Solitaire

“But books–they’re different. When you watch a film, you’re sort of an outsider looking in. With a book–you’re right there. You are inside. You are the main character.” 4.5/5 stars I first heard about Solitaire on Tumblr. I've been following Alice Oseman ever since and I desperately wanted to read her......more

Hi! I highly recommend you check out the content warnings before reading this book: aliceoseman.com/content-warnings As of August 2020, I am currently in the process of making editorial changes to SOLITAIRE. *** This is my first published book! I wrote it in 2012 when I was seventeen. It features: - a p......more

Just because someone smiles doesn’t mean that they’re happy. This isn’t a book about happy people. I don’t even think this book was made for happy people, they would dislike it, say everything inside this book is utter bullshit. But it isn’t. It’s the absolute truth. This book broke me, I think I’m re......more

So you are saying she wrote it when she was 17......more

Sometimes I think Alice Oseman books have captured a part of my soul that nothing else has managed to describe in exactly the right words. Her stories are streams of consciousness, explorations of identity, odes to teenage senescence. Dedicated to kids who have no idea who they are but are figuring......more