Jeff Kinney – Diary of a Wimpy Kid : Dog Days

Some information about Jeff Kinney – Diary of a Wimpy Kid : Dog Days:

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days is a realistic fiction novel written by American author and cartoonist Jeff Kinney, the fourth book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. It was released on October 12, 2009 in the USA and Tuesday, October 13, 2009 in Canada. The cover mainly depicts Greg with a beach towel and an empty ice cream cone, looking down at the ice cream (on the ground).

Plot summary

The book opens describing Greg’s worst summer ever beginning with Greg Heffley and Rowley Jefferson going to Rowley’s country club after school closes for the summer, but Greg is kicked out due to his complaining of the smallest of predicaments. The beach trip that he was looking forward to is canceled because the money went tight, so the Heffleys resort to going to the town pool, which Greg hates because of its hairy and rotund visitors.

Later, Greg and Rowley have a sleepover together, and watch a horror movie taken from Rodrick’s room. After the movie, Greg and Rowley soon become paranoid on account of a muddy hand that might strangle them, which was in the movie. Unfortunately for Greg, his mother, Susan finds out about the movie after Greg’s father told her when he found them sleeping in the bathroom, and then she starts a reading club in which he is the only participant after two days. The reading program, however, is put to a stop when Mr. Jefferson arrives with a huge bill that Greg and Rowley spent on fruit smoothies at the country club, and he forces Greg and Rowley to pay it off.

Greg and Rowley decide to do a lawn care service to pay the debt, but Mr. Jefferson only makes them one flyer for their business, after he tells them they can’t use his computer. Their first customer is Mrs. Canfield, who lives on Greg’s grandmother’s street. Unfortunately, the job does not go well, as the boys never used a lawn mower before, all the gas leaks out of the mower, and the instructions are in Spanish. When Greg tells Rowley he needs to do most of the work while Greg counts the money, that made Rowley angry and he quits. Greg mows Mrs. Canfield’s lawn by himself, but she refuses to pay him because he didn’t mow all of her lawn because of the dog poop on there.

Greg’s birthday soon arrives, but the gifts he receives are all gifts he hates, including a useless cellphone that only calls home and 911. This is because Greg’s parents believe that he, like his older brother Rodrick, will just rise the bill up if he gets a regular cellphone. Greg gets money in every card he receives, but Susan, his mother, confiscates it to pay off Mr. Jefferson. Uncle Joe’s dog, Killer, eats much of Greg’s cake, thus “ruining” his birthday. The following day, he and Rodrick both get fish as a makeup gift, even though it wasn’t Rodrick’s birthday, which Greg dubbed as “unfair”. However, when the family takes a trip to a water park, Rodrick’s fish eats Greg’s fish after Susan puts Rodrick’s fish in the same bowl because Rodrick didn’t feed the fish or clean the bowl once and was starting to feed off the algae growing on it.

The next day is Father’s Day, so the Heffleys visit Leisure Towers to spend the day with Greg’s grandfather. There, Frank tells of how his dog, Nutty, ran away to a butterfly farm. Greg’s grandfather reveals that he had actually run the dog over and Greg’s father takes off in disgust. He then buys a dog which Susan names “Sweetheart” and shortens to “Sweetie”, even though the dog is actually male. Even though Greg has wanted a dog for a long time, he quickly becomes annoyed at Sweetie, who naps on his pillow, sleeps on his bed, and “won’t stop barking” at the TV, and the only way that gets him to stop barking is when a commercial with gophers popping out of their holes comes up.

Greg’s mother keeps making Greg go to the town pool with her and Manny, which Greg agrees to only to hang out with Heather Hills, who is a lifeguard there. Greg tries to make a good impression to her, even though she barely pays any attention to him. One day, Greg decides to end the so-called “relationship” when he makes her clean a kid’s vomit and was too sick to clean it himself after he had to save Manny from the naked shower people.

The Jeffersons later invite Greg to go to the beach with them, which is where Greg had wanted to go, but he realizes it was far from what he expected, where he begins to have a breakdown from no electronics, almost got jumped by teenagers he pulled a prank on, and especially the Cranium Shaker, which almost makes Greg vomit. He tries to entertain himself, but he is sent home after he snaps a rubber band at Rowley.

