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If I Stay by Gayle Forman
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If I Stay (edition 2010)

by Gayle Forman

Series: If I Stay (1)

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While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weighs whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.
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Title:If I Stay
Authors:Gayle Forman
Info:Speak (2010), Edition: Reprint, Paperback, 320 pages
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If I Stay by Gayle Forman

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    weener: I was reading If I Stay, and I thought, "I recognize those grown-up punker parents. It's just like the Hopeless-Savages!"
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I just finished this last night a very sad but quick read... if you had to choose between living alone and dieing with your family would You stay
  b00kdarling87 | Jan 7, 2024 |
If i stay review: This is one of the few books that I think the movie may actually be better. This book had such a cool storyline and narrative that I think will be very lovely when shown on film. The book told a fun story but many times I felt mia was emotionless and i get the she was a ghost but it almost felt like her personality was gone or still with her body. 
 
I loved her being on her own and not having any guides because It really felt like the book was in her head and also created by her. I also enjoyed the back and forth and seeing the Adam and Mia fall in love. The only thing I wish was that story was told more in earliest to latest order cause at points it really did confuse me. 
 
I also thought the book was so short! I felt like right when it was getting good the book ended. I know that there is a next book but I felt like this book could have been a little bit longer.
 
I do think the I will pick up the next novel and will like the one a little bit better as well.
http://youtu.be/x1w4CdA02gY
 
 
 
 
 
 
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  lmauro123 | Dec 28, 2023 |
If i stay review: This is one of the few books that I think the movie may actually be better. This book had such a cool storyline and narrative that I think will be very lovely when shown on film. The book told a fun story but many times I felt mia was emotionless and i get the she was a ghost but it almost felt like her personality was gone or still with her body. 
 
I loved her being on her own and not having any guides because It really felt like the book was in her head and also created by her. I also enjoyed the back and forth and seeing the Adam and Mia fall in love. The only thing I wish was that story was told more in earliest to latest order cause at points it really did confuse me. 
 
I also thought the book was so short! I felt like right when it was getting good the book ended. I know that there is a next book but I felt like this book could have been a little bit longer.
 
I do think the I will pick up the next novel and will like the one a little bit better as well.
http://youtu.be/x1w4CdA02gY
 
 
 
 
 
 
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  lmauro123 | Dec 28, 2023 |
Sadly I did not like this book. Video review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SOGt0xwtec ( )
  VanessaMarieBooks | Dec 10, 2023 |
I thought this was a great read. It was very tragic and frustrating at times, but it was still hauntingly, and heartbreakingly, beautiful. Not going to lie, I teared up while reading it. This is one of those books that you want to see as a movie. This book would make a perfect movie, the ways it’s written, All the flashbacks. I could see it being portrayed with so much emotion and being kind of a dark film.

I loved all the name drops and references. I loved how unique her family was, but yet so normal at the same time. I loved how her and her boyfriend were so different but so happy together. This book left me thinking about it days after I finished reading it. It’s definitely one that sticks with you. ( )
  earthglows | Nov 18, 2023 |
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If you want a story that really grabs at your heart this is perfect. Mia is a teenager who plays cello which comes almost natural to her. She even auditioned for Julliard . I really should have read this one at a better time than on a road trip. Considering the first chapter puts you right into a horrific car crash after a great morning with her family trying to decide what to do on their snow day. When I grabed this book I kind of just scimmed through it not really knowing what I was really in store for. During the car crash scene I had to stop several times because of the gore and pain I felt reading this. Of course I don't think it help stoping either for a while because every time my husband had to change lanes i was cringing inside, I'm just glad it wasn't snowing. I had to get back into the story because I just had to know what was going to happen to Mia.
The parnormal effect in this book was perfect, She was an apparition standing in the whole time looking over her life from the outside looking in. She was in a coma and heard everything but was unable to do anything. She had to decide whether to go with her family she lost or stay with the ones left be hide. Every character in this story I loved from the quite grandfather to the punk rocker boyfriend. I loved the flash backs of her family they made the book even more enjoyable. This story had me on the verge of tears several times. I was begging Mia to just stay the whole time. If this happen to me I think I would have a really hard time choosing. I will be reading this one over and over again!
 
Via Mia's thoughts and flashbacks, Forman (Sisters in Sanity) expertly explores the teenager's life, her passion for classical music and her strong relationships with her family, friends and boyfriend, Adam. Mia's singular perspective (which will recall Alice Sebold's adult novel, The Lovely Bones) also allows for powerful portraits of her friends and family as they cope: Please don't die. If you die, there's going to be one of those cheesy Princess Diana memorials at school, prays Mia's friend Kim. I know you'd hate that kind of thing. Intensely moving, the novel will force readers to take stock of their lives and the people and things that make them worth living.
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While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weighs whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.

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On a day that started like any other… Mia had everything: a loving family, a gorgeous, adoring boyfriend, and a bright future full of music and full of choices. Then, in an instant, almost all of that is taken from her. Caught between life and death, between a happy past and an unknowable future, Mia spends one critical day contemplating the one decision she has left—the most important decision she’ll ever make. Simultaneously tragic and hopeful, this is a romantic, riveting and ultimately uplifting story about memory, music, living, dying, loving.
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