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A review by saritaroth
My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories by Stephanie Perkins
4.0
Favorite Quote Of The Book - “'I will free you, and I will lift you. I will learn a thousand ways to make you laugh. Your smiles will be the honey in my mead, your enchantment my delight.'” ("The Girl Who Woke The Dreamer" by Laini Taylor)
This book is an assortment of twelve holiday stories written by well-known young adult novelists. Below I have included a list of the stories:
"Midnights" - Rainbow Rowell (5 stars)
"The Lady and the Fox" - Kelly Link (did not read)
"Angels in the Snow" - Matt De La Pena (did not read)
"Polaris is Where You'll Find Me" - Jenny Han (4 stars)
"It's a Yuletide Miracle, Charlie Brown" - Stephanie Perkins (5 stars)
"Your Temporary Santa" - David Levithan (5 stars)
"Krampuslauf" - Holly Black (did not read)
"What the Hell Have You Done, Sophie Roth?" - Gayle Forman (did not read)
"Beer Buckets and Baby Jesus" - Myra McEntire (did not read)
"Welcome to Christmas, CA" - Kiersten White (did not read)
"Star of Bethlehem" - Ally Carter (5 stars)
"The Girl Who Woke The Dreamer" - Laini Taylor (5 stars)
I'm going to have a hard time reviewing this work, considering it is an amalgam of assorted stories. As you can see, there were quite a few I did not read. I tried reading all of them; but, for those I did not finish reading, I only read about a couple pages and realized that they were not for me. Whether it was the subject matter or the author's tone, something just did not sit right with me and I continued to the next one until I reached one that sang to me. If you add up all the scores I assigned each story, assigning 1 star to those I could not read, and divide by the number of stories to get the average, you actually get a score of 2.9 rounded up to 3. But, since some of those 5-star stories were SO good, I actually rounded my overall score up to 4.
If I had to pick a favorite, I would choose "Star of Bethlehem." It is a really cute story about this girl, Liddy, who is at an airport over the holidays and is on her way to New York. When she overhears another girl about her age from Iceland begging to be let on the plane to New York, even though she has the wrong ticket, Liddy trades tickets with her, so that the girl from Iceland, Hulda, can go to New York. We find out later that Liddy was trying to escape her life in New York, so she was happy to go to Oklahoma in Hulda's place. She actually ends up impersonating Hulda until she is found out. And, of course, she finds love with a nice country boy along the way.
Every one of the stories I read included love as one of the main themes, which I guess makes sense, considering the title of the book. I would recommend this book, especially if you love reading about love and acceptance and the holiday spirit.
This book is an assortment of twelve holiday stories written by well-known young adult novelists. Below I have included a list of the stories:
"Midnights" - Rainbow Rowell (5 stars)
"The Lady and the Fox" - Kelly Link (did not read)
"Angels in the Snow" - Matt De La Pena (did not read)
"Polaris is Where You'll Find Me" - Jenny Han (4 stars)
"It's a Yuletide Miracle, Charlie Brown" - Stephanie Perkins (5 stars)
"Your Temporary Santa" - David Levithan (5 stars)
"Krampuslauf" - Holly Black (did not read)
"What the Hell Have You Done, Sophie Roth?" - Gayle Forman (did not read)
"Beer Buckets and Baby Jesus" - Myra McEntire (did not read)
"Welcome to Christmas, CA" - Kiersten White (did not read)
"Star of Bethlehem" - Ally Carter (5 stars)
"The Girl Who Woke The Dreamer" - Laini Taylor (5 stars)
I'm going to have a hard time reviewing this work, considering it is an amalgam of assorted stories. As you can see, there were quite a few I did not read. I tried reading all of them; but, for those I did not finish reading, I only read about a couple pages and realized that they were not for me. Whether it was the subject matter or the author's tone, something just did not sit right with me and I continued to the next one until I reached one that sang to me. If you add up all the scores I assigned each story, assigning 1 star to those I could not read, and divide by the number of stories to get the average, you actually get a score of 2.9 rounded up to 3. But, since some of those 5-star stories were SO good, I actually rounded my overall score up to 4.
If I had to pick a favorite, I would choose "Star of Bethlehem." It is a really cute story about this girl, Liddy, who is at an airport over the holidays and is on her way to New York. When she overhears another girl about her age from Iceland begging to be let on the plane to New York, even though she has the wrong ticket, Liddy trades tickets with her, so that the girl from Iceland, Hulda, can go to New York. We find out later that Liddy was trying to escape her life in New York, so she was happy to go to Oklahoma in Hulda's place. She actually ends up impersonating Hulda until she is found out. And, of course, she finds love with a nice country boy along the way.
Every one of the stories I read included love as one of the main themes, which I guess makes sense, considering the title of the book. I would recommend this book, especially if you love reading about love and acceptance and the holiday spirit.