How To Be a Normal Person by TJ Klune | Tams Audiobook Review & #giveaway @Dreamspinners @tjklune @VoiceofDerrick

How To Be a Normal Person

• Written by: TJ Klune
• Narrated by: Derrick McClain
• Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins 
• Unabridged Audiobook 
• Release Date:04-15-16
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press LLC
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Gustavo Tiberius is not normal. He knows this. Everyone in his small town of Abby, Oregon, knows this. He reads encyclopedias every night before bed. He has a pet ferret called Harry S. Truman. He owns a video rental store that no one goes to. His closest friends are a lady named Lottie with drag queen hair and a trio of elderly Vespa riders known as the We Three Queens.

Gus is not normal. And he's fine with that. All he wants is to be left alone.

Until Casey, an asexual stoner hipster and the newest employee at Lottie's Lattes, enters his life. For some reason, Casey thinks Gus is the greatest thing ever. And maybe Gus is starting to think the same thing about Casey, even if Casey is obsessive about Instagramming his food.

But Gus isn't normal and Casey deserves someone who can be. Suddenly wanting to be that someone, Gus steps out of his comfort zone and plans to become the most normal person ever.

After all, what could possibly go wrong?

©2015 TJ Klune (P)2016 Dreamspinner Press

Buy links: Dreamspinner | Amazon Audio | Audible | iTunes

Tams gives this one 5 Stars...

"How would you define "normal"?"
Would you consider the audio edition of How to Be a Normal Person to be better than the print version?
I hadn't read prior to listening. I did enjoy the audio version very much though, Derrick McClain is so awesome at giving various and completely different characters a voice.

What other book might you compare How to Be a Normal Person to and why?
Any other TJ Klune book, he really gets down into the heart of difficult issues, conveying in such a way that you truly understand. Also, Amy Lane, if you're looking for a different Author or perspective.

Which scene was your favorite?

I'm going to say the entire book for the most part. It's nice to see Klune having fun, inserting humor into a story.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

How to Be a Normal Person (?) why you want to change it?

Any additional comments?

How would you define "normal"? Really, I want you to think about that. You see this book listed under gay romance and probably right away thought, hot man sex. Well, you'd be wrong. But there is nothing wrong with that. The book has to stand on story and content without all those smexy bells and whistles and it definitely achieved that.

A fun, quirky gay romance without a lot of sexual tension or angst. This is my first story with an A-Sexual character and I really enjoyed getting to know the characters, especially Casey. McClain did such a great job breathing life into Casey and Gus, I laughed so hard a couple of times. Definitely worth a listen.

When TJ Klune was eight, he picked up a pen and paper and began to write his first story (which turned out to be his own sweeping epic version of the video game Super Metroid—he didn’t think the game ended very well and wanted to offer his own take on it. He never heard back from the video game company, much to his chagrin). Now, over two decades later, the cast of characters in his head have only gotten louder, wondering why he has to go to work as a claims examiner for an insurance company during the day when he could just stay home and write.

Since being published, TJ has won the Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Romance, fought off three lions that threatened to attack him and his village, and was chosen by Amazon as having written one of the best GLBT books of 2011.

And one of those things isn’t true.

(It’s the lion thing. The lion thing isn’t true.)

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