Susan later tries to get Frank and Greg together, but both of them realize that they should keep their distance. She even got them tickets for a baseball game, but Greg thought Frank was trying to get rid of him for the incident that happened earlier, and calls the police on him, only embarrassed to discover the truth. To get out of it, they had to give the two cops their tickets. However, they both hate much of the same things, such as a comic named Li’l Cutie, where the writer has retired and passed it on to his son (who was possibly the basis of the character when he was little) and has made the comic even worse. Later, Sweetie is given to Greg’s grandmother for company after her old dog Henry died.

The book ends with Greg realizing that summer is over when he sees a photo album titled “Best Summer Ever!” It is a “horrible record” of that summer to Greg, but Greg writes that the person who had taken the pictures had told the story. [Source]

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Jeff Kinney – Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw is a novel written by American author and cartoonist Jeff Kinney, the third book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. The book acts as a journal and follows the adventures of Greg Heffley, the narrator of the book, who is in the second half of his seventh grade year. Despite the title, it is not the final book in the series. The reason for the title is that Frank Heffley (Greg’s father) becomes fed up with Greg sidestepping his dad’s efforts to toughen Greg up. This book was released on January 13, 2009 in the USA. The cover mainly depicts Greg panicking in his underwear.

Plot summary

As a continuation of the second book, this novel rounds out the second semester of Greg’s seventh grade school year.

The book starts with Greg’s New Year’s Day. The follow-up is Greg’s Christmas, which is similar to Christmas in the first book; Greg gets nothing he likes from anyone. Uncle Charlie gives Greg a “laundry hoop” and Greg’s mother, inspired, starts making Greg do his own laundry. Due to Greg’s laziness, he does not do his laundry and does not plan to either. This plays a huge role later in the story.

Mentioned early in the story, Greg’s father is becoming tired with Greg’s “wimpy” ways. Also, the “worst teenager on our street”, Lenwood Heath gets shipped out to military school, sparking an idea in Frank’s head that plays a huge role in the story. Later, the Heffleys see Lenwood at a ticket booth with a crew cut, proper and incredibly polite. This causes Frank to decide to enroll Greg into military school, Spag Union, which takes place during Greg’s summer vacation. Greg tries in vain to change his father’s mind, such as doing activities such as soccer and Boy Scouts. However, they do not work. Therefore, Greg tries to impress Holly again, but it does not work at all. Finally, he settles for the sad fact he has to settle for Spag Union. But his summer won’t be bad if he took some memories with him.

One day, his dad finds Manny’s old blanket, Tingy, and throws it away. Manny gets revenge when he uses his dad’s Civil War battlefield as a play set. Then Manny walks up to Greg and says “Ploopy!” Greg doesn’t know what it means, so he asks to his mom, but she’s talking on the phone. She says, “What is a ploopy?!” which was the exact thing Greg wanted to know. Then Manny starts calling Greg “ploopy” to get whatever he wants.

On Easter Sunday, Greg gets in the car, accidentally sitting on Manny’s chocolate Easter bunny. He gets out of the car with chocolate on the back of his pants. Then Mom says that they can’t skip church when Rodrick takes off his pants and says “He can wear MY pants!” Mom gives Greg her Easter sweater to tie around his waist. In Easter church service, he looks at Manny, who is playing with the things Mom and Dad brought to entertain him, and then thinks about the day when Manny threw a fit at daycare when his mom cut his sandwich in half, not in quarters the way he likes it. Mom had to drive all the way there to make the extra slice. Then he whispers in Manny’s ear, “Ploopy!” Manny starts crying and Mom can’t calm him down, so they have to go home.

Also mentioned earlier in the story, the Heffley’s neighbors, the Snellas, are having a half-birthday for their youngest child Seth. During the party, the adults in the neighborhood have to perform silly acts and Mr. Snella sends the videotapes toAmerica’s Funniest Families, a spoof of America’s Funniest Home Videos, to win the $10,000 prize. It is revealed that Frank hates the performing and will do anything to get out of it. On the day of the party, Manny throws Seth’s present into a tree because he knew that Greg would snatch it away. It was a blue knit blanket. When Greg goes and retrieves it, his pants fall down revealing Wonder woman underwear, which he wore because it’s one of the only clean garments he has left. Frank, who happened to be next in line to perform gets away as Mr. Snella points his camera to an embarrassed Greg. He repays Greg the next morning by not sending him to military school, suggesting there are other ways that Greg can stay fit. While Greg enjoys his morning he goes to see Rowley and tells him he didn’t have to go to Spag Union after all.

