I’ve never had a crush on a book character before, but I would certainly want to spend every day with her. I could totally understand why A wanted to spend every day with Rhiannon. Would A be a black girl, a gay guy, have a gorgeous body or be incredibly overweight? Then when A has found out who it is, how will A use that body and what will A do today. Every time a new day would start, I’d be wondering, like A, who it would be waking up as. A seems to have figured out what to do each time it wakes up in another body and makes its way through the day. I thought it would be incredibly difficult for a child to understand what was happening to them, but for A it was just life. A has been this way from birth, so it has never known anything different. You try to understand what it would be like to wake up each day as a different person, but you can’t really grasp how difficult it would be. Sometimes it can take you a while to put yourself in the main character’s shoes, but I immediately empathized with A and what it was going through. However, I think each reader will picture A differently. Even though A doesn’t know if it is male or female, I imagined A as a male right from the start.

One of the most interesting things about this book is the way that you look at the character of A. In Every Day, A is in a different body each day, so it has to get used to being a different person (on the outside) and acting like that person.

It’s completely different from anything I’ve ever read, because usually the narrator stays in one body throughout the story and they interact with the same characters. Even now, 3 days after reading the final sentence, I’m struggling to put into words how much this book has affected me. Because A has found someone he wants to be with-day in, day out, day after day.Ĭan you love someone who is destined to change each day?Įvery Day is one of the most extraordinary, thought-provoking, and emotional stories I’ve ever read. From that moment, the rules by which A has been living no longer apply. Do not interfere.Īnd then A wakes up in the body of Justin and meets Justin’s girlfriend, Rhiannon. A has made peace with that, even established guidelines by which to live: Never get too attached. There’s never any warning about where it will be or who it will be. Every day in love with the same girl.Įvery morning, A wakes in a different person’s body, a different person’s life.

It was even more amazing than I had imagined.Įvery day a different body. David Levithan’s new book, Every Day, was one of those books for me. You hear or read about the idea of the story and it sounds so exciting, clever, and original that you want to read it right now. Sometimes you discover a book that you know you are going to love without the book even being published yet.

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