Reading update
I'm rereading The President's Daughter by Ellen Emerson White. White wrote a fourth book for this series (which I haven't read yet) and updated the first three for the modern audience in the process (since now we have cell phones, the Internet, and Hill Street Blues is no longer on TV).
The premise of the book is pretty obvious: Meg's mother runs for president, wins, and Meg's life completely changes in the process. The update I find most intriguing occurs in chapter 3. White emphasizes that Meg and her friend Beth are not shopping in the Filene's Basement in Downtown Crossing, because Filene's Basement no longer has a store in Downtown Crossing (her mother misses the Filene's Basement in Downtown Crossing). So the scene must have originally taken place in Filene's Basement, right? I'm borrowing the original from the library to compare. Also, Meg reads up on Iraq because she doesn't think she knows enough about the subject, so I want to see what other minor adjustments were made.
The President's Daughter is still a compelling read, even with the new-generational updates, and I'd reread White House Autumn and Long Live the Queen in a second if the library system owned the new versions. (They don't have White House Autumn at all, and I got rid of my copy last summer.) I will be reading the new addition to the series, Long May She Reign, very soon.
Oh, and the press secretary went to Smith.
Other books read: Are We There Yet by David Levithan (two brothers are tricked into a trip to Italy by their parents; short, yet very sweet); High Fidelity by Nick Hornby (yes, I've seen the movie but not recently enough that I remembered the plot. I really enjoyed this, and I'm quickly becoming a fan of Hornby); The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner (I was never quite sure of where anyone's loyalties lied -- I guessed, sometimes correctly, but it was still shocking to see the outcome. I will be reading its sequel, The Queen of Attolia, soon)
I also started reading Gossip Girl the other day. I'm only two chapters in, but so far I like the TV show better. Blair has become my fashion inspiration and if I think of her in the morning I wear a headband.
(I was just looking at the spreadsheet I use to keep track of the books I've read--it started as a piece of paper in 2002 but after a few months I digitized it--and there was a point in time where I was clearly rereading the Song of the Lioness books by Tamora Pierce, and I read the first three and then stopped. I still haven't reread the fourth. Yes, I get into moods. Oh, and Alanna recently turned 25.)
The premise of the book is pretty obvious: Meg's mother runs for president, wins, and Meg's life completely changes in the process. The update I find most intriguing occurs in chapter 3. White emphasizes that Meg and her friend Beth are not shopping in the Filene's Basement in Downtown Crossing, because Filene's Basement no longer has a store in Downtown Crossing (her mother misses the Filene's Basement in Downtown Crossing). So the scene must have originally taken place in Filene's Basement, right? I'm borrowing the original from the library to compare. Also, Meg reads up on Iraq because she doesn't think she knows enough about the subject, so I want to see what other minor adjustments were made.
The President's Daughter is still a compelling read, even with the new-generational updates, and I'd reread White House Autumn and Long Live the Queen in a second if the library system owned the new versions. (They don't have White House Autumn at all, and I got rid of my copy last summer.) I will be reading the new addition to the series, Long May She Reign, very soon.
Oh, and the press secretary went to Smith.
Other books read: Are We There Yet by David Levithan (two brothers are tricked into a trip to Italy by their parents; short, yet very sweet); High Fidelity by Nick Hornby (yes, I've seen the movie but not recently enough that I remembered the plot. I really enjoyed this, and I'm quickly becoming a fan of Hornby); The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner (I was never quite sure of where anyone's loyalties lied -- I guessed, sometimes correctly, but it was still shocking to see the outcome. I will be reading its sequel, The Queen of Attolia, soon)
I also started reading Gossip Girl the other day. I'm only two chapters in, but so far I like the TV show better. Blair has become my fashion inspiration and if I think of her in the morning I wear a headband.
(I was just looking at the spreadsheet I use to keep track of the books I've read--it started as a piece of paper in 2002 but after a few months I digitized it--and there was a point in time where I was clearly rereading the Song of the Lioness books by Tamora Pierce, and I read the first three and then stopped. I still haven't reread the fourth. Yes, I get into moods. Oh, and Alanna recently turned 25.)