![]() ![]() Fair warning: Quick pulls no punches and this one will likely leave you in tears. Salinger) when I was a teen, so I totally see myself in Nanette and her non-conformist streak. I have a soft spot for this book because I was also obsessed with a work of literature ( The Catcher in the Rye) by a certain famous reclusive writer (J. The two get together and, wham, it’s fireworks. And Alex, a mentally unstable and depressed poet and outcast who is also deeply involved in trying to find out what happens to the characters in The Bubblegum Reaper after the story ends. There’s Nanette, a popular jock who doesn’t want to do what everyone wants her to do and becomes obsessed with the (fictional) book The Bubblegum Reaper and its (also fictional) reclusive author. In Every Exquisite Thing, we see the love story between two misfits. Matthew Quick is one of my favorite YA writers and the brains behind The Silver Linings Playbook, which landed a spot on my “ 20 Best Books about Bipolar Disorder post here on Broke by Books. ![]()
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