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[Eve]

Remi Gallaird

Youtube searching a guy who wins beyond all measure.

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Remi GAILLARD
Copying the name from this guy's youtube channel to show mangaluva that she might have spelt his name wrong

[mangaluva]

Remi Gallaird

Youtube searching a guy who wins beyond all measure.

+100

Remi GAILLARD
Copying the name from this guy's youtube channel to show mangaluva that she might have spelt his name wrong

... YouTube still accepted it. Forgive me!

[Eve]

Remi Gallaird

Youtube searching a guy who wins beyond all measure.

+100

Remi GAILLARD
Copying the name from this guy's youtube channel to show mangaluva that she might have spelt his name wrong

... YouTube still accepted it. Forgive me!

XD lol, I'm just reminding you ^^

[AriChan14]

Did you know I think with a British accent?


Lol.... an e-mail my best friend sent me.

[Vylash]

[PT]

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[Vylash]

[Conia]

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[PokerFace312]

Spoiler:

Title: Bittersweet
Author: Drew Lamm
Pages: 214
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Date: Thursday, October 12, 2010
Name: [My name which I don't want people on here finding out...]
Reading Response #1


The only other thing I remember is Grams in the ambulance. Right before the doors closed, I saw the bottoms of her shoes. Gray and worn. I heard the ambulance doors close, but I didn’t hear the doors inside me slam shut. Not that day. (pg. 10)

Everyone has at some point been told that if life gives you lemons make lemonade, but no one’s ever said what to do when the lemon juice gets in your eyes. In the novel Bittersweet by Drew Lamm, the protagonist, Taylor Rose Wickham, has her whole world thrown into a loop after her much loved grandmother suffers a stroke. Soon she starts harboring feelings for a boy named Mike, whom she’s always loathed, she begins to drift away from her life long friend, Bears, and she no longer is able to breath in inspiration for her artwork from as if it were air. As time goes on new relationships begin to grow, old ones start to fall to ruin, and worry for her grandmother’s dwindling health only increases. [concluding sentence about topics for next paragraphs]
The protagonist, Taylor Rose Wickham is your typical high school girl: she has friends, family troubles and people she doesn’t get along with. The two major aspects that make her unique are her imaginative artwork and the fact that she was, for the most part, raised by her grandmother, Grams, who always told her to embrace life and see beauty and inspiration in the tiniest things. Her friends are her childhood friend Bears, her best friend Ebbie, her art buddy RJ and her former childhood friend Mindy, who Taylor slowly grew away from without really noticing the fact that it was happening. One of her other relationship are with her classmate Mike, who Taylor knows to be a womanizer and she therefore hates him, but he’s liked her for several years simply for the reason that she’s the only girl in the school who refuses to go out with him. The last relationship is with her father. Taylor’s mother was killed by a drunk driver when Taylor was a baby and she and her father went to live with Taylor’s grandmother after this happened. Because of this, Taylor was raised mostly by her grandmother and she and her father rarely even talked. Taylor is imaginative, artistic and isn’t afraid to speak her mind, a quality that winds up getting her in trouble and fights on occasion. She changes in the story when she’s able to try to give Mike a chance to be an okay person instead if just seeing him as a jerk, which he turns out to really be, and she is able to build a friendship with her father as well as she and Bears come to realized that they like each other. Also, at the beginning of the book, after her grandmother suffers a stroke, Taylor find it difficult to see her, who was once full of life and personality, to be the one who would now stare out a window for hours and ask where a man named Jimmy was, but by the end of the story she realizes that, though it may not seem like it, her grandmother is still the same person as she was before. When she comes to grip with this fact, Taylor is finally able to see the beauty in life like she could before, and regains the inspiration she needs to be an artist. Although I can’t say she really reminds me of anyone, Taylor Rose is a remarkable girl who only changes for the better and learns to see life through rose-tinted glasses.
Being as this is a Real to Life book, it does have very good verisimilitude. The plot is realistic and down to earth. Most of the characters, though not all of them, are very well developed and interesting without any of it being too out there, and the setting is well described and doesn’t seem out of place. A lot of the realism seems to be simply because of the amazing description the author provides, which is poetic and beautiful, leaving a wonderfully detailed picture of the settings and situations. The only thing the author seems to leave out is what the protagonist looks like, which if anything, I believe only benefits the book, since the reader can almost imagine themselves as Taylor. The only nitpick I have is that I find the protagonist, Taylor, seems a bit exaggerated. When her grandmother has a stroke, she seems more worried about not having any artistic inspiration than for her grandmother. The real conclusion should have been at the end when the grandmother died, yet this seems hardly touched upon with the real focus being around the same point in the book when Taylor regains her inspiration and ends up with Bears. The character dialogue seems fairly realistic, though it does have some parts that just don’t seem to work or come virtually out of no where, but other than that, it definitely seems like something that could actually happen in ordinary life.
Bittersweet is a surprisingly well written novel that’s able to capture the reader’s attention from the first line. The introduction is engaging and well paced, using beautiful metaphors wherever it can and introduces almost all of the characters within the first couple chapters without it seeming rushed or forced. The character vs. self conflict is quite reflecting, being poetically written while not being shoved in the reader’s face like a lot of books with the same conflict seeming to be. The climax as well, where the protagonist seems to be almost a breaking point and is in a fight with several characters, though maybe being a bit to short, is also nicely done and is relatively underplayed, but not too much and the reader will still notice it. The denouement is the only part that seems to be a bit too overplayed, as it’s barely noticeable. Instead with just seem to have the climax and then all of a sudden everything’s right as rain and the resolution suddenly seems to pop up out of know where with the death of the protagonist’s grandmother. Overall, despite being well written, the book, especially in the later half, seems slow and a bit boring, as well as seeming to skip over certain aspects.
Although being a very realistic book, with a very well developed and believable protagonist, I can’t seem to come up with any comparisons to my own life. The characters, though believable in theory, seem a bit over the top, possibly simply because their supposed to be around three years older than my friends and I. The protagonist reminds me slightly of Sally and Sophie, because of their originally and randomness, with Serafina, because of her qualities as a drama queen, with some extra artistic talent thrown in for good measure. At the same time, most of the other characters just seem wooden and stereotypical. The love interest is your typical “guy next storeâ€

[Vylash]

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[BinaryPeaches]

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Was copy/pasting this in order to show a friend of mine~

[dilbertschalter]

unemp benefits, score
what's  this special edition you speak of
also, wouldnt Steam trade-ins just be refunds?
muu... i only worked for like 3 months

[JohnTitor]

@Ari: dan... apakah catok itu???

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