Holding Up the Universe

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You’ll read teens who actually sound like teens and have their share of dickish moments and you’ll get to experience a relatable first crush rather than instalove and laugh out loud when Libby says things like: “I want to lean in and get a whiff of him and rest my head on his should or maybe make out with his neck” while slow dancing with a boy.

Following her mom’s death, she’s been picking up the pieces in the privacy of her home, dealing with her heartbroken father and her own grief.Initial reaction reading this book: I don't know if I'm angry at this book as much as I am just completely left exhausted and drained by this book, and not even in a fulfilling way. It was compelling and didn't seem as offensive as the blurb had been, but the more I think about it, the more that doesn't seem to be enough of an excuse for the book as a whole. Jack’s condition and Libby’s past could have made for a really interesting story but I felt like the author focused too much on these traits rather than giving the characters’ personalities. The film starring Elle Fanning, Justice Smith, Luke Wilson, and Keegan-Michael Key, is currently streamable on Netflix, with a script by Jennifer and Liz Hannah (The Post). Let me help out our community of readers by pointing straight out what the book is/what it is not so as to avoid judging it just by its blurb alone.

Holding Up the Universe is a story about finding courage when you feel you don't have any, and not letting anyone sway you from what you want. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Llegó a ser "La chica más gorda de América" y después de muchas terapias y de años estudiando desde la casa vuelve a la escuela.Some of the scenes were very strange (No, high school students do not have random ‘dance parties’ in the middle of detention with their PE teacher. Since her mum's death, she's been picking up the pieces in the privacy of her home, dealing with her heartbroken father and her own grief. However, I can’t connect to her at all by the means she uses so the whole scene looks a bit out of place for me. Jennifer Niven is the author of the New York Times and international bestseller All the Bright Places. It’s just a badly written “love story” where 2 characters act like idiots and then “fall in love” despite there being no chemistry.

The author throws together two teens who are solely characterized by their weight and prosopagnosia (the inability to recognize faces) and, despite having zero chemistry, they fall in lurrrve. And Libby has to decide whether pursuing everything she wants without worrying about the consequences is actually worthwhile, or if she should just do her best to hide in the background.All this fuss over a girl who, if we’re being honest, looked so much like Caroline Lushamp that—at least at first—I thought it was her, which means in some weird way Caroline should be flattered.