~Can't Wait Wednesday: Someday (Every Day #3)~

                Can't Wait Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Wishful Endings.  Basically books that are not yet out that we are dying to get our hands on.  This week’s pick is:

Someday (Every Day #3) by David Levithan

Out:  10/2

From Goodreads:

                Every day a new body.  Every day a new life.  Every day a new choice.

                For as long as A can remember, life has meant waking up in a different person’s body every day, forced to live as that person until the day ended.  A always thought there wasn’t anyone else who had a life like this.

                But A was wrong.  There are others.

                A has already been wrestling with powerful feelings of love and loneliness.  Now comes an understanding of the extremes that love and loneliness can lead to—and what it’s like to discover that you are not alone in the world.

                In Someday, David Levithan takes readers further into the lives of A, Rhiannon, Nathan, and the person they may think they know as Reverend Poole, exploring more deeply the questions at the core of Every Day and Another Day:  What is a soul?  And what makes us human?

Why I’m Waiting:

                 Holly wow I just found out this was happening!  How did I not know this???  I have been completely captivated by this concept since the first book and I can’t wait to learn more.  There is more than one A….that is wow! 

                What are you waiting on?  Tell me below what you think of this title and leave a link to your CWW as well so I can check it out.

Movie Corner #3

                Hello happy movie fans!  So we are kicking off my third movie corner and these last couple weeks I didn’t see as many as I had hopped but some that I wanted to see ended up leaving before I got there so that kind of put me off.  That and it rained a lot and I just didn’t want to get dressed let alone leave the house lol but that said here is what I did see:

Black Panther:  5 Stars

                So I have been a huge fan of all the Marvel movies and I was super excited for this one.  I go into each one with no comic info and only going based off movies and the fun I have had in them.  That said I loved his inclusion in Civil War and I wanted to know more about him.  Clearly he is an awesome fighter and has a super cool suit but he is more than most of our other heroes as he is also a king.  That to me was super cool.  So we see the epic settings full of this amazing world that is made up but pulls from other cultures to really make it something much different than we have seen in the other Marvel movies.  It has incredible visuals, story, and acting.  It has it all.  I was so entranced with the story it flew by and I wish I could have had more.  The special effects were on point as always. I mean some of the tech…it made me want it so bad!  I loved the dynamics of all the different characters and how things played into one another.  That is really all I can say because if you don’t know what Black Panther is about yet you much be living under a rock!  Go see it!  And wait until the very very end of the credits it’s Marvel there is normally a mid credits scene and an after credits scene…don’t miss out!

Every Day:  5 Stars

                So I read this book some time back and the sequel/companion and reviewed them both:  Every Day & Another Day.  The movie does a great job of exploring the book and expressing things from the perspective of both “A” and Rhannon basically combining both books in a sense.  We got to hit so many of the “days” and I really enjoyed the way each one was played out and described.  It is such a weird concept but it really works and the movie was a beautiful way to express it.  I think the whole cast did an amazing job of playing things out and I loved the updated feel of using Instagram vs. e-mail with “A” it has a much more visual aspect.  I loved this movie and it really brought me up and I highly recommend it to both fans of the books or just anyone looking for a good and uplifting movie about accepting yourself and living for each day.  One I need in my collection so I can watch again. 

Game Night: 5 Stars

                This is a movie I have been anticipating for a long time.  One I love game nights and I would love to get a group together to do a monthly game night.  Seriously I love when they happen and think they should happen more often.  That said this movie delivers exactly what it says in the trailers.  A murder mystery party gone wrong and hilarity that ensues!  OMG This movie had me rolling with laughter through most of it and I can’t wait to see it again.  I know my bestie was sad I saw it without her (to be fair it was looking like possibly a couple weeks before she was free without the kids and I’m not that patient lol) but I will totally go see it again with her!  I will for sure be getting this one when it comes out!  I don’t want to say more because it is full of action and mysteries and worth figuring out the first time free and clear.

*****

                Three movies and all huge hits for me!  Not a bad couple weeks.  I am still sad I missed out on seeing  The Shape of Water, because it looked really different just not sure I want to buy it on DVD so I’ll have to wait for HBO or something I guess for that one.  What movies have you seen recently?  What should I see?  This weekend I plan on seeing Red Sparrow  and Death Wish. 

David Levithan does it again in Another Day

                I hope you all are having a great Wednesday.  Today I have a different kind of review for you today and a first for me.  A few months back I reviewed David Levithan's Every Day here.  Today I'm going to be talking about the companion novel Another Day.  I was so excited to see this on NetGalley and even happier to be accepted to receive it.  This is not a sequel novel nor does it follow a different character after the events like the other companion novels I've read have been.  Another Day strictly takes place during the time from of Every Day only from Rhiannon's perspective.

Rating: 5 Stars

                If you're not familiar with the basic plot it follows Rhiannon in her life as she meets 'A' a being who has no body.  A moves from body to body every day never in the same one twice and never able to have their own person.  A also has no gender but for simplicity A will be referred to as a he in my review because I saw A as a he.  Rhiannon has accepted her life as is even her distant and temperamental boyfriend Justin.  One day he is completely different and she has a perfect day.  Then the next day it's as if it never happened to anyone but her.  Then as she meets a few strangers she is told by one that they were the one she spent her perfect day with, because they 'A' were inside of Justin's body that day.  It's hard to take in.  We follow Rhiannon as she continues to meet this 'A' in all the different forms and push her beliefs on what really matters in the heart the shell or the soul.

