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Jun 09, 2011

Janina rated it:

This is the perfect book to curl up with when it’s cold and snowing outside. It is one of those reads that just makes you want to snuggle up on your couch, a hot cocoa or tea in hand and enjoy the winterly atmosphere. In fact, the only thing missing for my perfect reading experience was the fireplace ;).

I don’t want to give too much away about the stories themselves because I think it is best to go into this book unprepared and let yourself be surprised. I liked all three stories, bu More...

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Dec 04, 2010

oliviasbooks rated it:

Three snowy stories by different authors melted into a satisfying whole. Yes, I think, I like it! I have finished the first story "Jubilee Line" by Maureen Johnson (great style, by the way. Funny, a little crazy, a little romantic.) and started the second one, "Cheertastic Christmas Miracle" by John Green. After a few pages I thought: "Wait, another Waffle House in the middle of nowhere? These guys know a heartbroken boy named Stuart Weintraub? Ha, this is the protagonis More...

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Aug 09, 2008

nicole rated it:

Pretty much what you'd expect. Light, fun, festive. Had the feel of an ABC Family made-for-tv holiday special, but funnier. And quirkier. Because John Green and Maureen Johnson are funny and quirky. But Lauren Myracle. Mehhh. I just felt like she was trying to keep up with them but couldn't, and leaving her to write the final story, to tie everything together, was a mistake. It was nice to see all the characters from all three stories come together, but was a lot weaker than if the order of stor More...

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Dec 23, 2008

Shelley rated it:

It started off strong and got progressively weaker. Maureen Johnson was fun, John Green all right and Lauren Myracle dismal.

Maureen Johnson's story was super quirky and giggly and slightly ridiculous (in a good way). I liked Jubilee a lot, crazy as she was, and was amused to see a lot of my mother in Stuart's. It was just cheery, fun Christmas fluff.

John Green's kind of drove me nuts. I wanted to like it more, but I guess I am not that adventurous, because I kept thinking More...

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Dec 26, 2008

Joanne rated it:

Looking for Alaska is popular with my students, and I've enjoyed everything I've read by John Green, so I bought this for my classroom library.

The first story was pretty good: girl-meets-boy-in-a-blizzard. The boy was very sweet. I would definitely seek out more of Maureen Johnson's work for my classroom.

The John Green story was familiar: nerdy guy's adventures with his brainy (in this case, Asian) friend and their one-of-the-boys, liable-to-say-anything platonic girl pal More...

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Nov 18, 2008

Jennifer rated it:

Reviewed by Sarah Bean the Green Bean Teen Queen for TeensReadToo.com

I'm a sucker for romance any time of the year, but something about the holiday season makes me want to curl up in a nice blanket, drink hot chocolate, and read love stories. LET IT SNOW is the perfect holiday read.

Maureen Johnson starts things off with THE JUBILEE EXPRESS, in which Jubliee (no, not a stripper, but named for a piece in her mother's collection of the Flobie Santa Village) finds herself st More...

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Dec 31, 2011

Aaron Vincent rated it:

3 star-rating to Jubilee Express by Maureen Johnson.
The first 'book' I read from Maureen Johnson. It wasn't as funny as I thought it would be. I find Maureen's tweets and blog posts a great deal funnier than she was in this. It's cute and made me felt the merriment of the holiday season. Did it excite me to read more from her? Not really. But I won't mind reading them if I have nothing else to read.

4 star-rating to A Cheertastic Christmas Miracle by John Green.
John Green is i More...

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Dec 18, 2008

Loryn rated it:

I read this upon a recommendation from a co-worker and I LOVED it. It was just what I needed. I normally stay away from Christmas themed books, this just might be one of the first that I've read, but the romance in "Let it Snow" makes it hard to not fall in love with this book.

By far, my favorite of the three stories is "Jubilee Express" by Maureen Johnson. It has a great story line as well as a great romance. I liked this story so much, I am planning on readi More...

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Jan 05, 2009

Lizzie rated it:

I started reading this on Christmas Eve and finished on the last night of holiday break, so, you know, beat that. When I told Meg I received it as a Christmas present, she told me: "You can rate it on two scales: actual scale, and Christmas scale." Good thinking, except actually both scales had the same denominator dragging it down for me, which is the last story, which was a dud for me in both actualness and Christmasness.

The first two stories are really nice, Maureen Jo More...

