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Besar a una chica que fuma
“La vida es como una pizza”, le dijo. “Tienes varios ingredientes y muy de vez en cuando escoges una combinación que no parece ser nada agradable, pero resulta que sabe delicioso, y entonces te preguntas, ¿qué hay detrás de todo esto? ¿Cuál es la fuerza que lo guía?”.
“Eso era ridículo” pensó Biff. “La vida no era como una pizza; era como muchas otras cosas, pero no como una pizza”.
“Eso era ridículo” pensó Biff. “La vida no era como una pizza; era como muchas otras cosas, pero no como una pizza”.
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First published January 1, 1992
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Randy Powell
19 books7 followersI've lived in Seattle all my life -- since 1956. I live here now with my wife, Judy, and our two sons, Eli and Drew. I like the outdoors, books, fresh crab and raw oysters, and rain.
As a kid, I was crazy about sports. All sports. When I wasn't playing the real thing, I was playing some imaginary form of it. I wasn't a great athlete, just obsessed. I peaked when I was eleven. Our little league football team won the city championship, and the coach gave me the game ball. I lost that ball a few years later. I'm still looking for it.
I had fun reading and writing. When I found a book I liked, I threw myself into it, into the main character's skin. I'd try to write in the author's style. Writing was hard work, but what a rush it gave me, coming up with the right phrase, finishing a piece and feeling it click, reading it to the class and getting some laughs.
In high school, in the early 1970s, my hero was Arthur Ashe, the tennis pro. I concentrated on tennis and worked hard at it, but not hard enough. Today it's still my game of choice, and I still don't work hard enough.
High school is also where I became serious about writing. I became even more so in college, at the University of Washington. I made two trips to Europe, worked summers in Alaska as a deckhand on a fishing boat, and wrote short stories, novels, and even formula romances.
After college, I got a job teaching at an alternative school for junior high and high school dropouts. I taught for four years and loved it, but finally left because it ate up my writing time.
My breakthrough in writing came when I learned to look inside myself and write about the things I cared and felt deeply about. I guess it was only natural that my first published novel, "My Underrated Year", should be about a high school football and tennis player. Yes, there's a lot of myself in that book, although hardly any of the incidents actually happened. That's true of my other books as well.
I enjoy visiting schools and talking to students about writing. I also love hearing from readers. You can write to me in care of my publisher, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. I promise I'll write back!
As a kid, I was crazy about sports. All sports. When I wasn't playing the real thing, I was playing some imaginary form of it. I wasn't a great athlete, just obsessed. I peaked when I was eleven. Our little league football team won the city championship, and the coach gave me the game ball. I lost that ball a few years later. I'm still looking for it.
I had fun reading and writing. When I found a book I liked, I threw myself into it, into the main character's skin. I'd try to write in the author's style. Writing was hard work, but what a rush it gave me, coming up with the right phrase, finishing a piece and feeling it click, reading it to the class and getting some laughs.
In high school, in the early 1970s, my hero was Arthur Ashe, the tennis pro. I concentrated on tennis and worked hard at it, but not hard enough. Today it's still my game of choice, and I still don't work hard enough.
High school is also where I became serious about writing. I became even more so in college, at the University of Washington. I made two trips to Europe, worked summers in Alaska as a deckhand on a fishing boat, and wrote short stories, novels, and even formula romances.
After college, I got a job teaching at an alternative school for junior high and high school dropouts. I taught for four years and loved it, but finally left because it ate up my writing time.
My breakthrough in writing came when I learned to look inside myself and write about the things I cared and felt deeply about. I guess it was only natural that my first published novel, "My Underrated Year", should be about a high school football and tennis player. Yes, there's a lot of myself in that book, although hardly any of the incidents actually happened. That's true of my other books as well.
I enjoy visiting schools and talking to students about writing. I also love hearing from readers. You can write to me in care of my publisher, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. I promise I'll write back!
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January 18, 2010
Let us work backwards:
Today I finished this book while on the bus on the way back to school form my off-campus class. The very, very last page was simply love and beauty in words. Also, "cute". "Ashley" by The Dodos came on my MP3 player and the last few sentences made me smile and I sighed. The rest of the bus ride was me slumped in my seat holding the book to my heart, smiling out the window and watching the world go by.
