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    Every Exquisite Thing

    Written by Matthew Quick

    Narrated by Christy Meyer

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    About this audiobook

    Nanette O'Hare is an unassuming teen who has played the role of dutiful daughter, hardworking student and star athlete for as long as she can remember. But when a beloved teacher gives her his worn copy of The Bubblegum Reaper—the mysterious, out-of-print cult classic—the rebel within Nanette awakens.

    As she befriends the reclusive author, falls in love with a young but troubled poet and attempts to insert her true self into the world with wild abandon, Nanette learns the hard way that sometimes rebellion comes at a high price.

    A celebration of the self and the formidable power of story, Every Exquisite Thing is Matthew Quick at his finest.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette UK Audio
    Release dateMay 31, 2016
    ISBN9781472229564
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    Every Exquisite Thing
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    Matthew Quick

    Matthew Quick is the New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook—which was made into an Oscar-winning film—and eight other novels, including We Are the Light, a #1 Indie Next Pick and a Book of the Month selection. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages, received a PEN/Hemingway Award Honorable Mention, was an LA Times Book Prize finalist, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, a #1 bestseller in Brazil, a Deutscher Jugendliteratur Preis 2016 (German Youth Literature Prize) nominee, and selected by Nancy Pearl as one of Summer’s Best Books for NPR. The Hollywood Reporter has named him one of Hollywood’s 25 Most Powerful Authors. Matthew lives with his wife, the novelist Alicia Bessette, on North Carolina’s Outer Banks.

