Prep- the book

[AchtungBaby80]

OK, I got it at the library and am reading it now. So far I like it, but if it suddenly ends up sucking, then hey, I'm not out anything.

[KillarneyRose]

I'm in the middle of it and I really like it! How'd you like it, Dana?

[AOIIBrandi]

I read it a few months ago, and really liked it. I just finished reading "I Am Charlotte Simmons" and I agree that the two have a similar theme.

[AchtungBaby80]

Originally posted by KillarneyRose
I'm in the middle of it and I really like it! How'd you like it, Dana?

Believe it or not, I'm stillllll not done with it...damn school keeps getting in the way. But I'm loving it so far.

[Schmeer]

I enjoyed it as well...i met the author at a book signing for it in DC when it first came out in hardback....she teaches school really close to where i live.

[xoheatherxo]

Originally posted by KLPDaisy
Am I the only one who didn't enjoy Prep? A friend lent it to me and was raving about it. I read it and was just like "I don't get what the big deal is." I didn't like the author's writing style, I felt like she tended to go off on tangents and drone on and on.

hey masha--u still have that book? cause i dont think i ever got it back from you!!!

[tunatartare]

Originally posted by xoheatherxo
hey masha--u still have that book? cause i dont think i ever got it back from you!!!

No, I gave that and the other book to you a while ago.

[xoheatherxo]

k sorry wasnt sure and didnt want you to graduate and leave with it--especially if you didnt like it!!!

[lyrica9]

i'm a dork, and it made me cry at the end.
which is a rareity when i read a book.

i think i just identified with Lee in some ways, and it made me think about myself and things i do that i didn't want to think about.

even though it had a slow start, it was a really good book. any word on the title of her second book?

[KillarneyRose]

Originally posted by lyrica9
any word on the title of her second book?

Lyrica, I got the following summary and reviews from my county library's website. I don't know exactly when it will be released, but my library has it "on order" so I think it will be soon.

The man of my dreams : a novel
Sittenfeld, Curtis.

Summary:
From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Prep" comes a disarmingly candid, coming-of-age novel about a young woman's fantasies of family and romance colliding with the realities of adult life. (Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.
Review)

Sittenfeld's poignant if generic follow-up to her bestselling debut, Prep, similarly tracks a young woman's coming-of-age, but rather than navigating an elite school's nasty and brutish social system, this time the narrator contends with a dysfunctional family and her own yearnings for love. Fourteen-year-old Hannah Gavener is abruptly shipped off from Philadelphia to live with her aunt in Pittsburgh when her mercurial, vindictive father breaks up his marriage and family, which includes Hannah's older sister, Allison, and their browbeaten mother. Sweet but insecure and passive, Hannah had "been raised... not to be accommodated but to accommodate," an upbringing that hobbles all her subsequent relationships. The novel follows Hannah through her teens and late 20s (from 1991 to 2005), as she searches for romantic fulfillment, navigates friendships (e.g., with her larger-than-life cousin Fig) and alternately tries to reconcile with her father and distance herself from him. But the most influential connection Hannah makes is with her psychiatrist, Dr. Lewin, whom she begins seeing her freshman year at Tufts. Although the novel aspires to be taken seriously and Hannah is a sympathetic protagonist, she remains a textbook case of a young woman who wants "a man who will deny her. A man of her own who isn't hers." (Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Appeared in: Reed Elsevier Inc. (c) Copyright 2006, Cahners Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier, Inc. All Rights Reserved.)

Sittenfeld's second novel is as sharply written as her first, Prep(2005), which chronicled one girl's experiences at an elite private high school. The heroine of her follow-up novel is Hannah Gavener, who, at age 14, is grappling with her mother's decision to stand up to her controlling father. The storyline follows Hannah through college and afterwards as she tries to find the kind of romance she believes she's looking for. Her glamorous, beautiful cousin, Fig, never seems to have trouble finding guys, and it is one of Fig's on-again, off-again boyfriends, Henry, who captivates Hannah and becomes her ideal. She goes through two boyfriends--one who is smitten with her, and one who isn't able to stay faithful--before deciding to pursue Henry and find out if he really does hold the key to her happiness. As is often the case in life, things don't work out quite according to plan, and the result is a novel that rings completely true. The magic of this coming-of-age tale lies in how it captures a generation of young women's anxiety and confusion about finding love and direction in their lives. (KristineHuntley. Appeared in: Syndetics Solutions, Inc. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.)

[KDAngel]

Originally posted by lyrica9
i'm a dork, and it made me cry at the end.
which is a rareity when i read a book.

i think i just identified with Lee in some ways, and it made me think about myself and things i do that i didn't want to think about.

even though it had a slow start, it was a really good book. any word on the title of her second book?

It made me cry too!