Yesterday, I read a crapload of this book while listening to four enitre CDs, two of which were Radiohead. Stopping was sucky because I had to go downstairs and let my family know I hadn't killed my self or anything, being up stairs and quiet for so long. (I'm not much of a napper.)
The day before that, I read as much as I could, which was hardly anything at all because I was out to a band competition. The day was gone.
The day before that was taken up by school and stress. I could not seem to take my mind off the fact that my book was sitting alone in my backpack awaiting my hands to violate it in the more pleasant ways, if that is even possible.
Don't ask.
The day before that was the day I checked the book out at the library. I read chapter one that day and was dying for more, but I had to fall asleep at some point that night. It was late enough already.
This book wasn't as exciting as most. It wasn't thrilling and full of gripping suspense or mushy romance. It was just quirky and I could completely understand what Biff (what an awful name, by the way) was talking about throughout. I wanted him to go be with Tommie because he loved her from afar and I get that, but as predictable as the ending... I won't say, but it was sweet and I'm rather glad for his decision.
And anyway, a couple summers ago, I did see this book at the library still and I wanted to get it, but I declined because I thought the mouth was incredibly ugly on the cover and I had this weird paranoia that my parents would be suspicious that I smoked ciggies. Which I didn't and don't. SO I held off and last Thursday I thought, "What the hell" and got it.
Please read this book in a sleepy, quiet, awkward, shy, and loving mindset. Only then can you really understand.
Today I finished this book while on the bus on the way back to school form my off-campus class. The very, very last page was simply love and beauty in words. Also, "cute". "Ashley" by The Dodos came on my MP3 player and the last few sentences made me smile and I sighed. The rest of the bus ride was me slumped in my seat holding the book to my heart, smiling out the window and watching the world go by.
Yesterday, I read a crapload of this book while listening to four enitre CDs, two of which were Radiohead. Stopping was sucky because I had to go downstairs and let my family know I hadn't killed my self or anything, being up stairs and quiet for so long. (I'm not much of a napper.)
The day before that, I read as much as I could, which was hardly anything at all because I was out to a band competition. The day was gone.
The day before that was taken up by school and stress. I could not seem to take my mind off the fact that my book was sitting alone in my backpack awaiting my hands to violate it in the more pleasant ways, if that is even possible.
Don't ask.
The day before that was the day I checked the book out at the library. I read chapter one that day and was dying for more, but I had to fall asleep at some point that night. It was late enough already.
This book wasn't as exciting as most. It wasn't thrilling and full of gripping suspense or mushy romance. It was just quirky and I could completely understand what Biff (what an awful name, by the way) was talking about throughout. I wanted him to go be with Tommie because he loved her from afar and I get that, but as predictable as the ending... I won't say, but it was sweet and I'm rather glad for his decision.
And anyway, a couple summers ago, I did see this book at the library still and I wanted to get it, but I declined because I thought the mouth was incredibly ugly on the cover and I had this weird paranoia that my parents would be suspicious that I smoked ciggies. Which I didn't and don't. SO I held off and last Thursday I thought, "What the hell" and got it.
Please read this book in a sleepy, quiet, awkward, shy, and loving mindset. Only then can you really understand.
June 19, 2021
I remember being intrigued by this book when I was maybe eleven or something, because there was a beautiful girl on the cover who was maybe sixteen, set beneath peach tones. It was too pretty a cover for the story underneath, and the edition I read as an adult was on a white background with loud font and a pair of oversized, made-up lips. This is a book from the POV of an immature, entitled eighteen-year-old who can't read social cues and makes strange decisions in accordance to the cues he can't read. The first chapter of the book is dedicated to his stalking of a girl he's had a crush on for nearly two years, Tommie. I looked up the name and it's an Aramaic word for "twin," when it's a girl's name. Tommie is not mentioned to have a twin, in the book, so the naming convention comes off as a little odd. The book does mention Biff's name and tries to be all cute, and the same with Heidi's. It's not cute; it's just boring. Biff makes up a poem with backwards letters about Tommie, and it's barf-worthy. Apologies to poets who use that device more successfully, if that is a technique used in poetry circles.