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Dec 22, 2008

Claudia rated it:

One train wreck, one cheer squad, one snowy Christmas in a small NC town. A Waffle House, a Starbucks, a tea-cup pig...Three couples who must learn to trust others and themselves. Strangers, best friends, soulmates. Everyone has lessons to learn in the snow...

I laughed out loud as the Duke and Tobin slid down the snowy hill on the Twister plastic sheet, all in a desperate attempt to get to the Waffle House, full of cheerleaders, before the demented twins and the keg-carrying college More...

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Jan 03, 2012

Busy rated it:

This was a collection of short stories from three prominent young adult authors. John Green, the author of Paper Towns, An Abundance of Katherines, and Looking for Alaska; Maureen Johnson, author of The Key to the Golden Firebird, The Bermudez Triangle, 13 Little Blue Envelopes, Devilish, Girl at Sea, and Suite Scarlett; and Lauren Myracle author of Rhymes with Witches, TTYL, and Twelve.

Each author wrote a short story about the events during a blizzard in a small town and the characters who foun More...

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Mar 18, 2009

Eli rated it:

As the title indicates, this is a wintertime novel set in a small Virginia town during the Christmas holiday. Three leading teen authors collaborate to write this seemingly independent though ultimately intertwined tale of the trials and tribulations of finding, losing, and rediscovering love in the both the most obvious and unexpected places. Maureen Johnson's "The Jubilee Express" has Jubilee Dougal ("not a stripper" as finds herself too frequently explaining) on a train to More...

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Feb 11, 2009

Miami University rated it:

As the title indicates, this is a wintertime novel set in a small Virginia town during the Christmas holiday. Three leading teen authors collaborate to write this seemingly independent though ultimately intertwined tale of the trials and tribulations of finding, losing, and rediscovering love in the both the most obvious and unexpected places. Maureen Johnson's "The Jubilee Express" has Jubilee Dougal ("not a stripper" as finds herself too frequently explaining) on a train t More...

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Feb 04, 2009

Kelly rated it:

Popular young adult authors John Green, Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle have teamed up to write a trio of feel-good stories all centered around a Christmas eve snowstorm in Gracetown, NC. In the first story, Myracle’s Jubilee Express, Jubilee finds herself heading to Florida via train after her parents get incarcerated for a shopping brawl. When a snowstorm derails the train, she ends up at an all-night waffle house in the company of a stranger who is definitely not her boyfriend. Green’s Che More...

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Jan 28, 2009

Nian rated it:

Myracle's writing was not up to her usual standards here. Poor dialogue, clichéd pre-Christmas breakup and post-Christmas reconciliation, and a character that would have put a stereotypical cheerleader to shame in regards of her brain (or lack of, in this case.) Addie—a name I am very fond of, just different spelling—was a complete nut. Half the time, she was too forced. The other half, she was too chipper. I'm no pessimist, but her forced chirpiness was too much. I just don't think short storie More...

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Dec 10, 2008

Katy rated it:

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Feb 15, 2012

Azeza rated it:

I think the first two stories were pretty cool, but I couldn't stand that last one. I didn't like what the story was all about. Just about a girl that is crying the whole time, because her boyfriend dumped her. And suddenly she changes in the story. Out of the blew. A feeling inside her that says: Hey!! You've changed!! Now, feel happy! Enjoy life and drink tea with that weird, old lady!!
I also felt like that story was only written to get an end of the two stories together. I missed the hu More...

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Dec 24, 2011

Meagan rated it:

For a book that I bought through Amazon bargain books, this was a really nice book. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it, and it did get me in the Christmas mood. Normally books with short stories are just stand alone works, but LET IT SNOW felt like a very well written novel. I’ve read a novel by John Green and a short story by Lauren Myracle, so I’m happy that once again they proved to be very good writers.

Maureen Johnson’s The Jubilee Express was very cute, and it was the first time I More...

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Dec 22, 2011

kari rated it:

Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way.
Oh what fun it is to read tales about Christmas da-ay!
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way.
Oh what fun it is to read stories 'bout Christmas day!
Can a collection of fun stories also be filled with character development, interesting plots and crackling dialogue? Yes. Yes. And yes.
The proof of that is right here. I will admit that I tend to shy away from anthologies because it seems that just as I've settled i More...

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Dec 17, 2011

Christina (Reading Thru The Night) rated it:

Let It Snow features three short stories all set in the same town during Christmas Eve/Christmas Day.

