I listened to it as an audiobook and it was beautiful! I was really drawn into the story, i could so feel into the character. Every thought and feeling, you felt it and understood it. Plus I love the takes on gender, love and morality. I can only recommend it, because I absolutely lost myself in the story.

https://lesenundhoeren.wordpress.com/2015/07/31/buch-review-david-levithans-every-day-1-every-day-jugendroman-mit-einigen-denkanstoessen/ Eigene Meinung: Cover: Zwei fallende junge Menschen. A und Rhiannon. Vor allem für A trifft es ja zu, da er von Mensch zu Mensch geht und sich dabei manchmal allein fühlt ohne Zuhause. Also ein ganz treffendes Cover. Inhalt/Geschichte: Dies ist mein erstes Buch von David Levithan. Die Geschichte klang vom Klappentext her sehr interessant. Doch als ich anfing zu lesen, war ich erst mal etwas verwirrt. Die Geschichte entwickelte sich zunächst nur langsam. Jeden Tag (jedes Kapitel) ein neuer Mensch und eine neue Geschichte. Und ich fragte mich: was soll das jetzt? Wo ist denn nun DIE Geschichte? Doch dann kam es langsam in die Gänge. Ich konnte mit A richtig mitfühlen und er tat mir echt Leid. Jeden Tag ein anderer Körper. Ich fand auch gut, wie verschiedene Probleme aufgegriffen wurden. Zum Einen kommt mehrmals die Geschlechterproblematik zum Tragen. A ist ja geschlechtslos. Er kann mal ein Mädchen, mal ein Junge sein. Deshalb interessiert es ihn auch bei der Liebe nicht, ob das Gegenüber Mann oder Frau ist. Ihn interessiert nur der Mensch. Und das erhofft er sich auch von anderen, da er ja äußerlich immer jemand anderer ist. Und zum anderen wird das Thema Homosexualtiät mehrmals aufgegriffen. Da Levithan selbst homosexuell ist, ist es also nicht verwunderlich, dass er in seinen Büchern immer zu mehr Akzeptanz und Toleranz aufruft. Und außerdem die Frage nach dem geklauten Leben. Was wäre, wenn, er länger in einem Menschen bleibt. Wäre das dem Menschen gegenüber fair? Beraubt er ihm nicht seines Lebens? Charaktere: A ist ein besonderes Wesen. Sein Leben lang wacht er am Morgen in einem anderen Körper auf, nie im selben. Er kann sich an alles erinnern, was dieser Mensch erlebt hat, fühlt es aber nicht. Als er sich in Rhiannon verliebt, wünscht er sich erstmals seit langem wieder ein normales Leben. Dabei wird einem A immer sympathischer. Dadurch dass er die Welt durch immer wieder neue Augen sieht, unterschiedliche Reaktionen erfährt, scheint er reifer zu sein, als die meisten Jugendlichen seines Alters. Er ist umsichtiger und toleranter. Doch für Rhiannon macht er Ausnahmen, wird etwas nachlässiger. Auf dieser Gefühlsachterbahn werden immer wieder philosophische, moralische und emotionale Fragen aufgeworfen. Inwieweit darf er in das Leben der Menschen, die er einnimmt, eingreifen? Sind innere Werte nicht wichtiger als Äußerlichkeiten? Was ist Liebe? Rhiannon ist der Gegenpol, A’s große Liebe. Für sie ist die Situation neu, doch sie scheint sich nach und nach darauf einzulassen, denn auch sie ist von A angetan. Stil/Gliederung: Jedes Kapitel gibt einen Tag in As Leben wider. Die Kapitel haben eine angenehme Kürze/Länge. Sprachlich vermag er einen in seine Welt mitzureißen. Auch das Hörbuch ist wirklich gut gesprochen. Fazit: Dies ist mein erstes Buch von David Levithan. Am Anfang hab ich mich etwas gefragt, was das ganze soll. Die Idee war gut, aber irgendwie kam die eigentliche Geschichte nicht so voran. Doch nach 50 Seiten war ich richtig drin und fand es genial. Philosophische Fragen, erste Liebe, Gewissenkonflikte, Vorurteile. Alles wird zum Thema. Und gerade das sind ja Themen, die besonders junge Menschen bewegen. Ein klasse Buch mit einem offenen Ende für die Liebe. Also muss ich unbedingt das zweite Buch auch noch lesen.

