Genre: lgbt romance
Stars from Goodreads: 4.3
Stars from me: 4

Call Me by Your Name is the best book about love that I have recently read, partially because I have little to compare to. I don’t hunt for books about love, because it’s close to impossible to find a good one, one that wouldn’t make you feel idiotic for reading even a few lines from it. Call Me by Your Name is also about the biggest love that I have ever read about. It’s the love between two men so I’m sure this book will seem less conventional for some. Luckily, I was gay friendly even before I knew there was a term for it, so I was able to just enjoy the feelings in the book, without being distracted. I’ve never seen an author dissect the feelings so elaborately, lay them out, hold them against the light and watch them so closely. If you are more into action stories, you will get bored. If you see treasures in things expressed beautifully and precisely, you’ll find your gems. If you like keeping feelings even after the characters who had them are gone, this book is also for you.

My biggest disappointment with the book was its sex scenes, again too graphic for my prude self. This time though, I can’t even say they were unnecessary. They conveyed a lot, but I would still prefer not to know it, even if that meant losing some depths of the book. Because of those graphic scenes I’m giving the book only four stars (which apparently still excited Kindle search engine, it has been offering me gay romance ever since).

There’s a movie based on the book. I tried to watch this semi-eaten skeleton of what once was a shining story, but couldn’t finish it. The actors were chosen perfectly, though, as if someone outlined them from the book. If you are interested in the story, I would strongly suggest you would read the book and ignore the movie.