All the Young Men - First Impressions

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 All the Young Men - First Impressions

When I was looking at the list and choosing which book to pick, only a couple really stood out to me. For my first choice, I ended up picking What it Feels Like for a Girl because the summary seemed really interesting. I liked how the plot was focused on someone's teenage years and LGBTQ+ themes. However, when I actually tried reading the novel, I couldn't get past the first page because the author wrote in some sort of English accent with a lot of apostrophes. This made me eventually choose my second choice--All the Young Men. Once again, I really liked the summary and how the plot focuses on a nurse in the 1960's helping gay men with Aids. From the summary, she seemed like such a trailblazer and she wanted to help people no matter what the cost was, so I knew I had to keep reading because I love heroines like that.

When it comes to actually reading the book, I genuinely like it so far. The first page gets you because it puts you right in the middle of the action. The other nurses are playing chance games to see who has to help the Aids patients, but Ruth (the main character) goes in to help them herself, even though she was scared of what could happen. Unfortunately, the patients succumb to the disease, and because homosexuality was so stigmatized at the time, their own parents wanted nothing to do with them. So, she takes it upon herself to properly bury them in her family's graveyard. Now, she is worried that she will eventually get caught because these crimes can result in her getting jailed/killed. I'll definitely have to keep reading to see what happens to Ruth.

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