can you keep a secret?
by sophie kinsella
357 pages
9.5/10
i really enjoyed this book. there were lots of funny parts that i just had to show my friends (or whoever was sitting beside me at the time -- yes, i read in class...). i love how sophie kinsella writes. its not intense or anything, and it can be relatable. i told my language teacher i read confessions of a shopaholic, and she said she could lend me the second book, if i wanted to read it. OF COURSE I DO. ahem. anyways...
this book is about a girl named emma corrigan. her character seems much like becky from confessions of a shopaholic. ok. so she has all these secrets from everyone, like how its always her jamming the photocopier at work, how she weighs 128 pounds instead of 118 which is what her boyfriend thinks, and other stuff -- the type of secrets that dont ruin your life if their told, but totally humiliate you. all is safe until she meets a guy on the plane when shes coming back from a meeting. the plane had hit turbulance, and emma honestly thought the man sitting beside her was the last person she was ever going to see. so... she told him all her secrets. all her random little secrets that she just couldnt help spilling out. but the thing is, with a stranger, you probably tell them something but you never see them again. so thats what emma thought when getting off the plane. turns out, the guy on the plane was one of the guys who had founded the company emma works for. he comes to their office for a surprise visit, but boy is he surprised. the weird girl on the plane who had told him everything about her actually worked for him. so for the whole week, emma has to stand a huy who knows everything about her-- from how she really feels about her boyfriend, to her weight, and how she finds g - strings uncomfortable, but wears them anyway (yes, g - strings).
and if you think that it couldnt be any worse, it gets worse. i was reading all through math today, and the guy beside me was like "stop reading!" and i was like "no!" and later on, he leaned in, and he was like, "is it really that good?" but obviously i turn the book away from him -- i mean, its a sophie kinsella book. anything could be in it.
there was quite a lot of swearing in it -- but think about it. its sophie kinsella. gosh, the more i say kinsella, the more weird it sounds...
kinsella kinsella kinsella kinsella kinsella kinsella ...
would have been 39 hours
can be published in a teen newsletter
gosh! i cant get rid on the itallics!!!! ah!!
9 comments:
Jess,
Don't forget to put the other sequels on hold.
I will ask the adult librarian if there are any others you might like besides Kinsella, Kinsella, Kinsella.
it sounds like a mantra.
catherine
i was actually talking to my teacher yesterday, about books and stuff, and then i told her about confessions of a shopaholic. she said she had all four, and she lent them to me today! woohoo!!i mean all four. i mean three. yes, the second, third, and fourth. thts why i love her so much (there are more reasons...) and when i asked her how many books she had, (since she always seems to be able to lend someone practically anybook, and she brought two big boxes of books in for the classroom,)and she said , "3 big shelves, 8 cardboard boxes, and many scattered about!"
shes addicted to books!
--Jessica--
Jess,
I had a teacher like yours, in Grade 12, Miss Zucchi. she was so neat.
Now she is a mom of four.
I don't think her kids ever knew how wonderful she was especially to a bunch of high school kids.
I am glad you have a great teacher and you appreciate her. It also sounds like she appreciates you!
Catheirne
oh my gosh. you know how in elementary school there are 3 english marks? reading, writing, and oral/visual communication. during class today, our teacher gave us 3 slips of paper each--one with all the reading assignments we did, and our mark for each one, and our final report card mark. when she gave me the reading one, i was like, OH MY GOSH. i got 98. we had to do this venn diagram comparing different versions of cinderella, and i got a hundred. i got 100 for both novel studies. we had a political cartoon writing assignment, and i got 100. also, i got 100 on a world war one comprehension package. and then i got 90 for "read aloud" as she calls it, just basically how she hears us reading every day. oh my gosh!!!! i just cant get over it. i cant wait to see my report card!! (well, i probably failed history or something like that) i used to get such low marks in reading. the teacher last year gave me 82, but only because she liked me. teeheehee
--Jessica--
wow jess amazing mark congrats!
my english mark is 72 rite now :( but then the class average is also 72, so i guess its ok.
sometimes i wonder if its the teacher thats really lenient, or i'm actually that good. maybe your teachers a harder marker.
i also figured out that i got 94 in writing. it wouldnt have been that if she counted our first assignment though, thank god. i got 75 on the first one, so it would have pulled my mark way down. pheww..
--Jessica--
ooooo jessica, you are definetly gonna get the englsih award for your class this year!!!
you think so? maybe! lets hope! cuz im doing pretty well in everything except for participation -- i guess if i improve that, my chances will be greater!
--Jessica--
ps. i saw in the art teachers mark book (what?? i coulnd't help it! she was going through the list looking for a name and i was going to ask her something!! besides, her class lists have huge squares- for her convienience) and there were marks for every assignment, and even the final term mark. so i was like.. ok.. i'll just look at mine.. and then she flips to my friends classes and i HAVE to look at theirs, and i saw my mark was a 93!! shes such an easy marker! well, she really likes me. so thats why. i think i have a good chance at the art award. but stephie, i'm nothing compared to you!
and one more thing for stephie:
uhm.. isnt it hard to get a geo award??
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