Callie M's blog

The book Bloom is based in a small town.  There aren’t that many stores or things to do for fun in the town.  I can really relate to this because I live in a very small town and we have basically nothing to do here, and we always have to go out of town to do something fun.  In this book Lauren always drives out of town and goes on her own mini vacation, I’m really looking forward to doing the same. She’s not a small town girl she likes the bright lights, shopping and the typical city life.  I can easily relate to this story because of the way that in her town everyone knows everything about everyone and the clicks, drama, and just teens in general.  I think that by the end of the story she gets very sick of all the gossip and drama and I can relate to that because I’ve had a lot of gossip in my past.  I sometimes think while reading this book that this girl could be me and that’s very interesting to me. We have almost everything in common and I know exactly what she goes through and how the author makes her sound and feel.

 I really enjoyed the way this book was written. It was written from the main character Laurens point of view.  It’s very interesting how she thinks about certain things.  I think that the author makes things seem very dramatic and very realistic.  There was a lot of detail in the way the main character and even other people think in the story.  I can really relate to everything that happens in this story and I loved reading it, and it was hard for me to put it down.   This book makes me feel like she’s talking to me and I’m very involved in the story.  One of the things that I didn’t really like about this book, was that I would’ve liked if the author wrote more about what other people said or thought.  The story is kind of only about what Lauren thinks and does, but it just would’ve been more interesting if there was more about other people.

In my book Bloom, by Elizabeth Scott a character named Lauren is having a rough senior year.  Her mother left her when she was six years old and her father seems to care about his job more than her ever sense he got a new promotion. I think that she wants attention from someone, and her father is not giving it to her, so she’s getting it in more negative ways.   She has a boyfriend that like to play things really safe, but she realizes that she wants to be a rebel sometimes.  A new boy named Even comes to the school and she starts too really like him because he’s the bad boy type.  My prediction in the next few chapters is that she will break up with her so called “perfect” boyfriend (5).