But the synopsis for each was also appealing to me, so I’ve kept her books on my TBR for a rainy day. What caught my eye about that particular book, and all her others were the covers. I first heard about Jenn Bennett last summer when Serious Moonlight came out. The choice is both simpler and more complicated than she realizes, because Porter Roth is hiding a secret of his own: Porter is Alex…Approximately.” But life is whole lot messier than the movies, especially when Bailey discovers that tricky fine line between hate, love, and whatever-it-is she’s starting to feel for Porter.Īnd as the summer months go by, Bailey must choose whether to cling to a dreamy online fantasy in Alex or take a risk on an imperfect reality with Porter. Or that she’s being heckled daily by the irritatingly hot museum security guard, Porter Roth-a.k.a. Or that she’s landed a job at the local tourist-trap museum. “Classic movie buff Bailey “Mink” Rydell has spent months crushing on a witty film geek she only knows online by “Alex.” Two coasts separate the teens until Bailey moves in with her dad, who lives in the same California surfing town as her online crush.įaced with doubts (what if he’s a creep in real life-or worse?), Bailey doesn’t tell Alex she’s moved to his hometown.
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Nonetheless, Sam emerges as a likable, realistically flawed heroine, who proves that good girls can come out on top. While Calonita (the Secrets of My Hollywood Life series) is well versed in camp routines and dynamics, some of the escapades like a gigantic food fight Sam has with her rival come off as a little cheesy, and some minor characters especially Ashley and Hunter appear manufactured. Ab-solutely perfect") and easy-to-be-with Cole. Fortunately, Sam is able to form friendships with other girls, who soothe her sagging spirit and help her sort out her feelings for two boys, Hunter ("Mr. Despite her rookie status, she proves to be a natural leader, but her pride in doing her job well is undermined by catty remarks from fellow CIT Ashley. In the tradition of Counting By 7s and The Thing About Jellyfish, a. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Unlike the other CITs, she is unfamiliar with her surroundings, having never attended a camp. camp companion novel to Jen Calonitas hit Sleepaway Girls. Sleepaway Girls - Ebook written by Jen Calonita. Sleepaway Girls book by Jen Calonita Teen & Young Adult Books > Teen Romance ISBN: 0316017183 Sleepaway Girls (Book 1 in the Whispering Pines Series) by Jen Calonita See Customer Reviews Select Format Hardcover 4.19 - 4.79 Paperback 4.69 - 16.98 Select Condition Like New - Very Good 4.69 Good - Acceptable Unavailable New 16. Counselor-in-training Sam is at a disadvantage when she first arrives at Whispering Pines in the Catskills. This novel set at a summer camp offers much of what one might expect: crushes on older counselors, cabin-mate rivalries, late-night sneak-outs and lots of bonding between campers. But, last month reporting along the U.S.–Mexico border was the first time I’ve been so intimately reminded of the country and its people in almost 15 years. Economic, political, and human rights crises have pushed more than 7 million people out of Venezuela since 2015.I often think about Venezuela and the role it has played in my life – I even met my husband there. My host family’s six children are now building their careers across the Americas only their octogenarian parents remain in Venezuela. I lived with a local family, climbed the steep colonial streets to daily Spanish classes, and learned important lessons in humility (I was a 20-something who didn’t know much beyond “hola” when I arrived).Hugo Chávez was president, and Venezuela was already struggling with food shortages and political repression, but it was a different universe compared with today. In 2009 my career trajectory shifted dramatically when I was sent to a university town in the Venezuelan Andes on a Rotary fellowship. The path from the first figure to the second one, however, remains an enigmatic leap.Ĭorradini, Antonella. The Metaphysics is written from the standpoint of an investigative thinker who admits her puzzlement before a question that will forever remain open and imagines another philosopher who has achieved a god-like insight into the first principles of all things. This situation results in a fundamental ambiguity in the figure of the philosopher. Aristotle cannot prove what is beyond proof. This paper focuses on Aristotle’s discussion of PNC in Metaphysics Gamma and argues that the argument operates at three different levels: ontological, doxastic, and semantic through the invocation of three philosophical personae: the first one (the philosopher) can only state what is otherwise unprovable, the second one (a geometer) can only confirm that we should trust PNC, the third one (a sophistical opponent) denies PNC and must be silenced. Aristotle, Principle of non-contradiction, Refutation, Metaphysics Abstract My teeth feel so soft."" Once Fisher leaves the drug ward, however, dropping Alex and following only Suzanne, she loses her edge as she slips into a meandering, ""poor me"" account of Suzanne's spoiled yet troubled adjustment to post-detox life-a good job and a good man being so hard to find. Maybe a little Ecstasy, a little heroin, but I'll never do cocaine again. Particularly strong are Fisher's acute and hilarious depictions, via Alex's monologues, of a couple of disastrous cocaine binges: ""I'll never do cocaine again. Fisher flashes some wicked talent here, especially in the opening scenes, where she flip-flops two first-person voices to chronicle goings-on at a glitzy drug-rehab center: that of her heroine, young, bright, and Percodaned film star Suzanne Vale and that of Alex Daniels, a smarmy coke-head and would-be writer who's sharing the detox facilities. Yes, that's the Carrie Fisher, Princess Leila of the Star Wars films and daughter of Eddie, and this is her first novel, a maybe autobiographical, definitely ultra-hip, experimental, and dryly comic chronicle of a young actress's bouts with drugs, Hollywood, men. |