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Lauren Bjorkman

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Verk av Lauren Bjorkman

My Invented Life (2009) 108 exemplar
Miss Fortune Cookie (2012) 63 exemplar

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The First Time (2011) — Bidragsgivare — 31 exemplar

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This review published by Brigham Young University's The Children's Book and Media Review

Erin desperately wants to be Chinese because of how many Chinese friends she has, so she secretly runs a popular advice blog called Miss Fortune Cookie. When one of her best friends sends a letter to the blog and then acts on the advice, Erin feels like she needs to fix what happens afterward. As she and her friends are dealing with romance, parents, and choosing which college to go to after they graduate, Erin has to learn how to delicately give advice when she herself doesn’t always know the right answers of what she should do.

One of the highlights of the book is the challenges of dealing with threesome friendships, especially when some of the friends have had a more difficult relationship in the past. It also talks a lot about the challenges of making college plans and leaving the people you love behind, Chinese culture, and relationships of mothers and their daughters. In many ways, it is a typical high school senior kind of story, but the culture issues, relationships, and humor of the book make it stand out as a sweet, clever story.
… (mer)
 
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vivirielle | 5 andra recensioner | Aug 4, 2021 |
This book was pretty good. It tells the story of two sisters whose relationship falls apart all of a sudden. The younger sister is on a mission to find out why. On her quest for answers, she must also tackle other issues that teenagers deal with.

This was a quick and easy read. I enjoyed getting to know each of the characters. I read this book in a day and a half. I was eager to find out what would happen next. I, like Roz, wanted to know why she and Eva were no longer as close as they use to be. As I continued reading, I was able to guess the reason before Roz could, but it was still exciting to read and find out that I was right. This is the second book I have read by this author and I am becoming a fan of her work.… (mer)
 
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TJoyner | 16 andra recensioner | Dec 4, 2018 |
This was a really great book. I enjoyed reading it. It is a quick and easy read. Although written for young adults, Miss Fortune Cookie is a good read for older adults as well. I hated to see the story end. I would love to see what happens to Erin and her friends after graduation from high school.

"I received a copy of this book for free to review from Crossroad Tours, this in no way influenced my review, all opinions are 100% honest and my own."
 
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TJoyner | 5 andra recensioner | Dec 4, 2018 |
While I suspect some of the humour either went over or under my head (it’s been a while since my high school days), and I have a few issues with the basic premise, My Invented Life was still a fun, crazy read.

While there’s a bit more to their relationship that drives the story, things really begin when Roz becomes convinced her sister is really a closet lesbian, after finding a suspicious book in Eva’s room. When Eva denies being a lesbian, Roz pretends to come out of the closet herself, all in an effort to convince her sister that it’s okay to be a lesbian . . . so she’ll dump her boyfriend, and leave Roz to swoop in to catch him on the rebound.

While it’s handled respectfully, and is ultimately supportive, the very idea of the fake-lesbian storyline bothered me. It just doesn’t seem like something I could imagine a teenager really doing, no matter how much more accepting her peers might be than when I was in school. Of course, humour is most often borne out of absurdity, so I forced myself to just go with the flow . . . and enjoyed it.

Besides, there are more than enough LGBT supporting characters in the book to provide a welcome balance. After all, this is a story built around a drama club . . . not that I’m trying to stereotype anyone. (grin)
Roz is such a drama queen, with her Shakespearean insults and odd habit of rehearsing conversations (a quirk I share), it was hard not to like her. She’s ridiculously boy-crazy, going to extreme lengths to get her man, and crazily competitive as a sister, but she’s also a good person at heart. In the end, once the challenge has gone too far, all she wants is to have her best-friend back in Eva.

Eva I found much harder to like, especially since she seemed to spend much of the novel sulking. It would have been a very different novel had she been allowed to take the lead, but as curious as I am how things would have looked through her eyes, it would have robbed us much of the fun.

Overall, a good book (even if it’s not one I would normally read), and one that kept me smiling, even as I shook my head in wonder!
… (mer)
 
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bibrarybookslut | 16 andra recensioner | Jul 5, 2017 |

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