I Was Here (Hardcover)(Large Print)

from cbrwn92

This book left me feeling sad the same way that watching one of my favorite love-stories on a day I need to cry does. It's the kind of sadness that echoes up through my heart and throat, leaving me more melancholic the more I think about it. The heartbreaking portrayal of a young woman left behin...

from seasonsoflove

"The day after Meg died, I received this letter." This is the opening sentence of Gayle Forman's I Was Here, and it is the premise from which the entire novel spins. The narrator, Cody, was Meg's best friend, but now Meg is dead. Meg committed suicide, and Cody never saw it coming. I Was Here is ...

from wagner.sarah35

A heartfelt story of a friend struggling to understand her lifelong best friend's suicide. Cody's journey to attempt to understand why Meg took her own life leads her deep into her best friend's world, where she meet her eclectic roommates, the boyfriend things didn't work out with, and the frien...

from oldblack

This is a book about youth suicide. For that reason, I think the author felt an obligation to leave the reader on a positive note. The overall impression of the book for me, however, was that it was romance, complete with unrealistically 'happy' ending. Reality would be somewhat different, I thin...

from wanderlustlover

I will always be a dyed-in-the-wool lover of everything Gayle writes. While I didn't feel this story as personally or emotionally as her two series before it, it was still an amazing growth through a death and surprise that I had never truly expected. I loved the awkwardness of the main character...