Love in 28 Days

Twenty-eight kinds of love, twenty-eight ways of loving, twenty-eight varied love stories in twenty-eight days.

Here’s Pachuvachuva’s bookish spin in this season of hearts.

Grab some coffee, sit back and relax as this is one very long post. 😉

DAY	CATEGORY	TITLE	AUTHOR	REASON
1	YA	Flipped	Wendelin van Draanen	Love/Hate/Love Relationship
2		Boy Proof	Cecil Castelucci	Who needs boys? Who needs friends? Apparently, she does.
3		Flavor of the Week	Tucker Shaw	Love + Food = Great Combo
4		Getting to Third Date	Kelly McClymer	Secret Crush
5		Royally Jacked	Niki Burnham	A royal match
6	Chick Lit	Almost Married	Tara FT Sering	Being contented with current relationship vs. Going after the greener grass on the other side of the fence
7		No Strings Attached	Mina V. Esguerra	May-December Affair
8		Drama Queen	Abi Aquino	“Seeing someone in a new light”
9		The Breakup Diaries	Maya O. Calica	Getting over a heartbreak
10		Wedding Season vs. The Best Day of Someone Else’s Life	Darcy Cosper Kerry Reichs	Always the bridesmaid, never the bride (or is it?)
11	With an Element of Fantasy	Legend	Jude Deveraux	Time Travel to right a wrong
12		The Frog King	Adam Davies	Based on the premise of “The Frog Prince”
13		The Princess Bride	William Goldman	S. Morgenstern’s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure
14		Dream Factory	Brad Barkley and Heather Hepler	A love story set in Disneyland (you can’t get any more magical than that)

Whew! Let’s take a breather, shall we? 🙂

Let me explain a bit how these books made our list.

Just because it’s Valentines and we want to be one in love with the world yet at the same time we wanted to do more than just the usual male/female angle to a love story that’s why our selection is quite eclectic. Somehow, there’s something for everyone. Hope you do like the books we’ll be reviewing.

Now on to the 2nd part of this very long list. ^_^

DAY	CATEGORY	TITLE	AUTHOR	REASON
15	Love Stories at the prime of one’s life	Julie and Romeo	Jeanne Ray	“Forbidden Love” as comical as Shakespearean tragedy
16		P.S. I Love You	Cecelia Ahern	Love beyond the grave
17		Must Love Dogs	Claire Cook	Middle-aged teacher gets back into the dating scene after divorce
18		The Brontë Project	Jennifer Vandever	Love á la Charlotte Brontë
19		Love, Rosie	Cecelia Ahern	Missed chances at true love
20	When culture influences love	The Hundred Secret Senses	Amy Tan	2 stories, 2 different times, 1 great element: love (Chinese)
21		Like Water for Chocolate	Laura Esquivel	Romance done Mexican style
22		The Journey of Om	Chandru Bhojwani	Getting over a heartbreak (Indian)
23		The Groom to Have Been	Saher Alam	Rebelling over arranged marriages (Indian)
24		Snow Flower and the Secret Fan	Lisa See	The test of friendship between 2 women (Chinese)
25		The Song of Songs	Sholom Aleichem	Taboo relationship between uncle and niece raised as brother and sister (Hebrew); also a picture book
26	Just different	The Love Curse of the Rumbaughs	Jack Gantos	A darkly comic tale of a son/daughter’s love for his/her mother
27		Love in the Time of Taffeta	Eugénie Olson	When photography, prom dresses and affairs with married bosses collide
28		Reluctant Burglar	Jill Elizabeth Nelson	FBI Agent falls in love with suspected art theft quarry

And why stop at 28 when you can go further?
That’s why we bring you this sweet extra.

29

Guide/Fun Stuff

Jane Austen’s Guide to Dating

Lauren Henderson

Who among Austen’s characters best mirrors your dating style?

So everyday for 28 days starting February 1st, we will be reviewing these days because we at Pachuvachuva are very much in love with everything books.
So stay tune for that. Who knows? We just might spring you with a giveaway or two. 😉
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The list presented is available in PDF format here.

The “L*ve only” image was edited in Adobe Photoshop using various brushes downloaded from the internet.
Image of books was taken using a Panasonic Lumix DMC-F2 © Pachuvachuva, 2011.