hello YouTube have made a video wearing
these in a while I'm tired my eyes are
tired I'm I'm gonna wear my glasses
today so sorry for the constant
reflection from my window but hi I need
to see it is the end of the month which
means that today is a book of the month
video and for this month I have been
reading Will Grayson Will Grayson by
John Green and David Levithan if you're
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now let's get into the video so well
Grayson Will Grayson is a very
well-loved book in my catalog of books
that I own because I've read this book
nine to twelve times in my life because
it's John Green for one it's David
Levithan as well I don't really like a
lot of his stuff too but also I just
like absolutely love this book so this
is a very very well loved one it's one
of my favorites it's probably my
favorite book honestly and like I've
talked about before when I was younger
and still kind of do now I like to write
a lot in my books of like lines I like
and like highlighting things and things
like that I used to fold down the pages
of everything to on this there's maybe
like out of the how many pages in this
book just over 300 pages of both grace
more grace and there's maybe 20 of them
that aren't folded down so yeah that's
come from like loving this book so much
and reading it so many times and just
wanting to keep going with it and keep
enjoying it and finding something new
that I like about it every time that I
like write a little box or underlying
and then fold the page down also along
with this if there's ever a movie
version made of Will Grayson Will
Grayson I really want to play Jane I've
wanted to be Jane in the movie version
of Will Grayson Will Grayson since I
read this book for the first time when I
was in high school so that's a big thing
of how much I love this book well
Grayson Will Grayson is written by two
authors John Green and David Levithan
what this means is that they each took
one version of Will Grayson because bill
Grayson is two people in this book and
wrote their own stories of him this is
kind of like how Eve of man by Tom and
Giovanna Fletcher was written which I
also did for a book of the month I will
link it down below and even man they
have their male and female tracks
written from each person's perspective
and that's kind of the similar way that
it is here with little Grayson Will
Grayson I'm gonna read you the little
blurb on the back this book's you kind
of a little bit more about what this is
about
well Grayson a meet Will Grayson one
cold night in a most unlikely corner of
Chicago to strangers cross paths to
teens with the same name running in two
very different circles suddenly find
their lives going in new and unexpected
directions culminating in heroic turns
apart than the most epic musical ever to
grace the high school stage so yeah
that's the basic gist of it it's two
guys named Will Grayson who meet each
other in Chicago at a very funny
location which I'm not gonna ruin if you
want to read this book because it
honestly makes me laugh every time I
read it I know it's coming up they live
two very different lives in Chicago and
it's really interesting the way that
it's written to intersect their two
worlds together the way that the will
Grayson's are separated is that there's
uppercase will and lowercase well
uppercase will is written by John Green
and lowercase will is written by David
Levithan there's so many things about
this book specifically about John Green
sections because I'm a very huge John
Green can it happen forever that are
just like perfect writing to me
specifically perfect John Green writing
so reading here from uppercase Bowl
section and everything goes perfectly on
the way there
traffic's not too bad on Sheridan and
I'm cornering the car like it's the Indy
500 and we're listening to my favorite
Neutral Milk Hotel song Hall in 1945 and
then on to Lake Shore Drive the waves of
Lake Michigan crashing if the boulders
by the drive the windows cracked to get
the car to defrost the dirty bracing
cold air rushing in and I love the way
Chicago smells Chicago is brackish lake
water and soot and sweat and grease and
I love it and I love this song and tiny
saying I love this song he's got the
visor down so he can mess up his hair a
little more expertly that gets me to
thinking that Neutral Milk Hotel is
going to see me just as surely as I'm
going to see them so I give myself a
once-over in the rearview my face seems
to square and my eyes too big like I'm
perpetually surprised but there's
nothing wrong with me that I can fix I
don't that section in particular just
like perfectly encapsulate to me
listening to like my favorite band while
sitting in a car and driving with a
really good friend and it just reminds
me of all these things that I felt in
high school that I was like this is
what's shown in the movies that I really
want to have in my life and then in
college I kind of got when I went on
road trips with shot that I was like
this is what it feels like
like the real
thing that I read about in Will Grayson
Will Grayson this is how it actually
feels and when I read reread this
section again while reading it this
month I was like oh my god I forgot how
much I loved that feeling
and it just made me really happy the two
will Grayson's are very very different
in the way that they are upper case coil
which is John Green's well Grayson is
much more about like sticking to the
sidelines doing his thing as a teenager
but having his group of friends and
wanting to like fit in whereas the lower
case will which is David Levithan as
well has a lot more of like the doom and
gloom of teenage life and that's kind of
things that I totally related to when I
was growing up and to try and understand
that about myself and who I was and
finding the differences in both of them
and the similarities and both of them
that I saw in myself and reading this
book again I haven't read this book
since high school and reading it again
this month I was like oh my god I can
totally see all of these things that I
saw in myself growing up that I loved
about this book that made me relate to
it so much all the characters throughout
this book are so complex and really
really well fleshed out which I really
really appreciate as a reader
specifically tiny Cooper who is just the
most fabulous character in this book and
he's a big gay football player who's
also a musical guy and he just says so
many funny things in the book but I'm
like I wish I had a friend like this
growing up there's also a huge part in
this book about social media and
catfishing which is a pretty big deal
nowadays and I think when I was written
in like mid-2000s catfishing was kind of
a thing that was coming about but wasn't
really like defined as catfishing so
going back and reading it again I forgot
about that part of the book out of how
important it was to it and it made me
really think about the impact that like
social media has on teens and their
emotions and things like that along with
like what it does to personal and
interpersonal relationships there's a
lot of things in Will Grayson Will
Grayson that remind me of like the
perfect teen movie but also like a very
relatable teen movie that I can't think
of a specific one at the current moment
but probably the closest one to it would
be Perks of Being a Wallflower because
it just it just feels good when you
watch that movie and you
see these kids doing their thing in
their life and dealing with these real
actual struggles and then reading this
book along with also reading person
being a wallflower as well they have
like real teens dealing with real
struggles and things that you can really
do so that is all I have for you guys
today for this month's book of the month
if you have read well Grayson Will
Grayson and love it as much as I do or
if you've just read it in general let me
know what you think of it in the
comments down below it's really one of
my favorite books of all time like I win
or you could pick this up whatever it's
like how I could watch the office
forever and like know what's happening
and still enjoy it well Grayson Will
Grayson is that kind of book for me
so like if you have a book that's like
that for you let me know what is in the
comments as well cuz I love to read more
of people's like favorite books too as
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