When I was in high school there was so much potential in summer time. “I’ve always been fascinated with summer. A character so ever present in Dessen’s novels, that back in 2017, I asked her about it. The novels tend to incorporate some element of an emotional hurdle, one that, if not completely surmounted, is at least addressed and challenged in some way by the characters through their interactions with faces both old and new. But The Truth About Forever is the one that I can recall in detail. The first was The Truth About Forever.ĭetails of novels blend, but categorize themselves by title when I pick up a copy and read over the character’s names, the details of the town. I read them all in one summer and then joined the annual (sometimes biannual) wait for new releases. By this point, Dessen had several books out - This Lullaby, That Summer, Keeping the Moon, Dreamland. The first book I picked up was Someone Like You. Harry Potter was a once-per-year event and so I worked my way through the shelves supplementing the weeks with names like Bloom, Spinnelli, Jacques, and more. Lucky for me, Beverly Cleary had an entire anthology of Ramona Quimby adventures for me to peruse and Sharon Creech had several tales under her belt. Typically, I would pick an author and read through their entire collection before moving on. Why do I keep coming back to Sarah Dessen? Summers were typically spent with one weekly trip to the library.
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