 Hello everybody, E here. E here. Welcome back to another book review. Today we are talking about All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson. Right off the bat, fantastic book. So if you're one of those people who just want to get in, see if I like it and get out, I absolutely loved this book. There are a couple chapters at the end that I didn't see, not necessarily that I didn't see a point, so I gotta trim my mustache, that I didn't see a point in, but I don't think they fit with the themes of the rest of the book. And that's fine. It's not that I didn't like reading them, I just didn't see why they were included in this memoir. I don't have much to say about the book itself other than if you have any triggers regarding sexual assault or homophobia or racism or any of that stuff, probably stay away from this because this book gets rough in certain sections, especially the section on, sorry, there's one mustache here, especially the scene I laughed and I shouldn't have, sorry, I was still laughing about the mustache here. The scene of the sexual assault is very, very troubling, I will say that because he goes into very graphic detail and considering who it's with it's even more disturbing. But that's all I want to say about the book itself. Where I want to end this review, the whole rest of the review, is I want to talk about why I picked this up. From a very, very early age and oddly enough, I was a devout Christian until I was about 13 years old and I went to a summer camp and one of the kids there said, you know, Jesus is just Santa Claus for adults and I was like, something clicked in my brain and I started doing my own research and I'll be damned if I couldn't find anything to back up the religion. But that's beside the point. The one good thing that religion, at least my pastor taught me was that we were all the same and that clicked with me very early on also. I remember it was probably about eight or nine years old. This thing occurred to me. No matter what color we are, no matter what background we're from, no matter what sexuality we are, back then there wasn't really any talk about gender and sexuality. We just knew that some people, some men like men, some women like women. Now these days we have the entire spectrum to look at, but at a very early age I realized that we're all just flesh. It's all just flesh. So whether or not I had ended up with a man or a woman, I didn't discriminate whatsoever. I just ended up, I happened upon the most wonderful woman in the world who ended up saving my life, my wife, Shell. We've been together 20 years, going on 21 next May, but my point is I don't understand all the hullabaloo. Now when I say it's all just flesh to me, I'm talking about consenting adults. I'm not talking about bestiality, I'm not talking about pedophilia, I'm not talking about hippophilia, any of that stuff. I'm talking about consenting adults. From a very early age, like I said, I've said it numerous times so far I'm repeating myself, but I realize that it's all just flesh. There's no sin, there's none of that drama, there's none of that bullshit, and we look at other people that might look different or like things that are different from us, and for some odd reason we judge. Now I'm not saying you do, I'm not saying I do, but we as a society, we as a culture, we as a species judge, and that's one of the things that I try to talk about on this channel, I try to bring out, unless you're a Trump supporter, bye, but I try to talk to people, I try to get to know them unless of course it is vastly obvious, like I'm not going to walk up to a Klan member in a robe and try to have a discussion with a dude, you know what I'm saying? But when we talk about books, when we talk about entertainment, people are more likely to accept that you like a different form of entertainment than if you like, let's say if you're a dude that likes another dude, or your chick likes another chick, or your non-binary, or your gender fluid, or any number of these things, I don't understand what if any business of yours, who I'm sleeping with, there is none, whatsoever, and it's none of my business who you're sleeping with, but at the same time, this world has been built on labels, everything has to have a label, everybody has to be something, everybody has to be in a box, and I don't agree with that, I don't agree with labels, that's why I never talk about my own sexuality, yes I am cis, yes I am married to a woman, but I'm not going to talk about my other experiences or any of that crap, I'm not going to, it's not your business, like I said, just like your sexuality is none of my business, so while I support my friends who are in the LGBTQ plus spectrum, while I support it, I tend to stay away from coming out videos and things like that, because I don't see you that way, I don't see you as a label, I see you as my friend, I see you as another human being, I don't care who you sleep with, I don't care what's going on in your pants, I don't care about any of that stuff, if you're a decent human being man, I won't be a decent human being right back to you, and I wish all of us would do that, I'm gonna get off my soapbox now, and go back to the book, yes there are certain, the book like Michelle Obama's Becoming, I got a lot of nasty comments on that one, and the book is about hope, I find it funny that people, there are people out there who hear the word hope, and automatically they're butthole clenches, it's like oh my god some hope, I don't get that, I don't see how you lose your mind over something positive, I don't, and yes there's something to be said that if you get your hopes up you're gonna fall even farther, you know you're getting your hopes up, you're gonna fall, whatever, word play, but it, but there has to be hope, there has to be something, there has to be, you know, you have to do with, you know, what's the use in walking around miserable all day, it's what, it's I guess my question to you, but this is a, this is one of those books that I wish I could put into the hands of a Trump supporter, or put into the hands of a religious extremist who thinks that homosexuality is a sin, or any, any number of the people who would disagree with the viewpoints in this book, I wish I could give them this book and force them to read it, and like look this is a decent human being living a decent life, lead them the hell alone. Anywho, that's all my thoughts on this book, you got a little bit, you got a little bit of me in there, you got a little bit of some of everything, just my opinion on the world and sexuality and gender as it is, and I hope you enjoyed this review, if not I'm sure you'll let me know what the dislikes, but yeah if you've read this, let me know if you liked it, or if you disliked it this time, I'm not gonna argue with you, if you disliked it, this whatever, I mean this isn't fiction, this is another person's life, I will say the writing is a little bit simplistic, but I think that's just because it's in the YA genre, because every now and again Johnson would go in and he'd have a great turn of phrase, but it is very, and it's also super short, you see how big that type is, and it's only, I think 300 pages long, but if you like memoirs definitely give it a shot, if you're open-minded to other people's life stories, certainly give it a shot, but until next time, I have an E, you've been you, this has been another book review, I'll talk to you guys later, bye bye!