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Heart on My Sleeve
I'm "not" picking Cartwright just because I met Julian there. For all I know he'll change his mind and not even go Although that would be a shame because I want him to be the father of my firstborn child. KIDDING : -}During a weekend at Cartwright College for prospective freshmen to get to know the school, Chloe meets Julian, and they hit it off. Chloe is thrilled that whe...more
Hardcover, 224 pages
Published
June 29th 2004
by Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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I didn't enjoy this as much as I enjoyed Hard Love, mostly because I felt the epistolary style of it (and Chloe's hippie-dippy folk music crap) was so contrived; the only character I really bought in this story was Chloe's older sister Genevieve, struggling with coming out to her perfect heterosexual family and struggling with losing the first love of her life. But Genevieve's a dream of a character, and she kept me going through most of Chloe's insipid teenage angst, which is why it gets three...more
Feb 03, 2008
Christine
rated it
3 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Recommends it for:
teens who are about to go away to college
"You're only 18. You're allowed to flit from one person to another, at least for awhile. That's what college is for. That's how you figure out the kind of person you want to be with for a long time."
This modern epistolary novel (told through emails and IMs) tells the story of Chloe and Julian, two high school seniors, and their friends & family. I thought it was a bit gimmicky at first, what with the fake email thing, but it was interesting...you get to see how people act differently when wr...more
This modern epistolary novel (told through emails and IMs) tells the story of Chloe and Julian, two high school seniors, and their friends & family. I thought it was a bit gimmicky at first, what with the fake email thing, but it was interesting...you get to see how people act differently when wr...more
I adore YA Lit. I think it's come a very long way since even I was a kid (although it's been argued that Catcher in the Rye would have been a YA novel had it been released in the 21st century), but even if it hadn't come a long way, I'd still love it. *Especially* in epistolary form!
If a book is classified as epistolary fiction, I am far more likely to read it (if it isn't already within a genre I'm comfortable with). Something about feeling like I'm nosing into people's lives a little more (eve...more
If a book is classified as epistolary fiction, I am far more likely to read it (if it isn't already within a genre I'm comfortable with). Something about feeling like I'm nosing into people's lives a little more (eve...more
The entire book is a series of emails, handwritten letters, and online chats, which at times gets a little annoying. Instead of looking at the cheat sheet at the beginning with the email addresses and names, I usually scanned the email for the salutations and signatures to figure out who was talking. There are quite a cast of characters, but the main focus is Chloe and her flame of one 1/2 day visit to her future college, Julian. This book is a great lesson in you can be who you want to be onlin...more
I just finished this book, and let me tell ya.. If you are a student who loves drama and romance, this book is for you. I can honestly say there is nothing I dislike about this book. I really enjoy the fact that it is written in email and letter format. Writing books like that really makes a reader intrigued.
Another thing kept me into this book was the fact that I am a high school student. I love reading books about others my age, even if it's fictional! It's sort of inspiring when you read a bo...more
Another thing kept me into this book was the fact that I am a high school student. I love reading books about others my age, even if it's fictional! It's sort of inspiring when you read a bo...more
Synopsis-This is a script about a girl named Chloe who is leaving for college. When she goes to tour her college she meets a boy that is the sweetest thing to her. They keep in touch after they meet but Chloe still has a boyfriend. She goes through struggles trying to figure out she wants to tell her boyfriend she just wants to be friends and go to college with the boy she met.
Classification-This book would fit teens and adults. Maybe some kids that are older and mature. This book would really...more
Classification-This book would fit teens and adults. Maybe some kids that are older and mature. This book would really...more
Dec 04, 2010
Sarah Clark
rated it
2 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
girly-books,
young-adult
Chloe is a senior in high school: she has a good family, a good boyfriend, and good friends. But when she meets Julian at a prospective student weekend at a college, life begins to change.
