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Principles of Love #7
Lessons in Love
During fall term of her senior year at Hadley Hall, Love Bukowski faces myriad challenges, including boyfriend issues, choices about college, her long-lost mother and sister's return, and the loss of her private journals.
272 pages, Paperback
First published March 4, 2008
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Emily Franklin
36 books142 followersGrowing up, Emily Franklin wanted to be “a singing, tap-dancing doctor who writes books.”
Having learned early on that she has little to no dancing ability, she left the tap world behind, studied at Oxford University, and received an undergraduate degree concentrating in writing and neuroscience from Sarah Lawrence College. Though she gave serious thought to a career in medicine, eventually that career followed her dancing dreams.
After extensive travel, some “character-building” relationships, and a stint as a chef, Emily went back to school at Dartmouth where she skied (or fished, depending on the season) daily, wrote a few screenplays, and earned her Master’s Degree in writing and media studies.
While editing medical texts and dreaming about writing a novel, Emily went to Martha’s Vineyard on a whim and met her future husband who is, of course, a doctor. And a pianist. He plays. They sing. They get married. He finishes medical school, they have a child, she writes a novel. Emily’s dreams are realized. She writes books.
Emily Franklin is the author of two adult novels, The Girls' Almanac and Liner Notes and more than a dozen books for young adults including the critically-acclaimed seven book fiction series for teens, The Principles of Love. Other young adult books include The Other Half of Me the Chalet Girls series, and At Face Value, a retelling of Cyrano de Bergerac (coming in September 2008).
She edited the anthologies It's a Wonderful Lie: 26 Truths about Life in Your Twenties and How to Spell Chanukah: 18 Writers Celebrate 8 Nights of Lights. She is co-editor of Before: Short Stories about Pregnancy from Our Top Writers.
Her book of essays and recipes, Too Many Cooks: Kitchen Adventures with 1 Mom, 4 Kids, 102 New Recipes ~ A Memoir of Tasting, Testing, and Discovery in the Kitchen will be published by Hyperion.
Emily’s work has appeared in The Boston Globe and the Mississippi Review as well as in many anthologies including Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes, When I Was a Loser: True Stories of (Barely) Surviving High School by Today's Top Writers, and Because I Love Her: 34 Women Writers on the Mother-Daughter Bond. Emily writes regularly about food and parenting for national magazines and newspapers. She travels, teaches writing seminars, and speaks on panels, but does not tap dance. Emily Franklin lives outside of Boston with her husband and their four young children.
Having learned early on that she has little to no dancing ability, she left the tap world behind, studied at Oxford University, and received an undergraduate degree concentrating in writing and neuroscience from Sarah Lawrence College. Though she gave serious thought to a career in medicine, eventually that career followed her dancing dreams.
After extensive travel, some “character-building” relationships, and a stint as a chef, Emily went back to school at Dartmouth where she skied (or fished, depending on the season) daily, wrote a few screenplays, and earned her Master’s Degree in writing and media studies.
While editing medical texts and dreaming about writing a novel, Emily went to Martha’s Vineyard on a whim and met her future husband who is, of course, a doctor. And a pianist. He plays. They sing. They get married. He finishes medical school, they have a child, she writes a novel. Emily’s dreams are realized. She writes books.
Emily Franklin is the author of two adult novels, The Girls' Almanac and Liner Notes and more than a dozen books for young adults including the critically-acclaimed seven book fiction series for teens, The Principles of Love. Other young adult books include The Other Half of Me the Chalet Girls series, and At Face Value, a retelling of Cyrano de Bergerac (coming in September 2008).
She edited the anthologies It's a Wonderful Lie: 26 Truths about Life in Your Twenties and How to Spell Chanukah: 18 Writers Celebrate 8 Nights of Lights. She is co-editor of Before: Short Stories about Pregnancy from Our Top Writers.
Her book of essays and recipes, Too Many Cooks: Kitchen Adventures with 1 Mom, 4 Kids, 102 New Recipes ~ A Memoir of Tasting, Testing, and Discovery in the Kitchen will be published by Hyperion.
