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We’re back with the next installment of our book-to-screen watch list… Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between by Jennifer E.Smith!
On the night before they leave for college, Clare and Aiden must decide if they will stay together or break up. For the next twelve hours, they look to their past to help determine their futures. As the morning approaches, so does the time to say goodbye. Will this be goodbye for now or a forever goodbye?
This charming young adult contemporary romance won’t be streaming on Netflix until July 6th, but luckily for you, the trailer is OUT NOW!
While we’re all counting down the days until the film’s release, here are six books to read once you’re done re-reading the book-to-screen adaptation! No matter what your favorite part of the story is, we’ve rounded up a recommendation for the hello, the goodbye, and the everything in between.
The hello that started it all,
Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between by Jennifer E. Smith
On the night before they leave for college, Clare and Aiden must decide if they will stay together or break up. For the next twelve hours, they look to their past to help determine their futures. As the morning approaches, so does the time to say goodbye. Will this be goodbye for now or a forever goodbye?
Content Warnings: Unknown
Hello, it’s meet cute o’clock,
In a New York Minute by Kate Spencer
What’s the best kind of hello? A meet cute! In a New York Minute begins with a meet cute guaranteed to go down in “Meet Cute Hall of Fame”. After Franny was laid off from her lackluster job, she is carrying her box of belongings on the New York subway, when the doors rip her silk dress to ruins. She has now flashed half of lower Manhattan and is rescued by a Gucci-clad handsome stranger. The best part (or worst part depending on your point of view)? Someone on the subway captured it all on video, posting it to the internet, and it’s now the next viral sensation. Everyone is shipping the “#SubwayQTs”… but they don’t even know each other.
Content Warnings: Death of a parent, Medical content, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Medical Trauma
Hello to a forced proximity meet cute,
The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory
Somehow Alexa Monroe has agreed to be a wedding date for Drew Nichols – pretending to be his stand-in (fake) girlfriend. This isn’t something she’d usually do, but there’s something intriguing about Drew that she can’t say no to. The wedding is a whirlwind of fun, putting to question whether if they both somehow found something real while playing pretend.
Content Warnings: Sexual content, Racism, Cancer, Body shaming, Fatphobia
Goodbye, try this not-so-happily after,
Milk Fed by Melissa Broder
Rachel is a Jewish woman who works as an underling at a Los Angeles talent management agency, feeling control in her life by restricting calories and other obsessive food rituals. She spends evenings racing to nowhere on the elliptical, until her therapist recommends a 90 day detox from her mother. She meets Miriam, a zaftig young Orthodox Jewish woman who works at her favorite frozen yogurt shop, who loves to feed her.
Content Warnings: Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Sexual content, Homophobia
Goodbye, forever, maybe,
Yolk by Mary H.K. Choi
Thinking on emotional goodbyes, Yolk by Mary H.K. Choi was the first book to come to mind. Jayne Baek struggles with an eating disorder, getting through fashion school, a deadbeat boyfriend, and clout-chasing friends. A small price to pay for living in New York City, right? Her sister June is incredibly rich, with an incredible high-paying finance job and the perfect apartment (and seemingly perfect life). Unlike Jayne, her life is easy, free of struggle. When June is diagnosed with uterine cancer, Jayne moves in, as a sisterly obligation at first, and their relationship dynamic changes forever.
Content Warnings: Eating disorder, Cancer, Vomit
“Everything, Everything” In Between,
Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
This list would feel incomplete, without at least one other young adult contemporary romance that has been adapted to the big screen. Maddy is an 18 yeast old who cannot leave the hermetically-sealed environment within her house because of her Severe Combined Immunodeficiency. Olly, the boy next door, won’t allow this to stop them from being together, getting to know one another by gazing through the windows and communicating through text message. They form a deep bond, leading them to risk it everything to be together, even if it ends in disaster.
Content Warnings: Chronic illness, Medical content, Confinement, Death of parent, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Child death
What’s more “In Between” than the summer before college,
Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon
Today is the last day of senior year. Rowan Roth and Neil McNair have been rivals for the duration of high school, on test scores, student council elections, and even the pull up fitness challenge. After Neil is named valdictiorian, Rowan decides her best chance at winning one last time is the senior class game that explores the city she loves, but when a group of seniors band up to take the both of them down, they decide to band together for now, and destroy each other later. As they spend time together, she realizes there is more than meets the eye with Neil, and he could possibly be the boy of her dreams.
Content Warnings: Antisemitism, Sexual Content, Car accident, Drug use
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Looking for more recommendations for book-to-screen adaptations? Head to the “Book-To-Screen” tag, to keep this party train going! Until next time, I’m off to pretend I’m not on a book-buying ban.
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