Told through emails and (!) handwritten letters, this book seems woefully out of date, though it's less than a decade old. More importantly, the characters feel so real that they are boring and uninteresting. Chloe is an aspiring singer-songwriter who titles her emails with folk songs, which is supremely irrit...more
Told through emails and (!) handwritten letters, this book seems woefully out of date, though it's less than a decade old. More importantly, the characters feel so real that they are boring and uninteresting. Chloe is an aspiring singer-songwriter who titles her emails with folk songs, which is supremely irrit...more
Ellen Wittlinger is an author who is not afraid to tackle hard issues that face teenagers today. Her books Hard Love and Razzle attest to that, and so does her new novel Heart on my Sleeve, (which is one of those epistolary novels that pop up now and again). Chloe's life is hardly rough -- she's going to a private college next fall, she has opportunities to showcase her musical talent, and she's got a great sister and a nice boyfriend. But she does meet someone who seems to be her soul mate at a...more
This book was really different from the other books I have read. It was in an e-mail and letter format. It turned out to be one of the books I actually took an interest to. From this book I learned, not to think you know someone too well just by one meeting. Also to not change your life for someone besides yourself. You should want to change because YOU want to change and only if it's for the better not the worst. You should think before you act, because if you do or say something you regret, yo...more
Tjis book is abt a girl named Chloe who meets this guy, Julian, at a college visit weekend in Connecticut. Chloe lives in Massachusetts and Julian lives in Florida, but that doesn't stop them from forming a close friendship over email. Chloe thinks she's falling in love, and Julian even sends her a dozen roses --- which wouldn't be so bad if they hadn't arrived as Chloe and her boyfriend Eli were having their pictures taken for their senior prom!
So everything in Chloe's life gets kind of crazy a...more
So everything in Chloe's life gets kind of crazy a...more
This YA book is written using correspondence between the main character and her friends and family (email, letter, IM). Chloe is just graduating from high school and she is looking forward to going to college. She has to deal with leaving her friends, possibly breaking up with her longtime boyfriend, and a surprising secret about her older sister. On top of that, she has met an attractive new guy. The author does a good job of describing life changes that occur when someone starts a new chapter...more
It was extremely interesting to read this book! The whole story is told via emails, IMs, letters, notes and postcards. This book really made me want to send a letter to someone, too bad I did not figure out for who.
Chloe is an aspiring musician who loves folk music. On her weekend trip to her new college she meets Julian, a little shy but nice guy with an amazing voice. After their weekend together Julian and Chloe start up an relationship by emailing and sending letters to each other. Through t...more
Chloe is an aspiring musician who loves folk music. On her weekend trip to her new college she meets Julian, a little shy but nice guy with an amazing voice. After their weekend together Julian and Chloe start up an relationship by emailing and sending letters to each other. Through t...more
I thought the author handled the crux--the relationship between Chloe and Julian--really well. But there were parts that were anachronistic--I don't think I could be convinced that modern freshman roommates are ever going to care that they have matching bedspreads, or that a 20-year-old would refer to her girlfriend as her "lover". And parts of the coming-out story didn't ring true to me; I thought all the teenagers reacted too strongly, and it seems odd to me that Chloe, folk music junkie, woul...more
Dec 18, 2009
Sophia
rated it
2 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
2009-2010-reads-for-bcchs-advisory
This book, written in email, letter, and instant messaging format, has an interesting plot in which you get to see from every character's perspective (everything is written in first person). It allows you to think about each character's life and how they all seem to somehow link to one big plot. Some of the themes in this story are love, homosexuality, friendship, family, music, and school. I think this is a fun, quick read; it makes a very good time-passing material.
I don't know if I really liked this book. The email/IM/letters format was interesting, but I think it actually took away from the story, which didn't end up to have much of a plot. I just felt like I was hearing so many people's problems at once that they just couldn't really come together. And everything just sort of fizzled out at the end.
Not to mention that I felt like I was sticking my nose into somebody's life, instead of sticking my nose into a book.
Not to mention that I felt like I was sticking my nose into somebody's life, instead of sticking my nose into a book.
This book talks about how Chloe fell in love with Julian.They sent e-mail and letters, cards to each other. They were both trying to go to college. Chloe had a sister who was at college and she gave her good ideas about how to handle boys and lovers situations. Everyone was also getting ready for prom and graduation. Chloe had a decision whether too break up with his old boyfriend, Eli, who knew nothing about the relationship going on between Julian and Chloe. Julian also seemed as a nice guy an...more
It was depressingly realistic, that life's topsy turvy and never works out the way you want it to. Life DOESN'T give you closure like a good book does. Life DOESN'T work out in a way that's satisfying. You just kind of have to grin and bear and deal with whatever life throws. Roll with the punches. Given the fact that I've been thinking about college and growing up lately, it was a good read. Unsettling, but good for me, I suppose.
-from inside flap-
During a weekend at Cartwright College for prospective freshmen to get to know the school, Chloe meets Julian, and they hit it off. Chloe is thrilled that when she starts school in the fall, she'll have a boyfriend there. The problem is, she can't tell Eli, the boy she's sort of going with but thinks of more as a brother.
