A Boy Like Me by Jennie Wood

A Boy Like Me
by Jennie Wood

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Published: 2014
Publisher: 215 Ink
Genre: LGBTQ, YA
Paperback: 270 pages
Rating: 4.5

First sentence(s):
"Katherine, would you like to go next?" But Mrs. Blunt wasn't really asking.

Born a girl, Peyton Honeycutt meets Tara Parks in the eighth grade bathroom shortly after he gets his first period. It is the best and worst day of his life. Determined to impress Tara, Peyton sets out to win her love by mastering the drums and basketball. He takes on Tara's small-minded mother, the bully at school, and the prejudices within his conservative hometown. In the end, Peyton must accept and stand up for who he is or lose the woman he loves.

My two-bits:

This is a good introduction to the transgender world which is a topic in the forefront these days since Bruce Jenner's reveal.

The story covers the span from the main character's middle grade to just right after high school years which felt like slow pacing but more realistic for a coming out moment.

Sadly, the inevitable negative aspects of what a transgender individual would encounter are touched upon. But, they do not overpower the main points of this story of self realization, growth and love.

Music plays a little part in the storyline with some behind the scenes of working at a music store and in a private recording studio.

End pages include resources for more information on transgender and LGBTQ.

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* review copy courtesy of publisher

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Stacking the Shelves - 3.28.15

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For Review:

A Boy Like Me
by Jennie Wood
-LGBTQ, YA
courtesy of publisher
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Library:

The Interestings
by Meg Wolitzer
-Literature, Art
Amazon | Goodreads
The summer that Nixon resigns, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts become inseparable. Decades later the bond remains powerful, but so much else has changed. In The Interestings, Wolitzer follows these characters from the height of youth through middle age, as their talents, fortunes, and degrees of satisfaction diverge.

The kind of creativity that is rewarded at age fifteen is not always enough to propel someone through life at age thirty; not everyone can sustain, in adulthood, what seemed so special in adolescence. Jules Jacobson, an aspiring comic actress, eventually resigns herself to a more practical occupation and lifestyle. Her friend Jonah, a gifted musician, stops playing the guitar and becomes an engineer. But Ethan and Ash, Jules’s now-married best friends, become shockingly successful—true to their initial artistic dreams, with the wealth and access that allow those dreams to keep expanding. The friendships endure and even prosper, but also underscore the differences in their fates, in what their talents have become and the shapes their lives have taken.

Wide in scope, ambitious, and populated by complex characters who come together and apart in a changing New York City, The Interestings explores the meaning of talent; the nature of envy; the roles of class, art, money, and power; and how all of it can shift and tilt precipitously over the course of a friendship and a life.

=====> Listened to the audio version and loved the storytelling of the lives of these characters of friends from teen to adulthood. So touching.

AND binge watching:

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
tv series, season one
-comedy
Per imdb:

A woman is rescued from a doomsday cult and starts life over again in New York City.

=====> These episodes washes over life's ugly truths with a kind of hopeful twisted humor.

If you liked, 30 Rock, then you may get a kick out of this one too.

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