2020 Reading: Two Boys Kissing

 #39 Read a banned book during Banned Books Week (Sept 27- Oct 3)

I like David Levithan's work and this was no exception. I thought this work was very powerful because it wasn't just from an omnipresent POV, it was from an Omnipresent POV of those who came before. Those who lived the life of the gay culture of the past and knew the struggles and looked into the new generation to live vicariously through them (to suffer with them through the bad and celebrate with them in the good) while keeping in mind their own struggles.

It brings up important topics that should not be forgotten about the LGBTQ+ movement in years past like the rioting, intolerance, AIDS epidemic, gay-bashing... and how that all still exists today, just in different forms (and some even in the same forms).

This is a very good book and I am so glad that I read it.

2014 Reading: Every You, Every Me

"You know one me. Just like I know one you. But you can't know every me. And I can't know every you."

This was just a short little read that I picked up in the young adult section of the library. 

I like the scratched out bits, like the character was writing out these thoughts and kept having to change the wording around to fit the mood, or keep some of his thoughts to himself rather than let them out on the page.

Naturally, the premise of a character we never get to meet can be a hard one to understand, but I think it fits the randomness of the story. Plus, that opening quote... Wow. I never thought of that before, but I know it's true. For everyone.