Nothing about Heidi is wild. She's just annoying. Aside from his crush on Tommie, about which he has done nothing for two years--he has barely even spoken to her but stalks her plenty--he is obsessed with a hike he plans to take so he can think about her some more. He doesn't go on the hike and dude, you think about her all the time. You don't need to traipse into the wilderness alone to do it, and this is even noted in the book! Plot contrivance leads him to meet Heidi. I mean, COME ON. Had this been a better book, I would not see it as plot contrivance. This is not that. Biff hasn't done anything about his crush on Tommie due to severe shyness and lack of social skills. This wouldn't bother me so much if it weren't paired with stalking behavior, with him planning to do more. He is so creepy. And Heidi gets in on it! They're both disgusting. Stalking is not cute. It is not a joke.
This book takes place in Washington State, and the author of this book is one of the ones who has to splash the names of every Seattle neighborhood that exists onto the pages, with multiple ones in each paragraph. He changes it up by heaving names of towns in Eastern Washington over a few pages. Heidi is from Spokane, which in the 90s was a small town without meth problems. Now, it is still a small town, and it has meth problems. Circling back to the topic of Seattle neighborhoods, the cafe mentioned on page 55 of the edition I read, is real. I live near it. The omlette they're talking about is made with a dozen eggs. People take home leftovers that last them a week. It's nice that the book takes place in Washington State; it's not frequent that books are. I'll have to find more. There is no mention of grunge, Seattle 90s fashion, or societal events that informed the 90s. How lackluster. Biff's best friend, Ray Hu, is mentioned constantly by full name. Why? To...show he's of East Asian descent? Why would you refer to your own best friend by full name? The author is--why? Readers never meet Ray Hu and nothing else is mentioned about him, just his name. No memories of friendship, no plans to meet Heidi, no mention of what Ray thinks of Tommie, or whether he gets along with Biff's sister. Nothing.
When Biff's sister mouths "it's a girl" before handing Biff the phone, the way her actions are described made me think she was pushing her lips out from her face as much as possible like an angry chimpanzee. This author makes strange writing choices. Biff briefly thinks of driving the car into the lake since Heidi keeps smoking in it. RUN, HEIDI, RUN. THIS GUY IS A FUCKING WEIRDO WITH A SHORT FUSE. He okay with their deaths because she's -smoking-. Because his lack of social skills cannot ask her to open the window wider, or to tell her to put the cigarette out and go for twenty minutes without smoking, which she has demonstrated she can do. WHAT AN ASSHOLE. MURDEROUS PERSON. The story takes place over three or four days and it's annoying. Lynn is a drunk, and a creepy uncle towards Heidi. Biff's sister, Willa, is willing to have Heidi move in after Biff has known her two days, and Willa has never met her. WHAT? Also, uh, I think I found out where some of Biff's behaviors and views come from. UGH.
Biff looks and acts fourteen, or much younger at times. Why did the author choose to make him eighteen? All I can think of would be that it's so he can buy Heidi cigarettes that one time. She is fifteen. Biff is barely able to tell Tomasa he likes her at the end of the book, and then he kisses Heidi, ostenstibly goodbye. What a weird and boring choice and book! The characters are so flat and stale, and I hated this book. I have no idea what the author was going for. I fell asleep for a few hours reading this, and was cranky until I read a much better book a few hours later. At least this was a quick read, but ugh and ew.
Nothing about Heidi is wild. She's just annoying. Aside from his crush on Tommie, about which he has done nothing for two years--he has barely even spoken to her but stalks her plenty--he is obsessed with a hike he plans to take so he can think about her some more. He doesn't go on the hike and dude, you think about her all the time. You don't need to traipse into the wilderness alone to do it, and this is even noted in the book! Plot contrivance leads him to meet Heidi. I mean, COME ON. Had this been a better book, I would not see it as plot contrivance. This is not that. Biff hasn't done anything about his crush on Tommie due to severe shyness and lack of social skills. This wouldn't bother me so much if it weren't paired with stalking behavior, with him planning to do more. He is so creepy. And Heidi gets in on it! They're both disgusting. Stalking is not cute. It is not a joke.
