![]() ![]() ![]() (See Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children for more examples.)Įvery You, Every Me should have never made it into print and stayed where it belongs - in Levithan's bottom desk drawer with the rest of his creative writing exercises. It's not that I have anything against using photographs as an inspiration, but when you use something like this to limit your creativity, it almost always feels forced and inorganic. The novel breathes, circulates on, bleeds angst.Ģ) struck through words - would you like to read a book where 50% of the text is struck through? I find this technique fairly annoying, but in some books ( Wintergirls) it can work, here it serves no discernible purpose except adding in a double dose of angst and appears to be pretty random.ģ) it is a writing exercise! - the book was evidently written around photographs, meaning, the photographer would send David some random picture and he will write the next piece of novel based on it, without knowing what is to come next. It's just angst, angst, angst with a hint of mystery. ![]() Let me recount my problems with Every You, Every Me in order of appearance:ġ) the ANGST - the book assaults with an unbearable amount of teen boy angst from the very first page, when you do not even know the main character's name and circumstances. But this new experimental piece of his - it caused me physical pain to slog through that little bit of the book that I did manage to read. ![]() I usually like David Levithan, a lot even. ![]()
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