Every You, Every Me: Week of 10/27

This is Evan

 This week I started reading Every You, Every Me by David Levithan. He is one of my favorite authors but this book is really badly written. It had an interesting concept but it turned out as a failure. Jonathan Farmer sent his photographs (which are great, really) to Levithan and Levithan would write his story based on the picture. Neither of them knew what to expect from each other so this may have been the cause to this interesting story. Another thing that really bothered me was that the book constantly had words crossed out. It's really annoying, sometimes a whole chapter would be crossed off.

 Evan is the narrator of this story. His friend Ariel goes to get help after Kevin saves her from her suicide attempt. While she's gone, he receives photographs, threats, and even pictures of himself. We don't learn who this stalker until the end.

 Ariel leaves and doesn't return. She has no contact with Evan or her other friend. Evan is constantly sad because he feels like it's bad that he stopped her. Not that he wanted her to die but he thinks it's his fault for her going away. The story is filled with so much teenage angst, it's unbearable. No character is introduced in the beginning, it just him being an über emo kid talking about Ariel who we don't even know her story until later.

This is Ariel

 Curious to know who the stalker was? A girl named Dana. Evan and her have this whole argument on how Dana is Ariel's true best friend and how it's all Evan's fault that she got sent to the ward and things like that. She claims that Ariel didn't need the help completely forgetting the fact that she's mentally ill.

 I don't know how I feel about this book. It's kind of a psychological mess.

Comments: Gabe, Abdiel, Carlos