QBD Great Reads: If I Stay by Gayle Forman
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Oh wow! Such an emotional story. I had similar feelings reading this story as when reading Me Before You by Jojo Moyes. I loved both stories, as both made me cry – in a good way – and I was emotionally invested in the characters. This young adult contemporary novel is about Mia, a young 17 […]
Book-A-Like: Anna and The French Kiss & Just One Day
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Get swept up in these endearing romances… Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins: Anna is happy in Atlanta. She has a loyal best friend and a crush on her co-worker at the movie theatre, who is just starting to return her affection. So she’s less than thrilled when her father decides to send […]
Book-A-Like: If I Stay & Thirteen Reasons Why
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Exquisitely sad YA stories about life and death, loss and love feature in this week’s Book-A-Like. Clay Jensen is still reeling from the death of his friend and first love, Hannah Baker, two weeks previous. When he arrives home one afternoon to a strange package on his doorstep, what he imagines is inside it is […]
The Feels Presents: ‘I Was Here’
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All. The. Feels. Cody and Meg are inseparable. They have their whole lives planned out together, filled with adventure in Seattle when they go away to college, first loves experienced side-by-side, and a long life filled with friendship. All would have gone exactly to plan, if Meg was still here. But after her shocking suicide, […]