"Every Day" by David Levithan is a gripping investigation into identity, love and the complexity of human relationships. The story follows "A", who wakes up in a different body every morning and lives a new life every day. Levithan masterfully guides us through the challenges of living in different bodies, blending seamlessly elements of fantasy with the negative emotions of adolescence. The uniqueness of the story invites the reader to reflect on questions of selfhood and the nature of connection. Through A's meetings with various characters, Levithan creates a touching story that stayed with me long after the last page. During and after reading it, I found myself thinking very hard about life. Through the book and the characters, I learned more new things about life and gained a new perspective on it. I thought it was wonderful how the LGBTQ scene was brought into the book in such a normal way. I actually cried at the very end of the book. The characters also gave me goosebumps and touched me. All in all, this book is simply fabulous and I can only recommend it.

I think I was a bit too eager with this one. Started out amazing and I built these high expectations for the rest of the story that it couldn't hold up to. Regardless, it was a good book and a very nice read. I still loved it because the concept was amazing and it made me think a lot. I love books that throw me off and show me something new, so I loved it even though it couldn't meet my expectations for the story itself.

I enjoyed Every Day a lot. The way it introduced different characters and showed what was special about every single person and how we really are that different inside really touched me. I loved how the main character A talked about gender, sexuality and race and I especially think this book is a great read because it's so diverse and so open in it's acceptance of every different type of person, no mater what they identify as and how they were born into this world. The premise and everything around it was perfectly executed and pulled me in again and again. I always wanted to know who A was gonna be next and what was going on in there life. There even are chapters that deal with disabilities and mental illness and they are so respectfully and beautifully written, I really felt the thought and love that went into this whole creation. Now I gotta say, I was so pulled into this World and A's intense love for Rhiannon, that at first I didn't notice anything. I loved her just as fiercely and that speaks for Levithan's writing style and how immersive the book is. But closer to the end I felt this shift, where I suddenly got aware of how odd everything was. I lost my interest in the romance like a hundred pages before the end. The romance was actually already going down at that point and their issues were starting to overwhelm them, but I somehow lost my love for Rhiannon, even though A still felt for her. We split paths and that was very odd to me, because before I followed him everywhere. Her reactions where understandable, it is a very weird and hard to deal with situation, but her whole anger in several points didn't make sense to me. Well mostly when she wanted to meet him and cheat on her boyfriend with him (the boyfriend she somehow couldn't break up with even though he was a dick and she had met with A for like weeks) and he didn't show up because he wasn't able to with the body  he was in and she was so pissed at him for her own mistakes. That was when I started to look more closely at her reactions and didn't see this perfectly good person that A always wanted to see. She as selfies most times, wanting to keep her boyfriend AND A around. I never really connected to her in a meaningful way, I don't really know anything about her family and friends, even though A spend a day in her body. Maybe that is why there exists a second book about her POV during this story, but right now I don't really feel like reading it, because I actually don't wanna know more about her. She didn't intrigue me the way several people A was only sharing his body with for a day did. After all, I did really enjoy the book and the whole Journey. I felt connected to A and most of the story I did love the relationship and was rooting for them to find a way to be together. The end came a bit fast for me and I'm sad that the second book just deals with the same story only from a different perspective, because I really would have loved to delve more into the universe and maybe see how another body switcher lives their life. But in the end I was content, the diversity was mind blowing and the story never made me feel actually angry, which happens a lot with romance btw. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who is into a good non-conventional romance and diverse characters and I also think it was good to read the book before watching the movie, cause the trailers so far don't really give an accurate representation of the story. If the movie doesn't go as deep into the issues as the book does, I would 100% say read it first or even afterwards, just because A's experiences with people really did give a special outlook on what makes us all different but still the same.

