SIlence is so loud.

                Hey there readers!! Long time no blog huh? Well I am back!! I’m halfway through spring break, which means halfway through the spring semester at UW-Milwaukee, which is really, really exciting for me!! (Huge smiles going on here!! :-D) This semester had been tough and well my grades aren’t too bad, but who said taking biology, physics and chemistry was going to be easy?

*Crickets chirping*

Yeah exactly no one! However I still plan on getting through this summer with my head held high! Woohoo!

I have some really good books coming up here and I really hope you guys all enjoy reading them!!! These next few books are going to be from my favorite author Sarah Dessen. Dessen is a young adult writer and she has written several amazing books!! I always like to think of them as coming of age books. Most of her books follow a central female character that has to overcome a challenge in their life of some sort or another. All her books are amazing believable. A handful of them are even centered in the same “universe” so while you read one book you may accidentally come across a character from another book! I’m not going to lie, I geeked out the first time I noticed this. Yep, it’s official I am a nerd!

                Ok! So first book up on the Sarah Dessen spree is called Just Listen. Annabel Greene, is beautiful, popular, a model. One night at a party, a scary experience with her best friend’s boyfriend and she becomes ostracized from the life that she once knew. She has no friends, a modeling career she hates and on top of that one of her older sisters, Whitney, is suffering from anorexia.

By chance she befriends weird but handsome Owen. Owen is big and very much into music. Not just socially acceptable music but music in every sense of the word! He listens to water dropping, if he could. Through his want to enlighten her in musical tastes they become friends and in a sense he helps her overcome her demons.

This book is in itself of book of learning. That’s what is so great about Dessen’s books is that they give you something you can walk away with after having read it. For instance Annabel, the queen of people pleasing, learns from Owen how to stand up for herself and to say what she means. Her sisters Whitney and Kirsten help her learn that every situation has a different perspective based on the person whose eyes you are looking though. She also learns that all it takes is one moment to change everything, for the better or the worse. It can lead to forgiveness, it can lead to the loss of friends, and it can lead to the finding of love.

Read it and love it because I guarantee that that is what is going to happen!

Keep turning those pages!