The Wind Blows Backward

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Summary: Awesome
Review: I reccommend anybody who love to read romance can read this book! IT specify every single character details so clearly that you can just know exactly who they are, without even meeting them! THere are so much that is happening in the story that you can just reflect this upon to reality!YOu cant be confused when you read it!
SO much to learn so much to experience it wil change your whole atttitudes on how you think about life and how true love really is! Love is not not a word but its something that is hiding beneath it and this book will tell it all! I will never get tired of this book and cant stand to let it go!
Way to go Mary, you have done a great job in your writing! I admire you greatly!

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Summary: A wonderful book.
Review: I read this book in the 7th grade when I was 13. I'm 15 now and I am planning to buy this book. It is a type of book that once you pick it up you can't put it down. I suggest that anyone who loves a good story should read this book.

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Summary: WoW
Review: This is my most fav. book. I picked it up at the library and read it, and loved it. Since, no other book ever compared to it. I actually bought it at the bookstore. I re-read it twice and I am emotionally attached to it! It's so real and so full of emotion. It makes you want to laugh and cry. This is the first and only book I have ever re-read and I have read hundreds of books, but never get tired of this one. A definate 5 starer.

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Summary: great Book
Review: I had to read this book for the summer reading program at school. This is a very romantic book and it deals with a boy who witnessed his father kill himself. Years later the boy (Spencer) has a great relationship with his girlfriend (Lauren) and worries about the fact that he could kill himself too. If anyone is bored and needs something to read I would recommend this book.

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Summary: Great Book
Review: I got interested in this book by first reading "Look For Me By The Moonlight". After that book I fell in love with Mary Hahn's books. I'm right in the middle of "The Wind Blows Backward" and I can't put it down. I love the way Mary shows reality to the characters. The unusual relationship between Spencer and Lauren is remarkably realistic in any couple these days. The shy Lauren trys and trys harder each time to ease the troubled Spencer's pain. With sex, drugs, and achohol, this book may be inappropriate for any one under 10-years-old. This book will keep you hanging off your seat reading page after page.

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Summary: A book I couldn't put down
Review: When I first read this book I thought it was boring because I didn't really get the plot but, I read it a year later and loved it. I fell in love with all the characters and I felt as if I was Lauren the way Spencer runs in the tree, I was scared and therefore I felt like I was Lauren and I would have done the same thing as her. She's brave and I would read this book over and over again!!!

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Summary: Great Book!!!!
Review: It all started on February afternoon when Lauren was leaning against a cart full of books in the library. Leaning on a bookshelf in the community library, Lauren was skimming through a novel and sinking into Dickinson's words. She forgot about everything around her and concentrated on this wonderful book she had picked up. Forgetting where she was, she sat there daydreaming when suddenly; Vanessa and Spencer were walking toward her. Before she knew it, she felt her face burning. Vanessa was one of the prettiest and the most popular girl in school. She was dating Spencer, who had been Lauren's best friend when they were younger. Spencer had grown up to be as handsome as a boy could ever get and had no time for quiet and bookish Lauren. Because Lauren wasn't very popular, Spencer didn't get along with her anymore, which was actually devastating for Lauren because she had cared very much about him. Downing slowly describes how the special friendship between Spencer and Lauren had evolved into love towards each other.
Lauren and Spencer are in senior year. Since Lauren misses that special friendship she had had with Spencer, she closes in on herself and doesn't ever talk to anyone because she thinks she will be rejected just as she was rejected by the person she loved with all her heart. Barely, Spencer makes a way back into Lauren's lonely life. Spending more time with her, going to study hall together and inviting her for ice cream, he makes Lauren wonder what is going on. Spencer even broke up with his beloved girlfriend, which no one thought would ever happen. Does this mean Spencer is falling in love with her? Lauren was ready to expect the unexpected.
Spencer shares his feeling and fears as well as his darkest secrets with her. Lauren doesn't take long to realize that Spencer was full of rage and haunted by intense mood swings. Will Lauren hang around as he destroys her life along with his?
The Wind Blows Backward is written by award winning author Mary Downing Hahn. It is a very strong book about love and how two passionate teenagers rely on each other. Narrated in first person, this book evolves slowly, but not leaving out any single detail. Downing makes the characters and setting seem so real that you might actually think you're there. It's and outrageous book on realistic fiction that I would recommend only to those who like to read about love and friendship.

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Summary: The Greatest of all Books
Review: A true love story! Once you start reading this book, you never want to put it down. It's about a girl named Lauren and a guy named Spencer. Lauren and Spencer date during Junior High and all is going well. When High School rolls around Spencer starts to change and hang out with the popular gang. He leaves Lauren behind and pretends like she isn't even there. Spencer has dark secrets from the past that he hasn't told anyone. It's making him have mood changes and it's driving him crazy. When he shares them with Lauren, she becomes worried about him. Spencer becomes part of Lauren's life again because she is the only one he can trust. Lauren thinks all is going well until something happens to Spencer! Read this book to find out exactly what happens to Spencer and how Lauren learns to deal with everything.

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Summary: Pretty good.
Review: Lately these days it seems I've outgrown Mary Downing Hahn -- I loved her books when I was ten but they seem too young for me now. However this book is an exception, possibly because the two main characters are 17 and 18.
All the characters are well-drawn. Spencer's depression is very realistic; I've been down that dark path before, and I know how he feels, though I don't know anybody who's committed suicide. I was on the edge of my seat towards the end, after he crashed his motorcycle, hoping desperately that he would live. I like poetry too; I understand Spencer's and Lauren's affection for it. All and all a good book, suitable perhaps for 13 and up.

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Summary: Wow!
Review: This is my all time favorite book. I have two copies. I read it over and over and over, and I never get tired of it. Every single word in this book is interesting. Usually, I skip words in other novels, but I read every single word of this book, because it is a masterpiece. Every girl on this world would love this book with a passion. I wish they would make it into a movie, it would be a hit. I love this tale of love and it will always be my #1.