Today is the Stephanie Perkins’ day of my very own “Twelve days of Christmas” – reviewing one story per day from My True Love Gave to Me. So far I’ve reviewed Rainbow Rowell’s “Midnights”, “The Lady and the Fox” by Kelly Link, and Matt de la Peña’s “Angels in the Snow” and Jenny Han’s “Polaris is Where You’ll Find Me”. Stephanie’s story is called “It’s a Yuletide Miracle, Charlie Brown.”
Stephanie’s story was the one I was the most looking forward to (duh) and I wasn’t disappointed. At all. I mean, what can I really say? Obviously, I loved this story. It’s my favorite one I’ve read so far.
Marigold Moon lives in an apartment full of the boxes of their previous life with her mother, who works nights at a restaurant she owns. Across the street from her apartment is a Christmas tree lot, where a boy with an amazing voice works. When Marigold goes to ask him if he’ll narrate her video (okay, she kind of stalks him), she accidentally buys a Christmas tree. Amazing-voice-boy carries it to her apartment where he finds the hoarder-looking mess that’s inside. He decides to help and you can probably guess the rest.
Perkins has the uncanny ability to make me swoon with her stories and her characters and her words. I just love everything she writes. It’s sweet and lovely. This story was just perfect for the holiday season. I really like Marigold, too. She wasn’t whiny or annoying, but rather funny and a little awkward. And, of course, you know I liked North (yep, all the kids in his family have Christmas-y names). He’s big and strong and you wouldn’t expect him to like NPR, but he does. He’s nerdy and sweet aka swoon-central.
Alright, I’ll stop gushing. Here’s a quote I really liked:
It was nice to think that she might have a superpower, even a dumb one, hidden inside of her. What might it be?
Got me thinking. What’s mine? 🙂
Overall? Love, love, love.
I literally just put the book down from reading this story and YES SWOON! Stephanie Perkins is just wonderful. I could probably just read her stories alone for the rest of my life… ❤
Same. I just love her writing and her characters and everything. One of my favorite authors.
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Your superpower is super human reading speed, of course! I’ve told you before that you inhale books like Superman inhales sandwiches. 😛
Haha! So true.
I liked this one a lot. It probably ties with Midnights for #2, so far. My superpower is being able to find all the crap my kids lose (I inherited it from my mom). 😉
Haha. That’s an awesome superpower. I’m not sure what mine is. Being able to juggle all the things I’m involved in and still find time to read and sleep? Lol.
I haven’t read anything by Perkins, but this story sounds like an adorably lovely read and perfect for the season.
It really is. I just love her writing. It’s all really sweet and lovely.