sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't.

Indecision is a massive theme within the book, which may speak to teens exploring their sexual identity, but by the end of it the book just feels unfinished. There are also significant elements of toxicity within relationships and romantic betrayal that never feel resolved in a healthy manner.

It turns out not only is this brilliant book being made into a movie (out in 2019 if all goes according to plan) but also Andrew Smith has written a sequel which is due out around the same time. I have no chill about this and forming coherent thoughts is a challenge. I cannot wait to spend more time with Austin, Robby, and the unstoppable army of six-foot-tall praying mantises. Can. Not. Wait. I mean, I have to wait but AHHH, this is so cool!

I‘m about halfway through this book and really like it. It‘s so weird and out there that I‘m really not sure why I like it, but I can‘t stop reading and really enjoy Austin‘s narration.

#Septembowie Day 19: This novel is a headtrip and exactly what #ModernLove looks like.

Learned something new today! Perfect thing to do while listening to a book..... or watching Game of Thrones😊

This has been on my TBR a while. I loved Winger and Stand. Let the summer begin! #junebookbugs #insects This cover creeps me out😳probably why it has taken me so long to pick up.

This is going to make one hell of a movie.

If this were a Friday night I'd definitely be staying up to see where the hell this goes, but it's not. Too bad.

I am barely into this book but I can already see what, stylistically, could have drawn Edgar Wright to it.

Recently remembered that Edgar Wright is supposed to be turning this book into a film and I want to be ready.

I was surprised by how much I liked this crazy YA novel. Giant praying mantises attacking a small town and a sexually confused male protagonist make an unexpected reading experience and turned Andrew Smith into a must read author for me. #nuclearcatastrophe #marchmadness

"And that's it. Got It?"

Very well written but quite bleak. You start out with normal tenage angst then move on to infestation and people turning into bugs fairly graphicly. I don't deal well with horror.

#bestseller #youngadult #novel #teen

"History shows that most of what we say is not even expressed in words."

"It was not a good idea."

"We are indestructible."

"Best friends do such things."

This book is full of quotes ??

#bestseller #youngadult

The phrase "it's fine" can mean a variety of things, just like the word "fuck".

#youngadult #teen #bestseller #nice #scifi #apocalypse #horor

"Sometimes it's okay to decided not to decide and resmain uncertain and not know what is going to happen on the journey you create."

#youngadult #horror #bestseller #teen

I love the way you are telling stories. I like that always when you are telling something, you are jumping forward and backward and telling EVERYTHING what happened at the same time. It's like an explosion. It's like a blooming flower."

#youngadult #teennovel #novel #humour

"Real friends know what the other is saying, even if it's bullshit. It's clear from history. What is also clear from history is that real friends are very rare. "

#teen #scifi #real #bestseller #youngadult

"The hell was between us"

Okay, here we go.

#youngadult #sci-fi #humour #horror

These are on my TBR. They were paired last summer for audiobooksync.com summer audiobook program. #fictionnonfictionpairings #seasonsreadings2016

All of the blurbs for Grasshopper Jungle are amazing. The Rolling Stone blurb on the front says, "Raunchy, bizarre, smart and compelling." The New York Times blurb on the back compares his writing to Kurt Vonnegut's. #seasonsreadings2016

#photoadaynov16 this book i couldn't #threwitacrosstheroom because it was an ebook, i didn't finished but try reading a few chapters ahed so i see if something anything good happens and when that was a false hope, make me hate it so much more

No pude terminarlo y no pude tirarlo a través de la habitación porque era un ebook, trate leer unos capítulos adelante para ver si algo pasaba y al no suceder me hizo odiarlo mas todavía

@RealLifeReading

I don't often hate-read. If I dislike a book, I simply stop reading it and rarely review it. I had to read Grasshopper Jungle for a library book club this year and would have felt too guilty if I didn't finish it, but continuing reading only made me hate it more. I have a laundry list of what irked me about the book here: http://tinyurl.com/glgoxht A lot of it is due to extreme sexism and misogyny. Yaaaaay. #photoadaynov16 #threwitacrosstheroom

This book. lol. Doing the audiobook version. The narrator is a robot, but the story is good. Pic... when i take one. Bwahahaha

This week was #bivisibilityweek, so in honor of that, I have two of my favorite YA books with bi characters - Grasshopper Jungle and Labyrinth Lost! They are both amazing stories and have great, honest representation. Totally different but equally awesome!

The ultimate in #weirdbooks from Andrew Smith, who loves to #keepYAweird. Giant praying mantises mean the possible end of the world because of a strange occurrence behind a secondhand store in Ealing, Iowa. The writing style is reminiscent of Kurt Vonnegut, which is one reason I love it. Not for the faint of heart or the easily offended. #septphotochallenge

This book was weird AF and not in a good way.

I was intrigued by a #bisexual main character but I couldn't get through the graphic descriptions of people turning into grasshoppers. Much more #gore then I expected. #bodyhorror #YA #comingofage #bisexual #gay #lovetriangle #malemaincharacter

One freaking weird book. It's laugh-out-loud funny at times though, which is bad when you're listening to it at work.

So freaking weird.

Just some light 4th of July bar reading!

Mesmerizing.

A YA novel portraying sexuality as a complex and multi-faceted thing? Yes please. Also: grasshopper apocalypse with Vonnegut sensibilities (or nonsensibilities maybe?) This should be on every TBR list. I can't promise you'll like it but I can promise you'll have fun anyway.