Leah on the Offbeat

Book #276 (Unique books)
Book #17 in 2018

Leah on the Offbeat

by Becky Albertalli

"Leah Burke—girl-band drummer, master of deadpan, and Simon Spier’s best friend from the award-winning Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda—takes center stage in this novel of first love and senior-year angst.

When it comes to drumming, Leah Burke is usually on beat—but real life isn’t always so rhythmic. An anomaly in her friend group, she’s the only child of a young, single mom, and her life is decidedly less privileged. She loves to draw but is too self-conscious to show it. And even though her mom knows she’s bisexual, she hasn’t mustered the courage to tell her friends—not even her openly gay BFF, Simon.

So Leah really doesn’t know what to do when her rock-solid friend group starts to fracture in unexpected ways. With prom and college on the horizon, tensions are running high. It’s hard for Leah to strike the right note while the people she loves are fighting—especially when she realizes she might love one of them more than she ever intended."

November 26th to 29th - 4 days - 339 pages

Notes:

SO CUTE AND GAY

To All The Boys I've Loved Before

Book #275 (Unique books)
Book #16 in 2018

To All The Boys I've Loved Before

by Jenny Han

"To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before is the story of Lara Jean, who has never openly admitted her crushes, but instead wrote each boy a letter about how she felt, sealed it, and hid it in a box under her bed. But one day Lara Jean discovers that somehow her secret box of letters has been mailed, causing all her crushes from her past to confront her about the letters: her first kiss, the boy from summer camp, even her sister's ex-boyfriend, Josh. As she learns to deal with her past loves face to face, Lara Jean discovers that something good may come out of these letters after all."

November 23rd to 25th - 2ish days - 355 pages

Notes:

I saw the movie first and loved it and I love this too! I can't wait to read the sequels!

IT

Book #274 (Unique books)
Book #15 in 2018

IT

by Stephen King

"To the children, the town was their whole world. To the adults, knowing better, Derry, Maine was just their home town: familiar, well-ordered, a good place to live. It was the children who saw – and felt – what made Derry so horribly different. In the storm drains, in the sewers, It lurked, taking on the shape of every nightmare, each person’s deepest dread. Sometimes It reached up, seizing, tearing, killing…

The adults, knowing better, knew nothing. Time passed and the children grew up, moved away. The horror of It was deep-buried, wrapped in forgetfulness. Until the grown-up children were called back, once more to confront It as It stirred and coiled in the sullen depths of their memories, reaching up again to make their past nightmares a terrible present reality."

April 18th to November 23rd - ~7 months - 1,153 pages (mostly kindle/e-version) 

Notes:

Holy fuck this book is so long. Been reading it on and off since April.

Honestly could have used some serious editing, imo. I thought the new movie was better.

But I did it! So long! Easily the longest book I have ever read, or even attempted to read. Kinda proud of myself. Yay!

Made You Up

Book #273 (Unique books)
Book #14 in 2018

Made You Up

by Francesca Zappia

"Alex fights a daily battle to figure out the difference between reality and delusion. Armed with a take-no-prisoners attitude, her camera, a Magic 8-Ball, and her only ally (her little sister), Alex wages a war against her schizophrenia, determined to stay sane long enough to get into college. She’s pretty optimistic about her chances until classes begin, and she runs into Miles. Didn't she imagine him? Before she knows it, Alex is making friends, going to parties, falling in love, and experiencing all the usual rites of passage for teenagers. But Alex is used to being crazy. She’s not prepared for normal."

October 26th to November 9th - 2 weeks - 428 pages

Notes:

Holy shit I just loved this book so much, it made me cry