{"id":6326,"date":"2015-08-04T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=6326"},"modified":"2015-08-01T10:59:13","modified_gmt":"2015-08-01T15:59:13","slug":"second-chance-summer-by-morgan-matson-book-review-cant-run-away-from-sorrow-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=6326","title":{"rendered":"Second Chance Summer, by Morgan Matson (book review) – can’t run away from sorrow forever"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"book<\/a>Five years later,
\nnothing has changed,
\nyet everything has changed,
\nstill running away from hard choices.<\/p>\n

Should things that you did or said as a 12 year old still grab you by the gut?<\/p>\n

After 5 summers away, middle-child Taylor is not happy to be returning to the lake house where she’ll encounter Henry and Lucy and the unfinished business they all share.<\/p>\n

And the reason<\/a> that Dad wants a final family summer together is even worse…<\/p>\n

From the author of Since You’ve Been Gone<\/em>,\u00a0 another story of summer transformation, recommended here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Who should you connect with before those “thousand moments are gone”?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>:\u00a0Second Chance Summer \/Morgan Matson. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2012, paperback 2013. [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher via PulseIT.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: Stunned by her father’s sudden cancer diagnosis, Taylor must return to their lake house where her decisions as a tween alienated her from best friends…forever.<\/p>\n

Between her genius older brother and ballet star younger sister, Taylor feels so average. But the high school junior evidently has uncommon talent for avoiding tough emotional situations, like the ones she abandoned five years ago at the lake.<\/p>\n

Now Dad wants one last family summer together in the Poconos, to make the most of the few months he has left.\u00a0 Taylor knows that she’ll run into Henry (her first kiss!) and Lucy (best friend ever, until…), but this time, there’s no running away.<\/p>\n

Who wouldn’t embrace a second chance to mend a friendship or fall back in love?
\nWhat better time to appreciate parental strength and let them know it?
\nSo why is it all so hard for her?<\/p>\n

A life-changing Second Chance Summer<\/em>\u00a0 from the author of Since You’ve Been Gone<\/em>.\u00a0 (One of 6,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Five years later, nothing has changed, yet everything has changed, still running away from hard choices. Should things that you did or said as a 12 year old still grab you by the gut? After 5 summers away, middle-child Taylor is not happy to be returning to the lake house where she’ll encounter Henry and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[22,75,11,20,5,37,16,18,40,44,43,39,27,49,240,15,21,57,73,35,3,6,8],"class_list":["post-6326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-behavior","tag-brothers","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-friendship","tag-growing-up","tag-love","tag-medical","tag-memories","tag-pennsylvania","tag-relationships","tag-self-image","tag-sisters","tag-summer","tag-surprises","tag-teens","tag-travel","tag-us-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6326"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6426,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6326\/revisions\/6426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}