Spoiler-ish note: the following discusses what happens to Rafe and Ben. As a middle schooler Rafe was out to his family, friends, and the entire community. His mother, stereotypically overbearing and insanely well adjusted to her son’s sexuality, Boudia-ed off her old life and into the life of a g...
Wow, this was awesome!I've said it before (many times), and I'll say it again; Characters are very important to me. And Openly Straight has some good ones. I really like Rafe; he's funny and relatable and overall a very developed protagonist. I also like Rafe's friends Toby and Albie, and Ben. And C...
Dear friends,Look at the list of literary awards this book has been honoured with:Sid Fleischman Humor Award (2014)Lambda Literary Award Nominee (2014)Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award (ALAN/NCTE) Nominee (2014)American Library Association Rainbow List (2014)Texas Library Association's Tayshas List (Top...
I liked parts of this book, but as a whole it simply did not work for me. I liked Rafe and his crazy parents, I liked Albie. I liked the writing and the humour and I really enjoyed the way Rafe tried to reinvent himself. The biggest problem with Openly Straight is that it’s neither flaky nor seriou...
Everyone wears labels, we pick them out ourselves and wear them proudly or others slap them on us, grouping us together to make their world more comfortable. There’s labels based on everything imaginable and the list gets longer as our society gets more diverse: race, sex, hobbies, culture, and phys...
I'd came across Openly Straight a while back, and kind of forgot about it (like I usually do). But once I'd seen its cover again while looking for books to review for LGBT month, I decided to go for it after reminding myself of what the book is about, which I found to be pretty interesting and diffe...
I love contemporary YA, and a book doesn’t require a “high concept” premise to catch my attention. That said, I was immediately drawn to the premise of Openly Straight. What happens when an openly gay teenager decides to move to boarding school and not tell anyone he’s gay? And why would he want to?...
Hollaback Girl and Boy Scouts will never be the same for me again. Openly Straight is funny and smart; Rafe and the people around him quirky yet solid. But more than the quirks they offer and the so-awesome one-liners that had me laughing that my sides hurt, there’s the deeper point from which thing...
I really loved this book. I thought it was sweet, funny, adorable, hopeful and best of all, Rafe felt like an actual teen, not just a book boy. I like that there was no definitive resolution, just possibility.
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