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Book Features
Summer of Sarah Dessen : This Lullaby
“Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour, could make all the difference. So much hanging on just these things, tiny increments that together build a life. Like words build a story, and what had Ted said? One word can change the entire world.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
- Release Date: March 27th 2002
- Page Number: 345
- Genre: Contemporary
- Publisher: Speak
Synopsis: When it comes to relationships, Remy doesn’t mess around. After all, she’s learned all there is to know from her mother, who’s currently working on husband number five. But there’s something about Dexter that seems to defy all of Remy’s rules. He certainly doesn’t seem like Mr. Right. For some reason, however, Remy just can’t seem to shake him. Could it be that Remy’s starting to understand what those love songs are all about?
Remy Starr is better, she swears.
She doesn’t sleep around anymore, she doesn’t smoke nearly as much and , most importantly her eyes are set on Stanford in the fall. The only thing standing in her way ? The summer. This will be the summer the girl who thinks she knows everything gets a lesson in love, the Potato Opus and what one summer can do.
Unlike Dessen’s previous novels Remy is not a “good girl”. Remy is not a quiet introspective character. She isn’t best friends with the screwed-up rebellious girl, she IS that girl.
The love interest Dexter, provides a nice foil to the extremely “Type A” Remy. He is the spastic, hyper lead singer in the band, Truth Squad. When this group of essentially “lost boys” rolls into town with nothing but a white van and Dexter’s dog, Monkey, things on Remy’s side of town is never the same.
After reading Dessen’s novels in publication order, I think This Lullaby is a turning point in Dessen’s novels. It combines the friendships, eccentric parents and quirky characters of her first three novels, with the summer time setting of Keeping The Moon. It also plays up romance and love much more than her previous novels…
Hey, I Know That Voice ! : Famous Voices in YA Audiobooks
What do audio books and the red carpet have in common ? The stars ! Some of Hollywood’s hottest stars lent their voices not to Pixar, but to some of our YA audiobooks.
Jesse Eisenberg
Academy Award nominated actor Jesse Eisenberg brings his awkward charm and slight New York accent to numerous audiobook including Holly Black’s Curse Workers series. It was announced at BookExpo America that he will narrate the 2012 novel Colin Fischer by debut authors Ashley Edward Miller and Zack Stentz.
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Summer of Sarah Dessen : Intro
Books and Sensibility @ BEA : Day 2
Children’s Author Breakfast
Jess and I left our hotel extra early to arrive at the Children’s Author Breakfast. At first we had a hard time finding a table that wasn’t reserved by a publishing house. It was starting to feel hopeless when we found a table of YA bloggers including Kristi from The Story Siren, Cat from Beyond Books, April from Good Books and Good Wine, Anna from Anna Reads, Tara fromFiction Folio ,Tara from Hobbitsiesand one or two other bloggers I know I’m forgetting. We were sitting closest to April and I just have to say she is so kind and great–it was awesome meeting her….
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