Rainy Day Reads

I loved this book so prepare for a gushing review! I feel like 2016 is going to be a good reading year, since I have already read a few good books, and I finally feel like I am coming out of the last of my reading slump of 2015.  Anyway this book is about a boy and a girl who meet in the school bell tower, each standing on the ledge looking down. The boy, Theodore Finch, is contemplating what this type of suicide would be like, when he sees the girl, Violet Markey, posed on the ledge. He talks her down, but because of their high school status, and because Finch is a nice guy, the story ends up being she talked him down. She is branded a hero, he a weirdo. He doesn’t seem to mind too much, as he is already an outcast in school and he lets people think what they want. He takes an interest in Violet, however, determined that she should know that life is worth living. The story goes on from there and I really loved the structure of it. It sort of ends up taking the form of a...