It is so bad, I want to give you a zero, but that's not possible, so I give you a one. Nachträgliche, ausführliche Rezension mit Spoilerwarnung(!!) Wir alle hatten wahrscheinlich diese eine Schullektüre in unserem Leben, die uns nicht nur gequält hat, sondern uns auch heftig hinterfragen gelassen hat, weshalb ausgerechnet dieses Buch für Schulklassen geeignet sein soll. Dass das bei mir aber "every day" von David Levithan, ein relativ modernes und beliebtes Buch sein wird, hat mich einfach nur schockiert. Die Idee des Buches fand ich äußerst interessant. Ein genderloser, gesichtsloser Charakter, der jeden Tag in dem Körper einer anderen Person aufwacht klingt einfach nach einer originellen Idee und das war auch das einzige an dem Buch was ich mochte. A, main character des Buches, war nicht nur furchtbar naiv sondern hat von A geredet und B gemacht, das ganze Buch über. "Ich verändere nicht das Leben von Leuten" und vier Seiten weiter manipuliert er Leute, damit they den Tag mit Rhiannon, der Liebe seines Lebens mit der they höchstens zehn Sätze gewechselt hat. A kennt keine Grenzen und they hatte einfach eine unfassbare Doppelmoral. Und als wäre das nicht schon die Kirche auf der Tote, muss die Protagonistin Rhiannon noch eine zweite darauf setzen. Sie ist von ich-will-dich-nicht zu ich-betrüge-meinen-freund-mit-dir zu ich-kann-dir-das-nicht-antun zu lass-uns-miteinander-schlafen zu ich-kann-das-doch-nicht innerhalb von wenigen Seiten gewechselt. Ich hatte Mitleid wegen Rhiannon und ihrer toxischen Beziehung zu Justin, ja, aber es hat mich komplett gestört, wie normalisiert Fremdgehen in dem Buch war. Aber der größte Witz war wohl die Beziehung zwischen Rhiannon und A. Erstens habe ich nicht verstanden, wieso die beiden ineinander verliebt sind und vor allem WOHER diese Gefühle innerhalb von wenigen Seiten kamen. I mean, insta Liebe kann toll sein, aber das hier hat eher einer Obsession geglichen. Besonders Rhiannons Gefühle hab ich nicht verstanden. Als wäre das hin- und her nicht nervig genug gewesen, hat sie A nur Liebe und auch körperliche Annäherung gezeigt, wenn they in einem männlichen Körper war, der definitiv allen Schönheitsidealen entsprochen hat. Sie sagt sogar zu A, dass sie ihn nicht lieben kann, wenn er dick ist??? Ich meine klar, jeder hat einen anderen Typ (auch darauf bezogen, dass Rhiannon A immer abweisend behandelt hat, wenn they in dem Körper eines Mädchens waren), aber wo ist die tiefe Bindung zwischen den Beiden von der immer gesprochen wird, wenn sie they abschießt, sobald they nicht aussieht wie das männliche Schönheitsideal. Besonders von einer Schullektüre hätte ich mir bessere vermittelte Werte gewünscht, die nicht nur voller Stereotypen und problematischer Aussagen sind. Vor allem ist mir sauer aufgestoßen, wie abwertend Rhiannon A behandelt hat, sobald they in dem Körper eines Trans* Menschen waren?? Like, ihre transphoben Aussagen waren nicht nur unter aller Sau, aber sie blieben komplett unkommentiert?! A war wohl so geblendet von der großen Liebe, dass they nicht mal einen Gedanken daran verschwenden konnte, was für ein toller Mensch Rhiannon doch ist. Abschließend frage ich mich nicht nur, wie dieses Buch eine Schullektüre sein kann, sondern auch wie dieses Buch so erfolgreich werden konnte, wenn es, meiner Meinung nach, außer einem tollen Konzept nichts vorweisen kann. Aber nochmal @deutscheSchulen: es gibt so viele tolle, englische Bücher.....wieso, WIESO dieses????