                This book I think could be read without having read Every Day.  I think having read it, and recently, I knew most of what was going to happen so most things weren't super surprising to me but I really enjoyed seeing it from her perspective.  We had lots of stuff that we didn't get in the first book from 'A' while he was dealing with his own internal struggles we see how Rhiannon copes with learning this strange and unbelievable fact that has become part of her life. 

                Seeing how she handled each different incarnation and her struggle to adjust her way of thinking.  Could you love a soul if one day it was a boy and the next a girl always bouncing back and forth?  Could you feel equally attacked to each form because of what is inside or does the outside count for something?  As someone who has had body image issues her whole life this was really interesting to watch her look at.  I loved her comparisons to the car and the driver.  Rhiannon had much more depth in this book and I could understand her reasoning so much more in this.

                My favorite part though was seeing one body in particular through her eyes.  'A' is a boy, one who is very obese and he is clearly uncomfortable.  In Every Day you see how disgusted he is to be in that body, which was new he always respected all the bodies he had, but this one got him and it was at a point that hit the reader.  After reading Every Day I was dreading her reaction to this assuming it would be worse than his, however, Rhiannon was okay with it.  She was more put off by his reaction to it and that he put the awkward space between them there not her feelings on it.  Same goes for how Rhiannon saw some of the other bodies, jealous she wasn't as attractive and how her attitude changed when around that body.  It just shows that we are our worst critics and many times what other people see in us we don't see ourselves. 

                I really enjoyed this book.  I love how Levithan is able to weave so much power and meaning into an entertaining story.  Both books make you take a look at your life.  What is important in a relationship.  Can you truly love only the soul?  Can it work?   'A' always moving never knowing what it is to have anything long term, literally living each day, then with Rhiannon she has sees the downsides but sometimes when you have a life that is stuck the idea of escaping and being someone else for a day sounds appealing. 

                The ending is the same place but the last line.  THE LAST LINE.  Every Day leaves you with a sort of open ending, where there are so many possibilities for the future.  A fanfiction dream of openness.  I had my theory, then finishing Another Day and it is blown away.  I spent hours figuring out an option that I think now suits the story.  Bogdana at Bogdana The Booknerd reviewed this too and was my sounding board coming up with our own 'down the road' ending we are both happy with. 

                I highly recommend reading both of these books.  It really is like reading a completely different story both times because there is so much more in between.  You can check out Another Day now as it came out yesterday August 25th!

Everyone can learn something from David Levithan's Every Day

                It’s Friday!  Okay excitement for the coming weekend and what I hope will be a good reading weekend.  Let’s get stated on another book review.  I read this book with my usual read-along pal, on a long Sunday at work.  We both flew through it.  This book was Ever Day by David Levithan.  I had the great pleasure of meeting Levithan at YALLfest last year.  I had not, at the time, read any of his books though I owned two of them.  He was very nice and I told him how excited I was to start reading this book. 

                I honestly didn’t know what to expect when I started it.  I vaguely remembered the summary from when I purchased the book several months prior but mostly I knew that some people I trusted said it was good and that was enough.  The basic idea of the book is following ‘A’ our lead character who is neither male nor female (though I will probably refer to A as a he during the review because that was how I saw A in my head) and has no body.  A is a soul who wakes in a different body each day and borrows their life for the day.  A has no idea why his life is this way and has accepted this.  He never gets too attached and tries not to ruin the persons life in the one day he has it.  Everything is going as per normal, until A wakes up in the body of Justin and meets his girlfriend Rhiannon.  The so called rules he normally goes by are gone as he suddenly has found someone he wants to be with every day. 

                Sounds complex right?  It is.  The idea of the story is pretty interesting and the way that A has no way to discuss it with anyone and it’s not like this is normal.  I love A.  A simply is.  A lives a different life each day.  A is a guy, a girl, gay, straight, mean, shy, sweet, suicidal, thin, sick, overweight, popular, nerdy, you name it he has been it.  He lives a million different experiences that allow him to experience more in his short life than most of us will ever see.  He always sticks to the same age, growing each year, and in the same general area, but the life experiences are incredible.  A really gets inside a person and not only borrows their life but can see how they live it.  A is able to get to the very depth and see who the person really is and who they put forth into the world.  This really touched me.

                All of the different lives come with their own ups and downs as one would guess.  Justin was that point for him.  Justin had an amazing life, mostly because he had an amazing girlfriend in Rhiannon, who A didn’t feel was appreciated.  Leaving Justin’s body as he did with everyone, without any power to stay, is the hardest transition A has had.  Having something you actually want for your own and no way to keep it was moving.  I felt for A instantly.  To never have one thing as your own, friends, family, etc., I just couldn’t imagine. It seemed sad but for the most part A seemed well put together given the life.  A was adaptable and saw people for simply people, which could teach us all something. 

                I really related to the story and the way it was told in that we all seem to have times where we keep part of ourselves hidden inside and put another part out for the world to see for a variety of reasons.  Seeing him go through so many lives and that this concept seemed universal clicks.  Some lives got to me more than others.  That’s it really.  Anything more would ruin the journey for you.  Check out this amazing book about PEOPLE, yes some romance elements, but so so much more.

Rating: 5 Stars  

                I look forward to sharing more goodies with you next week.  Have a safe fun weekend.  Share your thoughts on the book and anything else down below.  Comments are food to the soul!  Oh and one more thing I almost forgot!  There is a sequel for Every Day coming out August 25^th called Another Day.  I just got an ARC of it and look forward to starting it and reviewing it for you wonderful readers!