How They Met, and Other Stories
Format: library binding
ISBN:
9780375948862 (0375948864)
Publish date: January 8th 2008
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
I doubt I would have given this a second look if I wasn't purposefully looking for something I wouldn't normally read. But I'm glad I did. Not every story is a winner, I've read enough short story collections to expect at least a few duds. It is, however, very consistent. Consistently charming and w...
"When I am with you, there is nowhere else I'd rather be. And I am a person who always wants to be somewhere else."It's written by David Levithan and that already says a lot about this book. Love it!
I started this book thinking it would be a bunch of cute little love story of the usual kind. But I got a little bit of a surprise to find out the first story was about a gay boy. But I can live with some of that mixed in, I kept reading to find that out of 18 stories, 8 focused on gays or lesbians....
I'm on a Levithan kick at the moment - can you tell?Like John Irving, Levithan includes a few common ingredients into most of his works. But instead of Austria and bears and incest, it's Jewishness, queerness, music, lust, and love. Levithan is a 'true' YA writer, even in short stories managing to s...
"Princes" and especially "The Number of People Who Meet on Airplanes,"
14 years ago
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