Tuesday, March 04, 2003

At this moment in time... i am full to the rim. Which prolly isnt good cuz i almost threw up today anyhoo...and now i stuffed myself with fajitas *sigh*....food...tempting. Today was a good day. Pretty much stress free...minus the insane track practice....but i managed to not nap in the afternoon...picked up my sister from school...and ate Sushi, fajitas, and chicken for dinner. I guess the only thing really left to do to make my day complete is my homework. For starters... i have a bio project... and then i have an english project to work on... then i gotta prepare my "Kitchen" essay for Ethan Frome.. which btw is the first book i actually really enjoyed reading for class this year.

Oh.. and the newest book i'm reading for reading workshop is called The Inn at Lake Devine by Elinor Lipman
The book is about a girl named Natalie Marx who is Jewish. In 1962, her family decides to take a vacation at the inn at Lake Devine. However, after asking for information about the inn, the family receives a reply that "people who return year after year are Gentiles". As a result of this reply, Natalie is furious and decides to prank the manager of the inn with utterly cruel jokes. So for many years, she plays awful pranks on the manager, Ingrid Berry. She pretends to be the daughter of a mr. Edgarly (who is actually a man who was on trial for murdering his wife). She uses his name to pretend to be an interested customer, but then she sends Ingrid Berry newspaper clippings of his murder trial....so for these many years... Natalie plays pranks such as these. (which get even worse)
One summer, she meets this super annoying girl named Robin Fife whose family is planning a vacation at Lake Devine and asks Natalie to come along. How could she pass up such an opportunity? So she agrees to go and see what this Ingrid Berry is really like... and to express mabbe even more hatred towards her for being a Gentile and hating Jews (so she thinks). What she didnt take into account was falling in love with Mrs. Berry's eldest son.....

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