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A review by kimball_hansen
Birthday by Meredith Russo
3.0
Maybe 3.5 stars. The book was decent a little uncomfortable at times due to the unfamiliarity but with an open mind it was enjoyable. And I want to learn more about the author I wonder if she's a transgender (after googling and reading another review on here, I guess the author is a hypocrite or in deep trouble for abusing others). I found this book because it was in one of the many libraries I have on Overdrive that my sister-in-law has recently been going wild about and checking out a million books at a time. I wish the author had taken out the subtitle of the book. I wanted to be surprised that the two birthday boys fell in love.
The author did a terrible job with Morgan rejoining the football team. Probably because he knows nothing about football or lifting weights. Even if he played as a kid, in one year he just became a great athlete and doubled his maxes in weight? Deadlifting 350 lbs when he weighed 120 or maybe 150? Even if he bulked up after lifting for a year what happened to all the weight after that? I'm surprised that the football couch lives in a trailer. That prolly wouldn't happen.
I guess the trans people have said that the author covered the puberty of Morgan very well but as a non trans person I didn't think it was covered well at all.
I wish the narrator did better with the voices. Hard to distinguish between Eric and Morgan. Fortunately each chapter title labels who is talking.
I still have a ton of questions:
How did Morgan forget about the kiss they had together when they were kids? And Morgan is dumb for getting mad at Eric for kissing him.
How does Eric not have a shaved head on the cover when they both did it?
How do they have birthdays (15-16) back to back with football games on both birthdays?
It's interesting that a lot of the trans people have a ton of other mental disorders. Trans people like pickles where they're doing hormonal therapy apparently because the therapy takes away a lot of their sodium.
How do Morgan's hands or knuckles not break when he punches so many things?
The narrator was apparently a transgender. The reasoning was dumb though, economical? It doesn't matter if the narrator is trans and does an audiobook as a cis person.
The author did a terrible job with Morgan rejoining the football team. Probably because he knows nothing about football or lifting weights. Even if he played as a kid, in one year he just became a great athlete and doubled his maxes in weight? Deadlifting 350 lbs when he weighed 120 or maybe 150? Even if he bulked up after lifting for a year what happened to all the weight after that? I'm surprised that the football couch lives in a trailer. That prolly wouldn't happen.
I guess the trans people have said that the author covered the puberty of Morgan very well but as a non trans person I didn't think it was covered well at all.
I wish the narrator did better with the voices. Hard to distinguish between Eric and Morgan. Fortunately each chapter title labels who is talking.
I still have a ton of questions:
How did Morgan forget about the kiss they had together when they were kids? And Morgan is dumb for getting mad at Eric for kissing him.
How does Eric not have a shaved head on the cover when they both did it?
How do they have birthdays (15-16) back to back with football games on both birthdays?
It's interesting that a lot of the trans people have a ton of other mental disorders. Trans people like pickles where they're doing hormonal therapy apparently because the therapy takes away a lot of their sodium.
How do Morgan's hands or knuckles not break when he punches so many things?
The narrator was apparently a transgender. The reasoning was dumb though, economical? It doesn't matter if the narrator is trans and does an audiobook as a cis person.