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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (1970) by Judy Blume 5★

Best quote:
“"We must, we must, we must increase our busts..."”
- Margaret Simon and friends

4.5★

My school life summed up

“But if I got the right answers what’s the difference?”
“Your equations are backwards. You’ll have to do the paper over.”
“I don’t see why,” I told her.
“Because you’re supposed to be learning how to think the problems through and you aren’t thinking the right way.”
“Isn’t there more than one way to think?"

Ready for Romance by Debbie Macomber

A quick short love story. The story reminded me a little of the movie Sabrina with Audrey Hepburn. Damian is the older brother. *sigh*
A typical Macomber romance and a nice happy ending. Girl has a crush on the younger Dryden brothers. Girl grows up and then falls in love with the older brother. Hence why this reminded me of the movie. But it's got a slight modern version - the girl, Jessica, is a legal assistant and works for big company layers Damian and Evan.
I liked this and will definitely add to my favorites list. Just thought the whole "does she/ he love me?" banter was a little too much. And it is outdated, but that's no surprise as this was first published in 1993.

Ready for Romance goes along with her Ready for Marriage in a Ready for Love compilation. Romance follows Damian and Jessica's relationship. Really liked these characters. Damian the most. Loved him.

The other short story, Marriage, follows Evan and Mary Jo's relationship. But I got the idea with what happened and will come of their relationship with just reading Ready for Romance. They didn't shine enough for me to read their story in Ready for Marriage.

June 2014
Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko 5★♥
(World of Watches: book 1 of 5)

1998 Russian Science Fiction/ Fantasy book translated to English. Anton Gorodetsky is a Light One Magician and a "Watchman" (supernatural's police) of the Night Watch. His first person point of view was good. There is a past tense tone but I felt that didn't take away the suspense. The story of good vs bad of the Others, and Anton worrying about Destiny and his love Svetlana Nazarova. And as all science fiction books have, this book deals with a lot of politics.

I've seen both the movies (Night and Day Watch). It's been a while so some of it I have forgotten. But what I did remember helped visualize what the "Twilight" (the inbetween world of supernatural and humans). I'll be watching the movies again soon when I've read the other 5 books.

This books was also added as my favorite and a recommendation.