The story ends abruptly as Rowley and Greg are sitting on the curb and meet a girl named Trista. Greg thinks Trista is cute and imagines that she and himself are in Rowley’s country club in swimsuits with Rowley serving them drinks. The book ends with Greg saying that it is corny to end with a happy ending, but he is out of paper and writes “The End” in big letters. [Source]

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Jeff Kinney - Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Rodrick Rules

Some information about Jeff Kinney – Diary of a Wimpy Kid : Rodrick Rules:

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules is a realistic fiction novel written by American author and cartoonist Jeff Kinney, the second book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, and is preceded by Diary of a Wimpy Kid. The narrator of the book isGreg Heffley, and it reads like a journal. This book is being made into a movie as the sequel for the film. The cover mainly depicts Rodrick shoving Greg.

Plot Summary

The book starts with Greg revealing that his brother, Rodrick, had found his other diary (The story of what happened is a big part of the plot, especially at the end of the book) and that his mother had bought him another. Greg is forced to join the swimming team over the summer holidays, because his dad thinks that he is destined to be a great swimmer. However, Greg hates the swimming team (despite winning the ” Most Lessed “Improved” award”) as the pool is freezing cold. One day, Greg’s mom forces him to wear his hand-me-down speedo, only to get laughed at by the others. Rodrick comes to pick him up, leaving him in the back with Rodrick’s musical instruments. Rodrick is always 30 minutes late. Greg decides he would rather walk home than have his head taken off by one of the drums. He also spends the rest of the swimming team meetings in the bathroom wrapped up in toilet paper so he doesn’t get hypothermia.

The next day, he returns to school, only to discover he still has the Cheese Touch from last year. He eventually passes the Cheese Touch onto the new boy, Jeremy Pindle. Greg also explains that the people with their surname letter higher in the alphabet are usually smarter (showing Alex Aruda and Christopher Ziegel). The only boy to break that rule was Peter Uteger, who rarely puts his hand up any more (as the other kids call him P.U). Greg claims to have started that to a girl next to him.

One day, Greg and his friends begin a joke called the “Invisible Chirag” where they pretend Chirag Gupta is invisible, but he eventually gets in trouble,Later the tri-school talent show takes place. Rodrick’s band, named Loaded Diaper (he spells it as Löded Diper, Rodrick is the worst speller in the family) gets in, hoping that his band can get noticed. Rodrick plans to have his band’s performance taped so he can send it to record companies, then he’s gonna quit school and do the band full-time. The problem is, when Rodrick’s drum solo begins, Mom starts dancing, and the camera focuses on her for the rest of the song, which ends up the Internet sensational viral “Dancing Mom” video. Rodrick is upset, because he has nothing to send to record companies, and in his anger, start telling his friends the story of how Greg got stuck in the women’s bathroom to everyone who had a brother or sister in his grade. In response, Greg tells the story of what happened.

Over the summer, Greg and Rodrick went to their Grandfather’s home, but there is nothing to do there, so Greg start writing in his old journal, but Rodrick stole it and made a run for it, but he tripped over a game set of Gutbusters. Greg took the diary back and took it to the nearest bathroom. He started ripping pages out of it, but someone comes in, and it’s a elderly woman putting on makeup. Greg was about to tell her she was in the wrong bathroom, because according to Greg, people in Leisure Towers are always doing stuff like that, but then another woman comes in, and he realizes that it was himself who made the mistake, and he was in the girls’ bathroom. Eventually, security got him out, but Rodrick had seen the whole thing from Grandpa’s TV, which is tuned to the security cameras. The next day a bunch of boys surround him, Greg braces himself for the teasing to start, but they start congratulating him. As it turns out, due to the affects of rumors, the story turned into one about him looking inside the girls changing room and taking pictures of the girl at Crossland High School, because of all of this Greg becomes one of the Most Popular kids at school for the first time.But still even what happened Greg helped his Brother on his project. [Source]

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Jeff Kinney - Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Some information about Jeff Kinney – Diary of a Wimpy Kid:

Diary of a Wimpy Kid (also known as Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Greg Heffley’s Journal or Diary of a Wimpy Kid: A Novel in Cartoons) is a realistic fiction novel written by American author Jeff Kinney. It is the first book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kidseries, being released on April 1, 2007. However, a slightly different version of the book was originally published online at FunBrain.com in 2004.  A movie of the same name was released on March 19, 2010. It stars Zachary Gordon as Greg Heffley and Robert Capron as Rowley Jefferson.

Plot Summary:

Gregory Heffley receives a diary from his mother, which he refers to as a “journal” and in it records the course of his first year of middle school.

