This is probably my favorite of the high school Betsy/Tacy books, just because the ending is so perfect.

(Read Harder 2017: #9 Read a book you've read before.)

August 7, 2017

Suffers a little for me because it doesn't have any of the supporting characters from Deep Valley that are so wonderful, but recovers due to the Betsy/Joe storyline, of course.

August 7, 2017

Anecdotal historical fluff about royal mistresses. If there's such a thing as beach-reading history, this is it.

June 9, 2010

Really interesting, and weird in the best way. I learned so much from this book about Latin American history and the 20th-century diaspora. I found Lola more compelling than Oscar. Reading in audiobook was excellent, though I probably missed more of the Spanish this way (my fault).

February 12, 2014

Cute cute cute. Much better than Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List, and probably about the same level as Nick and Norah. I liked Lily a lot. Dash not quite as much, but he was mildly annoying in a very realistic teenage-boy way.

January 21, 2012

Meh. Didn't hate it, but also didn't really buy the love triangle thing. Also was sort of irritated by the whole “only weak people need to take the green pill” motif. But maybe that's my anxiety disorder talking. Because I'm so weak and all.

January 15, 2012

Reread. Still adorable YA romance that's not too fluffy and doesn't involve supernatural beings.

November 2, 2010
September 27, 2016
June 1, 2011
December 25, 2013

Not a big fan of major psychiatric issues being cured through the power of true love, and I kind of wish the whole letter/Cyrano thing had gone on for a bit longer, but it was a perfectly fine historical.

March 22, 2021

Placeholder review - longer one to come after I reread the entire series.

August 25, 2010

I love Mary Roach's writing and this book was no exception. Favorite chapters were sex in space, pooping in space, and food in space.

(Read Harder 2017: #13 Read a nonfiction book about technology.)

January 29, 2017

Comics have gotten way gorier than the last time I read them. I still liked this, though I don't know all the backstory (does anyone know all the backstory?).

June 9, 2012
March 5, 2021

So happy I found all of these in trade! Like I said in my review of the volume 3, this run is the reason I got into comics. Steph is one of my favorite characters, and probably my favorite non-Marvel female character. Miss her.

July 13, 2013

Again, good light summer read. Yay fluff!

August 10, 2012
June 14, 2011
July 11, 2010

Loved this one!!! I want a book about Louisa next. For more of their grandmother if nothing else.

December 6, 2015

2013 reread - yay, delicious fluff!

LOVED IT. Loved that even the more minor characters got some depth and layers. This book made me want to visit Paris again.

March 24, 2013

Meh. Two and a half stars, rounding up to three because it was pretty refreshingly not slut-shamey. Other than that, pretty generic YA that somehow keeps describing a boy with a bowl cut as attractive. And it's not set in the 90s.

November 22, 2015
January 26, 2021
September 18, 2020

Nothing too deep, but hilarious.

(5/28/12: reread by the pool.)

May 28, 2012