Life Love and the Pursuit of Free Throws edition by Janette Rallison Literature Fiction eBooks
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Josie loves hottie Ethan Lancaster, the captain of the basketball team, but she never can do or say the right thing in front of him. So how can it be fair that Ethan is only interested in her best friend, Cami, when Cami isn’t even trying for his affection? Or is she?
Cami dreams of winning her basketball team’s coveted MVP award, and earning the chance to take the court during a special halftime demonstration with WNBA star Rebecca Lobo, but her best friend, Josie, is a better player. So how can it be fair that Josie is a shoo-in for the honor if she is barely interested in basketball in the first place and isn’t even trying to be the best? Or is she?
Told from two points of view, this novel of freshman life, love, and the pursuit of free throws displays the same delightful humor as Janette Rallison's other comedies
Life Love and the Pursuit of Free Throws edition by Janette Rallison Literature Fiction eBooks
Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Free Throws was another cute and funny contemporary book by Janette Rallison. At first I was a little worried that this would have TOO much basketball—I don't like sports, like, at all.So, yeah, I was a little hesitant when I first started this book because of that. But it’s Janette Rallison, so I had to give it a shot! And I really liked it! While basketball was a pretty big part of the story, I didn’t have a hard time following things, which is what I was mostly worried about. I was very glad the focus wasn’t completely on this.
One thing I love most about Janette’s books is all the awkward situations she puts her characters through. I love it! And this book had a lot of that! My favorite was the escalator scene...
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“Hey this is the up escalator,” one guy told me.
Oh, really? And here I thought someone has installed Stairmaster exercise equipment in the middle of the mall.
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I just think about it and I start giggling. Babysitting little brothers, trying to impress her crush... sometimes it just doesn’t work out, and the result was hilarious! You guys just have to read it yourself!
Another thing I love about her books are the sweet romances. She is just so good a writing really sweet, clean romances. It’s so cute and I love it!
And I also really liked the characters—the girls and the ups and downs of their friendship, and them making new, unexpected friendships. I really liked the weird science partner Caroline, and also Frederick. They were so funny and I loved them!
This was a very fun read about the ups and downs of friendships and other relationships. It was so good! And very relatable too! I highly recommend Janette Rallison's books!
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Life Love and the Pursuit of Free Throws edition by Janette Rallison Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Not my favorite Rallison novel. It was still cute and I think it turned out well in the end. It was about Cami and Josie’s friendship and how they dealt with jealousy over a boy they both liked and their competition in basketball over making MVP.
Okay story.
The book has a number of anachronisms mixed with current day things. It feels as though it was written a couple of decades ago, and then an attempt was made to update it to present day. I think it would have been better if it had been left in the past; even though it wouldn't have been present day, it at least would have been consistent with itself.
Content clean. No sex or language.
I once read that Rallison prefers to write humor because teenagers already have enough angst. This was a perfect example of that. We meet Camilla and Josie, best friends who seem to have hit a bit of a friendship rut. But when a boy and a lifelong dream step in the middle of their friendship, things go awry and limits are tested.
I loved reading the perspective of both girls. And the dialogue was witty and clever, as always.
This story is about best friends and is written as a duel point of view of Josie and Cami. They both love to play basketball and are competing to meet WNBA star Rebecca Lobo. They also compete over the popular boy Ethan.
This story is right on for what it’s like to be a teenager girl. Maybe things are different these days but for me it echoed my experience growing up with best friends, sports, and boys. It’s written for a younger reader like junior high or freshman age but I still liked it and give it a 5 star review!
This was cute. I liked the focus on friendships here best and unexpected. The conflict is believable (they fight over a boy), and the parents' reactions were really good. I also liked the look at the different ways the girls approached sports and what that said about their personalities. All in all, a fun read.
3.5, but I will round up because I loved the lessons portrayed in the novel.
Romance, YA, clean.
Some youthful situations that are complicated. Trying to be the best you can be, but also looking out for friends, and watching out for a nemesis. The situations were interesting how they resolved and came together. The complications with school, friendship, idols, crushes, adversaries, and school work that came together with a fun conclusion at the end. I loved the romantic interest that was the chess friend's connection! It was such a fun conclusion to the romantic issues. Being kind to others and getting to know them was a great lesson that naturally evolved from a place where frustration and doubt began the situation. Perfect and fun that as they had friendship problems, and they tried to go on with life that these came together to pull them back to each other. Loved it!
At first I really didn't care for this book at all because of the main character, Cami. She was insecure and jealous of her friend, Josie, for reasons that Josie had absolutely no control over. Josie is pretty, Josie has a bigger family than I do I, Josie is better at basketball than I am....um, I'm sorry but grow up. She was whiny and mean and childish and over all, in my opinion, a really bad friend. Meanwhile Josie could have been a little less obsessed with her crush, Ethan, but was over all a great friend to Cami. So how does Cami repay this friendship? By talking and flirting with Ethan behind Josie's back. Now don't get me wrong, I don't think it was Cami's fault that Ethan 'liked' her, but the fact that she absolutely knew how much of a betrayal that was to Josie, and she still knowingly did it anyway? That was where my big problem came in. A true friend would have let her know about her feelings and what was going on before everything blew up.
Admittedly I figured out what Ethan was up to way early in the game, and I really didn't love the way Josie reacted when she found out that Cami had been spending time talking to Ethan, but it was fine. The second half of this novel was all pretty predictable and everything was wrapped up in a tidy little bow, and hand delivered with a side of new, cute love interest, but it still held my attention and I did like the ending. Aside from the several spelling errors and my extreme dislike for Cami for the first half if the book, I did end up liking it enough that I would try something else from this author.
Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Free Throws was another cute and funny contemporary book by Janette Rallison. At first I was a little worried that this would have TOO much basketball—I don't like sports, like, at all.
So, yeah, I was a little hesitant when I first started this book because of that. But it’s Janette Rallison, so I had to give it a shot! And I really liked it! While basketball was a pretty big part of the story, I didn’t have a hard time following things, which is what I was mostly worried about. I was very glad the focus wasn’t completely on this.
One thing I love most about Janette’s books is all the awkward situations she puts her characters through. I love it! And this book had a lot of that! My favorite was the escalator scene...
---
“Hey this is the up escalator,” one guy told me.
Oh, really? And here I thought someone has installed Stairmaster exercise equipment in the middle of the mall.
---
I just think about it and I start giggling. Babysitting little brothers, trying to impress her crush... sometimes it just doesn’t work out, and the result was hilarious! You guys just have to read it yourself!
Another thing I love about her books are the sweet romances. She is just so good a writing really sweet, clean romances. It’s so cute and I love it!
And I also really liked the characters—the girls and the ups and downs of their friendship, and them making new, unexpected friendships. I really liked the weird science partner Caroline, and also Frederick. They were so funny and I loved them!
This was a very fun read about the ups and downs of friendships and other relationships. It was so good! And very relatable too! I highly recommend Janette Rallison's books!
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