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Thursday, 17 December 2015

Review: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews

Title: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Author: Jesse Andrews
Edition: Allen & Unwin, 2015

Rating: ★★★★

Review

I have to admit it. I only picked up this book because I saw the film trailer; my copy even has 'now a major motion picture' printed on the front. From the title, I was kind of expecting The Fault in our Stars take two. All I'll say about that though is, do not pass on this one if you disliked TFIOS. The only similarity between the two is the cancer. 

Even then, Rachel's leukaemia takes a back seat. This story isn't about some big, meaningful, life lesson. It's just a story about ordinary characters dealing with cancer – the way real life people deal with real life cancer. There's absolutely no romanticisation of cancer here.

TBR: Christmas Holiday

Welcome to The Worlds I Live In!  Let's start things off with a good old TBR – My Christmas Holiday TBR. I've got three weeks off from uni and here are the books I'm hoping to get through:

P.S I Still Love You by Jenny Han
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
Night Owls by Jenn Bennett
Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey


                             
                                               

(At time of writing, P.S. I Still Love You has already become my 41st book of 2015)

(At time of print, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, has become my 42nd book of 2015)