Emily’s work has appeared in The Boston Globe and the Mississippi Review as well as in many anthologies including Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes, When I Was a Loser: True Stories of (Barely) Surviving High School by Today's Top Writers, and Because I Love Her: 34 Women Writers on the Mother-Daughter Bond. Emily writes regularly about food and parenting for national magazines and newspapers. She travels, teaches writing seminars, and speaks on panels, but does not tap dance. Emily Franklin lives outside of Boston with her husband and their four young children.
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November 10, 2012
Reviewed by Jennifer Rummel for TeensReadToo.com
Love's just about to start her senior year. She's feeling nostalgic and thinking deeply of all the last firsts passing her by. Love's also trying to cope with dorm life after living with her father.
Love's focused on her writing and wonders if she's got what it takes to be a writer. She's dying to get into a super-exclusive writing class, but first she has to write a short story that will change the professor's mind.
Now that Love's found her family and is sorting out those relationships, she's starting to focus on her love life. LESSONS IN LOVE forces Love to ask herself questions about her relationship with Charlie and also her feelings for Jacob. In asking so many questions, Love forgets to live in the moment, especially as it's not the moment she's imagined.
Emily Franklin writes another thought-provoking episode in the saga of Love.
Love's just about to start her senior year. She's feeling nostalgic and thinking deeply of all the last firsts passing her by. Love's also trying to cope with dorm life after living with her father.
Love's focused on her writing and wonders if she's got what it takes to be a writer. She's dying to get into a super-exclusive writing class, but first she has to write a short story that will change the professor's mind.
Now that Love's found her family and is sorting out those relationships, she's starting to focus on her love life. LESSONS IN LOVE forces Love to ask herself questions about her relationship with Charlie and also her feelings for Jacob. In asking so many questions, Love forgets to live in the moment, especially as it's not the moment she's imagined.
Emily Franklin writes another thought-provoking episode in the saga of Love.
February 28, 2009
Well this book was really somewhat confusing atsomeparts but over all I loved it because ive been with this series for about two years or more and the ending was amazing though kind of messed up and completely out of the blue. I did the horrible thing which I do with books I read the end about 2 chapters in. I knew what was going to happen the whole time but I still enjoyed it. Its sad to see the series end but IT was a sigh of relief at the same time. All in all I recommend this to people who like romance. but its more than that its about figuring out your life and all that good stuff. Plus the main character wants to be a writer so that was exciting. Its a good series read it lol
June 14, 2011
Love is out of Hadley Hall and ready for freshmen year collage and she is stuck sharing a dorm with Lindsay, which whom Love hates because Lindsay want to be head monitor. The boyfriend she got last summer, Charlie has left for collage and Jacob, Love's ex, never talks to her. Now her mother has found a job for her in NYC and there in a newspaper is her boyfriend Charlie and another girl. Love wants to get to the bottom of this so read the book to find out the secret, Charlie has been hiding.
April 12, 2008
This is the 7th book in a YA series that I read. I have to re-read the entire series whenever another one comes out. I haven't always been this forgettable...just since I started grad school.
I recently re-read the entire series. I think this is perhaps the final one. Or at least for now. Normally it at least gives you the title of the next ones. This one doesn't. It didn't work out quite how I expected but it was still pretty good.
I recently re-read the entire series. I think this is perhaps the final one. Or at least for now. Normally it at least gives you the title of the next ones. This one doesn't. It didn't work out quite how I expected but it was still pretty good.
April 10, 2010
i put off reading this series for so long but when i started it, i just couldn't stop. there's something about love bukowski that draws you in, makes you want to get to know her, makes you want to BE her. this book was the perfect ending to her story although who she ended up with was a bit unexpected. but then, life's like that... live in the moment and all that hoo-larkey.
July 6, 2011
This book explored some really cool concepts that I think every teenager or even young adult faces when they are transitioning from one phase of life to the next. However in relation to the rest of the series it was a bit of a disappointment. It's considered the last book in the series but so many questions were left unanswered!!!
March 29, 2012
This is actually a nice book! I still have not read the rest of the book, but I like it. I felt connected instantly though I have a lot to catch on and read later :D Love and I share the same passion, which is writing.
December 10, 2008
Another bomb - within the first couple of pages they said the "B" word and the A word. Wish they would have a label on these books rating them R for language.
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January 6, 2013It won't be fair to rate this because I was not aware that this was a series- the last book of the series at that- so I was really confused.
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