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    • 5/5
      The latest Matthew Quick novel does not disappoint! Quirky as ever, this young adult novel tackles depression, conforming to society, bullying, and choosing one's own destiny. It's heartbreaking, adorable, and inspiring all in one go. Nanette O'Hare should by all rights be a popular teen. She's star of the girl's soccer team, has the most stylish clothes, and is by all accounts, very pretty. However she could care less about being popular, she's happiest reading her favorite book, "The Bubblegum Reaper" and hanging out with her only real friend, the elderly author of her favorite novel. The out of print cult classic,"The Bubblegum Reaper," brings out Nanette's inner rebel and she starts to really enjoy life instead of just coasting by, especially when her reclusive author sets her up on a blind date with another fan, the strong troubled poet, Little Lex. Together they learn that sometimes teenage rebellion has a higher price to pay than they bargained for. I wasn't always thrilled with Nanette's decisions but Quick does a wonderful job illustrating her state of mind. A wonderful read.I received this book for free from the publisher in return for my honest, unbiased opinion.
    • 3/5
      Nanette O’Hare is a very troubled 18-year-old teen who hooks up with another troubled teen, Alex Redmer, brought together by the author of a semi-autobiographical and esoteric cult classic The Bubblegum Reaper about a misfit loser, and with which both Nanette and Alex become obsessed. It was difficult for me to understand quite how Nanette became so messed up, but she becomes more so as the story progresses. Furthermore, she understands Alex is crazy, but that only makes her more attracted to him.Eventually, most of the small number of characters in the books grow up, but not Alex or Nanette. Why not? Again, it’s a mystery.Some of the fans compare this to John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars because of the author/obsession angle, but I think that book is way better. Frankly, I’m kind of astonished at all the 5/5 ratings on Goodreads. I did not enjoy this book in the least.
    • 4/5
      This is a new young adult book my Matthew Quick, author of the adult novel The Silver Linings Playbook and young adult novels such as Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock.Nanette O'hare is a good girl. At least she has been playing the part. She has been playing the part for years and neither her parents nor her fellow students know that she is acting. As her classmates get into trouble with boys and alcohol, Nanette keeps her life in order by avoiding peer pressure and not following the crowd. Nanette is a rebel, she's just not been aware of it. She meets a teacher that she really likes and spends her lunchtimes with him in his classroom talking. This teacher gives her a copy of a book, The Bubblegum Reaper. He tells her it's a book for people who are different and don't fit in with what is considered to be the norm. After Nanette reads The Bubblegum Reaper her eyes are opened and she embraces her previously unknown inner rebel. The book changes her life and she meets the author after her favorite teacher tells her he lives in town. The author becomes her friend, but he hates talking about his book. Eventually the author introduces her to another like minded reader of the The Bubblegum Reaper, a boy named Alex, and Nanette falls in love(maybe) for the first time in her life. The book tells Nanette's story beautifully and we get to know and care about her very quickly. We also get to know the other characters and care about them as well. The story though is all about Nanette. The story is sad and beautiful and should appeal to many young adults who find themselves not quite fitting in with what is considered the normal crowd and who are trying to find their way in life when it doesn't seem to come as easy for them as it does for their peers. This book should even appeal to adult readers who remember not fitting in. It will bring back what it was like to struggle mightily to be true to yourself and also to achieve happiness, even when you had no idea what you wanted to be when you grew up.
    • 3/5
      Matthew Quick's latest book, Every Exquisite Thing, is a YA read.I've enjoyed Quick's quirky characters, plots and thoughts in his previous books, especially The Silver Linings Playbook and The Good Luck of Right Now.When a beloved teacher gives Nannette O'Hare an out of print, cult classic novel called The Bubblegum Reaper, she is entranced, enthralled and consumed with it. She hunts down the author and meets Alex, another teen just as fascinated with the book, its origins and the meaning behind the words.Quick has created characters I wanted to be drawn to, that I wanted to care about. But I never really warmed up to Nanette. I felt like more of a dispassionate observer, rather than becoming immersed in her path. She herself employs a detached look at her own life, pretending to be someone she's not in the latter part of the book. I enjoyed the the supporting characters a bit more - I liked Alex and Oliver, but again was disappointed with how Quick dealt with Alex. Without revealing the plot line, I was angered by the way his story went - and how it was dealt with by the adults in his life. Booker, the author of The Bubblegum Reaper, kinda creeped me out a little bit. I found his involvement with these teens troublesome.But, Quick had me just as curious about the book and what the answers might be. I was engrossed in the story until he had the main character talking about herself in the third person. Hated it. A little bit would have been okay, but it just became annoying and irritating. And I finished off reading with that irked feeling.Every Exquisite Thing is a coming of age tale. Quick does bring in events, thoughts and situations that are part of a teen's search for self. The end message is good, but I just didn't enjoy the journey to the revelations as much as I had hoped to. Quick is a talented wordsmith and an author I will absolutely read again - this one just wasn't a hit with me. The title? It's a quote from Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray - "Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic."
    • 4/5
      Nanette O'Hare's story is about societal expectations and high school peer pressure. She's navigates the tricky waters of her senior year while meeting new friends and learning how to be true to oneself. In EVERY EXQUISITE THING, as in other writings of Matthew Quick's, I find the characters and the humor that he uses to tell their stories extremely refreshing. Amid all the angst, you're likely to catch sight of a silver lining in there somewhere.
    • 5/5
      school senior, Nannette is the quintessential “good girl”. She doesn’t drink and party or engage in promiscuous sex like many of her friends and classmates. These kids consider her odd and tell her that she is missing out on all the fun. They seem to think that their behavior, in some way, makes them rebellious and edgy. The fact is, they are the opposite of rebellious, they are participating in behaviors, not because they necessarily want to but because of the expectations of the group and their desire to remain in good social standing. Nannette fails to see the appeal in drunken hook ups and longs for something deeper and more meaningful. Upon reading an out of print book, The Bubblegum Reaper she identifies so strongly with the characters that she does rebel! She quits the soccer team, questions whether or not she wants to go to college, and stops hanging out with her life-long friends. Nanette eventually meets other devotees of the book and they form very strong bonds as each tries to understand the message of the book.The author is local but reclusive. Can he answer the questions which the book Left open ended, are there, in fact any answers.
    • 3/5
      Nan decides to change the way she lives her life. Always a good students, when a favorite teacher recommends a cult classic to her, she befriends the author and another fan of the book. Trying to live a 'real life' is more difficult than she thought.
    • 2/5
      Not sure what to make of this book. Nanette O'Hare is a good student and star soccer player at her high school, but an outsider who spends her lunch time with her English teacher.  When her teacher introduces her to an out-of-print book about a disaffected teen railing against conformity, Nanette's life is changed and she finds and befriends the book's author. While Nigel Booker refuses to discuss his novel, he does encourage Nanette to rethink her life, leading her to quit the soccer team and reconsider going to college.  He also introduces her to a boy her age who is also a fan of the book and a tortured poet, Alex.  Alex is kind of the manic pixie dream boy of the novel which is kind of a tragedy since neither Nanette nor the author seem to want to realize that he is a colossal douche.  I won't go into any spoilers but a lot of things happen that push Nanette to the edge of her sanity and increase her resentment against everyone she knows.  I think the problem with this book is that so many characters are so one-dimensional and villainous, that it undermines the generally well-rounded and contradictory characterization of Nanette herself.  Maybe I've just finally outgrown teenage rebellion?
    • 5/5
      Nanette O’Hare lives the privileged life of a rich white teenager. She’s been the star of soccer since she was like 6 and her parents dote on her because of it. The only problem is that Nanette hasn’t liked soccer (or her coach who insists on calling her Nan which she hates) for a while but she sticks with it because it makes her dad so happy. Towards the end of her junior year, her favorite teacher hands her a book that he tells her she’s going to love called The Bubblegum Reaper. After reading it, he helps her get in touch with the author of the book and befriend him. Soon after Nanette starts making decisions that revolve around her desires instead of what others want from her and she spends her senior year finding out what she wants with the help of a boy who writes poetry to share his true dark feelings to world. The first time I heard of Matthew Quick was after watching The Silver Linings Playbook and I saw that it was a movie based on a book so I read it and liked it. I’m not very good at explaining what it is about an author’s writing that I like but I really like Quick’s assessment of the world and how his characters react to it. Nanette was relatable when it came to her rebellion against the world and even more so when she started doing things she actually enjoyed. One thing that I’m still not a fan of is how he writes romances because even though Pat and Tiffany had their moments they still weren’t “couple goals” and I found the same to be with Nanette and Alex. But I think its also something that I really like about him, how if there happens to be a romantic arc it’s not the main focus in the identity of his characters. Alex just happened to be someone that helped Nanette discover her ability to let people see the real her. Something that I really appreciated was how this book highlighted the fact that anyone could be dissatisfied with their life and that those feelings are valid. It annoys me when someone expresses disbelief that someone so privileged could be so unhappy. There’s a difference between being bored and being unhappy and after being coerced into trying “normal activities for a teenager” even though she didn’t want to, Nanette needed to get away from those things that were making her unhappy. I just really liked this book.
    • 5/5
      Every Exquisite Thing is a quick read that I couldn't put down. A coming of age story from Nanette's point of view and how a book called The Bubblegum Reaper impacts her world. Covers the ups & downs of teenage love, friendship, bullies, loss, and uncertainty of future unknowns. This book has a unique tale to share with the world. And I loved the clever chapter titles.