Love and Other Foreign Words

from readingbeader

Not what I expected at all. So much more than I expected. Yeah! I went into this book thinking I would be getting a romance. Nope. This is more like realistic fiction. Josie is gifted, straddling two worlds: high school and college, fitting into neither of them well, and like many gifted kids, sh...

from rvhatha

I have to begin this review with the disclaimer that I know the author, Erin McCahan, and grew up in the town she describes in this novel...so I was predisposed to love this book. But even if that wasn't the case, I would have enjoyed this novel. The comparisons to John Green and Rainbow Rowell a...

from whitreidtan

I don't often read a lot of YA novels but every once in a while I find one so enticing that I have to read it. Either the premise is fantastic, my teenaged daughter has raved about it, or others who read similarly to me have said it's well worth the time. Erin McCahan's new novel, Love and Other ...

from nbmars

This author spices up a very predictable plot with entertaining snappy dialogue. Josie Sheridan is 15 and intellectually gifted. She takes classes at both high school and the local college, as does her best friend and neighbor, Stu Wagemaker, who is 16. Stu dates a lot of girls but never stays wi...

from BookDivasReads

Being a teenager is difficult. Being a gifted teenager that attends college and high school makes things more difficult. Being a gifted teenager that will graduate at age sixteen with a host of quirks or idiosyncrasies just makes you weird. Josie is just that teenager. Just when she feels as if s...