Anna and the French Kiss By Stephanie Perkins

Overview:

Anna is looking forward to her senior year in Atlanta, where she has a great job, a loyal best friend, and a crush on the verge of becoming more. Which is why she is less than thrilled about being shipped off to boarding school in Paris - until she meets Etienne St. Clair: perfect, Parisian (and English and American, which makes for a swoon-worthy accent), and utterly irresistible. The only problem is that he's taken, and Anna might be, too, if anything comes of her almost-relationship back home.

As winter melts into spring, will a year of romantic near - misses end with the French kiss Anna - and readers - have long awaited?

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My Thoughts:

I liked the book, it was a very light and breezy read, albeit a little unrealistic. Then again, the main reason I read books is to escape from reality, so that was good! I mean who wouldn't have loved to go to a boarding school in Paris!!
Alas, "If wishes were horses, beggars would ride!"

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Memorable Lines:

...home isn't a place. It's a person.
Boys turns girls into such idiots.

Why is it that the right people never wind up together? Why are people so afraid to leave a relationship, even if they know it's a bad one?

How many times can our emotions be tied to someone else's - be pulled and stretched and twisted - before they snap? Before they can never be mended again?

There’s only one thing I don’t love about him. Her.

I ask myself, if the worst happened—if I did get knocked up-would I be embarrassed to tell my child who his father was? If the answer is anywhere even remotely close to yes, then there's no way.

And friends don't let other friends make drunken declarations and expect them to act upon them the next day.

Sometimes I think there are only so many opportunities...to be together with someone. And we've both screwed up so many times that we've missed our chance.

It's ridiculous how difficult a question can be when the answer means so much.