Being Unique Being Me Eve: Morgan Matson

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Monday, 28 May 2018

Second Chance Summer by Morgan Matson

After she finds out her dad has three months to live and with a history of running away at bad news, Taylor isn't coping well at the prospect of one last summer together at Lake Phoenix.

Lucy and Henry live next door to their house at Lake Phoenix now. Henry hates Taylor for what happened before between them. Five summers before Lucy's parents filed for divorce and Lucy liked Henry when Henry and Taylor had realised their feelings for each other.

Forced to work at the beach together, Taylor and Lucy slowly rebuild a friendship and work things out between themselves after Taylor opens up about her dad's stage four cancer.

Henry also eventually comes around to Taylor and the pair rekindle their relationship as well despite Taylor's dad deteriorating and Taylor wanting to flee yet again.

Ah this book was one of those you know the end is going to be tragic and it hits you hard! Taylor is such a relatable character with her boy history with friends being hurt and losing a parent will always be hard but the time she spends with her dad is so good with how he keeps going out with her then sharing old memories, leaving her a surprise too a sad but necessary read!

Wednesday, 5 July 2017

The Unexpected Everything by Morgan Matson

Five years since her mum passed away from ovarian cancer, Andie is in the shadow's to her dad's congressman life despite being under investigation and not currently in the running.

When a chance meeting with a dog crosses her path with Clark, she finds her life shifting as she chances taking on a job advert with no description and becomes a dog walker for the summer, finding herself falling into it with a growing passion and growing love as Clark is one of her clients!

As relationships in her friend's lives fall apart it hits her hard and after an argument with her father he realises family must come first despite him distracting himself for so long, he can't run away from being a father yet he embraces Clark and Andie's relationship as he finds out Clark is a very successful author and a genuine nice guy maybe he can help heal the father daughter relationship too.

A great summer read, I found hard to get into but after a few chapters and perseverance, it paid off as I became immersed into Andie's life and how strong she is facing all she does with her parents, broken set life plans and trying something completely out of her comfort zone for once by chance. The dog's and the friends she makes from them show how crutial pets are in lives and how they can unknowingly help someone so much!

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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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