Hey there readers! I know I know I haven’t been on in ages.
I’ve had a lot going on lately. I’m back in school so I haven’t had much time
to do much else. In fact, at this moment I should be studying for my statistics
exam on Wednesday, but I think I need a break from studying! A lot has happened
in my life since my last post. Well obviously school started back up that’s something
big. I also got accepted in this program/group at my school called WiscAmp. It’s
pretty much a group for minorities in science, technology, engineering, and
math fields, aka STEM fields. It’s been really fun so far because I get to meet
people who are focused and it has helped me be focus too.
On top
of all things school that are going on, there is something else I’d like to
disclose. About four months ago I met someone and we started dating. J Yep, I am in a
relationship. It’s been the best four months ever! He seriously is the bee’s
knees. Haha. His name is Nick and he and I have a lot of similar interests,
which makes out relationship that much better! In case you girls out there are
wondering, yes he is very very handsome!
So, it’s
fitting that I mention my love life on here for this post because I will be
wrapping up my whole Sarah Dessen segment! At long last! I realized I had to
reread a few books because it had been awhile since I had read them and couldn’t
quite remember all that had happened in each book. Tisk tisk on my side. I also
hadn’t read one of her books which Nick (as mentioned above the best guy ever)
bought it for me. ^_^
***Future reference if you find a guy who goes out of his
way to buy you books….well you better snatch him up***
Alright
so the starting book for this blog is….. Someone
Like you. This story follows two girls Halley and Scarlett. They are best
friends and virtually inseparable. Scarlett meets a boy named Michael and they
start dating. A tragic motorcycle accident occurs and Michael dies. Leaving
Scarlett heartbroken. Halley is there to help her friend and through Scarlett
she meets Macon, Michael’s best friend. Halley’s mother does not approve of
Macon because he is wild and free and for once Halley wants to be free too. She
dates Macon and discovers that maybe being free has its own downsides as well.
Halley
not only has to deal with a new relationship and a mother bent on keeping her
under toe, but she also has to deal with something she never thought she would
have to deal with. Scarlett is pregnant with Michael’s baby. Things might never
be the same again.
The
next book is called That Summer,
which is about a girl named Haven. Haven is very tall. At 15 she is six feet
tall. She hates it. He sticks out like a sore thumb. He parents are just
recently divorced. Her father was cheating on their mother with the weather
woman. She has a sister named Ashley. Ashley well too put it nicely is kind of
is a bitch. She is getting married in the summer and is very selfish through
the book.
Haven
is tired of it all. Tired of the wedding. Tired of people staring at her
because she’s tall. Tired of the job she has. Tired of always being treated
like she’s too young to know things. She just wants things to go back to a time
when things were great. A summer in which her parents were together, a summer
where Ashley was dating this amazing guy and they always included her, a summer
where things were perfect. However, what Haven doesn’t understand is that
perfect isn’t always what it appears to be.
Now, I’m
not sure you guys noticed or not, but the two above books were actually
condensed into a movie called how to deal, starring Mandy Moore called How to Deal. The movie is pretty decent.
It doesn’t really follow the ending of either book but it does take most of
both plots and tie them in very nicely together. I totally suggest watching it
if you are a fan of Sarah Dessen.
Our
third book is called Keeping the Moon.
This is about a girl named Nicole “Colie” Sparks. Colie’s mother is a fitness
guru. She’s famous. They were both really chubby, but then lost a lot of
weight. Colie because she was chubby, got made of fun in school, and never had
many friends. She was a loner. This summer her mother was going overseas to
tour for her fitness line. And Colie was going to Colby, a small town which is
mentioned in other books of Dessen’s, where she will be staying with her very artistically
eccentric aunt.
Colie
hates this, but she really has no choice in the matter. Her first day there she
gets made fun by a waitress at café. She judges everyone she meets
from the bitch waitress to the stoner guy who lives under her aunt. She is
better than everyone. She doesn’t need friends. Until she realizes just how
wrong she was about everything. Her being judgmental was her being afraid to
open up.
Our
last book is called Dreamland. It was on Caitlin’s 16th birthday when her sister Cass ran away. Her perfect-can’t-do anything-wrong sister up and ran away with a guy who worked on TV. She
was meant to go to Yale and do great things, but she threw it all away for
love. Caitlin was so used to being overshadowed by her perfect sister. But once
her sister is out of the picture her mother throws all her effort into her. It’s
nice, but annoying.
That's all for this blog post!! Now I have sufficient exhausted my lovie dovie side for a bit so expect something a little different on my next post! :)
Keep turning those pages readers!!
No comments:
Post a Comment