Something Borrowed pgs. 1-35

In the first few pages of Something Borrowed we're introduced to the main character, Rachel, and her best friend, Darcy. They've been together forever, and now it's Rachel's 30th birthday. All through their lives Darcy has always been the lucky one, and Rachel has always been the straight-laced goody-two shoes. They both now live in New York, Rachel being a lawyer, and Darcy working with PR. On the night of Rachel's 30th birthday, Darcy created a surprised birthday. About the time everyone leaves Darcy is drunk, so Dex (her fiancee) gets her a cab to take her home. Dex stays, and goes out and drinks more with Rachel. When they decide they should go home, they get in the cab, and start making out. They then go back to Rachel's place and have sex. Rachel walks up to tons of missed calls and voice mails from Darcy saying how Dex never came back last night. Rachel and Dex create a lie that he was out with his friend Marcus, and it works pretty well. Rachel still feels awful, and skips out the next night on going out to dinner with Dex and Darcy. When she goes back to work the next day she has a voice mail from Dex, asking her to call him, and talk about what happened that weekend.

Whistling in the Dark pgs. 201-297

In the last pages of Whistling in the Dark, Troo and Sally go to visit their mother with Eddie and Nell. On the way over Nell tells them her and Eddie are getting married, and they stop and get some Coca-Cola to bring over to their grandma’s. When she gets there she sees pink and argyle socks (like the boy who chased her down’s socks) and assumes Uncle Paulie is the murderer. Then they get to the hospital and see their mother. Her mother then tells Sally that Officer Rasmussen is actually her father, and that she’s for sure going to live with them. Sally then tells her mom how her dad told her to tell her mom that she forgives him, and she figures out that she is forgiving her for cheating on him. They then go back home, and Troo tells Sally that she was basically the one who caused the crash. She put her hand over her dad’s eyes, and was trying to play “peek-a-boo” with him, and that’s why Uncle Paulie always says “peek-a-boo” and Troo can’t handle being around him. This is also why Sky King (Troo’s dad) told Sally to tell Troo it wasn’t her fault, and she finally does tell her what he said. The next day Sally and Troo take their belongings out of the house, and say goodbye to the landlord. She gives Sally one of her favorite books, and it’s obvious she’s sorry and is going to miss them. They then start staying with Officer Rasmussen, or Dave as they now call him. Mary Lane, Troo, and Sally then create a plan to catch who they think is the murderer and molester. Mary Lane told Sally and Troo she thought she saw Bobby with a tennis shoe and other things from the two girls that died. One night during a baseball game, with Troo on look-out, and Sally opening the shed Mary Lane gets in to look for these things. She gets in and finds it, but it’s too late and Bobby comes. Bobby thinks Mary Lane is at home, and tells Sally how he has a special plan for her. He drags her to the lagoon, and Mary Lane goes to tell the police. Bobby tells Sally there’s no way the police will catch him, and he knocked out Troo. When he finally reaches the lagoon, Sally gets up and runs to the zoo. She leads him around and eventually he tries to catch her, but ends up falling in the zoo with Sampson, Sally’s favorite gorilla/animal at the zoo. Things start to go back to normal after that, and Sally and Troo’s mom comes home. Sally believes her mom and Dave are going to get married, and also that Nell is pregnant. The books ends at the start of the school year. I really loved this book, it was addicting, and I’d recommend it to anyone.

Carry Me Home 151-258

Earwig’s family receives a letter from the government saying that Jimmy has been found, and he’s alive. Jimmy finally comes home. When he gets off the plane, Earwig doesn’t even recognize him. He’s so skinny and weak compared to the Jimmy that left 3 years earlier. He returns with his friend, Floyd, who only has one arm now. Jimmy is constantly screaming in the night and he gets really jittery when he hears loud noises. Jimmy and Floyd start drinking a lot. It gets bad to the point that they’re drunk nearly every night. Jimmy gets his life back on track again after Eva Leigh tells him he just has to keep living. He’ll never forget what happened, but he has to go on with his life. Jimmy and Eva Leigh start getting pretty close, and Earwig suspects that they like each other. Floyd keeps getting worse. One night, he tries to kill himself, but Jimmy talks him out of it and gets his life back on track too. They also discover that his wife, Mary, is expecting a baby. Molly, Jimmy’s ex-fiance, comes back. She tells him that she’s sorry and she still loves him. However, he has feelings for Eva Leigh now. He has to leave and sort out his feelings. After a week of being gone, he comes back and proposes to Eva Leigh. Earwig also makes plans to move out on his own. Mary has her baby, and life is good for everyone again.

