You are Here Jennifer Smith Simon & Schuster Books, 2009 “So how was it possible that in the midst of so many people she could still feel so terribly lonely?” Rating: 2.5/5 stars Another Jennifer Smith book. You are Here comes close to the story of The Geography of You and Me but I like…
Category: YA Novels
Anna and the French Kiss
Anna and the French Kiss Stephanie Perkins Penguin Group, 2010 “So what do I wish for? Something I’m not sure I want? Something I’m not sure I need? Or someone I know I can’t have?” Rating: 3/5 stars Warning: after reading this I conclude that this is a lame review. Let me explain why I…
Something Like Normal
Something Like Normal Trish Doller Bloomsbury, 2012 “I don’t know if my life will ever be completely normal again, but something like normal is a good start.” Rating: 2/5 stars This is your average book, and I was wondering if I should still write a review for this one, but apparently, I did as you…
This is What Happy Looks Like
This is What Happy Looks Like Jennifer Smith Little, Brown and Company, 2013 “He’d mistaken loneliness for independence, and had become so good at closing himself off from the world.” Rating: 4/5 stars From: GDL824@yahoo.com Sent: Sunday, June 9, 2013 10:24 AM To: EONeill22@hotmail.com Subject: Re: what happy looks like Welcome surprises. I was thinking…
The Geography of You and Me
The Geography of You and Me Jennifer Smith Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, April 2014 “The point wasn’t the distance, it was the homecoming.” Rating: 3.25/5 stars I always believe that good books are those with many highlights in it, however trivial. The Geography of You and Me certainly is one of them. The…
The Beginning of Everything (Everyone Gets a Tragedy)
The Beginning of Everything (formerly: Severed Heads, Broken Hearts) Robyn Schneider HarperCollins Publishers, July 2014 “But we had plenty of time for youthful indecision, both apart and together, for limping into the future past the unforgettable ash heaps of our histories.” Rating: 3.5/5 stars Like a roller coaster, like the Thunder Mountain Railroad in Disneyland,…
Playlist for the Dead
Playlist for the Dead Michelle Falkoff Harper Teen, January 2015 “Lots of people want to be invisible. Maybe they can even think they can pretend to be. But someone always sees.” Rating: 3/5 stars Sam and Hayden is like reading Darren Bennett and Eric Lederer all over again in The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and…
Landline
Landline Rainbow Rowell St. Martin’s Press, July 2014 “We’ll make our own enough.” Rating: 4/5 stars Gods of Egypt, I remember saying that I did not trust the name of the author, suspicious, I mean seriously, Rainbow? I did not like much her writing style in Eleanor and Park thus I was surprised to read…
2013 Best Books Top 10: Paper Towns
#10 Paper Towns John Green Speak, Penguin Group imprint, 2008 “It is hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.” You might have thought by now that I will be tired of reading John Green’s books, but no. This “Paper Towns” book is somewhat like the…