This book takes place in Washington State, and the author of this book is one of the ones who has to splash the names of every Seattle neighborhood that exists onto the pages, with multiple ones in each paragraph. He changes it up by heaving names of towns in Eastern Washington over a few pages. Heidi is from Spokane, which in the 90s was a small town without meth problems. Now, it is still a small town, and it has meth problems. Circling back to the topic of Seattle neighborhoods, the cafe mentioned on page 55 of the edition I read, is real. I live near it. The omlette they're talking about is made with a dozen eggs. People take home leftovers that last them a week. It's nice that the book takes place in Washington State; it's not frequent that books are. I'll have to find more. There is no mention of grunge, Seattle 90s fashion, or societal events that informed the 90s. How lackluster. Biff's best friend, Ray Hu, is mentioned constantly by full name. Why? To...show he's of East Asian descent? Why would you refer to your own best friend by full name? The author is--why? Readers never meet Ray Hu and nothing else is mentioned about him, just his name. No memories of friendship, no plans to meet Heidi, no mention of what Ray thinks of Tommie, or whether he gets along with Biff's sister. Nothing.
When Biff's sister mouths "it's a girl" before handing Biff the phone, the way her actions are described made me think she was pushing her lips out from her face as much as possible like an angry chimpanzee. This author makes strange writing choices. Biff briefly thinks of driving the car into the lake since Heidi keeps smoking in it. RUN, HEIDI, RUN. THIS GUY IS A FUCKING WEIRDO WITH A SHORT FUSE. He okay with their deaths because she's -smoking-. Because his lack of social skills cannot ask her to open the window wider, or to tell her to put the cigarette out and go for twenty minutes without smoking, which she has demonstrated she can do. WHAT AN ASSHOLE. MURDEROUS PERSON. The story takes place over three or four days and it's annoying. Lynn is a drunk, and a creepy uncle towards Heidi. Biff's sister, Willa, is willing to have Heidi move in after Biff has known her two days, and Willa has never met her. WHAT? Also, uh, I think I found out where some of Biff's behaviors and views come from. UGH.
Biff looks and acts fourteen, or much younger at times. Why did the author choose to make him eighteen? All I can think of would be that it's so he can buy Heidi cigarettes that one time. She is fifteen. Biff is barely able to tell Tomasa he likes her at the end of the book, and then he kisses Heidi, ostenstibly goodbye. What a weird and boring choice and book! The characters are so flat and stale, and I hated this book. I have no idea what the author was going for. I fell asleep for a few hours reading this, and was cranky until I read a much better book a few hours later. At least this was a quick read, but ugh and ew.
September 24, 2022
I will have to say this book was absolutely cute. It had a small slow start in the beginning but even though it was a slow start I really fell in love with Biff and Heidi and the relationship that they were kind of developing with the back and forth in the beginning. But literally reading all those moments where he slowly but surely started falling in love with her; that was absolutely heartwarming and I don't even like romance books. Or like books that are cute and like soft and like here let me talk to you about a guy who's falling in love with the girl or vice versa. But either way this was a very well written book I loved it I love the moments of him realizing that he loved her or just liked her and wanted to be with her and I love how they both showed their education and how intelligent they were in the conversations that they had with each other but also how different they were.
October 11, 2018
The book Is Kissing a Girl Who Smokes Like Licking an Ashtray? caught my attention because of the name. It is a very interesting book that has a good story to it. When I first started the book I thought Biff couldn't decide between two girls. Heidi a girl in the story helps Biff talk to a girl who he liked for 23 months. Heidi is living with her aunt for a while because she got suspended from school for about 2/3 mounts. BIff gets what he wants and so does Tommie the girl he likes.
