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As i read more of Inside the Mind of Gideon Rayburn, i got to know gideon better. hes a likable guy and down to earth. but while hanging out with nicholas and cullen, he gets into some truouble. i think hes hanging out with the wrong crowd if you ask my opinion. but idk. after gideon was invited to another party at Pilars house, he was offered vicodin. instead of being smart and saying no, he took it to try to be "cool". i thought that was dumb. but after he took it he got high off of it, and then eventually became very sick. so im pretty sure hes never gonna do that again. gideon ended up spending the night at the party cause he was to sick to leave. pilar kept him company though. later in the book, gideon had a chance with pilar. i was excited cause he really liked her so i thought yay! but then he turned her down because he realized that she wasnt the one for him. he had someone else on his mind. so he went to NYC to see the girl he liked. after getting there i found out the girl he liked was Molly McGarry. Later i also found out that the girl who was inside his head was also her. that made me happy :) this was an excellent book!! i definetally recomend it!!!!

blog 5

Gideon is feeling awkward now because his roomates are telling him that hes skinny fat. this means that hes not over wight, but he has no muscle whatsoever. So after hearing all this, his roomate nicholas is making him go running every morning at 6 am. gideon really is not wanting to do this. but he does it anyways so he wont get made fun of. when i think about this scene, it makes me think of the scene in the sisterhood of the traveling pants when bridget is running and she says that running makes you feel free and you can forget all your problems. im not exactily sure why this comes into my head really but it just does. but later gideon gets invited to Pilars party. so he goes with his roomates and they all start doing drugs. gideon doesnt want to look like a pansey, so do does it too. the girl who is inside his head is disapointed in him. so now i know that ths girl isnt Pilar because shes doing drugs too. so now i have no clue who it is.. this is bothering me. o well ill find out soon enough hopefully

blog 4

In the past week, ive gotten to know gideon more. hes confessed his love for Pilar, this beautiful hispanic girl. when he met her as he was running to call his mom, he stopped and talked to her. i thought it was funny when she introduced herself and said that she wore all white, but she didnt try and steal it from J-Lo. i really want to find out who the girl is, who is reading gideons mind. right now im starting to believe it might be Pilar, but im probably wrong. i was right about how cullen and nicholas were going to be a bad influence on Gideon. The boys made him sneak into a girls room and steal her underwear.. i thought that was immature but boys can be boys.. (or dumb). all these kids at their school are rich priveledged kids who have BMWs and fancy trust funds that dont kick in till theyre 18, but that doesnt mean that they cant run to daddy when something bad happens and get a crisp one hundred dollar bill. Gideon isnt like that, his family doesnt have a lot of money, so he doesnt act like hes better than everyone. hes sweet which makes the girls love him. even i like him and hes a fictional character... gosh...

blog 3

A couple days ago i finished reading the luxe. it was an incredible book and i really enjoyed it. so after finishing it, it took me a while to figure out what i was going to read. so i decided that i was going to read the novel, inside the mind of gideon rayburn. i decided to read this because my friend told me it was interesting and one of those books you cant put down. so i started reading it and i think its really funny. it starts out wierd, by telling me that this one girl can read gideon rayburns mind. so obviously i can tell that this is definetally fiction. the first few chapters of the book are about gideon and how hes a new student. when i read this, i remembered when i first transfered to Edina. it was really scary. most of the people were mean to me, so i understood how gideon felt. then later it continued to tell me that this was a boarding school and they were all assigned roomates. gideon was assigned cullen and nicholas. those two boys are trouble. they are the most popular guys on campus, so i think that later in the book gideon is going to get in some trouble. im excited to see how this book progresses.

blog 2

For this blog i thought i could describe the differences and similarities between the two Holland girls, Diana and Elizabeth.
Diana is compulsive and somewhat stand-offish and dreamy, and wishing to live the adventures she reads about. Diana is hasty with boys. they are like her toys, and she just messes with them. she didnt waste any time when she slept with henry. even though they said they loved eachother, theyve only been on one date so i think that would be a little too quick to judge.
Elizabeth is beautiful an a way that shows that she knows she is. since she is the oldest girl, i feel like she has more responsability to herself rather than diana. elizabethi is cold in a way because she treats people like they are beneathe her. althought she is very high in social ranking, it doeant mean that she is supposed to act like a brat. in some ways elizabeth reminds me of preppy girls at our school. to your face they are nice but behind your back they really dont care about you. its so fake and thats how elizabeth is.
these characters seem different but they are the same in some ways. one being that they are both just two priveledged girls in their society.

blog 1

For my outside reading book, i decided to read The Luxe by: Anna Gobersen. This novel is about Elizabeth and Diana Holland. they are two rich and priveledged girls in society. but when the find out that their status is far from perfect the panic. pretty much this is Gossip Girl in the 1800's. most of my friends read it and said it was really good and so far i am enjoying it. seeing as though i am only on the fourth chapter i dont really know much. this book started off with a prologue that was the ending. it confused me a bit on why authors do that... it makes me mad becuse then whats the point of reading it if you already know the ending. but anyways, it also confuses me when the characters are referred to by their nick names and the author doesnt tell you who shes talking about. but im really excited to get more into this book and i am always excited to see what happens next.

#15 Overcoming Odds

I thought long and hard about what i should type about for overcoming odds... then i realized that twilight is now out and eveyone is obsessed. including you ms. tholen ( haha jk) and so i thought i could write about the two lovers bella and edward. they came a long way from not even talking to eachother, then becoming sould mates. i particularly think that bella overcame something huge. she became a vampire for gods sake just to be with edward for the rest of their lives together. she overcame having a little vampire baby and she is still alive (in a matter of terms) and so i think she really overcame some great dificulty. so yipee for her! :)