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Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances by Maureen Johnson, John Green, Lauren Myracle
3.0
I don't know how to rate this since it's three stories in one & they are incredibly short.
I say incredibly short as a compliment because I wanted more.
Definitely read them in order, although the last is the weakest, it ties everything together.
I liked Maureen Johnson's character, Stuart more than the main character. However, John Green is wonderful as always.
The politcal correctness on how to portray opinions on cheerleaders was a bit overkill, but other than that I loved it.
Good for the winter season. Easy, happy read.
I say incredibly short as a compliment because I wanted more.
Definitely read them in order, although the last is the weakest, it ties everything together.
I liked Maureen Johnson's character, Stuart more than the main character. However, John Green is wonderful as always.
The politcal correctness on how to portray opinions on cheerleaders was a bit overkill, but other than that I loved it.
Good for the winter season. Easy, happy read.
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
4.0
John Green, what's not to love?
Although I will say one of my friends made a comment about being the only person on the planet who hates John Green books because the characters are pretentious and not believable for their age (not my words). But I like that young characters have serious thoughts and philosophies about life so I read his books & love them.
This one was no exception. The footnotes are one of my favorite features and the main character is so wonderful. I like books where there's a really intelligent, almost unbelievable child (okay, he's not a child, but he's young) character. The book also fueled my word nerdery and fact building skills.
Colin was great, so was Hassan. Actually if anything, sometimes I had a hard time believing they were recent graduates from high-school, I kept picturing them even younger.
The Katherines plot premise hooked me right away and my foreign language vocabulary expanded a bit. I wouldn't say it's the best book I've ever read, but it's definitely one I'd recommend or even read again.
The only things that annoyed me were the dialogue only scenes, because they kind of broke my flow of reading a bit, and the ending where he just launches into mini descriptions of each Katherine.
I also didn't ever think I'd enjoy reading about graphs. So that was a bonus revelation :)
Although I will say one of my friends made a comment about being the only person on the planet who hates John Green books because the characters are pretentious and not believable for their age (not my words). But I like that young characters have serious thoughts and philosophies about life so I read his books & love them.
This one was no exception. The footnotes are one of my favorite features and the main character is so wonderful. I like books where there's a really intelligent, almost unbelievable child (okay, he's not a child, but he's young) character. The book also fueled my word nerdery and fact building skills.
Colin was great, so was Hassan. Actually if anything, sometimes I had a hard time believing they were recent graduates from high-school, I kept picturing them even younger.
The Katherines plot premise hooked me right away and my foreign language vocabulary expanded a bit. I wouldn't say it's the best book I've ever read, but it's definitely one I'd recommend or even read again.
The only things that annoyed me were the dialogue only scenes, because they kind of broke my flow of reading a bit, and the ending where he just launches into mini descriptions of each Katherine.
I also didn't ever think I'd enjoy reading about graphs. So that was a bonus revelation :)
Big Fish by Daniel Wallace
4.0
I loved this book so much. It was short, but it took me a while to start it.
It was so sentimental and written in a fun way. Unfortunately (or fortunately depending how you see it) I saw the movie first about a thousand times. It's one of my favorites, sparking my interest in reading the book.
The book and movie function in different ways, but still carry a same sort of hyper realistic familiar feeling.
I definitely recommend this as it doesn't take long to read, definitely worth the short time.
It was so sentimental and written in a fun way. Unfortunately (or fortunately depending how you see it) I saw the movie first about a thousand times. It's one of my favorites, sparking my interest in reading the book.
The book and movie function in different ways, but still carry a same sort of hyper realistic familiar feeling.
I definitely recommend this as it doesn't take long to read, definitely worth the short time.