read my complete review here: http://isabellsbooks.blogspot.de/ I loved this book. I started reading it yesterady and finished it today. No matter what I did, there was always this urge in me to read on, and so I did. It took me a sentence or not even that to get into the story - I was immediately soaked into it, which I definitely blame on David Levithan's captivating writing style. This book made me want to read so many more books by him. This book was so beautifully and intensely written, right from the start and until the very end. I just loved all the important messages that David Levithan incorporated into this story and the many diverse characters that he gave a voice to in this book. Although the concept of this book is fictional, it felt so extremely realistic and so close to reality and so easy to relate to. I was amazed by all the stories inside this book - which is also what kept me wanting to read on and on the most - the fact that each chapter promised a completely new story, an utterly new character with their very own story. I initially wanted to finally read this book now because its movie adaption will be in cinemas pretty soon - but after I've read this masterpiece of a book, I'm not really sure whether I want to see the movie. This story just feels so perfect as a book and I think that watching it as a movie will be a totally different experience and I'm not sure whether I will enjoy it in the same way. A just has this voice, this presence in the book, which shines through every character that A inhabits and I can't really imagine how that could come across on the screen .. I think that the movie will definitely be more like Rhiannon's experience of the whole story for the audience than A's as it was for the reader. While I read this book, I knew that there was a sequel to it, called Another day, so I kinda had this in mind the whole time I was reading it. I thoroughly enjoyed the book but always kept thinking that I will be able to read on soon. But now I've discovered that Another day isn't really a sequel but a retelling from Rhiannon's point of view, which disappointed me a bit. Although I really really enjoyed this story and also the connection between A and Rhiannon, I'm not too keen to read the story entirely from Rhiannon's point of view now.. Because what made this book so amazing and so fascinating to me was the constant newness of the chapters and the never-knowing what and who will come next. The concept of the book just prevented this story from the slightest possibility of ever getting boring - which I just loved. There wasn't even a chance of this book ever getting boring - and if there was an unlikable character for one day, you just knew that you wouldn't have to deal with them for very long until the next one came. What made this book so extraordinary was also the choice of characters that A inhabited. There was such a huge variety of personalities, sexualities, identities, looks, wealth and so on, and I was just so glued to the book to get to know all of these characters and to learn about their individual story. Personally, I was also very pleased to read about so many LGBTQ* characters and about the way in which A themself made it so very clear how unimportant and irrelevant gender and sex can actually be. I just loved that take on it and that the core story of the book didn't even have the aim to be a queer story, but that it nevertheless taught the reader so many elementary truths about what sexualities actually mean and what not. CONCLUSION Obviously, I am completely in love with this book and enjoyed it a lot. I can recommend it to literally everyone because it just tackles so many different stories and characters that everyone should be able to identify with it at at least some point. And its story is just so fascinatingly interesting and thrilling and - yeah, I just couldn't put it down and definitely didn't want to either. This was just an utterly amazing read and I wish I'd come across such books more often.

Read this because it was assigned in class and at first I was excited because it sounded really good and interesting, however it took me a while to really get into it and I only finished reading it because I wanted to be done with it. While there are some very quotable passages in the book and topics that can be discussed there are still parts that make it hard to like the main character A. They appear as a rather selfish being especially when it comes to Rhiannon and how she is supposed to live her life in the eyes of A and cater to their wants and needs like Rhiannon missing school just to drive for hours to meet up with A.

