Hey Everyone!
Hope you are having a wonderful day!
I started reading More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera on a recommendation from my sister. Have you ever read a book that you cannot stop thinking about? This is how I feel with this one. I started it Friday - with the intentions of finishing it on Saturday. (That did not happen). Monday night, I finally got to the point where I COULD NOT put it down!! I really wanted to stay up and finish it, but alas, I had to go to bed for work the next day.
I just finished the book and I would like to be honest with y'all. Is that OK? I feel so emotionally screwed by this book; and, it's in a good way!
My favorite paragraph in this whole book is in Part 3; Chapter 13 on page 270. "Sometimes pain is so unmanageable that the idea of spending another day with it seems impossible. Other times pain acts as a compass to help you get through the messier tunnels of growing up. But the pain can only help you find happiness if you can remember it.'
Everyone experiences pain at some point in their lives. Whether it be the death in the family or loosing your job. It's remembering to grow from that pain and try to find the happiness you had before that pain.
This book focuses on more than trying to be happy. It touches on sex, orientation, suicide and self harm. At the end of the day, no matter if you are gay, straight, bi, purple, black, yellow, green - we all need to find our own happiness. I cried out at the part of this book where Aaron gets beat up by his friends. How can "friends" treat one of their own that way? In a perfect world we would all be accepting of other people; but, this isn't a perfect world and this book hits that.
Please read this one if you have not already.
**Emily**
P.S. Even in the little details this book was amazing, with the little page breaks being smiley faces or frowning faces during the bad parts.
I just finished the book and I would like to be honest with y'all. Is that OK? I feel so emotionally screwed by this book; and, it's in a good way!
My favorite paragraph in this whole book is in Part 3; Chapter 13 on page 270. "Sometimes pain is so unmanageable that the idea of spending another day with it seems impossible. Other times pain acts as a compass to help you get through the messier tunnels of growing up. But the pain can only help you find happiness if you can remember it.'
Everyone experiences pain at some point in their lives. Whether it be the death in the family or loosing your job. It's remembering to grow from that pain and try to find the happiness you had before that pain.
This book focuses on more than trying to be happy. It touches on sex, orientation, suicide and self harm. At the end of the day, no matter if you are gay, straight, bi, purple, black, yellow, green - we all need to find our own happiness. I cried out at the part of this book where Aaron gets beat up by his friends. How can "friends" treat one of their own that way? In a perfect world we would all be accepting of other people; but, this isn't a perfect world and this book hits that.
Please read this one if you have not already.
**Emily**
P.S. Even in the little details this book was amazing, with the little page breaks being smiley faces or frowning faces during the bad parts.
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