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It wouldn’t be Banned Books Week<\/a> without a review of a GLBT book, since so many would-be censors take umbrage with the fact that GLBT novels even exist.\u00a0 So, I am taking this opportunity to finally review a book one of my teens suggested I read during GLBT Pride Month<\/a>.\u00a0 The basic premise of this story was that two [gay] boys were attempting to break the Guinness World Record for the longest kiss. \u00a0The strangest thing, though, was that they were not boyfriends.\u00a0 They were, in fact, ex-boyfriends. \u00a0But, Harry and Craig were not kissing merely for the fun of kissing or even just to break the existing world record. \u00a0In fact, kissing for 32 hours was a rather grueling experience, both physically and emotionally.\u00a0 But their 32-hour-long kiss was worth all of the difficulties it presented because it was a statement of support for their mutual friend, Tariq, who was the victim of a hate crime. \u00a0Although the “Greek chorus” of narrators — men who had died of AIDS — seemed a bit clunky at times, I think that narration ultimately worked as a means by which to educate younger readers about (late 20th century)\u00a0GLBT history, the progress the GLBT community has made thus far, and how far we still have to go.\u00a0 I really enjoyed this story, though I have to admit to shedding a tear or two.\u00a0 I highly recommend this for fans of other David Levithan books (like Will Grayson, Will Grayson<\/a><\/em> and Every Day<\/em><\/a>) and suspect that it will likely end up on many YA literature syllabi as required GLBT reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It wouldn’t be Banned Books Week without a review of a GLBT book, since so many would-be censors take umbrage with the fact that GLBT novels even exist.\u00a0 So, I am taking this opportunity to finally review a book one of my teens suggested I read during GLBT Pride Month.\u00a0 The basic premise of this … Continue reading Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-young-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-chrissie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}