Between the Pages

Between the Lines Between the Lines by Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer is a captivating story about an adolescent girl, Delilah, and a boy the same age, Oliver, who both want to be somewhere else and live someone else’s life. Plot Summary: Delilah is a 14 year old girl who is miserable. She and her father split after he decided she and her mother just were not good enough to live with. She is completely depressed until she finds a beautiful, hand illustrated, children’s fairy tale hidden between an assortment of books on the shelf. She had never seen this book before. She becomes obsessed with the book because she can connect very well to the main character of the fairy tale, Oliver. Oliver’s father died in the beginning of the story. Oliver is a 16 year old boy who, much like Delilah, is miserable. He acts the same part every time a Reader opens the book. He hates being stuck in the same boring world day after day after day. When Delilah starts reading the b...

Welcome back to Virtual Book Club! Thank you for reading this post. While I had actual Zoom meetings with some of the students and faculty from my school, this is an overview of the novel ( The Great Gatsby ) and the topics we enjoyed discussing in depth. If you are a physical member of the club, and you missed a meeting or two, this is the perfect place to catch up on some of the topics we talked about that you may have missed. Please know, if I continue the book club, I will make sure to post the meeting links on this blog so that I can involve more people through this outlet. First, an introduction to the novel and its author, F. Scott Fitzgerald. Nick Carraway As a Narrator Nick Carraway establishes his accepting and non-judging personality on page one. He says, "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. 'Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,' he told me, 'just remember that al...

      My Summer TBR List is never final. I will always be buying new books and trying my best to read a bunch of books at a time, simply because I could not decide which to read first. While the List changes frequently, I will be sure to consistently update y'all on what I am reading through reviews of the new books, Instagram, and more.  Since I have not read all of these books (I have started some...definitely.), I will not give summaries of all of the books. I will only give summaries and ratings for the ones I have already read all the way through. #1: Jane Austen in Scarsdale or Love, Death, and SATs (Based off Jae Austen's Persuasion )  Author: Paula Marantz Cohen      Anne Ehrlich, a college admission guidance counselor, is totally dedicated to her job. When she graduated from Columbia University thirteen years ago, she heeded the advice from her wealthy family, mostly from her grandmother Winnie, ...