Book Review! :D

The name of the book that I read is called Call Me by Your Name, by Andre Aciman, which was published in 2007 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in New York and this book has 248 pages.

Every summer a seventeen year-old named Elio and his family stay at their hill-side mansion on the Italian Riviera. Elio’s father is a University Scholar and each summer a scholar from different parts of the world come to stay with Elio and his family for three months. This summer, a scholar named Oliver a twenty-four year old from the United States stayed for the summer to finish his book he has been writing. As soon as Oliver or the “muvi star” arrives, he is loved by everyone in town including Elio. At first when Oliver arrived, they both completely ignored each other. Elio just thought that Oliver would just stay at his house, work around the house and leave just like the others before him. During the summer weeks, their obsession for each other grew as well as their desire and romance. Their romance would last them a lifetime and they feared that they would never find intimacy like that again. After they both reveal their love and passion to each other, they have to keep their love a secret as to no one should find out. Elio is a brilliant seventeen year-old who has managed to keep his emotions to himself because he does not know how to act, think or express himself, but he is fragile once he opens up to Oliver. Oliver on the other hand is confident in whatever he does; which makes Elio insecure.

The elements that I liked from the book would be how Aciman would describe everything in detail, there was only a few pages with dialogue and by doing this, Aciman makes the reader use their imagination while reading this intriguing book. The character that I liked the best would be Elio because he is just so bipolar, sometimes he would love Oliver with a passion and other days despise and ignore him for being charming and witty. The author unfolds the story in the beginning by telling us that Elio has a thing for Oliver and Aciman gives detail on how their romance progresses every day. Throughout summer, Elio’s parents would give Oliver different nicknames like “il cauboi” the cowboy because of the manners he showed while eating dinner with them. One day, Oliver had his hair slick back so Elio’s mother gave him the nick name “la star” short for “la muvi star”. Also, the word “Later” is mention a lot throughout the book and Elio hated this word because it did not have any closure as in goodbye or ciao. “Later”, to Elio meant coming back soon and staying longer and Elio hated this word, but soon he realized it is just Oliver’s Americanism.

I enjoyed reading this book and for me to say that is really, really tough because I thought that this book was going to be boring but I can’t judge a book by its cover. I am glad I took the time to read this book because it has mystery, drama, and love. I also liked how much detail and emotion there was in every page of this book. I have read other books that just focus on detail and a bit of dialogue and those books were really boring and lost my interest right away, but this book was absolutely different. I can relate with this book because at first it can be difficult to show emotions to someone I liked but spending more time with the person made this different and now our relationship is sailing smoothly.

I would definitely recommend this book to others to read. This book was by far good and I enjoyed reading it. I will certainly read more books that are close to Call Me by Your Name or more books from Andre Aciman. I would tell the reader to read the book carefully and really understand the detail in the book because it all connects in the end. I would talk about how the author did an amazing job with this book and I hope he writes many more like this. I would give this book a thumbs up.