Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

More of the Same Teenage Drama in Sequel to To All the Boys I Loved Before

P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han

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I am typically not the romance book type, unless it is a classic or mixed with fantasy or science fiction, but I decided to keep reading the To All the Boys I Loved Before series. I read the first one after the movie got good reviews because as a middle school teacher I like to have a variety of books I can recommend to my students. However, because I teach students who struggle in reading I rarely have students who choose to read outside of […]

“Never say no when you really want to say yes.”

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I’m really glad I read this series. It was fluffy and cute and didn’t have too much angst in it (although still a little too much for my tastes). But the first book really was the highlight. I felt the second one was too slight, and though this one had more weight to it (with Lara Jean facing graduation and moving on from everything she’s always known), it still wasn’t as satisfying as the simplicity and cuteness of the first book. Spoilers for the first two […]

“Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That’s part of the risk.”

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My daughter is 14, and all of sudden this year I couldn’t go 6 seconds without hearing the words “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before.” I think she watched it on Netflix 50 times with her friends. I watched it, too. It was adorable. And I wanted to know more about Lara Jean and Peter, so off to the library I went, picking up all three volumes of their saga. At this point, pretty much everyone knows the story: Lara Jean is half-Korean, and […]

CBR Bingo:This is the End (and the end of my bingo card)

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I fell completely in love with the Netflix film adaptation of To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before and immediately sought out the novels it was based on. To my horror, although not surprise, there was a mile long wait list at the library and the trilogy was sold out at Barnes & Noble. Luckily the box set came back in stock and I was able to binge read the series last week. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (4.75 Stars) Lara Jean Covey lives in […]

The book was better? Yes, yes it was…but the movie was really fun too.

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In lesser hands, a novel about a girl, Lara Jean, having her secret letters she wrote to each of her five crushes accidentally mailed out, would be a fun but slight high school romp of a story. But author Jenny Han delivers something even better with “To all the Boys I’ve Loved Before”. Sure, this is a romance but more than that, it’s a story about sisters, family and the subtle way grief lingers and shapes us. Relatively sheltered and an introvert, biracial Lara Jean is […]

Not as good as book one, but still worth reading.

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I am sad to say that this book was not as good for me as the first one. I still loved the characters a lot, and there were still all these great, small moments peppered throughout the book. Lara Jean’s family continues to warm my heart. Peter continues to be a huge doofus. Lara Jean is a fashion icon. Some spoilers below, so be warned. I just thought this book was a little weak. Where the first book had at the center of it the whole […]



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