Something Borrowed 301-322

Darcy, Dex, Rachel, and all of their friends are all hanging out at someones house. Rachel tells Dex that she loves him and that if he doesn't cancel the wedding, it's over. Dex tells her that he can't do that to Darcy, so Rachel decides to go visit Ethan in London. When Rachel gets there, she tells Ethan everything that happened. He tells her that she can't go to the wedding, or she will be even more heartbroken. After a week in London, Rachel returns home and finds Dex in the lobby at her apartment. He tells her that he has cancelled the wedding, so they go up to Rachel's apartment to talk. As they are talking, Darcy comes and knocks on the door. Dex hides in the closet. Darcy tells Rachel that she is pregnant with Marcus' baby and that they are going to get married. Darcy then spots Dex's watch on Rachel's nightstand. Darcy finds Dex in the closet and starts yelling at both of them. She's disappointed at Rachel because she is suppose to be her best friend. Darcy storms out and says that she hates both of them. Dex and Rachel finally end up being together.

The Book Thief 500-553

Liesel was searching for Max hoping that he wouldn't have had to been marched through Molching. She hadn't found him yet though. They buried Michael Holtzapfel. They had been having a lot of tragedy happen lately. She finally found Max but he was walking with another group of Jews. They had already gotten him. They were both so happy to see each other though. Liesel collapsed in the group and Rudy came to find her and help her. Liesel got very sick after this. She told Rudy everything about Max. She made him promise not to tell anyone. Liesel went back in to the Hermann's library for the last time. She told Mrs. Hermann how sorry she was for everything, but also thanked her. Ilsa Hermann gave her something to write her own story in though, which is more than Liesel could ask. Then she saw two men carrying a body down the street. She saw the hair first and she knew, it was Rudy. She could not believe Rudy was gone. She was overcome with sadness. She then found her Mama and Papa as well. She went and talked to Mama's body but could not bring herself to talk to Papa. She finally looked at him and it was so hard for her. She asked one of the other men to get her papa's accordion for her. She thanked her Papa for everything he had done and wept until she was taken away. Liesel Meminger ended up living to a very old age away from Himmel Street. She had a family.

The Six Rules of Maybe. P. 1-100

Scarlet is waiting with her mother for her sister to come home to visit. Juliet has moved out and has been working in a hotel as a singer. Her mother loved to go to the hotel because it was extravagant and very showy. When Juliet came home, they thought it would only be for a short period of time, and that she would be alone. When she showed up, she also brought a dog and a boy. Hayden was getting things unloaded when Scarlet and her mother figured that he would be staying too. They were a little confused at what was going on until they caught glimpse of Juliet's ring finger. There was a gold band there, and a gold band on Hayden's hand as well. Her mother brought them all inside and put Zeus in the back yard. They began to talk and Juliet told her mother that she was going to be having a baby. Her and Hayden had married at the courthouse and she wanted to raise the baby there at home. Her mother agreed with Juliet becuase everyone always did whatever she wanted them to. Scarlet was surprised that she was married and pregnant. She couldnt believe that Juliet was with Hayden because he was so different from any guy that Juliet usually hung around with. When Scarlett first locked eyes with Hayden, she seemed to think that there might be something there.

Something Borrowed 201-300

Rachel still doesn't know what to do. She ended up telling Hillary everything and Hillary told her to go for it. She told her to go and get what she wants, which is Dex. Rachel told Dex that they would talk about the whole situation over the Fourth of July, but once the fourth rolled around, the subject never came up. Rachel wants Dex to break off the engagement, but she doesn't want to be the reason that the wedding is called off. Dex never brings up Darcy, so Rachel has no idea what is going to happen. Rachel feels guilty about having an affair with her best friend's fiance, but she knows that she really loves Dex and that she wants to be with him. She doesn't think that Darcy deserves or even loves him the way she does. Every time Rachel thinks that she is going to tell Dex that this has to stop, she becomes weak and just falls for him all over again. She has no idea what coming down the pipe, or what she's even going to do about any of it. All she's really sure of is that she loves Dex more than anything.

