Readers will fall head over heels for this nostalgic and irreverent collection.
Twenty-six bestselling authors return to the teenage bedrooms, s... read full description
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Dec 05, 2011
Stacy/GirlsInTheStacks.com
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Ah, first love. It’s a sweet, magical time when our feelings are a mixed up mess and we gaze longingly at the one we adore. Well, until your crushed by your new love and you becoming a blabbering idiot. Oh wait, that was me…
First loves (and crushes) are a mighty thing, and in this anthology we get a glimpse into the pivotal and highly personal lives of some of our favorite authors. From the sweet and fun first love of Lauren Oliver, to Heather Swain and her borderline stalking of “Un More...
First loves (and crushes) are a mighty thing, and in this anthology we get a glimpse into the pivotal and highly personal lives of some of our favorite authors. From the sweet and fun first love of Lauren Oliver, to Heather Swain and her borderline stalking of “Un More...
Aug 15, 2011
Kim
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This is a collection of essays from different authors which makes it hard to assign a star rating. Most of the essays were two stars, with a few three stars and one five star, I think, so three seems fair. Overall I was disappointed with this book. It is supposed to be a collection of essays in which authors write about their first/favorite crushes. I was expecting something much more angst-y. Aren't most first crushes unrequited? Not in this collection. In essay after essay, people talke
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May 10, 2011
Reading
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Review Written by Andrea @ Reading Lark
Crush is a collection of 26 essays from well known authors. If you are anything like me, you may often forget that writers are real people with real drama and real relationships just like the rest of us. For whatever reason, I have also put authors on pedestals as if they are more deity than human. I suppose that's natural since I love to read so much. This book shows that writers are often just normal, dorky humans like me.
I was origin More...
Crush is a collection of 26 essays from well known authors. If you are anything like me, you may often forget that writers are real people with real drama and real relationships just like the rest of us. For whatever reason, I have also put authors on pedestals as if they are more deity than human. I suppose that's natural since I love to read so much. This book shows that writers are often just normal, dorky humans like me.
I was origin More...
May 10, 2011
Andrea (Reading Lark)
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Review Posted on Reading Lark 5/10/11
Crush is a collection of 26 essays from well known authors. If you are anything like me, you may often forget that writers are real people with real drama and real relationships just like the rest of us. For whatever reason, I have also put authors on pedestals as if they are more deity than human. I suppose that's natural since I love to read so much. This book shows that writers are often just normal, dorky humans like me.
I was original More...
Crush is a collection of 26 essays from well known authors. If you are anything like me, you may often forget that writers are real people with real drama and real relationships just like the rest of us. For whatever reason, I have also put authors on pedestals as if they are more deity than human. I suppose that's natural since I love to read so much. This book shows that writers are often just normal, dorky humans like me.
I was original More...
Aug 23, 2011
The Joy of Booking
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This charming collection of essays relives the heady joy, the awful nervousness, and the gentle maturation of crushes and first love. In the double baker’s dozen, there are crushes unspoken and unrequited, clumsy attempts at leaving the “friend zone”, skillful attempts at leaving the “friend zone”, and an honest-to-goodness first love meant-to-be marriage. As with most crushes, the stories are somewhat selfish and navel-gazing, idolizing someone to the point of completely ignoring who they reall
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Jun 28, 2011
Books to the Sky
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I received this book from Harlequin in exchange for an honest review.
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I thought this was a really cute book. I really enjoyed all the different types of first loves, from mere crushes on celebrities to full out romances. Heterosexual, gay, fantasy, it was all in there.
Some of the short stories made me laugh, some made me sigh with nostalgia, and some were those that I couldn't relate to personally but I enjoyed re More...
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I thought this was a really cute book. I really enjoyed all the different types of first loves, from mere crushes on celebrities to full out romances. Heterosexual, gay, fantasy, it was all in there.
Some of the short stories made me laugh, some made me sigh with nostalgia, and some were those that I couldn't relate to personally but I enjoyed re More...
Nov 10, 2011
Apparently this story collection contains pieces by David Levithan, Lauren Oliver and others. The first 2 names are enough for me to want it bad :D
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May 20, 2011
Clementine
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In this collection of short stories from editor Andrea Richesin, 26 authors revisit their own lives to tell a story about the first time that they fell in love. Readers looking for a nostalgic trip down memory lane back to their teenage bedrooms and high schools and summers will find a kindred spirit in this book about first love and first heartbreak. These stories examine what it means to fall in love, have a crush, and be crushed by love.
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Nov 09, 2011
Katherine
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I saw this book during a bookswap and even though I didn't get it, it sounded like a great book for going down memory lane of first loves. And I loved reading them! Just read a couple of stories each day, which really felt like wonderful chick lit guilty pleasures... but they were all true! Just goes to show how insane this world is. But crushes - ahhh - it's nice to remember my own crushes as I read this. And going back to that moment where it consumed your whole world for a period in your life
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Jun 09, 2011
Luann
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Is this great literature? No. But, it filled with heart-felt stories about first love. Remember that first crush? Sometimes, the feelings were returned. Sometimes, the secret remained buried. What's great about this anthology is that readers are connected to the writer because we've all experienced that rush of heat...and lived to tell about it.
Jan 26, 2012
Jess
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I think my problem with this book was that it was touted as young-adult. I went into it with the mindset that i would be reading essays written for teens, and came across stuff that wasn't at all teen-friendly. Stark, yes. But happy stories about teens' first love? No. Those few essays that really bothered me made me want to quit reading the book entirely, and their memory is going to live longer than the stories I loved (like the one about the girl who married her first love after having a
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Dec 01, 2011
Laurie
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I enjoyed finding out how all the contributors interpreted the ideas "crush" and "first love." This book was delightful.
May 01, 2011
Caroline
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Nicki Richesin's anthology is a terrific collection of essays by writers ranging from Jacqueline Mitchard to Ann Hood, Rebecca Walker and Robert Wilder. Their essays are frank, sometimes funny and often bittersweet -- after all this is first love, and the angst the relationship causes can last longer than the relationship itself! The essays are beautifully written and will stay with you as long as your memories of your own first love.
Nov 12, 2011
Jenee
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Really really lovely book. So many great stories. I loved knowing that they were real. It made me feel hopeful about a lot of things.
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