Boy Like Me
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It's 1994 and thanks to Section 28, there can be no mention of gay relationships in schools. When a school librarian leads Jamie to a disguised novel in the library that reflects his own confused feelings towards boys, he notices that he's not the only one who has checked the book out. In the margins of the pages, he and another student start to leave messages for each other, and Jamie starts to believe that he's not alone ... and maybe also has a shot at finding love. That is, until the secret novel is discovered by the head teacher and all hell breaks loose.
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nah the tone of this didn't work for me, even if the author was self-aware about it all
Simon James Green does it again. While the subject matter is a little more serious than his other books, it's still filled with humour and warmth and so much heart. Everyone should read this book; a little more empathy in this world would be a wonderful thing.
She was wearing jogging bottoms and a matching top in garish green which had en vogue emblazoned across the front, as though saying it in French made it true.
Na (erg grappig) eerder luchtiger werk, nu eentje over Section 28, een wet van Thatcher tussen ca 1990 en 2000 waarmee het op Engelse scholen verboden was om te doen aan “promotion of homosexuality”.
Jongen op middelbare school krijgt een “illegaal” van de schoolbibliothecaresse (in een onschuldig kaft) en komt er via aantekeningen in de marge achter dat hij niet de enige is die “zo” is. Een wat langzame correspondentie komt zo op gang...
Geschiedenis is toch wel vaak wat stappen voorwaarts, weer wat stappen terug...
