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Odd One Out by Nic Stone
4.0
10/19
I almost didn’t read this book, but then I didn’t want to stop. It’s about 3 teenagers and a whole lot of emotions and romantic questioning, and it’s super good and I love it. I love all of the main characters and I super love the relationship between the three of them (as of around halfway through)
10/22
Pg 146-148 really resonate a ton.
Pretty much Rae’s whole relationship with Courtney Cooper and Jupiter feels like my relationship with Sam and Natalie. Except remove all romantic and sexual attraction. But because Rae feels them towards both of them and I feel them towards none of them, they’re actually really similar. Also both Rae and I want to be emotionally and platonically close to our friends, and also cuddling is very good. But the main thing that I relate to here is how Rae feels like Courtney and Jupiter are closer to each other than either of them will ever be to her, and she feels like she’s almost constantly a third wheel and has separate lives when she’s with one of them or the other or both.
Also I’ve been noticing things about the language that the author uses, mostly when the POV changes from one person to another, but also in the beginning of Jupiter’s section when she’s really mad, it’s written as “you feel,” “you’re crying,” “it hits you,” then after she’s calmed down a bit it switches back to “I.” I’ve been noticing this kind of thing more, and noticing that I’m noticing. Actually this is the sort of thing that I would make a comment about in the margins if this wasn’t a library book. Goddamn English teachers teaching me how to read better :)
10/27
I was kinda worried about how it was gonna end, but it tied it up enough and then left it open so that I don’t know what’ll happen in the future for the characters but I do know that it’ll work out okay. Such a well written, interesting, fun book.
Also all the bits with sex/dick mentions did make me a bit uncomfortable, I don’t know if that was the writing or just me being uncomfortable with the subject, but they were kinda weird.
I almost didn’t read this book, but then I didn’t want to stop. It’s about 3 teenagers and a whole lot of emotions and romantic questioning, and it’s super good and I love it. I love all of the main characters and I super love the relationship between the three of them (as of around halfway through)
10/22
Pg 146-148 really resonate a ton.
Pretty much Rae’s whole relationship with Courtney Cooper and Jupiter feels like my relationship with Sam and Natalie. Except remove all romantic and sexual attraction. But because Rae feels them towards both of them and I feel them towards none of them, they’re actually really similar. Also both Rae and I want to be emotionally and platonically close to our friends, and also cuddling is very good. But the main thing that I relate to here is how Rae feels like Courtney and Jupiter are closer to each other than either of them will ever be to her, and she feels like she’s almost constantly a third wheel and has separate lives when she’s with one of them or the other or both.
Also I’ve been noticing things about the language that the author uses, mostly when the POV changes from one person to another, but also in the beginning of Jupiter’s section when she’s really mad, it’s written as “you feel,” “you’re crying,” “it hits you,” then after she’s calmed down a bit it switches back to “I.” I’ve been noticing this kind of thing more, and noticing that I’m noticing. Actually this is the sort of thing that I would make a comment about in the margins if this wasn’t a library book. Goddamn English teachers teaching me how to read better :)
10/27
I was kinda worried about how it was gonna end, but it tied it up enough and then left it open so that I don’t know what’ll happen in the future for the characters but I do know that it’ll work out okay. Such a well written, interesting, fun book.
Also all the bits with sex/dick mentions did make me a bit uncomfortable, I don’t know if that was the writing or just me being uncomfortable with the subject, but they were kinda weird.