{"id":782,"date":"2019-01-07T19:35:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T19:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/?p=782"},"modified":"2019-04-16T12:30:17","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T11:30:17","slug":"simon-vs-the-homo-sapiens-agenda-by-becky-albertalli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/?p=782","title":{"rendered":"Simon Vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I can not thank <a href=\"http:\/\/hayleyfromhome.co.uk\/\">HayleyFromHome<\/a> enough for sharing this book with me. This novel has to be one of the loveliest stories I have ever read and every moment has been pure joy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I did break the golden rule as a bookworm and watch the film first (well I was on a long-haul flight). However, this has not taken away from the enjoyment of the book because the film is just as enjoyable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the kind of YA fiction that world needs. Simon is a typical teenager, struggling a little with his place in the world as he deals with his identity. We follow Simon on his journey as he comes out to his friends and family &#8211; and gets to know the mysterious &#8216;Blue&#8217;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The whole story is beautifully written &#8211; alternating between the standard narrative and the email exchanges between Simon and &#8216;Blue&#8217;. It is such an ordinary yet important tale for the modern world and, in fact, it is a shame that this is not the kind of novel that hit popular YA audiences sooner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What struck me about this book, and comes from the title, is what really is the normal agenda? Who decides what is &#8216;normal&#8217;? (A question Simon and Blue discuss).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This novel, for me is a modern classic &#8211; one I want to share with everybody (just like the film). So, thank you again, <a href=\"http:\/\/hayleyfromhome.co.uk\/\">HayleyFromHome<\/a>, for sharing it with me this festive season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can not thank HayleyFromHome enough for sharing this book with me. This novel has to be one of the loveliest stories I have ever read and every moment has been pure joy. I did break the golden rule as a bookworm and watch the film first (well I was on a long-haul flight). However, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[6],"tags":[373,375,374,137],"class_list":["post-782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-a-year-in-books-2019","tag-becky-albertalli","tag-simon-vs-the-homo-sapiens-agenda","tag-ya-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jrc7-cC","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}