Friday, January 18, 2008

Fourth Comings by Megan McCafferty


I have followed this series since I worked in Southern Illinois and feel like I've grown up with Jessica Darling, the narrator of these books. In the first one, she was in high school and crushing on Marcus Flutie, the cute bad boy of the school. Now she is in her early twenties and all grown up. But, after a string of other guys, she's back to dating Flutie. But now he's a 23 year old freshman at Princeton with a full scratchy beard who practices aspects of Buddhism. Jessica is trying to make it in New York City. They don't mesh anymore. And so Jessica tries to break up with Flutie in his dorm room and he responds by asking her to marry him. Uh oh. The rest of the book are journal entries written by Jessica to be given to Marcus at the end of the week. She has a week to decide what she is going to do.

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