hey guys! how's it going
today I'm gathered here today and so
are you
you all because i want to talk about the
book i just finished which is called do
you think this is strange by Aaron cully
drake
here's what it looks like
honestly at first I thought it
was called strange do you think this is
because of the way that goes but no guys
you're actually supposed to follow the
thread so it's called do you think this
is strange and i want to talk about this
because i could not put this book down i
love it so much and so i'm going to talk
about it today because i think everyone
should read it it's so good so it's about
this
seventeen-year-old boy Freddie who
has autism and he gets expelled from his
high school so he transfers to a
different one where he reconnects with
someone that he hasn't seen a decade
yeah this what kinda reminded me of
slaughterhouse five by kurt vonnegut
which i also read this month upon
request or recommendation by a friend of
mine and so if you have any
recommendations for me and what I should
read please tell me because i really
need some recommendations
it reminded me of slaughterhouse five
because it has lots of like flasbacks
and like flipping throughout different
points of Freddie's life which I really
love that style it was really good
it's a coming-of-age tale because
Freddie's 17 but it is in the adult
section of the library i went to the library
and saw the cover and picked up and i
started reading the first page and was
immediately hooked so let me read the
first page for you actually
yeah the first page it was so
good ok see you see this is when i
figured out that it was actually called
do you think this is strange
ok chapter one is called my mornings
listen I have troubled dreams. it takes
me hours to fall asleep I wake suddenly
then wait to feel tired and sometimes
I sit and stare at the wall until
daybreak in the morning i'm more tired
than I was the night before it shouldn't be
that way other 17-year-olds have to
be dragged up from this slubmer like fish
from ocean deep but I wake up first
light.ah it's so good
oh man i love it.
the style of narration like immediately
drew me in the first person point of
view really immerses you into Freddie's
head and I really appreciated getting to
know more about what it's like to have
autism the author
actually has an autistic daughter so it
was really poignant and realistic and
the author does a really good job of
withholding information so there's lots
of surprises at the end which obviously
i will not spoil
yeah it's really good so the book
follows Freddie as deals with like his
dysfunctional family bullies at school
and the new friends he makes he has
difficulty communicating with people
because he takes everything literally so
it sort of deals with his interactions
and his thought process as he deals with
like talking to people and just living
his life his mom also disappeared from
his life when he was really young so he's
still like dealing with that and figuring
out what happened and processing that
and when he reconnects with this girl
from his past who he meets at this
new-school his memory started coming
back to him so he's like remembering
more about his past and it was just so good.
like it never got boring or peetered
out the end at least for me, it kept me
excited the whole way through and the
ending was brilliant and like surprising
the ending was more than satisfying and
I feel like there could be a sequel if
there were id so read it bc
the book definitely lends itself to the
possibility of having a sequel
yeah i think everyone should read this
book please let me know if you will or
if you already have because i love to
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to leave your book recommendation of
what i should read because I honestly
always have difficulty figuring out what
to read next
I just get like 10,000 books in the
library and then only end up reading
one so please tell me something to read
ok because i will read it thanks so much
for watching guys!!!
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