International Students Guide: Romance

Eleanor is the new girl in town and her wild red hair and patchwork outfits are not helping her blend in.She ends up sitting next to Park on the bus. They sit in awkward silence every day until Park notices that Eleanor is reading his comics over his shoulder; he begins to slide them closer to her side of the seat and thus begins their love story. Set over the course of one school year, this book is this is the story of two teenagers, Eleanor and Park who are smart enough to know that first one almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try.

Can you truly love someone regardless of what they look like on the outside? Each day, A becomes a different person, and for that day, A becomes a girl, boy, or whatever that person is. A doesn’t have the feelings of that person, just the memories. That all changes the day A wakes up as Justin and falls in love with his girlfriend, Rhiannon. She has been in this dead almost-one-sided relationship with Justin a year now, and A feels a pull towards her and simultaneously feels for her. So, when the next day brings a new body, a new life, A starts breaking self-made rules to chase her. Creative and inspiring, this story is not just about love but about people .. All kinds of people in all kinds of scenarios, with different lives and in different environments. It's a wonderful book about what it means to be human?

Life. Death. Love.- Which would you choose? When Dylan emerged from the wreckage of a train crash, she meets a strange boy who seems to be waiting for her. His name is Tristan, but he is no ordinary. Soon, Dylan will find herself traveling across the desolate, wasteland towards the unknown. A perilous journey through the afterlife, a budding love story up against pretty tough odds, Ferryman is an absorbing story about challenges and emotions – abandonment, fear, pain, trust, courage, love - all explored without the constraints of everyday life.

Before meeting Will, Louisa’s plan didn’t reach beyond the tiny English town. Will, on the other hand, is far more adventurous, climbing scaling mount and leaping from planes until he is paralyzed due to an accident. When Will’s mother hires Louisa to keep his spirits up, Will finds himself surprisingly attracted to Louisa’s awkward overtures. Their fondness grows into something deeper, gaining urgency when she realizes his determination to end his life, and her efforts to convince him of its value throw her own bland ambitions into question. Me Before You brings to life two people who couldn’t have less in common and bears the question, What do you do when making the person you love happy also means breaking your own heart?

At 16, Hazel Grace Lancaster, a three-year stage IV–cancer survivor, is clinically depressed. To help her deal with this, her doctor sends her to a weekly support group where she meets Augustus Waters, a fellow cancer survivor, and the two fall in love. Both of them are preternaturally intelligent, and Hazel is fascinated with a novel about cancer called An Imperial Affliction. Most particularly, she longs to know what happened to its characters after an ambiguous ending. To find out, the enterprising Augustus makes it possible for them to travel to Amsterdam, where Imperial’s author lives. The story is deeply moving, especially when watching the characters fall in love as they face universal questions of the human condition--How will I be remembered? Does my life, and will my death, have meanings?