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Principles of Love #2
Piece, Love, and Happiness
Summer is over and it's almost time for Love to go back to school. But her Aunt Mable's still acting weird, her Dad (a.k.a. principal of her prep school) is preoccupied, her ex is exiled in Europe, and former friends like Cordelia have bonded with the evil Lindsay Parrish. Now, Love's playing host to the new exchange student from London, Arabella Piece, who has some secrets of her own. Love's certainly been distracted by the boys of summer, but she has to watch what she says because it seems like everyone's got something to hide lately-including herself.
207 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 2005
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Emily Franklin
35 books146 followersGrowing up, Emily Franklin wanted to be “a singing, tap-dancing doctor who writes books.”
Having learned early on that she has little to no dancing ability, she left the tap world behind, studied at Oxford University, and received an undergraduate degree concentrating in writing and neuroscience from Sarah Lawrence College. Though she gave serious thought to a career in medicine, eventually that career followed her dancing dreams.
After extensive travel, some “character-building” relationships, and a stint as a chef, Emily went back to school at Dartmouth where she skied (or fished, depending on the season) daily, wrote a few screenplays, and earned her Master’s Degree in writing and media studies.
While editing medical texts and dreaming about writing a novel, Emily went to Martha’s Vineyard on a whim and met her future husband who is, of course, a doctor. And a pianist. He plays. They sing. They get married. He finishes medical school, they have a child, she writes a novel. Emily’s dreams are realized. She writes books.
Emily Franklin is the author of two adult novels, The Girls' Almanac and Liner Notes and more than a dozen books for young adults including the critically-acclaimed seven book fiction series for teens, The Principles of Love. Other young adult books include The Other Half of Me the Chalet Girls series, and At Face Value, a retelling of Cyrano de Bergerac (coming in September 2008).
She edited the anthologies It's a Wonderful Lie: 26 Truths about Life in Your Twenties and How to Spell Chanukah: 18 Writers Celebrate 8 Nights of Lights. She is co-editor of Before: Short Stories about Pregnancy from Our Top Writers.
Her book of essays and recipes, Too Many Cooks: Kitchen Adventures with 1 Mom, 4 Kids, 102 New Recipes ~ A Memoir of Tasting, Testing, and Discovery in the Kitchen will be published by Hyperion.
Emily’s work has appeared in The Boston Globe and the Mississippi Review as well as in many anthologies including Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes, When I Was a Loser: True Stories of (Barely) Surviving High School by Today's Top Writers, and Because I Love Her: 34 Women Writers on the Mother-Daughter Bond. Emily writes regularly about food and parenting for national magazines and newspapers. She travels, teaches writing seminars, and speaks on panels, but does not tap dance. Emily Franklin lives outside of Boston with her husband and their four young children.
Having learned early on that she has little to no dancing ability, she left the tap world behind, studied at Oxford University, and received an undergraduate degree concentrating in writing and neuroscience from Sarah Lawrence College. Though she gave serious thought to a career in medicine, eventually that career followed her dancing dreams.
After extensive travel, some “character-building” relationships, and a stint as a chef, Emily went back to school at Dartmouth where she skied (or fished, depending on the season) daily, wrote a few screenplays, and earned her Master’s Degree in writing and media studies.
While editing medical texts and dreaming about writing a novel, Emily went to Martha’s Vineyard on a whim and met her future husband who is, of course, a doctor. And a pianist. He plays. They sing. They get married. He finishes medical school, they have a child, she writes a novel. Emily’s dreams are realized. She writes books.
Emily Franklin is the author of two adult novels, The Girls' Almanac and Liner Notes and more than a dozen books for young adults including the critically-acclaimed seven book fiction series for teens, The Principles of Love. Other young adult books include The Other Half of Me the Chalet Girls series, and At Face Value, a retelling of Cyrano de Bergerac (coming in September 2008).
She edited the anthologies It's a Wonderful Lie: 26 Truths about Life in Your Twenties and How to Spell Chanukah: 18 Writers Celebrate 8 Nights of Lights. She is co-editor of Before: Short Stories about Pregnancy from Our Top Writers.
Her book of essays and recipes, Too Many Cooks: Kitchen Adventures with 1 Mom, 4 Kids, 102 New Recipes ~ A Memoir of Tasting, Testing, and Discovery in the Kitchen will be published by Hyperion.
Emily’s work has appeared in The Boston Globe and the Mississippi Review as well as in many anthologies including Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes, When I Was a Loser: True Stories of (Barely) Surviving High School by Today's Top Writers, and Because I Love Her: 34 Women Writers on the Mother-Daughter Bond. Emily writes regularly about food and parenting for national magazines and newspapers. She travels, teaches writing seminars, and speaks on panels, but does not tap dance. Emily Franklin lives outside of Boston with her husband and their four young children.
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February 21, 2011
I wa really hoping that this book would wrap up some of the open items from the first book. Instead, it just dragged then out
February 7, 2017
Rounded up from a 3.5. What I really love about this series is how every book is like an episode and that you get a segment of Love's life. This really set the pace for Love from London which I'm excited to start. Again, there are some plots that are breezed through (like Love and Charlie) but I'm hopeful they arise again in later books. Would recommend this to teens or young adults.
September 22, 2008
**SPOILERS**
Pretty darn awesome for a sequel. I'm still thinking it gave us more questions than answers, but I'm okay with that, because I'm definitely eager to read the third book. The twist with Mable was really unexpected, but between that and Chris's gayness, I love how it deals with real-life issues, more so even than most YA books. It's refreshing. Love is juggling way too many guys, and please tell me I wasn't the only one scared of an awkward Love/Chris hookup? Creepyness. I'm still hopelessly in love with the Love/Jacob pairing, but I don't like the way it seems to be heading. Charlie and Henry are just way too many added [boring] complications. JACOB FTW! I'm still totally intrigued by the story of her mother, and I want answers probably almost as much as Love does. We got some info here, but I still want the whole story, and I hope Emily Franklin doesn't just give us some info per book, I want the whole story in a big chunk! I want to know what happens to Mable. And the personal ad? Haha, crazy stuff! Really, can't wait to get my hands on Love from London.
Pretty darn awesome for a sequel. I'm still thinking it gave us more questions than answers, but I'm okay with that, because I'm definitely eager to read the third book. The twist with Mable was really unexpected, but between that and Chris's gayness, I love how it deals with real-life issues, more so even than most YA books. It's refreshing. Love is juggling way too many guys, and please tell me I wasn't the only one scared of an awkward Love/Chris hookup? Creepyness. I'm still hopelessly in love with the Love/Jacob pairing, but I don't like the way it seems to be heading. Charlie and Henry are just way too many added [boring] complications. JACOB FTW! I'm still totally intrigued by the story of her mother, and I want answers probably almost as much as Love does. We got some info here, but I still want the whole story, and I hope Emily Franklin doesn't just give us some info per book, I want the whole story in a big chunk! I want to know what happens to Mable. And the personal ad? Haha, crazy stuff! Really, can't wait to get my hands on Love from London.
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July 15, 2007
Fall in love with Love Bukowski. She's rich (the $600 pants were denied her but we assume anything under that would be fine), intelligent (and with pressure too--her Dad's the president of her prep school), and gorgeous (this is abundantly clear by every edible guy within three years of her age and three continents of her location eying her with open, albeit ambiguous, how-on-earth-should-she-interpret-that interest). But just try to hate her with her peppy dialog, witty insights, and genuineness. While not abounding in moral lessons and peppered lightly with cussing, this book is a light fun read. Enjoy!
September 3, 2007
really good book in a great series, 2nd in the series
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March 5, 2019DNFed it.
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