Twelve Days of Dash and Lily by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
I fell in love with Dash and Lily in their first installment, and couldn't wait to read this one. So, even though I have another couple of books I am working on, I put them aside the other day to read this. It's a quick read, and Dash and Lily don't disappoint.
It's been a year, and Dash and Lily are still together. This year hasn't been easy. Lily's grandfather had a heart attack and fell on the stairs of his apartment. Lily has been taking care of him, and she just hasn't been herself. Everyone around her has noticed, and aren't sure what to do. Then Langston, Lily's brother, meets up with Dash to concoct a plan to get Lily into the Christmas season.
Lily, on the other hand, is feeling somewhat lost. She loves Dash, but doesn't know how he feels. She told him that she loved him, but he never responded in kind. This has her thinking that maybe he doesn't want to be with her. She couldn't be more wrong.
It takes some doing, but things work out in ways that can only work for Dash and Lily. This is one of those books to read if you love reading about people in love. My only wish is that there was another one because these are so enjoyable.
Monday, October 30, 2017
Friday, October 13, 2017
A New Green Title
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
I haven't finished a book in a month! So weird for me. It's not that I haven't read anything--I have, I just haven't finished either of the two I have been reading for the last month. I may finish them someday, and they'll end up here, but not today.
Earlier this week, I got a signed copy of the new John Green book. I have been waiting for it for months, and it was so worth the wait. And like everything I have read by John Green, it was worth my time. He writes in way that is real, whether it is about cancer, growing up, or mental illness. This one happens to be the latter, for the most part.
Aza is a teenaged girl who lives in her own head most of the time. She is convinced she is going to catch something, and worries more about bacteria and microbes than one could possibly imagine. At the beginning of the book, she is eating lunch with her friends Mychal and Daisy, and they learn that the father of an old friend of Aza's has gone missing.
Aza reconnects with this old friend, who happens to be a billionaire's son, and tries to help his little brother find their dad using clues he left. Over the course of it all, we see Aza's struggle with her inner self about the bacteria and microbes.
All of this together helps form the person that Aza is, and is well written in a way that only John Green can manage.
I haven't finished a book in a month! So weird for me. It's not that I haven't read anything--I have, I just haven't finished either of the two I have been reading for the last month. I may finish them someday, and they'll end up here, but not today.
Earlier this week, I got a signed copy of the new John Green book. I have been waiting for it for months, and it was so worth the wait. And like everything I have read by John Green, it was worth my time. He writes in way that is real, whether it is about cancer, growing up, or mental illness. This one happens to be the latter, for the most part.
Aza is a teenaged girl who lives in her own head most of the time. She is convinced she is going to catch something, and worries more about bacteria and microbes than one could possibly imagine. At the beginning of the book, she is eating lunch with her friends Mychal and Daisy, and they learn that the father of an old friend of Aza's has gone missing.
Aza reconnects with this old friend, who happens to be a billionaire's son, and tries to help his little brother find their dad using clues he left. Over the course of it all, we see Aza's struggle with her inner self about the bacteria and microbes.
All of this together helps form the person that Aza is, and is well written in a way that only John Green can manage.
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