January 27, 2020
Al principio creí que no me gustaría puesto que la trama se estaba desarrollando demasiado rápido, y los personajes en un punto me empezaron a desesperar porque parecían ser demasiado impotentes por cosas muy tontas, pero finalmente pude conectar con ellos y me gustó el final, me parece que es muy simple pero adecuado
October 21, 2020
This book was very interesting to me. I usually don’t read for romance but this book kept me turning the pages very late into the night. I read this book while I was on vacation and I finished it in two days. Its a pretty short book and the chapters are a good length so I really enjoyed reading it.
February 19, 2025
I really loved this book. I think it capture how it feels to be a teenager; feeling too nervous to talk to someone you like, making new, unexpected friends, and staying out till 2am. Biff is such a lovable character, and is so relatable. I loved the slow pace, as it allowed me to get to know the characters. I’m so glad I had the chance to read this book… would definitely recommend!
December 4, 2022
Mi novio me regaló este libro cuando recién estábamos conociéndonos. Fue un detalle muy lindo, que me llegó directo al corazón.
Ame cada parte de este libro, ame a los personajes y la manera en la que evolucionaron a medida que avanzaba la trama.
Ame cada parte de este libro, ame a los personajes y la manera en la que evolucionaron a medida que avanzaba la trama.
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September 10, 2019This books is one of my new favorite and if you didn't know I have WAY to mahy favorites:)
August 10, 2020
He leído este libro muchas veces, siempre lo encuentro tan original y entretenido. Me encanta.
March 21, 2023
Best teenage book ever! I read it, for sixth time, in Seattle and it was amazing🤍
February 27, 2025
This was the first ever romance book i read, its cute. Would recomend.
March 24, 2025
I do wish there was a bit more kissing
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May 21, 2024
Un libro juvenil perfecto para leer en una tarde.
April 14, 2016
While I normally do some kind of research on the books I buy, this was an exception.
I found this book in this very cheap bookstore called "The Last Bookstore" when I was in LA. I bought it for a dollar. yeah.
The cover was what first drew my eye, of course. The title. I read the description on the back and the first page and bought it (together with 5 other books ;))
I found this book very pleasant. Characters were well integrated to the story. It had a good flow.
What I liked the most about the book was that it was a perfectly plausible story. I felt identified several times with Biff and Heidi and even Willa.
I like that you can't describe what happens in this book. If I'm going to recommend it to someone (and I will) I couldn't possibly describe what it is about. I think this is because it gives you that feeling that you are being a witness of what the story narrates. There's not a particular event happening, it feels like you are following Biff's everyday. It's fresh and interesting.
Everything happens and nothing happens. Kind of like "Criss Cross" by Lynne Rae Perkins, but in a minor degree (because that book was like a collection of beautifully narrated moments).
(SPOILER ALERT:)
Things I liked very much:
*How Biff and Heidi looked up words in the dictionary to use them correctly.
*How they both read so much
*How Biff lent "The Great Gatsby" By Scott Fitzgerlad
*Biff and Heidi's family problems because it gave depth to the story.
*I liked that Tommie was present throughout the whole book but only coming into the story in the last chapters.
*Biff's and Heidi's sincerity with each other. They simpleness or their dialogue and how meaningful it all was.
*The camel joke :D
*I liked that Heidi left him in the pizza place. I can understand that she might have connected Biff's addiction to pinball to his father's wandering off to get high. It's completely understandable. And I liked that Biff was able to see past his anger.
I know there are a lot of other things I liked but I'm at work now and I can't recall all of them now.
I found this book in this very cheap bookstore called "The Last Bookstore" when I was in LA. I bought it for a dollar. yeah.
The cover was what first drew my eye, of course. The title. I read the description on the back and the first page and bought it (together with 5 other books ;))
I found this book very pleasant. Characters were well integrated to the story. It had a good flow.
What I liked the most about the book was that it was a perfectly plausible story. I felt identified several times with Biff and Heidi and even Willa.
I like that you can't describe what happens in this book. If I'm going to recommend it to someone (and I will) I couldn't possibly describe what it is about. I think this is because it gives you that feeling that you are being a witness of what the story narrates. There's not a particular event happening, it feels like you are following Biff's everyday. It's fresh and interesting.
Everything happens and nothing happens. Kind of like "Criss Cross" by Lynne Rae Perkins, but in a minor degree (because that book was like a collection of beautifully narrated moments).
