I've started reading this book called "The Realm of Possibility" By David Levithan.
The book's description on Goodreads:
"One school. Twenty voices.
Endless possibilities.
There's the girl who is in love with Holden Caulfield. The boy who wants to be strong who falls for the girl who's convinced she needs to be weak. The girl who writes love songs for a girl she can't have. The two boys teetering on the brink of their first anniversary. And everyone in between."
This book is about 20 characters, all of which are in the same high school. It's your typical everyday plot, but with a weird twist to it. Instead of the normal layout a book would have, each character tells a poem or well organised thoughts.
I personally loved how it spoke about every problem a high school could have all at once.
I originally picked up this book because of the title. I didn't know what it was about, but I thought it would be interesting. I almost put it down when the book started out with two boys in a relationship. I wasn't interested in reading such a book for many reasons, one of them being that I thought the book would be too similar to his previous book "Boy meets Boy".
It might seem weird when you first start reading the book, it may look like a collection of poetry instead of a novel because of it's unusual layout, but that's what's so awesome about it to me.
"Here's what I know about the realm of possibility-- it is alwys expanding, it is never what you think it is.Everything around us was once deemed impossible... And yet, every day we each do so many things that were once impossible to us."
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