Amanda

Reread. It's summer, and this is a cute and pretty entertaining airplane read. I love how it's at least as much about the friendship between the four women as it is about the dude. Also love the casual mention of same-sex weddings and discussion of class issues (though not in depth, of course, it's a romance novel).

Again, not good, but I couldn't stop reading.

Objectively pretty awful but I somehow couldn't stop reading it.

I loved this book. I don't really know why, but I did.

I loved this SO HARD the first time I read it, but it doesn't hold up as well to later readings for me. I identify like crazy with being a big fish in a small pond and then moving to a much bigger pond and having to adjust accordingly. I liked how the book dealt with the race/gender/sexuality issues without making it Very Special Episode-ish or changing the focus of the book. I don't think this one displaces [b:The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks 1629601 The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks E. Lockhart http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1313980820s/1629601.jpg 1623714] or the Ruby Oliver books in my heart, but I definitely identify with it more. Added w/reread July 2012: I still adore this book. And the epilogue.

Not bad, but not anything I'll probably want to return to. Read in one sitting at the doctor's office.

Slow starting, or it'd probably be four stars. Love the relationship between Daisy and Piper.

Eh. Not bad, but not great. Didn't really care about the romance, and would've liked more about the characters, but not bad.

Yeah, no. Either these didn't age well or I've matured a lot (or both), but wow. Jessica Darling is insufferable, so is Marcus Flutie, and what's with the constant little snide asides about feminism? And also about being a stay at home mom, oddly.

(reread)

Ugh. Some books don't do well on a reread. Shut up, Marcus Flutie. And Jessica Darling.

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?).

Read this several years ago (like maybe in college?) and liked it more then than I do now. It's not a bad book at all, but I probably don't overidentify with a tightly-wound high school senior as much as I did then.

Cute, but nothing earth-shattering. Read on the plane, and that's about the level of engagement required.

Not my favorite, but well-written and interesting. I would probably have been more interested in this if it had been from Bethany's POV.

Nothing too deep, but hilarious.

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

Loved this book. Love how complex the characters are, even the ones who seem like they're going to be one-dimensional.

(reread 5/27/12)

I stopped reading this on the train because I was worried about crying on the way to work. Turns out I would've been okay. That's not a criticism of the book at all, more of my cold black heart. I still think Will Grayson, Will Grayson is my favorite John Green, but this is also excellent, if not quite able to live up to the ecstatic reviews I heard.

Better than Pursuit of Love for the sole reason that this book had more Victoria and Jassy.

Really liked the book. Ending was ... abrupt, to say the least.

These books are basically crack but I cannot stop reading them.

I'm assuming that not having a whole lot of insight into Hannah's character was sort of the point of this book, and I get that, but it made it hard to get into. Especially since all we end up knowing about Clay is that he is apparently one of only two decent people in the entire high school (both guys, just saying), and he lives somewhere that there are both buses and it's totally safe for 17 year olds to wander around at night. I get the intent behind the ending, but ... ugh.

Boring boring boring. I don't know why I read this. At least Matched had some plot. Glad this was a fast read, so I didn't waste a lot of time.

I am surprised by how much I enjoy these books. Now if only the library had the third one.

I feel like this book was superseded a bit by the explosion in cooking shows and networks and all that, but I also think this book precipitated that explosion in a way, so it's a victim of its own success, I guess? I read this entire thing in Anthony Bourdain's voice. Which makes sense, since he wrote it.

Liked the world building, didn't so much care for the last quarter or so. And this is another book that just ends, instead of having an ending.