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I downloaded this from SYNC which offers 2 FREE audiobooks each week May 15 - Aug 13, 2014. Sign up for email or text alerts that invite you to download the new titles as they become available. I got this title.
Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick
How would you spend your birthday if you knew it would be your last?
Eighteen-year-old Leonard Peacock knows exactly what he'll do. He'll say goodbye.
Not to his mum - who he calls Linda because it annoys her - who's moved out and left him to fend for himself. Nor to his former best friend, whose torments have driven him to consider committing the unthinkable. But to his four friends: a Humphrey-Bogart-obsessed neighbour, a teenage violin virtuoso, a pastor's daughter and a teacher.
Most of the time, Leonard believes he's weird and sad but these friends have made him think that maybe he's not. He wants to thank them, and say goodbye.
Bought at Bookoutlet.ca: Since I listened to the first two books in this trilogy I just had to get the third audiobook.
In the age of Love and Chocolate by Gabrielle Zevin
Still, it is Anya’s nature to soldier on. She puts the loss of Win behind her and focuses on her work. Against the odds, the nightclub becomes an enormous success, and Anya feels like she is on her way and that nothing will ever go wrong for her again. But after a terrible misjudgment leaves Anya fighting for her life, she is forced to reckon with her choices and to let people help her for the first time in her life.
In the Age of Love and Chocolate is the story of growing up and learning what love really is. It showcases the best of Gabrielle Zevin’s writing for young adults: the intricate characterization of Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac and the big-heartedness of Elsewhere. It will make you remember why you loved her writing in the first place.
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin
She wouldn’t have had to go back for the yearbook camera, and she wouldn’t have hit her head on the steps.
She wouldn’t have woken up in an ambulance with amnesia.
She certainly would have remembered her boyfriend, Ace. She might even have remembered why she fell in love with him in the first place.
She would understand why her best friend, Will, keeps calling her “Chief.” She’d get all his inside jokes, and maybe he wouldn’t be so frustrated with her for forgetting things she can’t possibly remember.
She’d know about her mom’s new family.
She’d know about her dad’s fiancée.
She wouldn’t have to spend her junior year relearning all the French she supposedly knew already.
She never would have met James, the boy with the questionable past and the even fuzzier future, who tells her he once wanted to kiss her.
She wouldn’t have wanted to kiss him back.
But Naomi picked heads.
This meme is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. This is where we keep track of what we are currently reading and plan to read. The kidlit version is hosted by Jen at Teach Mentor Texts.
Read and reviewed:
The Shamrock Case by Linda Weaver Clarke (reviewed by Sandra)
Because It Is My Blood by Gabrielle Zevin (great sequel to the first book)
Read and reviewed:
The Shamrock Case by Linda Weaver Clarke (reviewed by Sandra)
Because It Is My Blood by Gabrielle Zevin (great sequel to the first book)
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Bucket List Challenge 2014 - June Update
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Currently Reading:
Like No Other by Una LaMarche
Hope you all have a great reading week!
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