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By the time I got rescued, I had a full coffee cup with me. I just pretended it was, like, leftover latte, but you could totally smell it. It was pretty gross. The guy who rescued me actually made a face.” See you, Sydnee. I smile big at her, trying to communicate that we’re cool, and she’s cool, and maybe she doesn’t have to be so scared next time. Show interest: Show that you’re interested in the person who made the comment by asking them a question or responding with a compliment of your own.
I’m still confused by that ending. Everything just worked out so perfectly in the end. Was that coincidence or planned? As a reader, this was completely frustrating. I would have liked more explanation than it just ending like that. Plot wise, I sort of don't have words. It was pretty clear from the start that something was off. There was a weird, creepy feeling and I kept trying to guess what was going to happen. There are a few revelations and some things I definitely didn't see coming, but I had my WTF face on through pretty much the entire book. For several reasons. {And yes, I'm being vague on purpose. There were a lot of WTF moments I liked and a lot I didn't. I don't have the ambition to clarify.} Sydnee’s brow furrows. Okay. Now, the fun stuff. Eye color, blue... height... five seven... hair color... blond? Pretty sure he’s just into me because you wouldn’t give him the time of day, Neta says, reaching into her purse and pulling out her own pen. Besides, Liam is sweet in a plaid sort of way. A girl could work with that. She yanks her notebook away from Kolbie. I went into this not having any clue what type of book it was other than a good girl falls for a teacher and... That was it.Dear Riley E. Stone, I say through the mouthful of bread. I take a big drink of water and swallow it down. We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted into Princeton University’s 2022 freshman class. Neta swirls around to face us both, and displays the notebook. She’s scribbled out the heart and replaced it with BFF. You know what I say. I like to take it slow. Give love a real chance to develop between two mature people. Sydnee chokes and then clears her throat. “Are you—are you sure you actually want this to be published in the paper, Riley?”
Each woman eventually found her way to the US, although their paths were sometimes circuitous. Here, they have raised families and transferred their memories and traumas to second and third generations of their families. Don’t hesitate to text or whatever, okay, Syd?” I put my sunglasses on, sweep my (dyed) blond hair over my shoulder, and leave the freshman alone at the school café. “I can’t wait to see it in the paper. You’ll let me know when it runs, won’t you?” This book follows Riley Stone who is a perfect model student. She presents evidence on why she is perfect and why she is the best student in the school. Riley has never gotten in trouble in her life. Riley is a logical character and really thinks things through. For all its glaring faults, however, I will say that Such Good Girls puts a lot of things into perspective. Most of the hidden children had a huge revelation at the First International Gathering of Children Hidden During World War II, when a vast number of them came together and met, all of them understanding--even without speaking--what all the others had been through.
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If I would have know that majority of the book was about 17 year old girl having an affair with her very older MARRIED teacher I would not have read this. Hell, I still don’t know what I just read. The author tried to make this a mystery and somewhat thriller but it fell so short on that aspect. The execution of it was not there for me. The author, Mr. Rosen, is Jewish. There's nothing wrong with that in itself, but it plainly affected the way he approached the entire subject. He kept trying to make it personal. No offense to him, but it isn't. He makes it quite clear that he and his parents grew up as privileged, comfortable, upper-middle-class Chicagoans with little real awareness of the Holocaust. In fact, before he met Sophie, he admits that he had never even spoken to a Holocaust survivor. Yet because he's Jewish, he claims the Holocaust was “a disaster I hadn't emotionally confronted in my life.”
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