Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green & David Levithan
I have not read many titles written by two authors, but I did read Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan and that’s when I began to admire David Levithan’s writing. Now I hear that John Green is very popular and when I found out about Will Grayson, Will Grayson written by Green & Levithan I thought I would give it a try.
Will Grayson, Will Grayson is fabulous. Not only because it takes place in the Chicagoland area, and not only because it is written by two extremely talented young adult authors, but because the characters are very alive and the story is true.
John Green’s Will Grayson is a young man who lives by a few rules: 1) Shut up and 2) Don’t care. He is kind of drifting in his school and social life because he ended up writing a letter to the school newspaper defending his best and long time friend, Tiny Cooper. Tiny is a huge human being and also very gay and Will was defending Tiny’s right to be on the football team regardless of his sexual orientation. Well, that gets Will kicked out of his Group of Friends and so he has Tiny and Tiny’s Gay-Straight Alliance (including Jane–is she a gay part of the alliance or a straight part of the alliance, Will wonders).
David Levithan’s Will Grayson is a depressed young man with very few friends, one of them being Maura, who Will sometimes sees as a nuisance and not so much as a friend. The person that makes Will’s day better is Isaac, someone Will has only talked to online and shared social networking sites with. Isaac lives in Ohio but decides they should meet. This is when Will Grayson meets the Other Will Grayson.
It’s a story about friendship and figuring out who you are (at least for today) and it’s a story about Tiny, who has written a musical called Tiny Dancer: The Tiny Cooper Story which puts himself and his relationships out there for everyone to see. It’s a fantastic book.
Will Grayson, Will Grayson is fabulous. Not only because it takes place in the Chicagoland area, and not only because it is written by two extremely talented young adult authors, but because the characters are very alive and the story is true.
John Green’s Will Grayson is a young man who lives by a few rules: 1) Shut up and 2) Don’t care. He is kind of drifting in his school and social life because he ended up writing a letter to the school newspaper defending his best and long time friend, Tiny Cooper. Tiny is a huge human being and also very gay and Will was defending Tiny’s right to be on the football team regardless of his sexual orientation. Well, that gets Will kicked out of his Group of Friends and so he has Tiny and Tiny’s Gay-Straight Alliance (including Jane–is she a gay part of the alliance or a straight part of the alliance, Will wonders).
David Levithan’s Will Grayson is a depressed young man with very few friends, one of them being Maura, who Will sometimes sees as a nuisance and not so much as a friend. The person that makes Will’s day better is Isaac, someone Will has only talked to online and shared social networking sites with. Isaac lives in Ohio but decides they should meet. This is when Will Grayson meets the Other Will Grayson.
It’s a story about friendship and figuring out who you are (at least for today) and it’s a story about Tiny, who has written a musical called Tiny Dancer: The Tiny Cooper Story which puts himself and his relationships out there for everyone to see. It’s a fantastic book.
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