Once And For All

Once And For All

YA fiction
"According to my mother, this was Rule One in dealing with this
kind of situation: don't project a problem. As in, don't ask if
anything is wrong unless you are certain something is, and as of right
now, I was not. Although a bride locking herself in the anteroom of
the church five minutes after the wedding was supposed to begin did
not exactly bode well."
Louna, protagonist of Sarah Dessen's Once And All, has seen
every kind of snag and near disaster that can threaten to defeat
matrimony. After all she's been a worker at her mother's wedding
planning business for quite awhile. So when her mom takes on an
unreliable, impulsive, and very flirty young man to keep him from
aggravating his (client) sister, she sees impending disaster. A
dognapping on his first day of work doesn't exactly reassure her.
Louna may be an expert on other people's romances. But she's
given up on one of her own. Her one and only love was killed
violently and unexpectedly. How can anyone else ever come close...
...it couldn't possibly be the disaster her mother's hired...
...you gotta read the book to find out. If you're a fan of
Sarah Dessen you will be quite pleased with her latest offering. If
you aren't yet...
...what are you waiting for?
On a personal note, the past two days of my life could be seen as sort
of a non romantic courtship. Higher Education HELLO was two days in
which accepted students could visit UMaine, learn more about the
program and school, interview for GAships, and see if this is our best
fit school. It is for me. I was so impressed with the faculty and
really loved the mock class and group exercise. On the second day
four interviews and my audition for the drag show which happened to be
that evening made for a sorta long day. It was a very worthwhile
experience.
A great big shout out goes out to the many people who made Higher Ed
HELLO such a success: faculty, admin, interviewers, current students,
and my fellow accepted cohort. I'd especially like to mention
Caroline, the GA who shepherded us through the whole process from
giving us lots of specific information and answering questions by
email to making sure we were all getting where we needed to and still
answering questions during the two days. I found her not only
informative, but highly reassuring and encouraging and the others I
talked to did also.
jules hathaway


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