This book has been sitting on my TBR shelf for over a year, and after I cruised through Calvin (review), I wanted something a little bit light. This was just right!
Love & Other Foreign Words is about a brilliant (no, literally– she has a genius IQ at age 15), overly-honest girl named Josie as she learns to navigate love in light of her older sister’s impending wedding to a man Josie can’t stand. Josie starts with a younger voice than I usually am drawn to in YA, and in fact, a few pages in, I almost put it down to try something else. But then I got drawn into her voice and the story and actually stayed up to finish it in the same night.
I could absolutely understand the main storyline about Josie feeling like she was losing her sister Kate to a man she (Josie) didn’t like. Note: I LIKE MY FRIENDS’ HUSBANDS, but it’s sort of the story of my life to continually “lose them” to a man and feel jealousy (hey I want my friend back) and envy (hey I want a man too) while watching them fall in love. So I understood that.
I also knew which boy I wanted Josie to end up with, but unfortunately, this guy didn’t have as many scenes as I would have liked!
The time period this book covered was interesting: spring of junior year, summer, and fall of senior year. You could see Josie grow and hear it in her voice too.
A fun, light read that was just what I needed this week.
JACKIE LEA SOMMERS 
Interesting. I had a very different reaction to this book. I had a hard time with the voice and the sister relationship really got under my skin. But you aren’t the first person in my life who’s loved it, so probably just something funny about me that didn’t connect with it.
Oh, I wouldn’t say I loved it. I had a hard time with Josies voice and I thought the lack of Stu scenes was a huge missed opportunity. I always want more romance, lol! But I enjoyed reading it.