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Someone Like You

By Sarah Dessen

 

 

 

 

Summary

 

     Someone Like You is a story about two best friends in highschool and the events that happen to them throughout their junior year. Halley has always been the quiet one and Scarlett has always been the more outgoing and braver one, and they have been best friends ever since they were eleven. When things got rough, Halley always had turned to Scarlett for help and support. But as the summer comes to an end and their junior year starts, things start to change. Then when Scarletts boyfriend is killed in a motorcycle accient and she finds out she is carrying his baby, Scarlett is the one that needs Halley. And Halley has to figure out how to be strong for herself and for Scarlett.

 

 

 

 

Quotes

 

  • "Life is an ugly, awful place not to have a best friend."

 

  • "When I picture myself, it was always like just an outline in a coloring book, with the inside not yet completed. All the the standard features were there. but the colors, the zigzags and the plaids, the bits and pieces that made up me, Halley weren't yet in place."

 

  • "There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from were you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand."

 

  • "I thought of what she had done all the millions of times I'd cried to her, collapsing at even the slightest wounding of my heart or pride. So I reached over and pulled her to me, wrapping my arms around her and held my best friend close, returning so many favors all at once."

 

  • "I knew now it was my job to hold us together, my turn to see us through."

 

  • "She reached behind the paper towel dispenser and pulled a small white stick-shaped object with a circle on the end of it. As she held it out, i saw that in the little circle was a bright pink cross." 

   

 

 

  

Vocab

 

  • Lapsing (Pg. 9)-  To fall, slip, or sink; to subside
  • Placate (Pg. 13)- To allay the anger of, especially by making concessions; appease
  • Reminiscing (Pg. 14)- To recall past, experiences
  • Imperceptibly (Pg. 18)- Something not capable of being perceived by the senses
  • Conventional (Pg. 22)- Ordinary rather than different or original
  • Whims (Pg. 22)- A sudden or capricious idea
  • Enigma (Pg. 24)- A person of puzzling or contradictory character
  • Implicitly (Pg. 24)- Unquestioning or unreserved; absolute
  • Oracle (Pg. 26)- A person who delivers authoritative, wise, or highly regarded and influential pronouncements
  • Stoic (Pg. 36)- One who is seemingly indifferent to or unaffected by joy, grief, pleasure, or pain
  • Gaggle (Pg. 37)- An often noisy or disorderly group or gathering
  • Errant (Pg. 59)- Deviating from the regular or proper course
  • Scrutinized (Pg. 62)- To examine in detail with careful or critical attention
  • Zealously (Pg. 181)- Full of, characterized by, or due to zeal; devoted, or diligent
  • Clairvoyant (Pg. 183)- Having or claiming to have the power of seeing objects or actions beyond the range of natural vision
  • Eccentricities (Pg. 184)- An oddity or peculiarity, as of conduct
  • Varicose (Pg. 185)- Abnormal or unusually enlarged swollen
  • Imperative (Pg. 188)- Absolutely necessary or required; unavoidable
  • Coherent (Pg. 196)- Logically connected; consistent 
  • Virtuous (Pg. 200)- Conforming to moral and ethical principles

 

 

 

 

The Lovely Bones

By Alice Sebold

 

 

 

Summary

     

     The Lovely Bones is a novel about a fourteen year-old girl named, Susie Salmon, who was raped and then murdered. From her heaven, she watches her family, her friends, her murderer and others go on with their lives and try to figure out her murder.  As her family and friends go on with their lives, Susie is trying to come to terms with her own fate. This book shows the emotional impact the crime has on her and her family, it also shows how much is Susie misses out on. As Lev Grossman from Time puts it, it's "A triumphant novel.... It's a knockout."

 

 

 

 

Quotes

 

  • "Don't worry, Susie; he has a nice life. He's Trapped in a perfect world."

 

 

  • "My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when i was murdered on December 6, 1973."

 

 

  • "Nothing is ever certain."

 

 

 

  • "He wor his own innocence like a comfortable old coat."

 

 

  • ""How to Commit the Perfect Murder" was an old game in heaven. i always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away."

 

 

  • "Stones and bones;

                                                                                                       Snow and frost;

                                                                                                       Seeds and beans and polliwogs.

                                                                                                       Paths and twigs, assorted kisses,

                                                                                                       We all know who Susie misses..."

 

 

  • "Last night it had been my father who'd finally said it: "She's never coming home." Aclear and easy piece of truth that everyone who had ever known me had accepted. But he needed to say it, and she needed to hear him say it." 

 

 

  • "These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections- sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent- that happened after I was gone. And i began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vocab

 

  •  Diligence (Pg. 45)- Consistant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken

  • Inevitability (Pg. 238)- Unable to be avoided, evaded, or escaped; certain; necessary

  • Inordinate (Pg. 239)- Not within proper or resonable limits; immoderate; excessive

  • Excavated (Pg. 257)- To make hollow by removing the inner part; make a hole or cavity in; form into a hollow, as by digging

  • Aloft (Pg. 319)- High up; far above the ground

  • Ceaseless (Pg. 157)- Without stop or pause; unending; incessant

  • Haphazardly (Pg. 157)- In a haphazard mannar; at random

  • Symposium (Pg. 250)- A meeting or conference for the discussion of some subject, esp. a meeting at which several speakers talk on or discuss a topic before an audience

  • Cur (Pg. 166)- A mean, cowardly person

  • Emporal (Pg. 197)- pertaining to the highest heavenin the cosmology of the ancients

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Comments (2)

diana said

at 4:49 pm on Jan 14, 2010

HEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HOW IS IT GOING?????????????????????

sara said

at 5:02 pm on Jan 19, 2010

nice page lyidia i think i might read that first book that you read. you should add a coment on my page lol :)

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