Weekly Reads: Kindred Spirits

Kindred Spirits is a short story written by Rainbow Rowell for World Book Night in the UK. Emily was kind enough to gift me a copy and I devoured it. It was amazing, and left me wanting MORE! When can Rainbow and I be besties? That needs to happen asap.

My rating: 5 stars

Summary from goodreads:

If you broke Elena's heart, Star Wars would spill out. So when she decides to queue outside her local cinema to see the new movie, she's expecting a celebration with crowds of people who love Han, Luke and Leia just as much as she does. What she's not expecting is to be last in a line of only three people; to have to pee into a collectible Star Wars soda cup behind a dumpster or to meet that unlikely someone who just might truly understand the way she feels. Kindred Spirits is an engaging short story by Rainbow Rowell, author of the bestselling Eleanor & Park, Fangirl and Carry On, and is part of a handful of selected short reads specially produced for World Book Day.

Weekly Reads: My True Love Gave To Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

My True Love Gave To Me: Twelve Holiday Stories is an awesome book to get you into the holiday spirit! I received an e-ARC of this book to read and review honestly, and promote to my library customers if I enjoyed it.

I'm normally not a huge fan of short stories, because I feel like as soon as I get into the story, boom it's over. But I didn't feel like that with these short stories. Ok, I wished a few of them went much much longer, but I was still satisfied by them and their endings. My favorites were Stephanie Perkins' and Rainbow Rowell's. This is a great read for a wintery December day.

My rating: 4 stars.


Summary from goodreads:

If you love holiday stories, holiday movies, made-for-TV-holiday specials, holiday episodes of your favorite sitcoms and, especially, if you love holiday anthologies, you’re going to fall in love with MY TRUE LOVE GAVE TO ME: TWELVE HOLIDAY STORIES by twelve bestselling young adult writers, edited by international bestselling author Stephanie Perkins.