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Breakfast Served Anytime (2014)

by Sarah Combs(Favorite Author)

3.66 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0763667919 (ISBN13: 9780763667917)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Candlewick Press

review 1: I'm a sucker for diners and camp - so this book was kind of like finding a small slice of high school while reshelving books at work. This book was nothing like I expected it to be but in the best way possible. I was expecting your stereotypical formula of Girl goes to Camp. Girl meets Boy. Summer Camp Romance that melts with the changing leaves of the Fall. That's not what this book was about and I think it made me love it even more. I loved the characters - especially Calvin (I would jump on the Calvin bandwagon in a hot second). The whole experience that Gloria and her friends travel through is true and honest - those days that change everything, those friends who only spend a summer with but change your life, that one professor who spins your world on a different axis ... morefor a few weeks. But I loved that Gloria was wrong and she learned from it. Not in a whole earth shattering way but the way it happens when you spend that one summer at camp and grow up. And I loved the ending. It was a little corny the way it happened but what it said was real. I hate cookie cutter endings. I hate endings that go "happily ever after" and then nothing more. But this book ended just the right way, everything wrapped up, but not set, not storybook perfect, but enough.
review 2: This is a debut novel published in April, and I finally found the time to read it. I thoroughly loved this young Gloria, off to Geek Camp, a month without tech, before her senior year in high school. Within the group of four students, and the teacher, all begin to feel comfortable being their true selves, especially when they accept who the others “are”. Gloria faces additional challenges with her perky roommate Jessica, also not exactly what she first seems. It becomes a summer of learning for Gloria as well as the others in the story. Sarah Combs writes beautifully as she peels off the layers of each character, using the classes led by the teacher and the experiences of the group. Told with Gloria’s strong voice, it is a poignant read of that time just before a child leaps into adulthood. less

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