Final Blog

This semester I have read 3012 pages and 9 books. I read mostly popular fiction. I read a lot of Romance novels. I discovered that I really like Catherine Clark's books. I have read two of her novels 3 of her novels this semester and I have just gotten a 4th from the library. I have also discovered a new series I like a lot called the Luxe by Anna Godbersen. I have just finished reading the second book in the series and it was really good. Before this class I would read a lot. I usually tried to read before going to bed. I read a lot of series. The characters are more developed. This summer I plan to read the Pretty Little Liars series. I read because I enjoy reading and getting lost in the story. I usually had no trouble meeting the page quota. It was easy for me to find books I wanted to read. A friend told me to read the immortals series and I tried to but I did not like the story line at all and there were ten books total and I found it hard to want to read the book so I did not stick with those books. All the other books I enjoyed a lot. The story lines where all interesting. I chose what I read mostly from recommendations from friends. Since they have read the books I could talk to them about the book. I am still the same reader I was from the beginning of the semester. I plan to read a lot during the summer because I have a lot more time to read because there would be no homework. I also find that I enjoy poetry more because I understand it better.

The Luxe Pages 377-433

Henry invited Diana over to his greenhouse and hse went and spent the night there and on when she got home her room was organized and she knew it was Elizabeth who organized it and she now knows that Elizabeth knows about her and Henry. She is very mad at first but on her way over she see Henry and Diana and realizes that they do love each other and so she decides to fake her own death and she has Penelope help. They pretend that Elizabeth fell into the river and Penelope saw it all. Everyone is devistated. When preparing to go to the funerale Diana recieves a letter from Elizabeth telling her she is alive and that she is going to find Will and tells her that Henry is in love with her but look out for Penelope.


A very good book. Can't wiat to start reading Rumors the 2nd book in the series to see if people realized Elizabeth is alive. Does she find Will. What will happen to Lina. Do Henry and Diana end up together.

The Luxe Pages 275-376

So Will did not acually stay he just wanted to say goodbye to Elizabeth. When Lina realized he left she went to his bedroom but found Elizabeth there and told her she knew her secret and Elizabeth threatend to fire her. When Elizabeth left Lina found a note that Will left for Elizabeth saying he went west and hopes to see her there soon. Also Henry tells Elizabeth that they should move the date of their wedding up and she agrees. Then Lina spills tea on Elizabeth and she gets fired. When she is leaving the house she runs into Penelope who gives her a ride to a hotel and in exchange for a lot of money she tells Penelope about Will and Elizabeth, and uses this information to threaten Elizabeth and tell her to meet her at her house Wednesday mourning. Meanwhile Lina decides she is going to become a society girl and she meets a boy named Tristen who takes her out drinking. She passes out and realizes that her first day out of work did not go as planned.

Okay this book is getting really good. Lina is deluded into thinking that Will will fall for her is she was rich. Penolpe thinks that if she stops the wedding Henry will marry her instead. Well I guess we will find out.

The Luxe Pages 227-274

So Will decided to stay probably to win over Elizabeth. Lina finds out that the Hollands are in debt because her sister told her and she was there when Mrs. Holland told her daughters. Elizabeth was supposed to celebrate her engagement to Henry at a party but he did not show because Penelope enlisted her friend Bucks help. He made sure that Henry was completely drunk. Penelope is also starting to realize that Henry and Elizabeth do not want to marry each other.

Mabey Penelope will discover the truth. Also I really hope that Will can win over Elizabeth because they are perfect together, and also I think Diana would be perfect for henry because thry both do not like following the rules.

Poem Project Poems

Video: Heavy Summer Rain by Jane Kenyah
A Shadow on The Wall By Gottfried Benn
Girl Riding a Horse in a Field Of Sunflowers by David Allen Evans
The Swing by Robert Loouis Stevenson
Warm Summer Sun By Mark Twain
The Summer I Was Sixteen by Geraldine Connolly
The End of summer by Rachel Hadas
All Summer long by Carol Frost
Mid Summer by Robert Fitzgerald
Long Island Sound By Emma Lazarus

Theme:Summer

The Luxe Pages 179-226

The Luxe by Anna Godbersen is getting better and better. Henry has come over and asked for Elizabeth to go on a carrige ride with him, she doesn't want to beasue Will is the driver of the carrige. But she has to go anyway and brings Diana. When they are in the park Diana's hat gets blown away and Henry and her go chasing it. While they are away Will tells Elizabeth that he is going west and is leaving Friday and she is welcome to join her if she wishes. When she returns home she decides to tell her mother about Will but decides not to when she sees her selling one of their most valuble works of art. Then the next day Elizabeth goes to see Penelope and Penelope tells her there are not hard feelings but in reality she is scheming of a way to stop the marrige. We then go to Henry's point of view. He is at a horse race with his friend Teddy and he is dreading the marrige. And he also reveals to himself that he is in love with Diana.

Even is Penelope stops the wedding Henry will not come back to her because he has moved on to Diana. Also mabey Elizabeth faked her own death and instead went west with Will.

The Luxe Pages 113-178

To start out Henry made out with Diana, and then Diana finds out he is engaged to her sister and now she hates him. Penelope still thinks tht Henry is going to marry her but at the dinner party his engagement to Elizabeth is revealed and she faints. The day after the engagement is in the papers and Lina decides to show Will. Will still doesn't know about the engagement, and he becomes really mad and depressed.

Elizabeth should have told Will right away and now he is hearing it from someone else. Henry does not love Elizabeth but he might love Diana becasue she is a party person just like he is.

Tuesday Respose 5/3

I have been reading the book Luxe and it is the first book in the series. So far I have been enjoying it very much. It is full of Love, Heartbreak, Betrayal, and Friendship.

The article about what it means to be a wired family shows a picture of all the family together but using technology and not interacting with each other. This is becoming more common. Everybody in their own cyberspace.

The Luxe Pages 33-112

During these pages we meet a lot of new characters. First there is Penelope Hayes whose family just had the party. She is secretly dating Henry Schoonmaker who was supposed to marry Elizabeth on the day of the funerale. Also Henry's dad and his wife Isabelle De Ford. Also Will and Lina two of the servants of the Holland family. Penelope and Henry are not really in love but in love with the money involed, but they can't marry because Henry's dad says he has to marry someone like Elizebeth who is more respectable than Penelope, because he is going to be running for mayor. Lina and Will were friends with Elizabeth before she realized that they do not belong to the same social circle. Lina is in love with Will but she won't admit it to him. Later we find out that Elizabeth and Will are secretly seeing each other. Then Mrs. Holland tells Diana and Elizabeth that they are poor becaue of debt and they can only be saved by elizabeth marrying someone rich and so she agrees to marry Henry.

I do not think Will is going to take this very well. Also people are going to find out about the Hallands being poor. And also I wonder is Henry and Elizabeth do fall in love. Also the possibilities of Elizabeths killer keeps increasing.