See!

I totally can give 5 stars to a book at least 1/2 written by a guy I don't like!   No one in You Know Me Well is fat. Okay, I don't know that for sure,  but I do know that it's a Levithan book and most of the characters are cool and so I doubt he would let any cool characters be "of size."
This one is written by Nina LaCour, who wrote The Disenchantments, which I loved.  And I love this book, too.  Just beautiful.  And I wonder if Levithan would like me now that my BMI is normal and I am not even overweight!  Great, great book, even if it is by a dude, for all of his insistence upon inclusion and acceptance, judges people by the pound.

Not So Simple...

Remember Simple Simon?  The guy who met the Pie Man?  Stupid rhyme.  Anyway.  Simon in Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda is not stupid.  He is a very thoughtful kind of guy.  I liked this guy.   I thought it was neat to be set in near Atlanta, where while not the middle of Georgia, is not exactly NYC or Madison.  And so I am thinking it might be harder (and the character even mentions this) for Simon to be out than others from more cosmopolitan areas. But the world is changing, praise God.  And so someday, hopefully, all will realize that God is not concerned who we love, just that we love.  Sweet little story.