Review: The Fashion Disaster That Changed My Life by Lauren Myracle

 Title: The Fashion Disaster That Changed My Life

Author: Lauren Myracle

Format: Hardback

Pages: 160

Genre: Middle Grade/Fiction

Source: Public Library

Stand-Alone or Series: Stand-Alone

Summary(from GoodReads): 

“Out of all the people in the world, why do I have to be the freak who went to school on the very first day of the year with a pair of PANTIES stuck by static cling to the leg of my pants?!!!” Seventh grade was supposed to be Alli's breakout year—only her big debut ends up being a big disaster. Then queen bee Rachel Delaney takes Alli under her wing, and Alli finds herself in the inner circle of seventh-grade cool. But the inner circle is nothing like Alli expected, and ugliness lurks behind the prettiest faces. Can Alli figure out where she fits in, or will she get caught up in the glamour of running with the in crowd?

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Waiting on Wednesday: 4/20 {5}

"Waiting On Wednesday" is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.
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This week's "Waiting On Wednesday" is:

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Teaser Tuesday: 4/12 {4}

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading  Image made by me, Ren.

Anyone can join in! Just:

~Grab your current read

~Open to a random page

~Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page

BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (you don't want to give away too much for any one else that hasn't read it yet, but wants to) 

~Share the title and author, too, so that others can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers.

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Review: The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

Title: The Notebook
Author: Nicholas Sparks
Format: Hardback(Large Print Edition)
Pages: 261
Genre: Adult Fiction/Romance
Stand-Alone or Series: Stand-Alone

Summary(from book):

"I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough."

A man with a faded, 

well-worn notebook open in his lap.

A woman experiencing 

a morning ritual she doesn't understand.

Until he begins to read to her.

   The Notebook is an achingly tender story about the enduring power of love, a story of miracles that will stay with you forever.

   Set amid the austere beauty of coastal North Carolina in 1946, THE NOTEBOOK begins with the story of Noah Calhoun, a rural Southerner returned home from World War II. Noah, thirty-one, is restoring a plantation home to it's former glory, and he is haunted by images of the beautiful girl he met fourteen years earlier, a girl he loved like no other. Unable to find her, yet unwilling to forget the summer they spent together, Noah is content to live with only memories...until she unexpectedly returns to his town to see him once again.

   Allie Nelson, twenty-nine, is now engaged to another man, but realizes that the original passion she felt for Noah has not dimmed with the passage of time. Still, the obstacles that once ended their previous relationship remain, and the gulf between their worlds is too vast to ignore. With her impending marriage only weeks away, Allie is forced to confront her hopes and dreams for the future, a future that only she can shape.

   Like a puzzle within a puzzle, the story of Noah and Allie is just the beginning. As it unfolds, their tale miraculously becomes something different, with much higher stakes. The result is a deeply moving portrait of love itself, the tender moments and the fundamental changes that affect us all. Shining with a beauty that is rarely found in current literature, THE NOTEBOOK establishes Nicholas Sparks as a classic storyteller with a unique insight into the only emotion that really matters.     

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