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Just One Day (Just One Day, #1)

Gayle Forman

Start date: December 31, 2014

Finish date: January 31, 2015

Why we're reading this: January BOTM Themed Read 2015
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Mar 22, 2016 Marcella Curatolo rated it it was amazing

"We are born in one day. We die in one day. And we can fall in love in just one day."
I really loved Just One Day. I was so intrigued when I read what this book was about. I think everyone dreams of going on an adventure in Paris with a hot, foreign boy.

Our narrator is eighteen year old Allyson who is on a trip through Europe with a Teen Tours group. While sitting on the train with her best friend, she meets Dutch boy, Willem. He offers to take her to Paris for just one day, and she says yes.
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Jul 01, 2014 Cookielover rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, hollywood-make-this-a-movie, read-in-2014, no-words-for-this-pain, beautiful-mind-altering-fiction

I need some ice cream and the next book because I'm sobbing. What is THIS?
I fell in love with the first page, bunny-eared practically every other one, and thought i was going to shove this book in every living person's face. But i cant recommend this knowing it will cause even the most heartless people severe pain.
Probably indication that 98% of what i end up reading has an ending that borders on happiness and not this crushed, i-hate-reality thing thats going on inside me. I'm scared to read th ...more

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Mar 18, 2015 Lady Donato rated it really liked it

Just one day is a story about Allyson, she went to a European tour, a graduation gift from her parents. Allyson is going to attend college in Boston, she is a goody-two-shoes kind of girl and she always obeys her over controlling mother. She has a best friend named Melanie; she’s the opposite of Allyson. Anyway… They went to Europe and they decided to see a street play of Shakespeare’s “As you like it”. She met a guy there named “Willem”, he’s Dutch, and their group plays Shakespeare plays on th ...more

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Sep 20, 2014 fee rated it did not like it

Shelves: 2014-challenge

okay so he uses her, steals her watch and she then goes on a massive downward spiral. Great romance that is!

I really really really did not like this book

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