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Russel Middlebrook is pretty sure that he's gay. After all, he's not attracted to girls, and he spends every day after gym class studiously avoiding the other half-naked guys in the locker room. He's never had an actual experience with another guy, though, so maybe the attraction he feels toward them is something he'll outgrow--or maybe not.
While surfing the Internet one night, he finds chat rooms for different towns and cities, where you can talk to other peo ...more
Russel Middlebrook is pretty sure that he's gay. After all, he's not attracted to girls, and he spends every day after gym class studiously avoiding the other half-naked guys in the locker room. He's never had an actual experience with another guy, though, so maybe the attraction he feels toward them is something he'll outgrow--or maybe not.
While surfing the Internet one night, he finds chat rooms for different towns and cities, where you can talk to other peo ...more
While this young adult novel may not be perfect, and not entirely, for lack of a more adequate term, revolutionary-- it doesn't have to be. "The Geography Club" more or less realistically deals with adolescent/teenage issues of sexuality, and tackles the ever needed to be addressed issues of accepting one's self. Hartinger's short novel, about a closeted boy in high school, gives us our share of predictability, originality, and everything in between-- feeling truly real more often that not. I d
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For a YA novel about coming out, starting a Gay/Straight Alliance, and dealing with first relationships, this book isn't half bad. It's a tad on the generic side and not too controversial. It would have been a nice change if the main protagonists had been two minority males rather than Caucasian and privileged. We shouldn't be starting off gay and lesbian teens with the notion that only the stories of white gay males matter. That's really my biggest complaint. Middle school and high school stude
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This is a fast read, told in first person by a young guy struggling with his fears of being outed in high school. When he discovers that there are others like himself, they form a club but call it the geography club in order to remain anonymous. That's fine until someone non-gay wants to join...
The narrator has a charming style and one finds oneself rooting for him from the first pages. When he's faced with some ethical questions, he sometimes opts for the safe answer and is soon disappointed i ...more
The narrator has a charming style and one finds oneself rooting for him from the first pages. When he's faced with some ethical questions, he sometimes opts for the safe answer and is soon disappointed i ...more
"Russel," she said ," people make mistakes. If there was no such thing as forgiveness, there wouldn't be any friendships left in the world"
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Russel is convinced he’s the only gay boy at his high school. Until he IMs and finds out the boy he has a crush on – the captain of the basball team at his school is IMing him back. It turns out his best friend Min is bi, her girlfriend a soccer player and some others form “the Geography Club – a club so boring that nobody in their right mind would ever in a million years join it.”
Another author whose every work I’m going to have to read!
Another author whose every work I’m going to have to read!
Stupid internet. I am not writing this review again. It's well-executed; definitely the best 'gay teen' book I've read. Not genius, but you can't have everything. Cliches are used, but not with an overly heavy hand. I cared a surprising amount about the characters and wanted to read more---lots more. I still want to know who 'patient zero' was!
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Cute book.
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