I know that I say this all the time, but you need to read this book. I honestly cannot express to you how amazing this book was. All these different scraps of paper, with these beautiful words, just slipped into the story. The really add to the story and help it feel more real. I love when books that little things like this in it. What I really love about it are the poems scattered through it. Joe with his never-ending happiness and love for life, Grams with her full heart and garden of Eden, big, the gentle giant. They all have these little quirks, or big quirks, that just pull them off the page and make them so three dimensional. I also love all of the secondary characters. She writes this story in such a beautiful way. The topic of this book is so unbelievably difficult to truly understand yet, through Lennie, Nelson makes it possible. She is so honest and relatable that it makes her so real. She made you grieve with her and love with her.

she was so real that she made you feel it all. This storyline was just incredible.Īnd the characters where amazing. Nelson managed to make you feel this unimaginable grief. Honestly, reading this book made my heart hurt. This story is just so heartbreaking and stunningly written. I was very unsure of it for the first few chapters but then, I was hooked. Yes, it is time for ‘The Sky Is Everywhere’ by Jandy Nelson. This week it is the turn of a book that I have wanted to read for ages and ages but that I have never gotten around to. I remember my very first day of filming, I had a scene with him - it was just me and him - and it was the very first scene up and I was a little nervous just because it was the start of the whole shoot, and I was just like, it’s a lot of pressure. “He just brought such a light-hearted, chill energy to set, and his presence was just such a funny one. All of us followed her on the set like she was the mama duck and we’re little ducklings.

“Cherry just very quickly became this grandmother figure to me and we all just were so mesmerized by her kindness,” Kaufman said.

She also began to feel a real sense of family with her on-screen guardians, Cherry Jones, who plays her grandmother, Gram, and Jason Segel, who plays her uncle, Big. She adds: “We had full rein to explore creatively and add elements that we wanted to and we didn’t feel scared to do that, or like that there would be judgment, because it was just like this totally welcoming, just safe space to just like be creative and be free with that, which was so special.”

The sky is everywhere by jandy nelson