A Little Something Different by Sandy Hall

The waitress at the diner automatically seats them together. Their bus driver tells his wife about them. The baristas at Starbucks watch their relationship like a TV show. Their creative writing teacher pushes them together.

But somehow even when nothing is going on, something is happening between them, and everyone can see it. Unfortunately, Lea is reserved, Gabe has issues, and despite their initial mutual crush, it looks like they are never going to work things out. They get the same pop culture references, order the same Chinese food, and hang out in the same places.

A book Hall really enjoyed was Sandy Hall’s I’ll Give You the Sun.Summary: The creative writing teacher, the delivery guy, the local Starbucks baristas, his best friend, her roommate, and the squirrel in the park all have one thing in common-they believe that Gabe and Lea should get together. Lea and Gabe are in the same creative writing class.

Hall’s favorite movie theatre candy is Strawberry Twizzlers.

Hall outlined the novel in two weeks and wrote it in six days.

Honestly, this book made me reconsider if I really wanted to devote my life to YA.

Does everything have to be cute? Well put Does love really happen so infrequently that any story at all is interesting?īy the end, I was rolling my eyes and wishing it were over fast enough. It became clear quite early on that there really wasn’t anything special about this couple, and that we were simply waiting for them to get together because we were so starved of a love story that any one will do. The problem is, these characters seemed incredibly shallow and hollow without Lea and Gabe’s perspectives. Because while this technique as shown in A Little Something Different can be interesting, it can also backfire badly. Needless to say, Woolf was more successful. Virginia Woolf did something distantly similar to this in The Waves by describing one of the main characters entirely without his own thoughts or consciousness. A Little Something Different by Sandy Hall

In this novel, Hall looks at the budding romance between two college classmates and tells the story from 14 different perspectives ranging from roommates, a bus driver, a brother, a bench, a squirrel, and so on.