Post 6: Book 3 Listicle

Reasons why "Every Day" is different from most books

1. The main character doesn't have an actual name
Since "A" doesn't know what his birth name was due to the fact that he bounces from body to body every new morning, he/she has decided to call himself/herself the letter, "A". I use such words like "he/she" and "himself/herself" due to the fact that the main character doesn't know if he/she was born a boy or a girl. But throughout the rest of this article, I will be referring to A as a guy since that is what he mostly is throughout the book.

2.  A wakes up in a new body everydayEvery day, A wakes up in a new body. It has been this way since the way that he was born. A has never had a set body and he has never woke up in the same body twice in a row. But to me, this is what made the book interesting. You got a chance to experience new characters, boy and girl, and learn about all their lives and their daily struggles.

3. Even though A wakes up in a new body, A is still in love with the same girl
This is the most interesting part of the book and the part that kept me reading. Even though A wakes up in a different body everyday, he still is in love with the same girl. This girls name is Rhiannon. He falls in love with this girl while he is in the body of a boy who is Rhiannon's boyfriend at the time. This is a daily struggle for A due to the fact that he is in love with her, but she doesn't know how to respond because she is weirded out by the idea that A changes bodies everyday.

4. It is a rule of A's to not mess with peoples lives while he is in their bodies.
A is a very nice individual and he thinks that if he was to mess with someone's life while A was in that body, that karma would come and somehow make his life terrible. There was a few instances of this happening though in the book, but the main example is A coming to Rhiannon and confessing that love that he has for her. “You never get involved in the people's lives? The ones you're inhabiting?"
I shake my head.
"You try to leave the lives the way you found them."
"Yeah."
"But what about Justin? What made that so different?"
"You," I say.”

5. This book never has a set plot
Due to the fact that A wakes up in a different body everyday, there is a new plot every chapter. Some days A will wake up in a town like Seattle and other days he could wake up in a town all the way across the country. This makes the story hard for me to follow, but it makes me intrigued due to the fact that it gets into detail about the area he is at and the people in his new family that he woke up with.

Conclusion:
All of these reasons are the reason why this book, was the best book that I have ever read. You never know about what kind of struggles that A was going to wake up with the next time he woke up or how his relationship with Rhiannon was going to end up which made you want to keep reading on. This, along with the Fault in Our Stars, is one of those books that once you start it, you do not want to put it down. I recommend this book HIGHLY.

Post 5

In my mind, I have always thought that in order for a book to be considered non-fiction, that it has to be 100% true. I think that if there are any elements in stories that are not true, or even that are just stretching the truth, that it should not be considered to be non-fiction. Non-fictions definition is, "writing that is based on facts, real events, and real people, such as biography or history." This means that it is written about real things that have happened, so if you're even stretching the truth like Frey did in saying that you were in jail for 3 months when you were really in for a few hours, that the book that says that in it should not be able to be considered non-fiction at all. But, if you are going out and publishing it, and you claim that it isn't a non-fiction piece of writing though, than that is okay. The only wrong thing that Frey did was that he considered the book a memoir. If he didn't do that and just went out and tried to get it published, then I think he would have been much better off, even though it did make his book more interesting. I don't think that people need to distinguish different genres in books because quite simply, a book is a book. A book can have genres in it like fantasy, fiction, non-fiction, etc, but, that is not what the book is.