Pride and Prejudice

Now I'm reading the book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. So far, the book is moving a little slow but interesting. I like the fact that you get to know the characters before or at the time anything really happens. I'm also beginning to see why Jane Austen is such a famous writer because I already like her style of writing although it is a little confusing sometimes. In the book so far, a character named Mr. Bingley moves into the town where the Bennet's stay and Mrs. Bennet wants one of her daughters to marry him because he is handsome and rich. He seems to admire Jane who is the eldest daughter. Mr. Bingley's friend, Mr. Darcy, who they said was proud and arrogant, doesn't like one of the daughters (Elizabeth) at first, but now admires her. It should be interesting to see what happens next.

Finished with Prep!

I finished my book Prep and well...I don't like it that much.
Most of the second half of the book is when Lee is a senior and in her senior year, she does some pretty stupid stuff. She's interviewed for the New York Times about her school and pretty much trashes it, so now everyone's mad at her.

Her best friend Martha becomes prefect and can't even be happy for her, which I don't get because I would be happy for my friends. In the book, this is what it said when Martha became prefect:
"My fear of what was to come next - her giddy disbelief, the welling nakedness of her feelings. Also how I might have to reassure her that she did deserve this. Or worst of all - that maybe she'd just be happy."
I don't understand Lee. To me, this make her a horrible friend. She doesn't want her best friend to be happy because she herself isn't happy. She also felt Martha didn't deserve it and that some girl Aspeth did just because Aspeth was basically the popular girl everyone knew?? It's so sad because she doesn't even like Aspeth.
Also, on her math final, she doesn't even bother doing it and Martha ends up doing it which she hates to do.

Something finally happens between her and her crush, Cross Sugarman who she's crushed on since freshman year...but I don't want to spoil it.
I just really don't like Lee so it makes it really hard for me to like this book.

This book reminded me of another book called Revenge of the Wannabes by Lisi Harrison so for anyone who liked Prep or is interested in it, you might want to read this book too.

The Book So Far

The book is okay so far. I don't really like the main character, Lee. I read pretty far into the book already and I find Lee to be very insecure and she her self-esteem was always very low. One thing I can like about her though, is her honesty and how observant she is.
Also, the book is a little rushed. This can be good and bad at times. I can expect that it's going so fast, considering she goes through all four years of high school in this book, but the transistions from grade to grade confuse me sometimes. I didn't realize it at all when she became a sophomore or a junior.

The book turned out to be the opposite of what I thought. It's not easy to relate to the characters in the book, and Lee is so different from me.

Prep

The book I chose to read was Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld. The reason why was because I didn't find anything else that interested me, or maybe I did but didn't want to read it. I chose this one because I knew it probably wouldn't be so depressing. It's about a girl going through high school, which is another reason why I chose it because I figurerd it would be easy to relate to. The main character though, Lee Fiora, goes to a boarding school in Massachusetts.