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Summary: One Of The BEst Books I Ever Read
Review: I read this book when I was in school and have always remebered it. I lost my copy of the book and have always wanted another one. I was so happy when I found a copy on amazon. This is just one of those stories that you never forget. I am now 31 years old and can't wait to read it again. I HIGHLY Recommend this book !!! Also, check out the sequel which I just found out about, it's called "Learning To Love Again".
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Summary: P.S I Love You
Review: I read this book when I was younger, like 12 years old. I absolutely fell in love with it. Last night I watched a movie on Lifetime that reminded me of this book. The movie was about young love and the terrible loss of it. The young man was diagnosed with lymphma cancer, his girlfriend stood by him through all the treatments and fear,the young man did die in the end. It was almost as touching as this book. I am one of those who gets more feeling and emotion from reading than watching. My mother bought me this book when my grandmother had been diagnosed with cancer, it wasn't to help me better understand the disease, but to let me know that it was okay to be sad and to grieve when and if the time came and she passed. This book inspired me as a young adult and I have placed an order to get it so I will have when my daughter is old to enough to read it and understand. My grandmother did pass and I kept this book for many years, but it was lost in a move a few years ago. There are some people who would prefer to shelter their children from stories like this. I believe that in order for children to realize how precious time and life is, they should be able to expand their minds and emotions with books like this. This is a truly emotional and heart felt story, I may just have to read it again. I know I am a bit old to be reading a teenage love story but sometimes even adults need to be reminded of the way love and the world works.
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Summary: This book meant so much to me.
Review: I woke up from a series of dreams last night about this book! I felt compelled to look it up on Amazon. This book meant so much to me when I was younger...and I *loved* the sweet dreams series. It was just incredibly meaningful to me, and something every teen would love. I am now a mother and I wish I still had my copy..I will probably ask my younger sisters if they still have it so I can give it to my daughter.There was also a sequel, which I snatched up right away (back then) of course. I believe it was called Mariah's Song..though that may or may not be accurate. I want to thank Barbara Conklin from the bottom of my heart for having the courage to keep pushing to have it published, as I read above. And kudos to Sweet Dreams for recognizing a beautiful and poignant story. --Susan
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Summary: Memorable Story That Will Haunt You
Review: Mariah has all sorts of summer plans that ao awry when her parents get divorced. Now she is forced to help her mother with a summer job. She is really not looking forward to her summer and then suddenly she meets Paul. He makes everything all right in her life just because he's in it. It doesn't matter that her personal life is in limbo and things are changing, never to be the same. He helps her through it all. Then Mariah finds out Paul has cancer. Can Mariah help Paul through his ordeal that suddenly makes her problems seem so trivial? This is a beautiful story of first love coming at a time when a teenaged girl realizes what it is like to "have to grow up" and that nothing will ever be the same. I read this book for the first time quite a few years ago when I was 11 or 12. I can't tell you how many times I have re-read it since. This story has stuck in my mind and I reflected on it often. It's a great story and helps put what turns out to be minor, workable problems of a teenaged girl into perspective.
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Summary: Truly touching and memorable --- highly recommend!
Review: My best friend Lia and I started reading the Sweet Dreams series back in our high school days. P.S. I Love You touched us the most.We must've read it dozens of times and still cry at the very end. How we've dreamt of someday falling in love like Mariah and finding our very own Paul Strobe!Lia and I are still the best of friends and are now in our mid-twenties. That book is still well remembered and recommend it to the new generation of people hoping to find their own love story.
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Summary: My first "favorite" book.
Review: Of all the books I read as a teen, P.S. I Love You is one of the only ones I kept. I am now 28 years old and I still treasure the book every time I see it on my shelf. Barbara, if you are reading this, please know you touched a young heart many years ago.
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Summary: Why I wrote P. S. I LOVE YOU - born from my own experience
Review: Thank you, readers for your kind comments on P.S.I LOVE YOU. My novel was my first and sold to Bantam Publishers for the Sweet Dreams series. I'd been writing short romance for women's magazines for many years. One of the editors suggested that I might try a novel for young adults since I did well when writing in their voices. Now when I lecture on creative writing, I am always asked how I can crawl into the skin of a young adult, and writing in first person, create a true account. Some think it is because I have raised six children. Not so. I believe a part of me has never left that time in my life when I experienced the first of everything. That memory of young innocence has a very firm place in my heart. When I fell in love for the first time at age sixteen with a boy who was destined to go off to war, I recall thinking - you MUST remember every moment - you MUST NOT let this go. File it away so that you can pull it out anytime for the rest of your life. The boy was killed on Iwo Jima and so I was given my first experience of losing a loved one. When my teachers in my Creative Writing classes told me to write about something I knew, I chose this experience on losing a first love because I had lived it and knew it so well. This turned out to be a huge mistake as all of my rejections later proved. No one wanted to read of death, especially teens, the editors wrote back. Try us again with another theme, they said. But I would not give up. I believed in my novel. I had used fighting a disease in the novel, not the war, because I wanted it to be a plot the teens of today could relate to. Cancer is a real war, one that many young people face. I could not understand the editor's viewpoint. Teens love fantasy, but I believe they can handle reality too. They'd better - if they are going to be adults someday. Convinced that eventually someone would believe in the story, I kept sending it out, dreading the terrible sound of the thump on my front porch when each time the editors returned the manuscript. I remember shedding many tears when it came back one more time, but found the thump to be just a phone book. Persistence won out finally with a phone call from New York. Cloverdale Press had been engaged to find a first book for the Sweet Dreams series for Bantam. On the other end of the line, a voice was saying that they thought P.S. would be a good choice for the lead book. It was the start of a new career for me - writing novels exclusively for young adults. I wrote eight novels for that series and I am proud of all of them. The books are in fourteen languages. I still receive fan mail from all over the world and I answer every letter. But nothing lasts forever. Bantam has gone on with hundreds of new novels in other series and other independent titles. The old titles must make room on the shelves for the new ones and thus my novels are now out of print. Now I enjoy great letters from girls and guys who are fully grown and they write to say how much they enjoyed my work. What more can I ask out of life? Thanks again for your comments. Love always, Barbara P. Conklin
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Summary: "NoThiNg MaKeS a SuMmEr SpEciaL As FaLLiNg iN LoVe"
Review: This a touching book that all teenage girls must read. It brings you into the heart and mind of a teeneage girl who has just lost everything. . .but then falls in love. . .every teenage girl at one point or another. . .IS MaRiAh. Many may not relate to MaRiAh's situation, but will be emotionally attached to her story. P.S. I LOVE YOU. . .is the book that launched the world's favorite teen-age romances. . .*does Barbara Conklin have an EMAIL address?!*
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Summary: This book is awesome!
Review: This book is my all time favorite. i have read it 76 times!! it is so real, how all of us girls can relate, the feelings mariah has, has really been explained so well... this book is the best! i cry every time i read it not only because its sad, but because it is breath taking, buy this book!
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Summary: Great!
Review: This book was the first real romance book I read and I loved it! It has the compassion and heartache all teenagers go through and I should now because I am one!
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