Summer Reading Entry 4

After reading the book My Heartbeat by Garrett Freymann-weyr, I did not regret picking this book one bit. I'd chosen this book for a couple reasons. At first when I was looking through the books, I couldn't seem to find a book that really interested me so one night I was asking friends if they'd started their summer reading and one of my friends said she was reading this book and that it was actually really good. She was telling me what it was about and it sounded good. Another reason is because I liked the plot of it when I heard about it, as my friend was describing what it was about, I thought to myself it seems like a book you don't want to put down. I was really interested in how the book was going to be towards the homosexual community because I have seem how some people react to it in real life and it isn't a good outcome at times.

I would recommend this book so anyone who likes a book more on the realistic side and more on the dramatic side. Not to mention there's also a little romance in the book as well. I think that many people can relate to this book, when I was reading it there were multiple times where I would think to myself yeah I've seen that happen, or yeah I can see why they reacted to that in a certain way. I enjoyed this book tons, so I believe anyone who enjoys dramatics and realistic books would also enjoy this book.

Summer Reading Entry 3

"'They're like a couple, aren't they?' Aden asks.
I ask where her brother goes to school and if she has any other siblings, and we stay off the topic of how very much like a couple Link and James are. A couple. Is that what they are? Is this what explains why I have spent so much time with them without ever knowing them?" (Freymann-weyr 33).

I chose this section of the book My Heartbeat by Garrett Freymann-weyr because it's the part of the book where everything starts coming together. To give a little background information, Link and Ellen or siblings and James is Link's best friend (at least that's what Ellen thinks). She'd always seen them together and fighting but she always thought it was a best friend thing, she'd never look at them as a couple. That is until a girl from school mentioned the thought. Ellen wasn't sure on whether to believe it or not. It would make complete sense to her if it was true, but she didn't wanna ask her brother because he was never the type of guy to open up and show emotion. Ellen is starting to question Link and James but she's not the only one, Link as well is questioning it. I don't want to give too much away, but I believe that this section of the book is a very important, almost an "ah ha" moment in the book.