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Always and Forever, Lara Jean by Jenny Han

Lara Jean is having the best senior year a girl could ever hope for. She is head over heels in love with her boyfriend, Peter; her dad’s finally getting remarried to their next door neighbor, Ms. Rothschild; and Margot’s coming home for the summer just in time for the wedding.

But change is looming on the horizon. And while Lara Jean is having fun and keeping busy helping plan her father’s wedding, she can’t ignore the big life decisions she has to make. Most pressingly, where she wants to go to college and what that means for her relationship with Peter. She watched her sister Margot go through these growing pains. Now Lara Jean’s the one who’ll be graduating high school and leaving for college and leaving her family—and possibly the boy she loves—behind.

When your heart and your head are saying two different things, which one should you listen to?




Review:

First of all, just in case you are not so familiar with Jenny Han. This book is the third installment starting with the first book To All The Boys I've Loved Before followed by the second book called P.S. I Still Love You. 

Holy Moly! Lara Jean and Peter K are baaaaaaaaaaaaaack in their Senior Year! Basically the book circles around the end of their high school life and their transition to college. Despite the fact that it is the end of their school year, there are still so much to be excited for like prom, senior week, college applications, graduation and beach week. The plot still revolved around Lara Jean and boyfriend, Peter Kavinsky's relationship and their struggles onto transitioning and coping up with the changes that comes along through the end and start of a new chapter in their life. A big event also happens in the Song-Covey household which is something to look forward to, and some side story involving Peter K as well. The book concluded the story of the couple pretty satisfying, I mean, no cliffhangers ahead. It's just that, personally I think the previous book are far more interesting than this one. That is why, for those of you who are new to the Lara Jean and+Peter K fambam, you might wanna start and read the story from the beginning to have a further understanding and deeper connection with the characters.But I think it's still very open for a 4th book? College Kavinsky and Covey please?

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     Hello Everybody! We can see on almost all social media platform the outrageous hype that the Netflix original series '13 Reasons Why' has been getting. With great attention comes great opinions, shall we say? People had been posting their comments on how actually helpful the show is to the viewers. And today, here I share to you my thoughts on the show.

      Personally, I found the series to be really helpful. I think the series aims to RAISE AWARENESS regarding the effects of social aspects to ones mental health. It is for us to know how the people around you who might seem okay on a day-to-day basis could be a potential suicidal without you knowing. It shows how ones mental health could be really really sensitive to the things people do and think as a norm. In that case, the series also teaches us the lesson of how things like bullying and sexual assault are being trivialized nowadays. People at your school could be a victim of bullying yet the students think it is funny and just doing it for fun, yet it can actually cause somebody to lose their stuff and sense of living.

      If the series showed content that could potentially trigger or influence suicidal tendencies, I guess they did it to show that COMMITTING SUICIDE is not easy. Suicide is not as simple as cutting your wrist, bleeding to death or even overdosing with pills. It is a tragic picture of death, pain and suffering. Also, it doesn't just end one life but could also stop and ruin the lives of people that cares about you that you don't even know about and won't know about if you commit suicide.

     This topic is quite sentimental for me since I suffered with great depression as well and may or may not thought about the idea of suicide, I mean I didn't try or thought of killing myself but the idea of it actually crossed my mind. I am not professionally diagnosed as depressed but tests actually showed I was. The only difference between me and Hannah Baker? I told someone about it. Although I cried myself to sleep every single night, he was there listening to my endless sorrow. I was lonesome, yet in front of my friends, I tell jokes and smile as bright as the sunshine. He always make sure that after the gallons of tears I lost that night I'd be hearing his encouragements, and that situation actually reminded me about my foundation because it truly tested the strength of my faith.

      One thing to keep in mind after watching the series, whether you might see it in a negative way or in a positive way, We need to be responsible for our actions and let us be sensitive about each other's mental health and wellness. We need to learn the lesson that the series wants us to learn.

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