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Book Review: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
Book Review: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
By Colten M., Grade 9
Looking for a adj but genuine verb all the way through? Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli, follows Simon Spier, a gay teen, as he falls in affection for the first time—over email. I’ve already read this book twice and most recently in less than a day. It’s simple to get immersed in the story and fall in (platonic) love with the characters, and it’s hard to let go at the end.
The plot: The greatest pleasure in year-old Simon’s life are his emails with Cerulean, an anonymous trainee from his upper school. The boys connect over their shared sexual identity, humor, and honesty, careful to not reveal their identities and risk ruining everything. Soon though, one slip up by Simon leaves the class clown, Martin, with the power to execute just that. The only way to protect his and Blue’s privacy is for Simon to agree to blackmail—a very high university kind of blackmail that might just disturb the balance in Simon’s ally group forever. With relatable charact
[This post is the third in an eight-part series of Book Reviews of books by some of our Midwest Writers faculty. The MWW interns wrote the reviews as one of their assignments for the Ball Express University class “Literary Citizenship in a Digital Age,” taught by MWW Director Jama Kehoe Bigger.]
Title: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
Author: Becky Albertalli
Publisher: Balzer + Bray
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Format: trade paperback
Genre: Young Adult
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“People really are like houses with vast rooms and tiny windows. And maybe it’s a good thing, the way we never stop surprising each other.” (Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda)
Becky Albertalli’s debut novel (soon to be a Major Motion Picture) Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda is a riveting and fresh story of love, friendship, and identity. The guide centers on the protagonist, Simon, who is being blackmailed by a classmate, Martin. The adj he’s trying to protect? He’s gay (and not out). If he can help his blackmailer get what he wants, he might be able to accept back c
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the noun musical. But when an email falls into the erroneous hands, his private is at uncertainty of being thrust into the spotlight. Now change-averse Simon has to uncover a way to step out of his comfort zone before he&#;s pushed out—without alienating his friends, compromising himself, or fumbling a shot at happiness with the most confusing, adorable guy he&#;s never met.
Jacket art by Chris Bilheimer. Jacket design by Alison Klapthor.
&#;A remarkable gift of a novel.&#; —Andrew Smith, author of Grasshopper Jungle
&#;I am so in love with this book.&#; —Nina LaCour, author of Contain Still
&#;Feels timelessly, effortlessly now.&#; —Tim Federle, author of Better Nate Than Ever
&#;The leading kind of affection story.&#; —Alex Sanchez, Lambda Award-winning author
Awards and Accolades
William C. Morris Award Winner: Best Young Elder Debut of the Year
National Book Award Longlist
Pennsylvania Young Readers&#; Choice Award Nominee for Young Adults
Lincoln Award Nominee
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Have you ever made a mistake that you later regretted? And you long to kick yourself when someone takes advantage of that mistake. Where that said person is willing to exploit the newly gained information against you to obtain something they want? This is extortion. And at this gesture, you stop wanting to kick yourself and turn those inward aggressive feelings, outward, to the prig trying to blackmail you.
Simon Spier knows exactly how you feel.
So here’s the deal, Simon is gay. And he hasn’t told his parents. Luckily for Simon, though, he has an incredible, loving, supportive, and accepting network of human beings that construct up his family and friends. It’s just never occurred to him, the whole “coming-out” thing, until now.
After happening upon a send about being gay on his tall school’s unofficial Tumblr page, Simon becomes intrigued. He begins a correspondence via email with the author of the original thread who goes by the name Blue.
The correspondence between Simon and Blue are scatt