When Everything Feels Like The Movies

Well there certainly has been ALOT of conversation around this book. Today at OLA we have over 150 people registered for our book talk on LGBTQ Reading Recommendations for Teens; so I thought it would be fitting to post Raziel's response to all the hoopla as well as some of the other pieces.

Raziel Reid’s own response to Barbara Kay’s criticism in The Walrus: http://thewalrus.ca/smells-likes-teen-dispirit/

An excellent video/text review in The National Post by books editor Emily M. Keeler and video “Close-Read” columnist Anna Fitzpatrick

http://news.nationalpost.com/2015/01/27/raziel-reid-when-everything-feels-like-the-movies-controversy/

Elaine “Lainey Gossip” Lui has also been writing about the book (which she is championing during the Canada Reads debates March 16-19) on her website:

http://www.laineygossip.com/Intro-for-January-28--2015/35535