The book I choose to read for the reading without walls challenge was How They Met And Other Stories by David Levithan. This cute little book had a different story for every chapter. Many of them were about how people met, not all romantic. This book, in a way, met two out of the three challenges. Some of the people in the stories were gay or a different race. You can kinda fit this book into a different format with multiple stories, something I don’t normally read. I picked this book because I’m a sucker for cute love stories and also any other cute stories. I also found it interesting to have the stories in first person so you could really see how they were experiencing life at that moment. Most of the stories were a story of how someone met their significant other or just a crush. I found them very cute. The first few were of gays and I found every story to be very different and I really liked how I got to feel how they feel and see what they see. I support the LGBTQ comuntiy but I don’t really know much about how they experience romantic relationships; and no surprise, it’s no different then how anyone else does. Other stories were little adventures that I always found myself very engaged in. I hated putting the book down when I had to. The stories always jumped right into the action and kept the energy going. The fun part was that every chapter was a new love starting or a new adventure and I was always excited to see what was coming next. A quote from one of the stories that stood out to me was “You are a second away from saying it.” The next line went right into what, apparently I, was going to say but, being me I overthought this little quote. I thought about how many of us can be one second away from saying something that could impact you and/or someone else but we don’t. I know that’s not what the quote was really about but I kinda interpreted it to my own way. I loved reading this book that opened my eyes to how other people live their day to day lives or how they live a specific moment in their life. I really think this is the perfect travel book but it also shows you differences in lives that every has, and also the similarities. Written by Kayanne
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