The Jubilee Express by Maureen Johnson - Jubilee (Julie) is looking forward to a wonderful and romantic Christmas Eve with her perfect boyfriend Noah. It is after all, their one year anniversary. Life couldn't be more lovely until Julie's next door neighbor rushes over and plans are unexpectedly changed. Julie's parents, while in the pursuit of purchasing the newest Flobie (the Christma More...

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Feb 05, 2011

Michael rated it:

Teen literature is a genre that I should have practically overgrown by about a good eleven years (eight years in the literal sense). Yet somehow when I found An Abundance of Katherines by John Green, it connected to the younger me instantaneously. His stories of teenage boys fixated on quirky girls for some reason or another, along with the 4-ish star reviews for each of his books made me more interested in reading his works, seeing as I was one of those boys and he must have been too. I came More...

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Jan 05, 2011

Tahleen rated it:

Let It Snow is made up of three novellas written by three different authors, all big names in the YA book world. And let me tell you, it's for a reason. Each holiday romance takes place mostly in Gracetown on Christmas Eve during one of the biggest snowstorms of the decade. Though all are focused on different characters, in the end they all come together, and along the way characters and events are intertwined in a way that always made me excited to recognize a name or realize how everything was More...

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Dec 26, 2010

Heather rated it:

Hhhmmmm... I'm indifferent to every opinion. I'm not trying to be broad about it it's just that I have no opinion of much of everything. To understand what I say means you would have to know me. I can be a difficult person, but I learn most of what I know from books. This may be a weird thing to say because I'm writing this with an app I have on my iPod touch. The funny thing about it is that most people I know with iPods are not bookworms like me; I just wanted to listen to my music. Anyway I b More...

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Dec 21, 2010

Jillian -always aspiring- rated it:

Let It Snow -- a wonderful little Christmas anthology with stories from young adult favorites Maureen Johnson, John Green, and Lauren Myracle -- is a book that deserves to be devoured as you sit on a couch on a cold winter's night, nestled up in a blanket as you sip from a mug of hot chocolate. My instinct when I started reading this book was to curl up and read it in one sitting. As holiday reads go, this is certainly a good choice.

The first story, "The Jubilee Express" More...

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Dec 18, 2010

Jennifer rated it:

I chose this book as a recommendation from a trusted book friend and I read it because it was Christmas time and I wanted something light and romantic. Overall, I LOVED IT! But since it's an anthology of sorts, I'll review the authors separately.

Johnson - I have never read any of her work, but I will check it out soon. I laughed for all 117 pages, sometimes voracious obnoxious laughter too. Hy-sterical. My favorite humor since Will Grayson, Will Grayson. It was serious and it was funny More...

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Jul 04, 2010

Dawn rated it:

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Jun 28, 2010

Sam rated it:

I absolutely loved Maureen Johnson and John Green's contributions to this book. The book is worth reading because of their stories. My favorite was Maureen Johnson's because it revealed so many relationship issues I had had with one of my boyfriends of the past in a smooth and entertaining way. Her portion of the book was the sort of curl-up-by-the-fire teen romance that still has so much value in the real world. Johnson's and Green's writing is witty, fun and so hard to put down.

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May 18, 2010

Bianca rated it:

Make yourself a nice cup of hot cocoa and get a warm blanket and then, prepare yourself for a nice holiday story.

Since it's the holidays, I really wanted to read some kind of Christmas-y book. So, I texted my friend/swimming buddy and asked to borrow this book. I'm so glad that I got to read this one. It is written by some pretty amazing authors: Maureen Johnson, John Green and Lauren Myracle and each their stories are unique and different.

The first part of the book, The More...

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Dec 27, 2009

Photojim rated it:

OK. Let me start by saying that I picked this up because I needed a book with a 'winter word' in the title for a GR challenge group. Having never read anything by any of the authors nor from this publisher, I didn't know what to expect. It turns out that I am most likely NOT the target audience for this book. I am a 40 YO man. Were I a 13 YO girl, I probably would have fit the demographic a bit better. All of the characters are in the 16-18 YO range. And hand-holding and a few kisses are More...

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Nov 23, 2009

Lauren rated it:

I adore John Green and Maureen Johnson so I was delighted to see that my school library had a copy of Let It Snow.
I liked the way each novel fit together. I loved Maureen Johnson's story about a quirky girl stranded in an unfamiliar town on Christmas Eve. The characters were likable and well developed despite the shortness of the book. John Green picked up the story well with the Midnight trek of 3 teens in search of Cheerleaders and hash browns. I love reading John's books but some parts More...

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