(SPOILER ALERT:)
Things I liked very much:
*How Biff and Heidi looked up words in the dictionary to use them correctly.
*How they both read so much
*How Biff lent "The Great Gatsby" By Scott Fitzgerlad
*Biff and Heidi's family problems because it gave depth to the story.
*I liked that Tommie was present throughout the whole book but only coming into the story in the last chapters.
*Biff's and Heidi's sincerity with each other. They simpleness or their dialogue and how meaningful it all was.
*The camel joke :D
*I liked that Heidi left him in the pizza place. I can understand that she might have connected Biff's addiction to pinball to his father's wandering off to get high. It's completely understandable. And I liked that Biff was able to see past his anger.
I know there are a lot of other things I liked but I'm at work now and I can't recall all of them now.
March 5, 2014
I was joking around in the library with my friends, when we spotted this book. My two friends started to make fun of it's atrociously long title, weird cover (differently than on this page), and it's stalkerish first chapter. I, however, was interested in it and checked it out. Even though this microscopic book was able to fit in my jacket pocket, it was quite the bundle of fun.
The writing was really good. This book had yellow pages, so I didn't set the bar very high. But the narrators tone is conversational, but not monotonous. His tone was great, as was the pace. There were many cute lines that I enjoyed.
If you like a nice, slow love story, this book is phenomenal. Not slow as in the love story starts halfway into it, but slow as in realistic. The narrator is a extremely shy wall flower, and the girl is ambitious, but still quirky. The writer does a good job of splaying out. It's hard to believe this happened over the course of four days (really eight because these people apparently can stay up all night, every night).
This book took place in the 90's, particularly 1992. I wasn't alive then, so I had a few problems understanding what was happening sometimes. Like knee high socks. Knee high socks? As fashion? I might look like an uncultured, young, idiot, and I probably am. But knee high socks?
The only thing I had a problem with was the ending. Some people are saying it is beautiful and well spoken. And I agree halfheartedly. In retrospect, yes, the ending was philosophical and pretty, but not what I really wanted as a reader. The ending was unclimactic and unsatisfying. The book just kind of went plop.
The writing was really good. This book had yellow pages, so I didn't set the bar very high. But the narrators tone is conversational, but not monotonous. His tone was great, as was the pace. There were many cute lines that I enjoyed.
If you like a nice, slow love story, this book is phenomenal. Not slow as in the love story starts halfway into it, but slow as in realistic. The narrator is a extremely shy wall flower, and the girl is ambitious, but still quirky. The writer does a good job of splaying out. It's hard to believe this happened over the course of four days (really eight because these people apparently can stay up all night, every night).
This book took place in the 90's, particularly 1992. I wasn't alive then, so I had a few problems understanding what was happening sometimes. Like knee high socks. Knee high socks? As fashion? I might look like an uncultured, young, idiot, and I probably am. But knee high socks?
The only thing I had a problem with was the ending. Some people are saying it is beautiful and well spoken. And I agree halfheartedly. In retrospect, yes, the ending was philosophical and pretty, but not what I really wanted as a reader. The ending was unclimactic and unsatisfying. The book just kind of went plop.
April 15, 2010
Okay I don’t really know how to describe this book, it’s weird and it has a lot of unanswered questions. I don’t think Heidi should have gone back and I want to know what was with Tommie calling but he wound up not going to the rehearsal thing with her. The one thing that really creped me out though was the part when they were tickling each other or whatever and he said it usually goes with the tickling and then the passionate kiss then you carry them into the bedroom and rip their clothes off. Well then he said the picking up and carrying part I can manage, even the ripping the clothes off but the passionate kiss, that’s going to be hard. That creped me out because he was 18 and she wasn’t even 16 and he was talking about ripping her clothes off, that just creped me out a little but other than that it was a good book but not memorable.
April 29, 2016
The story of an awkward boy and a wild girl. He's calm. She's wild. He likes routine. She likes spontaneity. He thought he had a plan. She lives life second by second. They meet. They spend time together. And somehow, he falls for her. And her for him. The perfectly imperfect story of two completely different people living completely different lives and finding comfort in each other amidst the chaos of change.
