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The topic of You Asked for Perfect by Laura Silverman, that I read recently, is highly convenient for me and my writing, given how casual I write. I write the way I think, in these loose sentences. Either way, this post is about You Asked for Perfect . If you want the video version of this post (CLICK HERE) So, the blurb on the back of the book said that this book follows Ariel Stone (who points out in the first chapter it’s Ah-riel, not Air-riel), who has spent his life cultivating the perfect college resume, gets thrown off of his education track when he starts spending more time with his tutor, Amir, and his, “crushing academic pressure fades away, and a fuller and brighter world comes into focus”, so that told me what I assumed the book was going to be about. And that was that Ariel and Amir were going to get into a relationship, and this relationship was going to force Ariel to consider what’s actually going on in his life and figure out what it really was that he wanted, and as ...

I'm going to start this post by proclaiming that I believe in paperback superiority over hardback. I like hardback books in theory, just not in practice. I like looking at them and knocking on them, but they just take up too much space on my shelf. Also, I hate those paper covers. What's the point in making a hardback just to put a paper cover over it? Now, here’s something you might be thinking: Matthew, what does that have to do with We Are Totally Normal by Rahul Kanakia? And my answer for you would be… nothing. It’s just that my copy of the book is hardback, and I needed to share my thoughts on hardback. (I didn’t need to, but I wanted to lol.) If you want the video version of this post (CLICK HERE) Either way, I read We Are Totally Normal by Rahul Kanakia recently, if you haven’t gathered, and here are my thoughts. So, one of the quotes on the back says this book is, “[a]n endearing, messy, and honest exploration of identity.” And the blurb that’s on the paper liner exp...