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1. gossip of the starlings

By: Stacy Dillon, on 3/24/2008
Blog: Booktopia (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: horse riding, Cape Cod, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, private schools, Friendship, Historical fiction, drugs, New England, first love, Add a tag

Catherine has never really met anyone like Skye Butterfield. Daughter of the Senator, Skye has been on television since she was a little girl. And when she decides to befriend Catherine while attending Esther Percy School for Girls, Catherine finds herself charmed and flattered.

Catherine has maintained her friends from Waverly, of course. After getting caught in bed with her boyfriend John Paul, Catherine's father thought a school for girls would keep Catherine out of trouble, and concentrating on her studies and her horse riding. But John Paul still comes to her meets, and the first people that Skye wants to meet are Catherine's Waverly friends.

What comes with the mix of her Waverly friends with Skye Butterfield is cocaine from South America,unsupervised trips away from school, and the slow destruction of marriages, friendships and love.

Nina de Gramont has captured the insular world of privileged youth perfectly. Set against the back drop of 1984, a school year in the reckless abandon of these teens reads truthful. Catherine, Drew, Susannah and Skye all know that no matter what, their parent's means will help them out of any situation - be it bringing drugs into the country, or sleeping with a teacher. John Paul's scholarship status does leave him more vulnerable than the rest, and it's amazing to read how little thought his friends give to his circumstance.

This compelling story will be a good companion to John Green's Looking for Alaska, and E. Lockhart's The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau Banks.

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2. Art Trading Card #1

By: Mary Stebbins Taitt, on 8/24/2007
Blog: Monday Artday (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Art Trading Card #1: Flowers for Mother, by Mary Stebbins Taitt. This is a two-sided card, like a baseball trading card. I put the two sides side-by-side for the blog. Click image to view larger--and yes, the actual card is 2 1/2 by 3 1/2. I made it slightly bigger for easier viewing for the blog.

PS: I am loving everyone's art! WOW! Amazing talent!

PPS After looking at everyone else's ATCs, it's back to the drawing board for me--I was thinking baseball cards and had never seen any art trading cards.