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    When Everything Feels Like the Movies
    When Everything Feels Like the Movies
    When Everything Feels Like the Movies
    Audiobook4 hours

    When Everything Feels Like the Movies

    Written by Raziel Reid

    Narrated by Tom Picasso

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    About this audiobook

    School is just like a film set: there's The Crew, who make things happen, The Extras who fill the empty desks, and The Movie Stars, whom everyone wants tagged in their Facebook photos. But Jude doesn't fit in. He's not part of The Crew because he isn't about to do anything unless it's court-appointed; he's not an Extra because nothing about him is anonymous; and he's not a Movie Star because even though everyone knows his name like an A-lister, he isn't invited to the cool parties. As the director calls action, Jude is the flamer that lights the set on fire. Before everything turns to ashes from the resulting inferno, Jude drags his best friend Angela off the casting couch and into enough melodrama to incite the paparazzi, all while trying to fend off the haters and win the heart of his favorite co-star Luke Morris. It's a total train wreck! But train wrecks always make the front page.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateApr 14, 2015
    ISBN9781490687452
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    • 1/5
      School is a movie set. The Crew make things happen, the Extras fill the empty desks and the Movie Stars are the people everyone wishes to be tagged in their Facebook photos. Jude doesn't fit in. He is gay and dresses as a girl. He faces ridicule and abuse both verbal and physical yet can't stop himself from putting in dangerous situations.Written for young adults, the text is full of raw language and situations that may have some adults questioning for what age this is appropriate. In 31 years of teaching, I did not experience anyone quite like Jude. I am sure there are students struggling with the issues he faces in the novel but are many of them taking the actions he is? This was not a pleasant read.Winner of the 2014 Governors General's Literary Award for English Language Children's Award . Runner up for the CBC 2015 Canada Reads.
    • 4/5
      I heard about this book because it was on Canada Reads, although being out of country I didn't manage to actually catch the episodes talking about it when they were broadcast so I still went in mostly not knowing what I was in for. The idea of coping with high school by imagining it as a movie set intrigued me.I'm finding myself at a loss as to what to say about this book. It's authentic in that way that people don't always like to see high school depicted, with swearing and sex and violence and feelings with raw edges. For all that intensity, it's as playful as it is painful, as well as insightful and hard to put down. It takes "gay (trans?) kid not fitting in to small town" and pushes it out to an extreme that YA isn't often allowed to go. I loved it and was horrified by it at once, and I guess that's the point. I kind of hope it actually does get made into a movie.
    • 2/5
      This is the story of Jude Rothesay -- a gay teenager who goes to school in makeup and nail polish and often dresses like a girl. He imagines his life to be a movie; this allows him to cope with the name-calling and harassment he faces, as well as with his less-than-perfect home life. I liked Jude's strong sense of self. I did, however, have trouble following the plot -- what was real vs. Jude's imagination wasn't always clear to me. There's a lot of sex and drugs with little redeeming value. This just didn't work for me.
    • 3/5
      On the cover of this book is a CBC Canada Reads sticker as well as a Governor General’s Literary Award Winner sticker. On the spine, in my local public library, is a young adult sticker. As a result, you might be inclined to pick this up for your teenager. Before you do, consider the following.Although the story is about a 17-year-old gay boy/girl, younger teens and tweens will be tempted to pick it up. They may not be emotionally prepared for the content. Personally, I would recommend this for 18-year-olds, perhaps 16-year-olds. I know that teenagers can be obsessed with sex, alcohol, and drugs and are able to find anything on the Internet. However, I found this book to be overkill. They talk about masturbating, vaginally and anally, with the crucifixes, Barbie dolls, and drug pipes. They discuss their parents using strap-ons and dressing up in fluffy animal costumes as they secretly go through their parents’ sex toys while stoned on bought or stolen drugs and alcohol. Any sexual act, with any item or any person that you can imagine, is mentioned in the crudest vocabulary possible.I felt deeply sorry for the gay teenager but was hoping he had plans for something better. Unfortunately he was unable to transcend the shallow, meaninglessness of his environment. As well, after trudging through all this overkill and extreme drama, I was disappointed that the ending was so predictable.I feel the messages about bullying, isolation, loneliness, self identity, suicide, family violence, goals and dreams, and the artificiality of modern life are lost in the raw vulgarity of the text. Too bad. With less, it could’ve been so much more.
    • 4/5
      Not an easy read at all. Although based on a true story, it had the feel of being so unrealistic that it makes the story that much more disturbing that it is not wholly fiction. Also, to think that it happened to such young people (middle school) makes it doubly hard to read. All that said, I think it is an important story to tell and I'm glad that I read it.