The Running Bibliophile

California Girl (Sweet Dreams # 6) by Janet Quin-Harkin is part of the teen romance book series, Sweet Dreams . The books in this series are written by different authors and rarely have anything to do with any of the other books in the series. The one exception to this that I'm aware of is P.S. I Love You (Sweet Dreams # 1) and Falling In Love Again (Sweet Dreams # 23) , both written by Barbara Conklin. I fell in love with the Sweet Dreams teen romance books in middle school after discovering them at the school book fair. They ended up being very hard to find at the libraries . . . the school library and the public library branches didn't have any of these books to check out. And, I had trouble finding them in local bookstores, so whenever I came across one, I had to buy it.  In California Girl , we meet Jennie, who is an aspiring Olympic swimmer and has just recently moved to Texas. Absolutely miserable with her new swim team and new school, all Jennie wants to...

Has a book ever impacted you so deeply while growing up that you desperately wanted a sequel? P.S. I Love You (Sweet Dreams, # 1) by Barbara Conklin was one of those books for me. I recently checked out the reviews for P.S. I Love You on Goodreads.com, and much to my surprise, a couple of people mentioned that there was a sequel.  I immediately began searching for Falling In Love Again (Sweet Dreams, #23) by Barbara Conklin on Barnes & Noble and Amazon, my usual go-to sites for used books. Both sites listed the book as temporarily out of stock, which was the second time I’d run into that issue while hunting for a used title. At that point, I was starting to panic because I really wanted to find out what happened next. Then I remembered I’d previously ordered a few used books from ThriftBooks. I searched their site but couldn’t find the book at first. After adjusting my search terms, I finally located three available copies. Unfortunately, all of them were listed in onl...