The book begins with an introduction where Greg explains “The Cheese Touch.” It is very similar to the Cooties. Greg writes that a student named Darren Walsh touched “the Cheese” (an old, moldy piece of cheese on the schoolyard) with his finger, and is “contaminated” by it, thus creating the Cheese Touch. The Cheese Touch is then passed around the school, and eventually ends up with a student named Abe Hall, who moves to California, taking the Cheese Touch with him.

The entries in Greg’s journal record such the events and plots of Greg and his best friend “Rowley” . Together, Greg and Rowley discover they are too inept to become champion wrestlers, Greg plays the part of a tree in a play version of The Wizard of Oz and eventually sings in the play. On Halloween they end up being chased by some teenagers they taunted, all the way to Greg’s grandmother’s house then get soaked by a trash can full of water by Greg’s father who mistakes them for teenagers upon finally returning home. Christmas is not much better for Greg, who sees his younger brother Manny get everything he wanted, while Greg ends up with a weight lifting set his dad got him, also socks and books. His brother “Roderick” got him a best of Lil’ Cutie comic magazine ( A comic that Greg is disdainful of), an 8 x 10 picture of his uncle, and a red sweater because of a Christmas gift mix-up. His best friend “Rowley” recieves a “big wheel”.

The Big Wheel provides a source of tension between the two friends when Greg accidentally throws a football into the wheel of the Big Wheel while Rowley is riding it. The ensuing accident leaves Rowley with a broken hand and he receives much attention from the girls at school because of his injury. This makes Greg jealous and he plots to become more popular.

One of Greg’s activities is joining safety patrol where he chases the kindergartners he is supposed to be escorting home with worms. The incident is blamed on Rowley, but the truth comes out and Rowley is found to be innocent. Rowley is then promoted in safety patrol, resulting in the two friends becoming angry with each other. They start to drift apart. Rowley begins to hang out with Collin Lee while Greg retaliates by having a sleepover with Fregley, whose weirdness makes Greg uncomfortable. The sleepover ends disastrously in the middle of the night when Fregley eats a bag of jelly beans, which induces hyperactivity, and begins to chase Greg with a booger.

Greg also created the comic “Zoo-Wee Mamma,” which he gets bored of and abandons to allow Rowley to start drawing. Near the end of the school year “Zoo Wee Mama” is published in the school’s newspaper. Rowley gives no credit to Greg as the creator of the comic, which angers Greg. The two prepare to fight on the school grounds when they are interrupted by the teenagers who ambushed them on Halloween. As payback for taunting them, the teenagers try to force both Rowley and Greg to eat the Cheese of the Cheese Touch fame. Greg gets out of eating the Cheese by lying about being allergic to dairy products, but Rowley is forced to eat it. Greg explains the disappearance of the Cheese by saying he got rid of it and ends up being avoided by the other kids because he touched it and got the Cheese Touch.

At the end of the school year, Greg’s efforts to become popular remain unfulfilled as his bid to become Class Clown in the yearbook comes to nothing. The award goes to Rowley for writing “Zoo-Wee Mamma.” This does not affect Greg, who is friends with Rowley again and states that he does not care about Rowley being named class clown because if it goes to Rowley’s head, Greg will remind his friend he can tell the whole school just who ate the Cheese. [Source]

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Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Traveler's Wife.jpg

Some information about Audrey Niffenegger – The Time Traveler’s Wife:

The Time Traveler’s Wife is the debut novel by American author Audrey Niffenegger, published in 2003. It is a love story about a man with a genetic disorder that causes him to time travel unpredictably, and about his wife, an artist, who has to cope with his frequent absences and dangerous experiences. Niffenegger, frustrated in love when she began the work, wrote the story as a metaphor for her failed relationships. The tale’s central relationship came to her suddenly and subsequently supplied the novel’s title. The novel, which has been classified as both science fiction and romance, examines issues of love, loss, and free will. In particular, it uses time travel to explore miscommunication and distance in relationships, while also investigating deeper existential questions.

