Posts Tagged ‘Love

27
Mar
09

Paper Towns by John Green

paper-townsQuentin Jacobson (Q to his friends) has lived next to the beautiful, energetic, and mysterious Margo Roth-Speigelman all his life.  When the were children they were best friends until junior high when they drifted apart (Margo is a cool kid and Q, tragically, is not).  So Q is very surprised when Margo shows up at midnight at his bedroom window dressed in all black with her face blacked out.   That night they embark on an 11 step night of revenge.  The next Margo ends up missing.  Her disappearing is not unusual, but the clues she left for Q to follow are.   Q takes it upon himself to follow Margo on her journey, but what he discovers along away may not be what he hoped to find.

John Green has proven himself an excellent writer.  His fiction is funny, smart, and observant.  However, if he writes one more novel about a obssessed boy and uniquely damaged girl that is a mystery to be figured out, I will scream.  Paper Towns could have been more aptly titled Looking for Alaska 3.  It could be that most people don’t care if he writes the same book over and over (I mean I love CSI but it is the same episode with differently named charactors every time and I don’t mind that).

09
Mar
09

D.N.Angel by Yukiru Sugisaki

dn_angel_vol1 Daisuke Niwa is your typical 14 year-old-boy… except whenever he sees or thinks about his crush, Risa Harada, he turns into the infamous phantom thief Dark Mousy.  As if that wasn’t hard enough on Daisuke,  a student at the same school, Satoshi Hiwatari is also member of the Hikari family, a clan of artists which has opposed the Niwa family of thieves for centuries.  Others in the cast of characters include the Harada twins, as well as the Commander of the police force who is heading the investigation on Dark.

The popular manga has been turned into an Anime, video game, dramatic CDs and a radio program in Japan.  Eleven of thirteen volumes have been published in US.

14
Jan
09

Love and Peaches by Jodi Lynn Anderson

love-and-peachesWhen Murphy chose New York City, she left her first love behind. Now, a summer in Bridgewater means trading subway trains for pickup trucks and facing the boy she turned her back on.

Leeda expects her trip home to be over faster than her new Manhattan boyfriend can hail a cab—until a surprising inheritance saddles her with a huge responsibility.

Birdie’s heart led her all the way to Mexico, and heartbreak brings her back to the orchard. But when the Darlington family decides to leave peach trees for palm trees, Birdie gets a crash course in letting go—and learning when to hold on.

Together for another juicy summer, carefree Murphy, perfect Leeda, and big-hearted Birdie return to the place that allowed them to bloom. Brimming with all the charm, humor, and heart of Peaches and The Secrets of Peaches, this satisfying conclusion to the series reunites three unlikely best friends for a final sweet farewell.




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