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A review by jugglingpup
This Will Be Funny Someday by Katie Henry
5.0
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I got an ARC of this book.
I got this book not expecting much. It sounded like it would be too much and I was kinda excited for a train wreck. I was so wrong. This book might have cured my reading slump. I flew through it and wanted more. I loved it so much. I really should stop judging books by the cover and maybe three lines of the description.
I was so, so incredibly worried about the controlling boyfriend plot. My first boyfriend was this guy. Needed to know where I was, alienated me from my friends, would do everything he could to spin stories (like the time he punched the wall next to my face in front of all his friends, but by the end of the day I was being accosted about why I hit him). I understood how magically it can feel to be on the good end of that energy. I also know how scary it can be to be on the bad end. The way the characters reacted were amazing. The best friend who left, because she was so overwhelmed with the situation. The way an adult reacted and said that only weak people stayed in those relationships. This was me in high school at sixteen.
Also me at sixteen was befriending a bunch of college students and starting to come out. I read the MC as nonbinary and I got so excited at one point when she is talking to her college BFF about what it means to be a girl and why does she does the things she does. It sounded like it was going to be the “I think I am nonbinary”, but it was a reaction to sexual harassment which is a lot less fun. The sexual harassment was a bit scary. I was afraid at how far it would go. My heart was in my throat.
There was casual queer content and casual explanations of privilege. It was a social conscious book and it didn’t read like it was preaching. It was wonderful. It was very much the conversations that I had in college and how my friend group talked. It felt so real and so close to my life. I loved the jokes. I loved the friends. I loved so much about this book. The MC also had an auditory processing disorder that remained unnamed. How badass is it to have a MC that has an auditory processing disorder? I LIVED FOR HER. I got so excited and started sending everyone links for the book before I had even finished chapter two. I was already sure I was going to love it all.
The weirdest part of this book to me is that around this time in my life I started going by Izy. I was starting to transition and Izy was a gender neutral name, because I was not 100% sure I was totally a guy, I knew I wasn’t a girl, but there are a lot of other options. So seeing this Izzy going through things and reading her as nonbinary made this book so close to me. I think that really added to the charm.
Overall, this book is much more serious than the cover allows. I was delighted to be proven wrong about my expectations. I loved this book and I look forward to more from Henry.
I got an ARC of this book.
I got this book not expecting much. It sounded like it would be too much and I was kinda excited for a train wreck. I was so wrong. This book might have cured my reading slump. I flew through it and wanted more. I loved it so much. I really should stop judging books by the cover and maybe three lines of the description.
I was so, so incredibly worried about the controlling boyfriend plot. My first boyfriend was this guy. Needed to know where I was, alienated me from my friends, would do everything he could to spin stories (like the time he punched the wall next to my face in front of all his friends, but by the end of the day I was being accosted about why I hit him). I understood how magically it can feel to be on the good end of that energy. I also know how scary it can be to be on the bad end. The way the characters reacted were amazing. The best friend who left, because she was so overwhelmed with the situation. The way an adult reacted and said that only weak people stayed in those relationships. This was me in high school at sixteen.
Also me at sixteen was befriending a bunch of college students and starting to come out. I read the MC as nonbinary and I got so excited at one point when she is talking to her college BFF about what it means to be a girl and why does she does the things she does. It sounded like it was going to be the “I think I am nonbinary”, but it was a reaction to sexual harassment which is a lot less fun. The sexual harassment was a bit scary. I was afraid at how far it would go. My heart was in my throat.
There was casual queer content and casual explanations of privilege. It was a social conscious book and it didn’t read like it was preaching. It was wonderful. It was very much the conversations that I had in college and how my friend group talked. It felt so real and so close to my life. I loved the jokes. I loved the friends. I loved so much about this book. The MC also had an auditory processing disorder that remained unnamed. How badass is it to have a MC that has an auditory processing disorder? I LIVED FOR HER. I got so excited and started sending everyone links for the book before I had even finished chapter two. I was already sure I was going to love it all.
The weirdest part of this book to me is that around this time in my life I started going by Izy. I was starting to transition and Izy was a gender neutral name, because I was not 100% sure I was totally a guy, I knew I wasn’t a girl, but there are a lot of other options. So seeing this Izzy going through things and reading her as nonbinary made this book so close to me. I think that really added to the charm.
Overall, this book is much more serious than the cover allows. I was delighted to be proven wrong about my expectations. I loved this book and I look forward to more from Henry.