I've always felt so grateful to the authors that take the time to connect with
me through social media. In my mind, I'd always thought they were on an
unattainable level. In this event, I want to get to know the authors; to see them for the people
they are and not just as creators of your favorite book.
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2. I also kept a journal of my own stories, and one day, I discovered someone had drawn a picture on one of the pages. I was about ten years old at the time. I still remember how exposed I felt, knowing that someone (I still don’t know who) had read my secret writing.
3. My style in middle school: Umbro athletic shorts, oversized t-shirt featuring a wolf’s face, white Nike sneakers, glasses smudged with dirt.
4. I read THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER when I was fifteen or sixteen, and I wanted Charlie to be real so badly that I literally cried about it.
5. In high school, I kissed exactly zero people. But I did spend about ninety-nine percent of my time daydreaming about kissing.
6. In college, my friends and I went through the obligatory phase of semi-ironically watching the entire canon of Olsen twins movies. My proudest moment was probably when I explained to the Blockbuster employee that Winning London was stuck in my VCR…but I still needed to rent Passport to Paris.
7. I have seen the movie Wet Hot American Summer approximately fifty million times, and I can still quote giant sections of dialogue.
8. One of my favorite places in the world is Glen Echo Park, outside Washington D.C. I had my wedding there!
9. The vast majority of the characters in my books are given names I love that I couldn’t use for my kids. The main character of my work-in-progress is named after my grandmothers.
10. I still can’t believe SIMON is a real book. I can’t even wrap my head around it. This is a story about a kid with my birthday, who loves everything I love and lives in a thinly veiled version of my hometown. I will never stop being amazed that this person I made up lives in other people’s heads now, too.
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Becky Albertalli is a clinical psychologist who has had the privilege of conducting therapy with dozens of smart, weird, irresistible teenagers. She also served for seven years as co-leader of a support group for gender nonconforming children in Washington, DC. She now lives with her family in Atlanta.
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Fact number 2 was one of my favorite facts. I would feel like I was spied on if someone read my personal thoughts and stories. I would of wanted to at least who read it. To bad Becky never found out who it was. I love how whoever wins this giveaway gets Oreos. You definitely need Oreos when you read the book!!! Thanks for this giveaway Nova!!!
ReplyDeleteTHIS POST, OH MY LORD. BECKY YOU ARE TOO CUTE <3
ReplyDelete1. I feel this. Terribly. I wanted to read NOTHING but books about animals, and they were my life. I wouldn't even deign to read books that didn't feature animals as main characters.
5. HIGH FIVE. This is my life.
6. Watching things semi-ironically is amazing. I went to a cinema marathon of the Twilight movies with a friend. Of course to watch them "ironically". ;D
8. Obviously I need to visit this place when I make it to the US one day!
9. I'm actually surprised by the names I use! Some are ones that I have never even thought of in a particular way, and some have been my absolute favourites, but that I know I would never name any (possible) future kids with.
10. Simon is a darling, and I'm so lucky that he was able to find his way into my life. And I know so many other people will feel that way, Becky! <3
Haha I LOVE this post, it's so adorable.
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh Blockbuster. I think all of ours in my town are gone! We once had one huge one and then their business just went to crap after Red Box and Netflix, and then about a year ago I went in the store and it was like the size of a closet, and now I'm pretty sure the store is just gone. It's sad because Blockbuster was like...my childhood. I loved renting video games from them during the summer!
I tend to name characters after my favorite names, or names I would actually use for children someday, or names that I *wish* I could use for a child. I mean it fits right? Your characters sort of ARE your children...
#4- totally relate. That is my FAVORITE book. <3
ReplyDelete2! I can totally relate to the exposed part. My journal once got stolen :(
ReplyDeleteI loved that she got married at Glen Echo Park! I LOOOOOVE that place. It's absolutely beautiful. Is it wrong if I want to see her wedding pictures 'cause I know they'd be stunning with that setting?!
ReplyDeleteNumber 6 is a fabulous fact. I used to want to call one of my (non existent) kids Galadriel, and Kaid is nice too, but now those characters fill my short stories instead.
ReplyDeleteI have multiple favorite facts! 2,5 and 6. Haha. Ugh, people are the worst. I remember in middle school someone actually stole my school journal (we had to keep a journal in english class) AND my poetry notebooks!
ReplyDeleteI'm still scarred ten years lair.
And daydreaming's pretty much my life.
The closest me and my friends ever came to watching the Olsen movies was when we watched Getting There and decided that was their worst movie ever. :) Honestly though. I do like MK&A's other movies though. <3 I love those Olsen twins! (Boy Meets World reference).
--Amber