anna and the french kiss by stephanie perkins

Title: Anna and the French Kiss

Author: Stephanie Perkins

Date published: December 2nd, 2010

Genre: YA Contemporary

Goodreads blurb:

Anna is looking forward to her senior year in Atlanta, where she has a great job, a loyal best friend, and a crush on the verge of becoming more. Which is why she is less than thrilled about being shipped off to boarding school in Paris--until she meets Étienne St. Clair. Smart, charming,beautiful, Étienne has it all...including a serious girlfriend. 

But in the City of Light, wishes have a way of coming true. Will a year of romantic near-misses end with their long-awaited French kiss?

Non-spoiler review:

Anna and The French Kiss is a wonderful book. I love it so much and I recommend it to every girl who loves YA Romance.

Anna's father, uptight bestselling author, is sending her to Paris. She is going to boarding school in Paris, France. And she cannot stand it. She hates it, she hates leaving Atlanta, her friends, and Toph, the super cute guy who is finally noticing her, and now she has to leave all of that.

Anna hates the idea of going, and thinks nothing good will come out of it. She couldn't be more wrong, of course. Her first night there, she meets Étienne St. Clair, a handsome guy who already has a girlfriend.

This books explores first love, friendship and how sometimes you never want things to change, you want them to stay the same.

    My personal thoughts:

This book makes me smile, so much. It took me about 2 weeks of having this book from the library to finally pick it up. I finished it within one day. I need Lola and the Boy Next Door.

    5 stars to Anna and the French Kiss.

books and friends

Books and friends. 

   Books are my friends. They have been my friends since I was ten and I began reading a lot, that was 4 and almost a half years ago. I'm not ashamed. I admit it. I admit that sometimes I will sit in my room for the whole day just to finish a book. I admit that I go crazy when I get new books. Books make me happy. They are one of my greatest shelters. Books make me forget what is going on around me. I can dive into a new persons life when I need to. 

   Books give me refuge, but the friends I have made help me also. I can't begin to tell you how blessed I am for the friends I've made through reading and being a booknerd. I met some of the best friends I will ever have through books. I'm crying now, because I think of everything they've given me, the happiness, the comfort. I wouldn't be anywhere if I didn't have them, and I wouldn't have them if I didn't read books. 

   So, basically, books and friends. Books are friends, but they also lead to making friends. All you have to do is pick up a book, read it and find a friend, or sometimes they find you (amber ilysm). 

   Will you read and make a friend today? 

maybe one day by melissa kantor

  

Title: Maybe One Day

Author: Melissa Kantor

Date published: February 18th, 2014

Genre: YA Contemporary

Goodreads blurb:

Zoe and her best friend, Olivia, have always had big plans for the future, none of which included Olivia getting sick. Still, Zoe is determined to put on a brave face and be positive for her friend.

Even when she isn't sure what to say.

Even when Olivia misses months of school.

Even when Zoe starts falling for Calvin, Olivia's crush.

The one thing that keeps Zoe moving forward is knowing that Olivia will beat this, and everything will go back to the way it was before. It has to. Because the alternative is too terrifying for her to even imagine.

Non-spoiler review:

Melissa Kantor captures the beauty of friendship, the pain of life and how to deal with the painful things in life. This book shows the emotions of having a loved one have cancer, and my goodness, it’s on point.

Zoe and Olivia are about as different as cold and hot. Zoe has always been the negative and stubborn one and Olivia has always been the happy one who loves everyone. They always dreamed of big things, like living in Manhattan together. Then something happens that no one saw coming: Olivia is diagnosed with cancer. They never pictured anything like this ever happening, until it actually does. Suddenly, everything is going downhill for Zoe, she can’t think about life without Olivia, even though it’s a possibility and the bad thing is: the whole time Olivia is in the hospital, Zoe is falling in love with Calvin Taylor, Olivia’s crush.

Every character in this book is impacted by Olivia. It challenges them to think of not having Olivia there with them.

This book will make you feel all of the emotions. I cried about 100 pages into this book, actually I cried a LOT during this book. This book is definitely not a light read, and I wouldn’t recommend it to teens that are not mature. But I loved this book from the first page to the last and I wish there was more. Melissa really captured the emotions of these topics. I think Maybe One Day is one of my favorite books. (I do not say this about every book.)