More Happy Than Not

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A few days ago my good friend, and talented author, Adam Silvera posted this piece on his blog: Happiness Isn’t Just an Outside Thing. The blog post talks mainly about depression, which Adam has grappled with for some time now, and is a beautiful meditation on the failure of external validation to satisfy the holes that truly need filling. I’m so proud of him for sharing his hard journey with all his readers with the same incisive honesty that makes him such a fantastic writer.

Part Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, part Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Adam Silvera's extraordinary debut confronts race, class, and sexuality during one charged near-future summer in the Bronx. In the first example, it is clear that they’re comparing different rings between two people. “His,”“your,”“her,”“hers,” and “mine” are generally adjectives, but they can function as pronoun equivalents when we do not follow them with a noun. Forming Comparative Adjectives I've waited so so long (well, since this was released I guess) to read this. This was one of my most anticipated books of 2015 and it did not let me down. Personally, I do not think the promised big twist is particularly hard to guess if you've read the description and seen the movie this is being compared to, but I don't think much hangs on it anyway. Because this book is an overlapping of several stories and themes, each one as powerful as the last. It's about coming to terms with ones sexuality, it's about friendship, it's about memory and forgetting, it's a love story, and it's about choosing to be happy, despite the sad. unless that's one of those things we don't say anymore? in which case, replace with some imaginary game called "sad, sadder, saddest."Adam Silvera seems to be a cool guy. I like the way he interacts with social media, I think he's quite funny and so is his writing style. Maybe not his novel(because yeah it is kind of sad) but definitely his writing style. In the first example, if we used “happier,” the sentence’s meaning would be “I’m happier than not happy,” which loses the parallel emphasis. So instead, it should mean “I’m more happy than not happy.” one of the benefits of letting a book ripen on your NOOK for years and years and years is that you forget what the book is about and why you wanted to read it in the first place. you just know that february is a short month and you’ve set this NOOK-goal for yourself and as you find yourself getting closer to the end of the month, you panic and decide to read the first YA book you see because at least you know it will be fast.

Along with syllable structure, you will need to be conscious of adjectives ending in “y.” When this occurs, you will replace “y” with “i” before adding the appropriate suffix. The novel takes an unexpected, complex turn . . . In the end, readers are left with a gripping story about one memorable teen, and if it also leaves them pondering how his life might have been different if various elements had been improved, that is likely the exact takeaway intended.” There are books that make you feel like a voyeur, as the characters seem so real that you get the impression to spy on them, somehow. More Happy Than Not definitely belongs to that category, and hooked me from the very first sentence. Revolutionary . . . strikingly poignant . . . It is a stunning examination of why we make the choices we make.” When someone says that they are “more happy than not,” they’re indicating that their happiness is greater than any sadness they might be experiencing.In the second sentence, we compare the subject“you” in the present — using “than” as a conjunction— to “you” in the past, which is in the nominative case. The nominative case indicates that the pronoun is the subject of a verb, in this case, “were.” Formal Writing Uses “Than” as a Conjunction vs. Preposition And the love story. Don't be fooled into thinking this is another cute teen romance, though it definitely is cute at times. It's built up gradually through friendship, geekery and mutual understanding, until it's something else...

Oh yeah.... and this is a YA book -for adults too - contemporary sci-fi.....( do not let the science fiction keep you away from this book).

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Cremonini, Alise (January 2017). "More Happy Than Not". English Journal. 106 (3): 97–99 – via ProQuest. Obviously a book about depression, suicide and homophobia would be sad, but I think it's the other little things that make More Happy Than Not an emotional read. Like the suggestion running behind every event in the book that sometimes life doesn't turn out the way you wanted it to and you don't always get what you longed for, and the message that wiping it all away (either through suicide or memory loss) isn't the answer. And the fact that wiping away memories doesn't change who you are.

In short, More Happy Than Not is a blend of light and dark, happiness and not-happiness, and it's incredibly effective. If I were cheesy I'd call it unforgettable. Ah well, it's nearly Friday so... it's unforgettable. Go read it. First was They Both Die at the End(we ALL knew how that would go down) but with the title of this one, I hoped for slightly less heartbreak and soul crushing. BUT I was wrong. So wrong. The Leteo Institute's revolutionary memory-relief procedure seems too good to be true to Aaron Soto - miracle cure-alls don't tend to pop up in the Bronx projects. But Aaron can't forget how he's grown up poor or how his friends aren't always there for him. Like after his father committed suicide in their one bedroom apartment. Aaron has the support of his patient girlfriend, if not necessarily his distant brother and overworked mother, but it's not enough. This is not like any story you’ve ever read about self-discovery and acceptance. This is t he story about self-discovery and acceptance.”It's okay how some stories leave off without an ending. Life doesn't always deliver the one you would expect." In the months after his father’s suicide, it’s been tough for 16-year-old Aaron Soto to find happiness again–but he’s still gunning for it. With the support of his girlfriend Genevieve and his overworked mom, he’s slowly remembering what that might feel like. But grief and the smile-shaped scar on his wrist prevent him from forgetting completely. A gripping read—Silvera skillfully weaves together many divergent young adult themes within an engrossing, intense narrative.” maybe junior high has started feeling like one long ending instead of the glorious beginning you and him used to imagine. While we use the adjective “happy” to describe a person’s state of being, we generally use the adverb “happily” to describe how someone performs an action. This means that we use the expressions “happily” or “more happily” to modify verbs.