In a novel told exclusively through e-mail, instant messages, letter, notes, and post-cards, award-winning author Ellen Wittlinger looks at how important commu...more
During a weekend at Cartwright College for prospective freshmen to get to know the school, Chloe meets Julian, and they hit it off. Chloe is thrilled that when she starts school in the fall, she'll have a boyfriend there. The problem is, she can't tell Eli, the boy she's sort of going with but thinks of more as a brother.
In a novel told exclusively through e-mail, instant messages, letter, notes, and post-cards, award-winning author Ellen Wittlinger looks at how important commu...more
This was a quick, easy, and fun read. The identities of who sent what were confusing at first (and the whole reason I didn't finish reading this 3 years ago), but the writing styles soon became recognizable. While parts were a bit predictable, I liked that it was a realistic representation of people's expectations on- and off-line.
Personal note: reread for proper evaluation.
A story told by e-mails, chats, letters, and surprisingly postcards (I never knew people actually use postcards...). Overall, the story was lacking. The whiny teenager business is just too trivial. I was more interested in Veev's part of the story. Most of the book just flew over my head.
A story told by e-mails, chats, letters, and surprisingly postcards (I never knew people actually use postcards...). Overall, the story was lacking. The whiny teenager business is just too trivial. I was more interested in Veev's part of the story. Most of the book just flew over my head.
A fairly entertaining story. The idea of the entire book just being emails and letters between characters was good but I felt sometimes the handwritten letters were way too hard to read so I may have missed sections. Got a littel tedious at times but overal an okay read.
Would appeal to young teenagers.
Would appeal to young teenagers.
This book was okay. I ended up hating Chloe - she is self-centered to the max. Julian got on my nerves aswell. I felt none of the characters were very lovable, causing me to give this story an "OK" for an interesting storyline. It was a time-passing read.
Will be transporting her to the CAYAS breakfast at WLA on Friday, so thought i should at least read a couple of her books :) This was pretty cute- written completely in letters and instant messages, authentic teen voices, good stuff.
I am a sucker for books told all in emails/chat/letters/etc, even though they are usually really gimmicky. This was just okay. I like that it didn't go for the cliched happily-ever-after ending.
tad bit slow @ the moment... cool concept though.. a lot like ttyl series by lauren myracle.
(lol im way to into this review thing, can you tell?)
.. ended up staying slow.. nowhere near as good as lauren myracle. sorry ellen wittlinger- your name isnt as cool either.
(lol im way to into this review thing, can you tell?)
.. ended up staying slow.. nowhere near as good as lauren myracle. sorry ellen wittlinger- your name isnt as cool either.
I wouldn't have liked it as much if it weren't told in letters but that always makes stories more interesting if there's not much going on in them. Plus, you get more than one point of view.
Written through emails and letters and IM's. I ended up hating just about all of the characters. The summer before a group of friends goes off to college. Don't recommend
This is an okay book about a group of friends conversing over email (and through snail mail) the summer before they go to college. Various break-ups and problems ensue.
Jan 22, 2009
Emily
rated it
3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
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BRILLIANT!!!
A great story of a girl and a boy from two completly different states and up bringing. About a lonnnnnnnggggggg summer, full of romance, marriage, love, friendship, excepting a loved ones sexual preference and all of this was shown in this book just by the emails, IM conversations and letters of the characters Chloe, Julian and Eli.
A very well written book in which I would have never guessed the ending. I was very shocked by it, because the I wasn't even able to guess what one of th...more
A great story of a girl and a boy from two completly different states and up bringing. About a lonnnnnnnggggggg summer, full of romance, marriage, love, friendship, excepting a loved ones sexual preference and all of this was shown in this book just by the emails, IM conversations and letters of the characters Chloe, Julian and Eli.
A very well written book in which I would have never guessed the ending. I was very shocked by it, because the I wasn't even able to guess what one of th...more
This was really interesting because everything was written in emails and I liked that part of it. The ending was a bit rushed and I wish there was a sequel.
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Ellen Wittlinger is the critically acclaimed author of the teen novels Heart on My Sleeve, The Long Night of Leo and Bree, Razzle, What's in a Name, and Hard Love (an American Library Association Michael L. Printz Honor Book, a Lambda Literary Award winner, and a Booklist Editors' Choice). She has a bachelor's degree from Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois, and an M.F.A. from the University...more
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