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"... from personal experience that when the people we love make choices, we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness."
Jodi Picoult - Vanishing Acts

Thursday, January 03, 2008

Book: Gossip Girl #1 (Gossip Girl Series)

I'm so loving Gossip Girls, the fab coctail dresses that I wish I get to wear, and it's in New York City! And how about that eye candy Nate Archibald (Chance Crawford)??? Some of the scenes were shot in popular places in New York City such as in the first episode where S and B talked on the steps of the MET, and also the hustle of NYC streets (with the yellow taxis). I wish I can visit the city in the spring when the flowers are blooming, in the fall when the leaves turn brown and fall from the trees, and also in winter when the city is covered in white.

Anyway, I was going to write about gossip girls initially somehow it turns into travel review :) I've borrowed Gossip Girl book from the local library, just to see the difference from the tv show. Initially I wanted to write down the books vs show here, but I guess someone has already done it here.

Synopsis:
" Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side where my friends and I live, and go to school, and play, and sleep- sometimes with each other. We all live in huge apartments with our own bedrooms and bathrooms and phone lines. We're smart, we've inherited classic good looks, we have fantastic clothes, and we know how to party. . .

Introducing Gossip Girl, a wickedly funny and risquè novel about the provocative lives of New York City's most prestigious private school young adults. Gossip Girl herself is an anonymous narrator with the ultimate insider scoop on the inner-workings of this privileged society because she's one of them. Sharp wit, intriguing characters, and high stakes melodrama drive the action of this addictive novel that will make Gossip Girl the lit world's new "it" girl.

In Gossip Girl, when the beautiful Serena van der Woodsen returns to private school after mysteriously getting kicked out of boarding school, the whole school is talking. All Blair Waldorf knows is that there's no freaking way Serena's going to just waltz back in with her Jimmy Choo mules and Kate Spade bag and steal everyone's heart again. But Serena's got other things on her mind, like college pressure and living up to everyone else's extreme expectations. Plus there's that Ryan Phillippe-looking guy who stands across the street and stares at her all the time.

It's going to be a wild and wicked year, I can smell it.

Love,Gossip Girl "

Synopsis from Barnes&Noble

It's a light book, very suitable for a beach/vacation read. Plus, who doesn't love a bit of juicy gossips???

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