“I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I knew was not socially acceptable. And they don’t want a very long courtship. Yes, girls want their princes, but boys want their princesses just as much. And right away you know-this is the girl in your head, sleeping or dancing or singing in front of you. All it takes is the sound of her song from the tower, or a look at her sleeping face. It’s the great male fantasy-all it takes is one dance to know that she’s the one. “You think fairy tales are only for girls? Here’s a hint-ask yourself who wrote them. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. “The important people in our lives leave imprints. And this GIF is here because I have no words to describe the plot. It had Christmas in there, but it wasn’t the main thing as one would expect from the first page on. It wasn’t your typical Christmas story, not at all. The plot was interesting and had so many turns I did not anticipate. ![]() I know almost 90% percent of people say this UK model called Joshua Anthony Brand should play as Augustus Waters of The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, but with the descriptions of the book, he'd make such a good Dash too. It wasn’t the fedora hat he was wearing or how nicely his blue shirt complimented his deep blue eyes it was more the composition of his face, a mixture of handsome and sweet, young but wise, his expression arch yet kind. Sorry to be so goofy and obvious about the declaration, but there was something just so… dashing about young Dashiell. “Your lightness,” I said, hardly knowing what I was saying. Instead, she was impulsive, instinctive, combining ingredients at whim… Much to my surprise-and delight-she was not like this at all. I had thought Lily would be methodical-a checklist kind of baker. Here's how Dash describes Lily by the almost-the-end of the book. I felt like these characters were wonderfully made between Cohn and Levithan. We see her as being an impulsive character, instinctive, smart, and wild, in a good way. And Lily, she’s this troubled kid that everyone is wary of because she can become explosive and “too sensitive” to things. He was logical, analytical, and carefully made his actions spontaneous things happened rarely. By the middle of the book Dash wasn’t annoying, but misunderstood, someone with great intelligence and his defense mechanism against people who didn’t understand being his great smartass remarks. We begin to understand them and ultimately, love them as if they were real people. ![]() As the story goes on we get a more profound look into these characters and why they are like that. ![]() Lily was annoying because she seemed like this merry-go-around good citizen that was cheerful all the time and had the typical American spirit of Christmas you see in movies of the mentioned holiday *gags*. He has such a big and complex vocabulary that it made my brain hurt to think what it meant, finally giving up and searching it on the dictionary. The beginning of the book is quite confusing, mostly Dash’s point of view. Can their adventures from the notebook be the same as if they met in person? Or is their weird friendship meant only to be read between the pages of the moleskin and dares across the city? Two people-one boy, one girl-moving around the busy streets around New York, a red moleskin notebook being their bridge of communication. Lily was having one of the worst Christmases, that with her parents having a late honeymoon in Fiji, her grandfather in Florida, and his brother making out and God-knows-what-else with his boyfriend. He was everything no one was, as long as he was different and not mainstream. You can find this review and others on my co-owned blog Boricuan Bookwormsĭash had become a voluntary orphan for Christmas, telling his dad he was spending it with his mother, and his mom that he was spending it with his dad, while both parents vacationed somewhere else with their new partners and Dash hooped between their apartments. Aww such a cute and awesome story :3 Review to come soon! :D
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