Week 9

I finished the book Gifts this week and started a new book called Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen. I read for an hour and a half this week. Gifts was pretty much more similiar stories, so I don't really have a lot to say about it. I haven't gotten very far in Along for the Ride, but it is interesting so far. It starts with a girl named Auden as she is reading an email from her stepmother, Heidi. Her stepmother is about to have a baby and invites Auden to come visit. Then it goes on to talk about what her mother thinks of Heidi and her marriage with Auden's father. Auden's mother seems to be bitter about the divorce still. The divorce is what lead Auden to become an insomniac. Her parents would be up fighting really late and Auden didn't want to listen to it so she would slip out and go to Ray's Diner and have coffee. This became a habit and now she is an insomniac. I really liked the part in the story where she talked about how she had seen many of her friends' parents split up and all of them handled it differently. My parents are going through a divorce right now and I look at my two sisters and myself and we all are handling it in our own unique ways. Auden really didn't feel anything when her parents split up. She wasn't surprised and was almost relieved. One day a girl show's up with a gift for Auden and it turned out to be her brother's girlfriend. He had gotten her a frame that said "Best of Times." She had just graduated and this gift encouraged her to go to her dad's for the summer. That was about all I had read so far. It seems pretty good though. I like that Sarah Dessen's stories are always about someone people can relate to in some way.