Just watched his TEDtalk. It was great. If, like me, you read this book and wondered how on earth he was so close to his mother but she didn‘t notice he was gay, this will answer that question for you. He‘s also delightfully funny...and he even shows off the LIA handbook he STILL has (I think it‘s mostly to prove it really is as bad as he made it out to be). Here the link: https://youtu.be/JmCtZz-RztQ
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GingerAntics I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. 6y
TheBookHippie This is on my TBR. Hoping I can stomach it. I heard it was marvelous. (edited) 6y
GingerAntics @TheBookHippie I wasn‘t sure I was going to be able to stomach it. Maybe it‘s that I‘ve gotten used to some of this madness, but I think it‘s his mentality about it. It wasn‘t nearly as bad as I expected it to be. I mean, what happened to him certainly was, but his mentality colours the way he tells the story, so it‘s easier to read. 6y
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GingerAntics @TheBookHippie he‘s so good at not letting you know quite what the ending is going to be until you get there, so there was one point during the book when I decided I just needed to know, if I was going to go on. I needed to know he was okay, the scared 19/20 yo was going to be okay. So I googled him. All it took was the one sentence under “personal life” on his Wikipedia page: “Conley resides in New York City with his husband.” (edited) 6y
GingerAntics @TheBookHippie after that I happily finished the book. If you‘re not sure, I‘d go for the TEDtalk first. He‘s much more humorous in that one, and you get to see for yourself that he‘s fine with all this, he‘s cool with his parents. So you can see it all worked out. I think knowing that going in really helps when you get to the hardest/most heartbreaking parts of the book. 6y
TheBookHippie I‘ll try it when I return home from vacation 😩 so afraid. Oye. 6y
GingerAntics @TheBookHippie I was, too. I knew if I didn‘t read it while I had it, I‘d have to be on the waiting list for another 6 months, so I just read it. The build up is way worse. 6y
ItsAnotherJen Thank you so much for sharing the link to his TED talk. 5y
GingerAntics @JenFowler I enjoyed his talk as much as the book. He‘s clearly a very nice guy. I love that he‘s turned out okay after all the madness from his teen years. 5y
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