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Hey guys and welcome back to my blog! Today we have two extracts from The Art of Being Normal by the fabulous Lisa Williamson! And stay tuned because tomorrow we have an interview with the author herself which I cannot wait to share with you all!
One afternoon, when I was eight years old, my class was told to write about what we wanted to be when we grew up. Miss Box went round the class, asking each one of us to stand up and share what we had written. Zachary Olsen wanted to play in the Premier League. Lexi Taylor wanted to be an actress. Harry Beaumont planned on being Prime Minister. Simon Allen wanted to be Harry Potter, so badly that the previous term he had scratched a lightning bolt on to his forehead with a pair of craft scissors. But I didn’t want to be any of these things. This is what I wrote: I want to be a girl. (from chapter one) I can’t help but get a shock every time I look at him. Not that he looks bad, because he doesn’t, but it’s hard to get my head round him being here, dressed like, well, like that. But the weirdest thing is that it’s not actually that weird, because the clothes he’s wearing suit him, way better than anything else I’ve seen him wear. He seems less awkward in them, less self-conscious about what his body is doing. I even start to feel a bit guilty about continuing to think of him as a ‘he’ at all. (from chapter thirty-six) I really hope these two extracts encouraged you to pick this book up as much as I did as I have yet to read it but I have heard nothing but amazing reviews for these novel! Have you read this book? What are some of your non spoiler thoughts? I would love to know down below! Much love, Megan. x
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