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The Letter Q: Queer Writers' Notes To Their Younger Selves (2012)

by Sarah Moon(Favorite Author)

3.97 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0545399327 (ISBN13: 9780545399326)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Arthur A. Levine Books

review 1: I think the idea for this book was great on paper, but the execution not so great. Aiming the letters at an audience that will never actually read them (their younger selves) seems pointless when they could be talking directly to the real audience about their experiences. There is a lot of cryptic language, references to things only their younger self would know that aren't really explained, and it gets quite annoying. But mainly, the letters feel very repetitive, the same sort of advice over and over again delivered in the same sort of voice. I did like the comics though. As far as a book of experiences aimed at LGBT youth, I thought The Full Spectrum was much better. I'm not gay or lesbian, but I am genderqueer (and this book had very little T despite being LGBT) and ase... morexual with a romantic affinity for all genders, so I'm not alien to homoromantic feelings. The letters were also written mainly from people who were professionals in some creative field, and so it's easy to guarantee their younger selves are going to have success in arts, but its sort of useless sentiment to the reader without confidence there. But there's no harm in tossing another book into the ring, and if someone gets something important from it, then it can be considered successful.
review 2: The Letter Q is a simple premise, but effective. Writers of all sorts send notes back to themselves as when they were in middle school or high school. The emotion and information provided is intense and will be most appreciated by teens. I don't know if teens will pick this up by themselves, but perhaps if you leave it laying around, they will thumb through it......and perhaps, they will draw some comfort from those who have been there that it gets better. That is really all we can do....and honestly, wouldn't it be amazing if we could really send ourselves a note of encouragement back when we really could have used it most? less

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