Heartstopper
Alice Oseman, 2019
Romance Graphic novels & humourYoung adult
Two boys at an English school become friends, and Nick starts noticing something about himself he had no words for. A comic drawn with unusual gentleness.
Feels like tenderness and hope. About identity, love and adventure.
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What you cannot know by looking, and what it costs to guess.
You can’t tell whether people are gay by what they look like. And gay or straight aren’t the only two options. Anyway, it’s very rude to speculate about people’s sexuality. Alice Oseman.Oseman first posted Heartstopper free on Tumblr in 2016, as a spin-off of her debut novel Solitaire; the printed volume followed in 2019.
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- What is Heartstopper like?
- Feels like tenderness and hope. About identity, love and adventure.
- What should I read after Heartstopper?
- If you liked Heartstopper, try The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (Gabrielle Zevin), Red, White & Royal Blue (Casey McQuiston) and Yours Truly (Abby Jimenez).
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How to say your life is in books without saying it.
The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone. My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart. We are not quite novels. The analogy he is looking for is almost there. We are not quite short stories. At this point, his life is seeming closest to that. In the end, we are collected works.
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry · Gabrielle Zevin
Being loved not despite the damage, but including it.
We’re all a little broken, Briana. We are a mosaic. We’re made up of all those we’ve met and all the things we’ve been through. There are parts of us that are colorful and dark and jagged and beautiful. And I love every piece of you. Even the ones you wish didn’t exist.
Yours Truly · Abby Jimenez
The wish is not to be beautiful, only to be unnoticed.
If I found a magic lamp and I could have one wish, I would wish that I had a normal face that no one ever noticed at all. I would wish that I could walk down the street without people seeing me and then doing that look-away thing. Here’s what I think: the only reason I’m not ordinary is that no one else sees me that way.
Wonder · R.J. Palacio
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