Das Buch handelt von jemanden der jeden Tag in einem anderen Körper aufwacht, jeden Tag in einem neuen Leben verbringt und nie ein eigenes haben wird. Er hat sich daran gewöhnt und all das bisher nie in Frage gestellt. Doch dann verliebt er sich und plötzlich wird alles anders. Ich könnte dem Buch 2 Sterne geben, ich könnte 5 geben. Irgendwas daran hat mich in den Bann gezogen, obwohl ich normalerweise nicht auf Highschool, Love & Mystery stehe. Aber manchmal bin ich doch mal anfällig dafür und irgendwie konnte ich bei diesem Buch nicht aufhören und hab es mehr oder weniger in einem Rutsch gelesen und fast die ganze Zeit wirklich gemocht. 4 Sterne. Auf deutsch heißt es: "Letztendlich sind wir dem Universum egal". Den Titel mag ich nicht. Ich habe es auf englisch gelesen und kann das empfehlen. Schöne, verständliche Schreibweise. Sehr angenehm zu lesen. Hat sicher auch viel dazu beigetragen, dass ich mich beim lesen so wohl gefühlt habe.

[b:Every Day|13262783|Every Day (Every Day, #1)|David Levithan|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1356993940s/13262783.jpg|18464379] is a peculiar book with a very original theme - a book about a character who wakes up in the body of a different person every day. One day A, our main protagonist, might be a boy who treats his girlfriend badly, another day A might wake up as a girl addicted to drugs ... but whatever the body A awakens in is like, A's mind always remains the same. A grows with the experiences, learns the same things others do ... only A has to adapt to different environments, A has to learn that there is nobody who will ever accompany A on the way through a difficult life which will never allow A to settle down in one specific body, no matter how hard A longs for such an experience. “I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else. I will never feel the pressure of peers or the burden of parental expectation. I can view everyone as pieces of a whole, and focus on the whole, not the pieces. I have learned to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present because that is where I am destined to live.” Isn't it incredibly sad to imagine having to live a life the way A has to? And yet A managed to find a way to embrace the possibilities life has to offer, to accept this fate and still remain A's own self. A is genderless, though the topic of gender has been ignored by Levithan throughout most of the book, and even if the topic was close to being brought up, the author quickly managed to drift around it. Levithan's presumable uncomfortability with discussing gender as a part of A's identity disappointed me, just like the author's decision to let another plot point fall aside at the end of the novel - a plot point which had originally raised my interest, only to be dropped almost immediately. This is a story about a person's love for somebody else, a love which cannot be broken even by something as insurmountable as what A has to experience. Usually, I'm not a fan of romance stories. A lot of them are either more about the sexual aspects (a trend fed by recent successes such as Fifty Shades) or are cheesy and a tad too unbelievable to be true (hello, Mr. Sparks). David Levithan jumped on the bandwagon with Nicholas Sparks and created a perfectly cheesy love story, with the girl A falls in love with being the kind of person all of us have already met - there was nothing surprising or too interesting about her. Yet, for some reason, the author made me not mind this fact at all, and I found myself enjoying this book immensely after my initial doubts about whether or not Levithan would succeed in making me care about A's fate. He did. Apparently, there are a lot of mixed opinions for this novel, so if you are interested in the concept of the story, I'd recommend giving it a try. Fast-paced and built upon an interesting premise, this will probably not turn out to be a book you'll regret having read.

3 Stars I guess. I really liked the writing and "meeting" all of the people whose bodies A was in was super fun and interesting. I loved that David Levithan not only just focused on one gender, on one size of body, on one sexuality. I really liked that. But just with the movie I feel like there's something missing. An explanation why A is like that. The entire time I was waiting for something that didn't happen and I had a hard time sympathizing with A. I felt like the more A fell in love with Rhiannon, the more they ... well ruined the lives of the people A was possessing. It started with missing Tests, lying to parents and even missing a trip to Hawaii. I realize that none of this was fair to A either, but A wasn't the person who had to deal with the aftermath of his/her decision. And that was the point that I disliked about the book. The realization, if we can call it that, came waaaay too late. And running away isn't an option either right? At least the book didn't go with the whole "staying in Alexanders body and make him forget his own birthday" that the movie did. Because I HATED that. I absolutely hated that. So will I pick up the sequel from Rhiannons perspective? Probably not 🤷🏻‍♀️