Book Beginnings " Love and Other Words "

 Every Friday I link to  Book Beginnings, a meme in which readers share the first sentence of a book they are reading, hosted by Gillion of Rose City Reader

I am trying to get back into the swing of things here so have been working on the blog everyday to get in the habit again. I always did Book Beginnings and enjoyed reading everyone's posts, so lets get started

I am in a group called Book Voyager, where six of us send a book and it changes hand everyother month until it gets back to the original sender. We vote on a genre every December and this year it was Romance ( Contempory ) So I have been reading LOVE AND OTHER WORDS BY CHRISTINA LAUREN. I have had this book on my shelf for a while, infact it is on my 25 for 25 challenge this year so I will be able to mark it off.../

" My dad was a lot taller than my mother- I mean a lot . He was six foot five and my mom was just over five foot three "

Ok I shared two sentences ...

So far I am really enjoying this book, and truthfully I have always enjoyed Christina Lauren books, so I am not sure why it has taken me so long to pick it up...guess I needed to be forced to read it. Here is the Goodreads Summary of the book:

Macy Sorensen is settling into an ambitious if emotionally tepid routine: work hard as a new pediatrics resident, plan her wedding to an older, financially secure man, keep her head down and heart tucked away.

But when she runs into Elliot Petropoulos—the first and only love of her life—the careful bubble she’s constructed begins to dissolve. Once upon a time, Elliot was Macy’s entire world—growing from her gangly bookish friend into the man who coaxed her heart open again after the loss of her mother...only to break it on the very night he declared his love for her.

Told in alternating timelines between Then and Now, teenage Elliot and Macy grow from friends to much more—spending weekends and lazy summers together in a house outside of San Francisco devouring books, sharing favorite words, and talking through their growing pains and triumphs. As adults, they have become strangers to one another until their chance reunion. Although their memories are obscured by the agony of what happened that night so many years ago, Elliot will come to understand the truth behind Macy’s decade-long silence, and will have to overcome the past and himself to revive her faith in the possibility of an all-consuming love.