As a first-time novelist, Niffenegger had trouble finding a literary agent. She eventually sent the novel to MacAdam/Cage unsolicited and, after an auction took place for the rights, Niffenegger selected them as her publisher. The book became a bestseller after an endorsement from author and family friend Scott Turow on The Today Show, and as of March 2009 had sold nearly 2.5 million copies in the United States and the United Kingdom. Many reviewers were impressed with Niffenegger’s unique perspective on time travel. Some praised her characterization of the couple, applauding their emotional depth; others criticized her writing style as melodramatic and the plot as emotionally trite. The novel won the Exclusive Books Boeke Prize and a British Book Award. A film version was released in August 2009. [Source]

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Elizabeth Gilbert - Eat, Pray, Love

Some information about Elizabeth Gilbert – Eat, Pray, Love:

Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia is a 2006 memoir by American author Elizabeth Gilbert. The memoir chronicles the author’s trip around the world after her divorce and what she discovered during her travels. The book remained on the New York Times Best Seller list for 187 weeks. The movie rights for the memoir were purchased by Columbia Pictures. The film version, which stars American actress Julia Roberts, was released in theaters on Friday, August 13, 2010.

Gilbert followed-up this book with the sequel Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage, released through Viking in January 2010. It covers her life after Eat, Pray, Love ends.

At 32 years old, Elizabeth Gilbert was educated, had a home, a husband, and a successful career as a writer. However, she was unhappy in her marriage and often spent the night crying on her bathroom floor. After separating from her husband and initiating a divorce, which he contested, she embarked on a rebound relationship which continued for some time but did not work out, leaving her devastated and alone.

Afterwards, while writing an article on yoga vacations in Bali, Gilbert met a ninth-generation medicine man who told her she would one day come back and study with him. After finalizing her difficult divorce, Gilbert spent the next year traveling around the world. The trip was paid for in advance with a book deal from the publisher.

She spent four months in Italy, eating and enjoying life (“Eat”). She spent four months in India, finding her spirituality (“Pray”). She ended the year in Bali, Indonesia, looking for “balance” of the two and found love (“Love”) in the form of a dashing Brazilian factory owner. [Source]

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Sarah Palin - Going Rogue-An American Life

Some Information

Going Rogue: An American Life is a personal and political memoir by Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska and 2008 Republican candidate for U.S. Vice President. The book was co-authored by Lynn Vincent, a conservative ghost writer. The book became a New York Times #1 bestseller in its first week of release, and remained there for six weeks and it is one of only four political memoirs to sell more than one million copies.

Summary and themes:

The first part of the book is devoted to Palin’s experiences before the campaign; the second part details her life as a candidate for national office. The book is written in a personal tone similar to Palin’s manner of speaking. Palin discusses the disagreements she had with running mate John McCain’s campaign advisers, criticizes the national media, and talks about the importance of religion and family life.
The “Going Rogue” part of the title derives from criticism leveled at Palin by McCain campaign advisers that she was straying from their carefully crafted message and publicly disagreeing with McCain on several issues. The subtitle, “An American Life”, mirrors the title of President Ronald Reagan’s 1990 autobiography.

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William P Young - The Shack

Some information about William P Young – The Shack:

The Shack is a Christian novel by Canadian author William P. Young, a former office manager and hotel night clerk, published in 2007. The novel was self-published but became a USA Today bestseller, having sold 1 million copies as of June 8, 2008. It was the #1 Paperback trade fiction seller on the New York Times best sellers list from June 2008 to early 2010.

The title of the book is a metaphor for “the house you build out of your own pain”, as Young explained in a telephone interview. He also states to radio host talk show Drew Marshall that The Shack “is a metaphor for the places you get stuck, you get hurt, you get damaged…the thing where shame or hurt is centered.”

Plot:

The novel is set in the American Northwest. The main character is Mackenzie Philips, a father of five, called “Mack” by his family and friends.

Four years prior to the main events of the story, Mack takes his three children on a camping trip to Wallowa Lake near Joseph, Oregon stopping at Multnomah Falls on the way. Two of his children are playing in a canoe when it flips and almost drowns Mack’s son. Mack is able to save his son by leaving his youngest daughter Missy alone at their campsite. After Mack returns, he sees that Missy is missing. The police are called, and the family discovers that Missy has been abducted and murdered by a serial killer known as the “Little Ladykiller.” The police find an abandoned shack in the woods where Missy was taken, her bloodied clothing is found, but her body is never found. Mack’s life sinks into what he calls “The Great Sadness.”

At the beginning of the book, Mack receives a note in his mailbox from “Papa,” saying that he would like to meet with Mack on that coming weekend at the shack. Mack is puzzled by the note – he has no relationship with his abusive father after Mack leaves home at age 13. He suspects that the note may be from God, whom his wife Nan refers to as “Papa.”

