Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Q3_NR#2 – The Break Up Bible

Jennifer Lewis was having a great junior year, just as how she wanted it to be.  She was the features editor of the school paper, and is dating Max Brown, the paper's editor-in-chief. Everything was totally perfect, until Max told her it would be better if they were just friends. Shocked, Jen wonders how she was going to deal with the pain of seeing Max and his friends in school every day. Making matters worse, she catches him kissing another girl from the school paper, where she also works. Jen couldn't sleep, or get out of bed, facing the outside world. Everyday, she would cry continuously, with the thoughts wandering in her mind, "I could die of heartache." Even with supportive friends and family — and opportunities to advance her journalism career, it really takes lots of time to move on. Her misery only intensifies when her grandmother gives her a book that she heard about on the radio. Dr. Emerson's 'The Breakup Bible' claims that "there's no reason a woman can't get over a breakup very quickly if she'll just follow a few basic commandments." In the beginning, Jen was completely skeptical about The Breakup Bible because it looked totally phony and since she couldn't find any faults with Max, she didn't even try moving on. However, when she starts actually taking the "commandments" seriously, she, then, really did thought of moving on, and forget all about the past of her and Max. Even the best ones.

Q3_NR#1 – If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where's my Prince?


When Lucy moved down to Long Island, since her father found a new wife, Mara, all the sudden, Lucy was becoming a perfect repeating character of Cinderella. Lucy hated her homelife. Her dad was never home. He was always try finishing his work all the way back in San Francisco, which left her alone with her new family. Along with her wicked stepmom, Mara, came her two twin daughters. They were all snotty, bratty, and always nagging on Lucy. Everything she did, wore, and said, all seemed to be wrong. Lucy is stranded in Glen Lake High, where she doesn't seem to ever get noticed. Lucy finds herself living in a fairytale, in all the worst ways. Lucy's stepmother would always treats her like a maid and even gets her in trouble with her dad. But then, her life began to change, starting when Lucy somehow attracts the attention of Connor Pearson, considered the cutest senior of Glen Lake High, she goes from friendless to popular. Lucy hopes her destiny has finally changed. With everything else going on in her life, doesn’t she at least deserve to get a handsome prince? But then, she began to realize she and Connor have nothing in common beyond their interest of basketball; she doesn't even connect with him the way she does with artist Sam Wolff, even though they also have stupid conflicts and all around sometimes. Lucy's about to discover the truth about her real Prince Charming... and herself.