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Saturday, 19 May 2018

Always And Forever, Lara Jean by Jenny Han

Wow what a finish to the Lara Jean trilogy this was, with a death, engagement, wedding, break up, college applications and friends parting ways to go achieve their dreams its all change ahead for Lara Jean and co!

As she applies and misses her most favoured college Lara Jean finds herself a little unsure of what's ahead for her as best friend Chris is going travelling on a gap year and her boyfriend Peter got in to their most favoured college while Lara Jean didn't. Facing a future apart or long distance the couple has a minor bump which they seem to work through while the Song family expands another way...

I really enjoyed the sisters and the reality of growing up as the girls talk more of body changes, boys and sex as they all have such differences in age between them. We can all relate to choosing colleges and finishing school too of course.

A sweet wrap up to the Song girls trilogy giving them a fantastic send off!

Friday, 18 May 2018

P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han

Following book one of Lara Jean's story, we catch up with her as she goes on her first real date with Peter to the cinema only to have to escape unseen by Genevieve who's also at the same film showing!

When a video circulates around the school of Peter and Lara Jean making out in a hot tub but mistaken for them having sex, the pair try to trace who spread the video while dealing with the after effects of everyone seeing it.

Kitty also sets up their dad dating with their lovely neighbour Ms Rothschild as well as Lara Jean getting a reply from her fifth letter's recipient John who reveals some past truths about how he felt towards Lara Jean. As the pair get reacquainted, they also see Genevieve and Peter together leading to a broken heart of sorts and igniting Lara Jean to win a contest between the old friends who shared a treehouse as kids.

But who holds Lara Jean's heart now?!

This book keeps up with the Covey family antics as well as upping the drama which we all love as events unfold with the guys and girls!

To All The Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han

Lara Jean is a girly girl with five letters, one written to each boy she ever loved letting her feelings live on paper leaving her free from the past relationship. She lives a homely life with her Obs/Gyn working father, two sisters with her the middle and unfortunately no mother but they keep her spirit alive.

When Margot her older sister breaks up with Josh before heading away the college, she struggles to imagine her sister not around all the time. She also can't understand why she broke up with Josh but secretly is happy they can still hang out as she used to like him before he dated Margot.

Only that doesn't happen!

When the letters accidentally disappear along with her hat box, Peter approaches her as the first boy to have received the letter to him followed by a camp crush's letter being returned then Lucas who's gay tells Lara Jean he's flattered and likes his letter. Of course, Josh also gets a letter from past Lara Jean too after he told her he had a crush on her when they were younger!

But she doesn't expect that Peter and her will turn fake love into real love to make his ex girlfriend and her ex childhood friend jealous. The two later get into drama over a ski trip and then secrets come out surrounding the letter mystery and Lara Jean, Margot and Josh have some things to tell each other too!

A lot of drama but girly goodness in a book unlike any other I've read. I particularly like Chris who is Lara Jean's complete opposite yet a great friend full of drama from sex, partying and drinking! I can fully appreciate the greatness of Jenny Han and her Lara Jean creations!

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Goodreads Quotes

Eve beinguniquebeingme’s quotes

"You should date a girl who reads.
Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes, who has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.

Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she has found the book she wants. You see that weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a secondhand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow and worn.

She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.

Buy her another cup of coffee.

Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.

It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas, for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry and in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.

She has to give it a shot somehow.

Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.

Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who read understand that all things must come to end, but that you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.

Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.

If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.

You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.

You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.

Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.

Or better yet, date a girl who writes."— Rosemarie Urquico

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