#TBT and Thursday Trailer
Title: Every Day
Author: David Levithan
Genre: YA
Release Year: 2012 #TBT Review
Publisher: Ember (Randomhouse)
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| Swoon Worthy Language |
Every Day is none of the above. Every Day is beautiful prose. Every Day is David Levithan. Every Day is falling in love with language. Every Day is YA splendor.
By the way, "Swoon Worthy Language" means that the words themselves, the writing, is something I have fallen for in this book. Not that the novel is straight up romance.
Even though I do not enjoy every aspect of the novel (in regards to how it seems that the author is inserting his personal views of the world--viewpoints that are basically humanistic in nature and that I do not agree with at all), I can not help but to love how Levithan writes. I aspire to write like this. For this I give the book 4 hearts.
And because of this, I have also been inspired to create a book trailer--my first attempt. Really. I hope you enjoy it! I tried to capture the essence of eternity, of falling in love.
50 Second Synopsis
"A" is continually reborn--every day. " Every day a different body. Every day a different life. Every day in love with the same girl." For as long as he has existed, the only truth "A" has known is he is himself, but yet he is someone else. He has no long-term connection to humanity. Only momentary habitation. For eternity.A Review in Quotes
“This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it’s just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be.”
“It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.”
“A sound waiting to be a word.”
“The ocean makes its music; the wind does its dance. We hold on. At first we hold on to one another, but then it starts to feel like we are holding on to something even bigger than that. Greater.”
“But there’s something about her—the cities on her shoes, the flash of bravery, the unnecessary sadness—that makes me want to know what the word will be when it stops being a sound. I have spent years meeting people without ever knowing them, and on this morning, in this place, with this girl, I feel the faintest pull of wanting to know. And in a moment of either weakness or bravery on my own part, I decide to follow it. I decide to find out more.”
“We have defied the day as it was set out for us.”
Minerva