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Stephenie Meyer – Breaking Dawn

Breaking Dawn is the fourth and final novel in the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer. Divided into three parts, the first and third sections are written from Bella Swan’s perspective and the second is written from the perspective of Jacob Black. Breaking Dawn was released on August 2, 2008 at midnight release parties in over 4,000 bookstores throughout the US. From its initial print run of 3.7 million copies, 1.3 million were sold in the first 24 hours of the book’s release, setting a record in first-day sales performance for the Hachette Book Group USA. [Source]

Some lines from chapter one:
ENGAGED
No one is staring at you, I promised myself. No one is staring at you. No one is staring at you.

But, because I couldn’t lie convincingly even to myself, I had to check.

As I sat waiting for one of the three traffic lights in town to turn green, I peeked to the
right—in her minivan, Mrs. Weber had turned her whole torso in my direction. Her eyes
bored into mine, and I flinched back, wondering why she didn’t drop her gaze or look
ashamed. It was still considered rude to stare at people, wasn’t it? Didn’t that apply to
me anymore?

Then I remembered that these windows were so darkly tinted that she probably had no
idea if it was even me in here, let alone that I’d caught her looking. I tried to take some
comfort in the fact that she wasn’t really staring at me, just the car.

My car. Sigh.

I glanced to the left and groaned. Two pedestrians were frozen on the sidewalk, missing
their chance to cross as they stared. Behind them, Mr. Marshall was gawking through
the plate-glass window of his little souvenir shop. At least he didn’t have his nose
pressed up against the glass. Yet.

The light turned green and, in my hurry to escape, I stomped on the gas pedal without
thinking—the normal way I would have punched it to get my ancient Chevy truck
moving.

Engine snarling like a hunting panther, the car jolted forward so fast that my body
slammed into the black leather seat and my stomach flattened against my spine.

“Arg!” I gasped as I fumbled for the brake. Keeping my head, I merely tapped the
pedal. The car lurched to an absolute standstill anyway.

I couldn’t bear to look around at the reaction. If there had been any doubt as to who was
driving this car before, it was gone now. With the toe of my shoe, I gently nudged the
gas pedal down one half millimeter, and the car shot forward again.

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Stephenie Meyer – Eclipse

Eclipse is the third novel in the Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer. It continues the story of 18-year-old Bella Swan and her vampire love, Edward Cullen. Eclipse is preceded by New Moon and followed by Breaking Dawn. The book was released on August 7, 2007 with an initial print run of one million copies, and sold more than 150,000 copies in the first 24 hours alone.

Eclipse was the fourth bestselling book of 2008, only behind Twilight, New Moon, and Breaking Dawn, and was also ranked #1 on Publishers Weekly’s list of “Bestselling Hardcover Backlist Children’s Books” in 2008 with over 4.5 million copies sold. [Source]

Some lines from chapter one:
Bella,

I don’t know why you’re making Charlie carry notes to Billy like we’re in second grade – if I
wanted to talk to you I would answer the

You made the choice here, okay? You can’t have it both ways when

What part of ‘mortal enemies’ is too complicated for you to

Look, I know I’m being a jerk, but there’s just no way around

We can’t be friends when you’re spending all your time with a bunch of

It just makes it worse when I think about you too much, so don’t write anymore

Yeah, I miss you, too. A lot. Doesn’t change anything. Sorry.

Jacob

I ran my fingers across the page, feeling the dents where he had pressed the pen to the paper
so hard that it had nearly broken through. I could picture him writing this – scrawling the
angry letters in his rough handwriting, slashing through line after line when the words came
out wrong, maybe even snapping the pen in his too-big hand; that would explain the ink
splatters. I could imagine the frustration pulling his black eyebrows together and crumpling
his forehead. If I’d been there, I might have laughed.Don’t give yourself a brain hemorrhage,
Jacob, I would have told him.Just spit it out.

Laughing was the last thing I felt like doing now as I reread the words I’d already
memorized. His answer to my pleading note – passed from Charlie to Billy to him, just like
second grade, as he’d pointed out – was no surprise. I’d known the essence of what it would
say before I’d opened it.

What was surprising was how much each crossed-out line wounded me – as if the points of
the letters had cutting edges. More than that, behind each angry beginning lurked a vast pool
of hurt; Jacob’s pain cut me deeper than my own.

While I was pondering this, I caught the unmistakable scent of a smoking burner rising from
the kitchen. In another house, the fact that someone besides myself was cooking might not
be a cause for panicking.

I shoved the wrinkled paper into my back pocket and ran, making it downstairs in the nick of
time.

The jar of spaghetti sauce Charlie’d stuck in the microwave was only on its first revolution
when I yanked the door open and pulled it out.

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