Well written and an effortless read. I flew through the pages. And then re-read it. I read it so often that I used to carry it with me wherever I went. By far one of my favorite coming of age books. Easily earning 5 stars in my book.
Well written and an effortless read. I flew through the pages. And then re-read it. I read it so often that I used to carry it with me wherever I went. By far one of my favorite coming of age books. Easily earning 5 stars in my book.
November 24, 2013
I got this book in a group I have to read for a literary competition, and I was the most excited about reading it. It got slow in the middle but I'm in a major book coma now. I found that if Biff and Heidi weren't discussing Tommie I completely forgot about her. Going into the book I was hoping that Biff and Tommie would end up together, but the more Heidi was around the more I wanted her and Biff together. I was completely shocked at the end when Tommie called and Heidi said no to moving in I really wanted her to stay and I now hope that Biff and Tommie don't end up together.
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July 2, 2015
¿Porque sera que los últimos libros que leo se quedan inconclusos?
Primer libro de RP que leo y debo decir que me gusto su manera de escribir y describir a los personajes, me confundió un montón los nombres de las/os tíos ¡IDK!, no sabia si eran de ella o de el, eso se me torno confuso pero lo demás estuvo ¡Genial!
Le doy 4 stars porque me dejo inconclusa con su final, no se que pasará con muchos personajes. Pero si debo decir que aunque no dijo que iba a pasar mas allá de la decisión que escogió, que fue la mas acertada y mas porque esta en categoría infantil; es un buen ejemplo.
Primer libro de RP que leo y debo decir que me gusto su manera de escribir y describir a los personajes, me confundió un montón los nombres de las/os tíos ¡IDK!, no sabia si eran de ella o de el, eso se me torno confuso pero lo demás estuvo ¡Genial!
Le doy 4 stars porque me dejo inconclusa con su final, no se que pasará con muchos personajes. Pero si debo decir que aunque no dijo que iba a pasar mas allá de la decisión que escogió, que fue la mas acertada y mas porque esta en categoría infantil; es un buen ejemplo.
March 25, 2025
I really put some thought into this. Should I put 1 star? 2? Maybe even 3? I don't know if it is because I couldn't get over an 18-year old having one 14-year-old friend and ending up with a 15-year-old, if it is because I have outgrown this type of young adult novel, or if it was my lack of connection to Biff and Heidi as characters until maybe the last 10 pages.
I have had this book for probably a decade and finally got around to reading it and, while I am glad I can now move on to the next book, I can't say I would actually recommend this.
I have had this book for probably a decade and finally got around to reading it and, while I am glad I can now move on to the next book, I can't say I would actually recommend this.
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November 12, 2008
I love this books and am so thankful that Randy wrote it. Randy is one of the most overlooked authors in the YA litosphere. He deserved lots of shiny stickers and I don't see any on his books. This is a messed up situtation. Great characters, so real you want to go and sit down with them and have a talk.
June 1, 2010
I like how this book portrays a 15 year old girl from a different character's perspective in which we can see the different characters thoughts on a high school girl. you can sort of connect and inference at the same time which was pretty interesting. You can experience two characters at once as well.
May 25, 2012
The title was the cutest thing I had seen that that day I bought the book. I suddenly felt some sort of connection between us the moment I saw it. Maybe it was because I was a smoker and a hopeless romantic. I wasn't really sure about this idea and if the book was literally about a girl who smoked and whom the guy fell for. Got to read it to find out.
July 12, 2009
Biff is all of us. Inside or outside we all have insecurities and fantasies and needs. And let's face it: We're all a little strange. Well, written you fall in love with the charcters and it will stay with you after you're done.
July 8, 2007
good story, likeable character. and the answer is no.
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October 22, 2012Cute love story. A happy book!
July 15, 2008
Seattle was a cool place...in the 90's...
January 10, 2009
Nice quick read about a girl who is troubled and comes to live with her aunt in Seattle. A typical boy meets girl romance.
April 21, 2009
This is a great book. I like the way the story is told. This is a very interesting book. it has like 120 pages or more.
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