{"id":5053,"date":"2015-04-22T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=5053"},"modified":"2015-03-27T10:02:58","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T15:02:58","slug":"s-is-simon-vs-the-homo-sapiens-agenda-by-becky-albertalli-book-review-secret-admirer-too-many-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=5053","title":{"rendered":"S is Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, by Becky Albertalli (book review) – secret admirer? too many options!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"book<\/a>A secret correspondent<\/a>,
\nin this age of tell-all social media?
\nToo romantic for words!
\nBut who can it be?<\/p>\n

Hard to blame Simon for wanting to keep all drama in theater class<\/a>, but he knows that mysterious “BlueGreen” of flirtatious e-mails is a guy at his school and really, really wants to meet in person.<\/p>\n

That is, if he can keep his best friends from exploding at each other and outwit a blackmailing classmate who wants to out him before he’s ready.<\/p>\n

This early-April release should be in your local library<\/a> or independent bookstore<\/a> – if not, ask for it!<\/p>\n

Simon says the ‘homo sapiens agenda’ is that straight and white are the norm options, but he believes there should be no default setting for a human being! What do you think?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda \/ Becky Albertalli. Balzer+Bray, 2015. [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher via Edelweiss.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: Simon has a bit part in the play, but when a classmate threatens to publish his flirty emails with an anonymous guy at school, the Georgia teen must decide whether to step up to protect the sweetest guy he’s never met or set up his best friend Abby on the most awkward date ever.<\/p>\n

As ‘Jacques’ he shares favorite music and deepest dreams with ‘Blue’ but they haven’t met in person. No one will probably care when Simon comes out publicly, but Blue hasn’t come out either, so letting nerdy Marty put their relationship on Creekwood High’s gossip tumblr isn’t the junior’s decision to make.<\/p>\n

Best friend Abby has a huge crush on best friend Nick (who is completely oblivious), Blue wants to keep his growing relationship with Simon as email-only, and Oliver Twist<\/em> rehearsals are getting strange as Marty always tries talking to Abby and Simon wonders who, who, WHO is Blue?<\/p>\n

As hints about their true identities creep into their emails (Blue is Jewish, Jacques has two sisters), the guys discuss coming-out to their families, music to dream of the future by, and whether they should stay forever unknown to each other.<\/p>\n

Wait, not ever get together in person?
\nIs this a love story or a tragedy? Simon sighs… (One of 7,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A secret correspondent, in this age of tell-all social media? Too romantic for words! But who can it be? Hard to blame Simon for wanting to keep all drama in theater class, but he knows that mysterious “BlueGreen” of flirtatious e-mails is a guy at his school and really, really wants to meet in person. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,19],"tags":[10,163,22,7,4,11,20,5,18,46,252,43,107,187,39,86,15,9,21,35,58,3,143,8,61],"class_list":["post-5053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diverse-books","category-fiction","tag-a2z","tag-african-american","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-belonging","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-family","tag-funny","tag-georgia","tag-growing-up","tag-homosexuality","tag-lgbtq","tag-love","tag-music","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-technology","tag-teens","tag-theater","tag-us-author","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5053"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5568,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5053\/revisions\/5568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}