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Kiss Me Kill Me (Scarlett Wakefield, #1)

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The Truth About Forever

by Sarah Dessen (Goodreads Author)

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Megan H said: " Book Title: The truth about forever
Author: Sarah Dessen
The book the truth about forever, written by Sarah Dessen is a book I did enjoy reading. The overall lesson/moral the author wants the reader to take from this book is many things are forever. Yo Book Title: The truth about forever
Author: Sarah Dessen
The book the truth about forever, written by Sarah Dessen is a book I did enjoy reading. The overall lesson/moral the author wants the reader to take from this book is many things are forever. You just have to be patient, it takes time.
I especially liked about how Sarah Dessen writes is how she expresses her ideas very clearly and how writes in great detail.
When she begins writing The Truth About Forever, she knew that she wanted to write about the idea of being “perfect,” and what that does and doesn’t mean. She was also interested in seeing a character go through a loss, and how that affected the way she viewed the world. When the story begins, Macy is scared, and she deals with her fear by trying to control as much as she can: her appearance, her behavior, how others perceive her. She narrows her life, shutting out everything that could possibly be a risk to her. It isn’t until she meets a group of people who have a total opposite approach—courting, enjoying, and surviving chaos—that she realizes that in reacting to her dad dying, she’s stopped living herself.
During the time she was writing this book, there was a lot happening. The movie based on her first two novels was getting ready to come out, she was under a deadline…the list goes on and on. While at first she felt a certain amount of pressure, Macy and her story soon became a sort of solace for me. She’s never been so immersed in the writing of a book before, and she had a hard time pulling myself away from it, even when I most wanted to. I think that’s a good sign, although it sometimes meant that my house got dirty and the laundry piled up. But to really disappear into a story is never a bad thing, for writers or for readers.
Sarah Dessen is always interested in what struck them the most. With some people, it’s how Macy deals with the death of her father, how it makes her angry. Others like Kristy’s humor and outfits. But overwhelmingly, I’ve heard the most so far about Wes. I think that in a lot of ways, he was the kind of guy I was always looking for: one who wasn’t so interested in the “perfect,” girl, whoever she might be. A boy who likes flaws, who sees potential in everything. While Delia’s company may represent chaos, Wes to me is hope. To him, nothing is ever finished, or broken. It’s just waiting to be incarnated, to begin as something new, again. And that, to me, is what Macy’s story is all about. Her life is a continuing series of beginnings and endings, losses and gains, all folding into one long stretch, one lifetime, and one forever.
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Macy’s summer stretches before her, carefully planned and outlined. She will spend her days sitting at the library information desk. She will spend her evenings studying for the SATs. Spare time will be used to help her obsessive mother prepare for the big opening of the townhouse section of her luxury development. But Macy’s plans don’t anticipate a surprising and chaotic job with Wish Catering, a motley crew of new friends, or … Wes. Tattooed, artistic, anything-but-expected Wes. He doesn’t fit Macy’s life at all–so why does she feel so comfortable with him? ...more "

Jan 21, 2013 04:49PM · see review