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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/226666.PS_I_Love_You?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="PS, I Love You" border="0" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172871524m/226666.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/226666.PS_I_Love_You?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">PS, I Love You</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7116.Cecelia_Ahern">Cecelia Ahern</a><br/><br/>
  <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32395045?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a>
  rating: 2 of 5 stars<br/>     I really liked the movie even though it's not traditionally my style. When I saw that the movie was inspired by a book I decided to pick up the book. Wow are they different!! The movie shouldn't even have the same title, so don't expect the same stories at all if you decide to see the movie based on the book, or read the book because you saw the movie.
<br/>     With that said, the book starts off for me rather weakly. the writing wasn't particularly mature, there was definitely some revisions or growth that needed to occur. Everybody seemed to have sparkling or gleaming eyes for one instance of just too much of the same. I felt like she was trying to be descriptive and also drop hints or be sly, but it never quite worked out. The more she wrote the better the book got, although she seemed to abandon the focus on the list. And some of the time, time doesn't add up, for instance she gets her job one week before a letter, but then waits three weeks to tell the reader what happened when in the beginning she was focused on these letters. I understand this may have been her trying to show her character slowly moving on with her life, but I never felt the character in her relationships was growing past the letters. I didn't hate the book I just felt it really needed some development for writing style and technique. 
<br/>     The author shows serious writing potential, and the overall story was touching. I wish the movie could have had more family dynamic like the book. I really enjoyed the relationships between Holly and her family and friends in the book. Definitely an entertaining read, that for me became more engaging as I read it showing her growth as a writer. The book was neither the best book for me or the worst, I'm sure some will love it, some will hate it, and some like me will be in between, you'll just have to read it for yourself to decide.
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bookshelves: read-this-within-last-year
status: Read in September, 2008, read count: 1

I really liked the movie even though it's not traditionally my style. When I saw that the movie was inspired by a book I decided to pick up the book. Wow are they different!! The movie shouldn't even have the same title, so don't expect the same stories at all if you decide to see the movie based on the book, or read the book because you saw the movie.
With that said, the book starts off for me rather weakly. the writing wasn't particularly mature, there was definitely some revisions or growth that needed to occur. Everybody seemed to have sparkling or gleaming eyes for one instance of just too much of the same. I felt like she was trying to be descriptive and also drop hints or be sly, but it never quite worked out. The more she wrote the better the book got, although she seemed to abandon the focus on the list. And some of the time, time doesn't add up, for instance she gets her job one week before a letter, but then waits three weeks to tell the reader what happened when ...more

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