Sweet and sad, this book took me nearly a month to read. The characters were well developed and the author gave almost all of them some good quality.

I recommend it.

Again, I read this book because of the upcoming (at the time) movie that was based on it. I loved the book and the movie was just fine, except the movie was much more upbeat than the book, especially the ending.

Barely worthy of a blog post, this smaller than a small novella was free. It was a prequel to another Allen book — I don’t remember which one.  I only counted it because I was desperate for books on my reading challenge list.