304 pages
English language
Published Feb. 11, 2012 by Amulet Books.
Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.
In my 2022 #FReadom quest to read books banned or threatened in Texas libraries and schools, my 9th book was Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews. www.jesseandrews.com/me-and-earl-and-the-dying-girl
Besides being uproariously funny, Jesse Andrews dives into important truths: social anxiety and insecurity happen to every one of us, and so does grief. Everybody has to navigate them the best they can, there is no "right" way.
When I looked first at this book, I was expecting to get a story similar to John Green's "The Fault in Our Stars", which is a great book, but we won't need two books with a similar story. So, I was expecting to get a story like that:
A girl got cancer. A boy falls in love with her. She dies. His life is over.
No. Definitely nothing I'd like to read, but this book isn't a book like that. Certainly not, certainly different from John Green's. Totally different. It is so fun to read with a great protagonist who struggles to achieve to make a girl with cancer happy, even if he looses his current social status, even if his Mom forced him to, in his humouristic own way.
It made me laugh all the time and after reading, I could admit, this is one of the books I …
When I looked first at this book, I was expecting to get a story similar to John Green's "The Fault in Our Stars", which is a great book, but we won't need two books with a similar story. So, I was expecting to get a story like that:
A girl got cancer. A boy falls in love with her. She dies. His life is over.
No. Definitely nothing I'd like to read, but this book isn't a book like that. Certainly not, certainly different from John Green's. Totally different. It is so fun to read with a great protagonist who struggles to achieve to make a girl with cancer happy, even if he looses his current social status, even if his Mom forced him to, in his humouristic own way.
It made me laugh all the time and after reading, I could admit, this is one of the books I could definitely recommend.
