Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

I'M late to the party on this one but I'm glad I made it! So funny and so cringe-inducingly relatable. Like a lot of times Greg's awkward spirals made me literally have to cover my eyes from the book. I really liked that it ended with Greg not keeping his deathbed promise to Rachel.

As a kid who grew up on Seinfeld, I can respect a cancer novel that openly rejects any kind of lesson-learning.

I thought Earl's character was interesting... the angry black kid with the gangbanger, broken home family is a cliche, but Earl himself seemed transcendent of that. I've also been thinking about the author's note at the end, about whether Earl is actually angry all the time or if Greg just perceives him that way? But we don't get a lot of Earl's direct POV so who knows.

I haven't seen the movie yet but I liked that this movie tie-in edition included some bonus material about the author's process in adapting it to a screenplay, including a few annotated pages of the screenplay. I suspect it would also be useful for any budding filmmakers :)