Welcome to Litsy!

Not my favorite book. Not much really happens. Just a story about a girl who is finding herself as a teen. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

and this book reminded me why i don‘t like sarah dessen. just immature and annoying. i also can‘t fathom how these two books are put together to make one movie since they‘re so different. ashley did remind me of someone tho….

This was a book that I received for my birthday last year and I am just now getting to it. I have a lot of Sarah Dessen books, I found that I could identify with Haven a lot!!! It was a great summer read, I am glad that I finally got around to reading this book.

It‘s cute coming of age story. Sarah dessen does it again!

To make this summer feel a little bit more like summer (the temperature is still unbearably hot...but there's a lot less of my favorite summer activities happening) I decided to dig into all of the Sarah Dessen novels I've accumulated over the years (spoiler: it's all of her books) and do a COMPLETE re-read starting from the beginning.

So Welcome to Dessen-athon Book No. 1 (and stay-at-home book No. 31): That Summer.

Haven is 15, too tall, and not ready for change but that is all what the summer brings: two marriages, her best friend's first breakup and the star model of her small town having a breakdown. And all Haven wanted was to go back to the summer where her sister was nice and her parents were together.

I actually liked this book more now than when I was a teen. It is a cute, quick coming of age story.

Sometimes things don't turn out the way you want them to. Sometimes the people you choose to believe are wrong.
--Ashley

Sometimes there isn't a good guy and a bad guy. Sometimes even the ones you want to believe turn out to be liars.
--Ashley

I resented everyone lately.

It's funny how one summer can change everything. It must be something about the heat and the smell of chlorine, fresh-cut grass and honeysuckle, asphalt sizzling after late-day thunderstorms, the steam rising while everything drips around it. Something about long, lazy days and whirring air conditioners and bright plastic flip-flops from the drugstore thwacking down the street. Something about fall being so close, another year.....

#bookgossip Article slants one way, the comments are divided, and the only thing the commenters seem to agree on is that Nicholas Sparks is pretentious.

I am boggled that so many big-name authors have weighed in on this. I've legit never heard of Dessen before this, not that I'm really knowledgeable about the YA field.

https://jezebel.com/bestselling-authors-band-together-to-dunk-on-a-college-18398...

📚 Tagged book
🎬 Beaches
🎶 Some Beach- Blake Shelton

#manicmonday @JoScho

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Quick read I just wish it was longer.

Trying to forget about the cold and rainy weather.

I did do a little walking today finally. #LitsyWalkers

#friyayintro @howjessreads
1. Read minds!
2. Tagged
3. Yes: Take JLPT N3 and Take better care of myself
4. The Great British Baking Show
5. Of course!

Another one hard to relate to, but easier to read as Haven is much less winey than Halley. I can relate to how she feels about all the changes coming so suddenly in her life and her parents divorce, but that‘s about it. I was never close to my sisters and still am not, And this felt more geared towards that than to romance, like some of her novels are. Still a nice read. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
#DessenNewYear

You guys! I just found out the library by my house does early literacy programs even for BABIES! I‘m so excited it looks like they have one almost everyday! Perfect excuse to go the library often and check out books for the both of us!
#library #librariesareawesome

Continuing my #DessenNewYear with That Summer. I can‘t quite remember my original thoughts on it, but I‘m sure I liked it since it‘s still on my shelf. And for good measure I decided to read all my paperback copies before my hard copies.
#tbr

1. 86 😁📖
2. 120 🙏🏻
3. That's a tough choice
4. Hocus pocus the sequel 🎃👻🧙🏻‍♀️

#2018checkin

This book felt like a waste for me. It follows Haven as her world is being torn apart: her father is remarrying, her sister is getting married and moving, her best friend is experiencing her first love, and even her mother is starting to pick herself up from the divorce

It talks about how naive we can be to adult issues with characters I couldn't grow to care about. Even at the end, Haven growing felt too sudden. 2/5 on Goodreads

#contemporary

#Sunglasses #AugustLibrary17

#BookSetInSummer #AugustLibrary17

I'm obsessed with Sarah Dessen books which our all #setinthesummer Love them all!
(Photo credit to google)
#SplashIntoSummerReads

Here are some books with summer in the titles. This is a rare stack of only books I have read. #summerreads #riotgrams

Boring, boring, boring.
Nothing happened for 75% of the book. If it was much longer, I'd have given up.

I said at the start of my holiday that I would get round to reading Sarah Dessen - now, with some 40 hours to go, I'm finally there!

My least favourite SD book.