Prep

After taking a break from Lovely Bones, I started a new book called Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld to begin our women author unit. I don't really know if I like it yet because it started out extremely chilche about a new girl arriving to a new school, so I have yet to see if I will stick with it.

The book begins getting right into school and the "new girl" scene where Lee Fiora is in the middle of Ancient History and misread the topic she had, doing the same exact one as the presentation before her. She ends up stuttering, choking up, and running in the bathroom to cry only to find Gates Medkowski-a prefect in school aka, the most popular and prettiest girls in school. However, Sittenfeld did not characterize her as the popular mean girl, but the popular NICE girl. Not entirely what you expect at Ault private school. After her incident, Lee arrives back at her dorm to find her roommate Dede, who comes across as the stuck up, preppy type. Dede has her money stolen, and alerts her whole dorm level to confess who found it. Gates who is also in their dorm asks "If somebody can keep their pubic hair out of the sink, that would be thoughtful", which was completely uncalled for.

Lee soon discovers Little Washington, probably the only black girl that went to Ault. Lee found her to start becoming her friend. (At first, Lee did not even want to go to this school, but because she was academically gifted, her parents made her). For the rest of what I've read, her and Little talk about their lives, and how Little and Gates play varsity basketball. Then going to the bathroom, Lee finds that it's Little head hairs that are in the sink and she feels really embarrased.

I feel like I just wrote a bunch of nothing. I pretty much have no idea what is going on, or where this story is going. But if it doesn't show a plot by the next couple of pages, I'll probably end up switching books. I need an interesting read for me to enjoy reading..

With their Eyes (end)/The Lovely Bones (chapter 1)

Yay, I finished a book!!! With their Eyes, there are so many words that I can say to describe that book. But there is one that really stands out, inspire. That book touched me in so many ways; I literally laughed, cried, smiled, felt a pit in my stomach, everything. The kids who spoke those words made me feel like I could actually be there and feel what they felt 8 years ago--despite the fact I was 8 years old when the towers collapsed. When reading it, I don't know if this is strange or not, but it really bothered me when people came up and told me their "problems" because these people and students went through so much more than that. Like, when people say "Oh, you're all stuck in your little bubble called Ardsley", like we don't know any better in the "outside world". That's completely false, especially reading this book--it opened me up to real problems, like unable to live in your own home because it was destroyed by the soot from the buildings, or unable to go to your own school, it's really breathtaking and allows you to step back and just look, with your eyes instead of theirs.

The new book called The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold, I haven't got very far but it starts out with fourteen year old Susie Salmon, where it begins as she is telling us about her memorial service when she died..creepy!! However, it goes in to exactly the night when she dies. She comes off as a nice, innocent and obedient child (how cliche), taking a shortcut on the way home from school and spotting Mr. Harvey, a old man who lives in their neighborhood. He asks her to come inside because it is snowing--but instead of bringing her into a house, he brings her into a "cave" type of hideout. She continues to go back and forth with before she died memories, and back to the hole in where she died. That's pretty much where I got up to, but I can easily predict that he rapes her no question. However, how he kills her, that's the question I really want answered!