Everything Everything – by Nicola Yoon

Title: Everything Everything
Author: Nicola Yoon
Originally published: September 1, 2015 by Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Genre : Young Adult, Contemporary, Fiction , Realistic Fiction, Audiobook, Young Adult Contemporary, Teen, Coming Of Age, Young Adult Romance, Contemporary Romance

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Literary awards

South Carolina Book Award for Young Adults (2018), Teen Buckeye Book Award (2017), Pennsylvania Young Readers’ Choice Award for Young Adults (2017), Rhode Island Teen Book Award (2017), Evergreen Teen Book Award (2018), Soaring Eagle Book Award (2016), Milwaukee County Teen Book Award Nominee (2017), Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis Nominee for Preis der Jugendjury (2016), Iowa High School Book Award (2018), Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award (2018), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Debut Goodreads Author, and for Young Adult Fiction (2015), Gateway Readers Award (2018)

My Review

A book for Teens, Young Adults and Parents too. Awesome storyline.

About the Author

Nicola Yoon is a Jamaican-American author. She is best known for writing the 2015 young adult novel Everything, Everything, a New York Times bestseller and the basis of a 2017 film of the same name. In 2016, she released The Sun Is Also a Star, a novel that was adapted into a film. Yoon grew up in Jamaica and Brooklyn, New York. She majored in electrical engineering as an undergraduate at Cornell University. Taking a creative writing class as an elective got her “hooked on writing”. After graduation, she attended the Master of Creative Writing program at Emerson College.

My Thoughts

Life has many colours of emotions

Everybody has the right to be free. Breadth free in the open air. Enjoy the cold or warm breeze touching your skin. Waving your hands in the air when you see the gushing waters on the beach or being sad because of a fight with someone very close to you. An argument that takes you apart. The feeling of running away from all your problems is the only solution. Then ultimately clearing all the doubts and moving on in life. Life has many emotions. Sometimes we cry and sometimes we laugh. But we get up the next day with the hope that life will be better than your yesterday pasted. Some don’t have those privileges.

Life isn’t a stage to live in

Some live in bondage. A bondage so deep and wide, that it becomes impossible for them to live. You can see, you can wish, you can only dream of being free, but there is no way out of the bondage. The bondage can be emotional or arise because of health issues. This was the bondage that Madeline was living in. But was Madeline imprisoned in a cage of sickness?

Parent has to learn to let go

A parent always knows the best things for their kids. The good and bad, what will hurt us? what things can make us happy? Parents protect us from all dangers. But sometimes overprotection causes the problem. Kids make mistakes, that is why they are kids! But in our blind love for our kids, we don’t let me grow. Every human is bound to their own mistakes. As a parent, we should learn from their mistakes. Parents can’t be around their kids all the time. There will be a point in their life, where they have to make their own decisions. There are own decision-making skills, make them a better person in the future. So, parents have to learn to let their kids go. Instead, of holding them in a bond.

Bond of the kids and Parents. Let your kids fly. Let them have their own experiences in life. But even kids should learn, that the best guide in their life is their Parents and family or if you have a single Parent. It doesn’t matter. So, when you think there is a problem, or you are stuck somewhere ask your Parent for help. They will never fail you.

About the Book

My disease is as rare as it is famous. It’s a form of Severe Combined Immunodeficiency, but basically, I’m allergic to the world. I don’t leave my house, have not left my house in fifteen years. The only people I ever see are my mom and my nurse, Carla.

But then one day, a moving truck arrives. New next door neighbors. I look out the window, and I see him. He’s tall, lean and wearing all black—black t-shirt, black jeans, black sneakers and a black knit cap that covers his hair completely. He catches me looking and stares at me. I stare right back. His name is Olly. I want to learn everything about him, and I do. I learn that he is funny and fierce. I learn that his eyes are Atlantic Ocean-blue and that his vice is stealing silverware. I learn that when I talk to him, my whole world opens up, and I feel myself starting to change—starting to want things. To want out of my bubble. To want everything, everything the world has to offer.

Maybe we can’t predict the future, but we can predict some things. For example, I am certainly going to fall in love with Olly. It’s almost certainly going to be a disaster.

Happy Reading!!!

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