Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

Andrews, Jesse. (2012). Me and Earl and the dying girl. NY: Amulet Books.

Greg Gaines is a senior and has a friend who he considers as his coworker and they make films together. He doesn’t like the films they have been making but he enjoys the process and his goal is to improve his technique. Greg’s mom convinced him to befriend an old friend Rachel who has leukemia. They begin to spend time together as Rachel is about to begin chemotherapy and also meets Earl. Greg is not sure about his college plans and Rachel suggests film school. He makes a film about Rachel and it was played for the whole school. In his horror, he stopped going to school and scratched all the DVD’s of his films. He considered the University of Pittsburgh instead of pursuing film school. Greg wrote the book to tell the story that you should not try and be something you are not. He later applied to film school.  I enjoyed the characters in the book. Greg was a funny guy, Earl had a tricky past and Rachel was very calming and a good friend.