summer reading :)

Hi! my name is Kate and this is my first blog post. this past summer I read many books. My favorite way to read, especially during summer is either at the beach or in a sunny room looking out at the water. One of my favorite books I read this summer was Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, by Jesse Andrews. This hilarious novel will keep you at the edge of you seat and is packed with edgy, dark humor that will make you want to never put it down.

The cynical protagonist, Greg, has his whole social life precariously figured out, never spending too much time with one group of people in a vain attempt to basically be friends with everyone. The closest thing Greg has to a friendship is Earl, an independent boy from a struggling family who couldn't care less about himself or the people around him. And though he and Greg are extremely different in every way, there is one thing that bonds and holds their friendship together, and that's film making.

Ever since they were young, Greg and Earl have obsessed over the short, obscure films Greg's dad would show them, re-watching them until they had all of the lines memorized. Then they would film makeshift parodies of the movies, always ending up with what they considered a failure. Greg goes on with his inconspicuous life, until one day his mom makes a sudden appearance in his room with some very unexpected news. A girl named Rachel, who he knew from Hebrew school and didn't think much of, had been diagnosed with Leukemia. 

As the story unfolds, Greg has to face his fear of standing out in a crowd a people and doing something for someone other than himself. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl was a fast paced, brilliantly written book about putting effort into something whether or not you think it will last forever.