Carry Me Home 49-150

When listening to the radio, everyone in town learns of the bombing on Pearl Harbor. The town also receives word of the death of Louie, one of the boys who got drafted shortly after Jimmy signed up for the army. Earwig gets a puppy for Christmas from his dad and he names it Lucky. He takes Lucky everywhere with him, and they become friends. Earwig’s family receives news that Jimmy is a Prisoner of War, but he’s still alive. Earwig becomes good friends with Eva Leigh, whose abusive husband is overseas, and Eva’s sister, Ruby Leigh, the town whore. He gets a job at the bowling alley where Eva and Ruby work. Earwig’s dad leaves to work in a neighboring town because he’s not earning enough of a living where he’s at. He stays there during the week and comes home on weekends. That puts a lot of stress on the family, and Earwig’s parents are fighting all the time. It is also discovered that Molly is cheating on Jimmy while he’s overseas. Earwig finds a box in the attic that has evidence that his mom used to be in love with his dad’s brother, Willie. He also discovers that Jimmy is actually Willie’s son, which means they’re only half brothers. Eva Leigh’s husband, Luke, dies in the war. Eddie contracts polio, and he doesn’t even have a high chance to live. However, he makes a full recovery, and is even able to walk again.

The Help 101-200

In the next one hundred pages of The Help It starts off with a guy getting killed because he used the white bathroom in the Pinchman Lawn and Garden. Mrs. Skeeter asks Minny if she will help her write her book and she finally agrees. Stuart talks to Mrs. Skeeter and they become friends and start going out. Minny is working for Celia and her husband comes home to find her in his bedroom, hes holding an axe but he is completely ok with Minny working there. He told her he knew that she was working there the whole time. One day at a meeting Mrs. Skeeter accidentally forgets her satchel with all of her work and the booklet and Hilly picks it up. She tries to go get it from her on time but it appears to be too late. What is she going to do?

Whistling in the Dark pgs. 100-200

Sally begins to question everyone she can about Rasmussen being the murder suspect. She talks to Wendy about it, and she believes that Rasmussen was the one who hurt Wendy. Then one day Sally is walking home and gets grabbed by someone with a pillowcase over their head, and the person tells Sally he loves her, and Sally assumes it's Rasmussen. The next day is the 4th of July, and a very important day for Troo, because she always wins the bike decorating contest. When they first get to the park Greasy Al torments Troo, and tries to ruin her bike, and tells Troo he'll hurt her later. Eventually Troo and another boy tie for the bike decorating contest, and Troo gets in a fist fight with the boy over the coonskin cap that's the 1st place prize. Sally then realizes people let them get away with more because their mom is sick, and they feel sympathy for the sisters. Then Sally loses Troo (but learns she was down at the lake with the boy she likes) so she talks to Ethel, who becomes a helping hand later in the 100 pages. She then can't find Troo, so she chooses to do the gunny sac race with someone else, which in the end makes Troo mad. They then watch fireworks with Eddie and Nell, and go home, but stop at the drugstore first. They get a shake there, and Sally decides she loves Henry Fitzpatrick. He then tells them that Sara (the little girl who recently died) is his cousin, and begins to cry, and that's when Sally decides her and Troo have to go to the funeral. Rasmussen sees them on their way home and tells them they have to stay at their grandma's, but instead they go over to Ethel's and spend the night. When Troo falls asleep Sally sneaks over to Rasmussen's house and sees he has a picture of Junie on his wall, which makes her for sure Rasmussen killed her. She wakes up Ethel, who tells her that Junie was his beloved niece, and she needs to stop thinking that way. The next morning they go to the funeral, but Sally ends up going with Rasmussen. He tells Sally that Hall is in jail because he killed the man he worked for. And since Hall can't pay rent anymore, they have to move out of the house. Sally assumes they'd go to an orphanage, but Rasmussen insists that Troo and Sally stay with him, which is basically Sally's worse nightmare.

The Book Thief 400-500

Things where Liesel lives are getting really hard. With Germany in the middle of the beginning of the war it was hard for her and her family. Hans was assigned to be part of the air raid special unit which is a difficult job. He sent letters back home to Rosa and Liesel to let them know he was okay. Liesel and Rudy handed out bread on her street to everyone since no one was in very good shape. Liesel still found stories and books to read no matter what the situation though. The Steiners invited Liesel and Rosa over for Christmas since their fathers were gone. Liesel was almost fourteen and her papa still wasn't home. She wanted him home so badly. Hans had broke his leg but he sent Rosa and Liesel a letter saying he was coming home. They were both so excited that he would finally be home. However, Rudy's father was not coming home. Rudy was very upset about this. Hans was given a week of rest before going into the city to be greeted by more army men.

Whistling in the Dark pgs. 1-100

In the first 100 pages of Whistling in the Dark we’re introduced to the O’Malley family. It’s written from the point of view of Sally, a young girl who lives with her mom, step dad, sister, and half-sister. Her real dad died when she was young, and she still has trouble with this because she had a strong relationship with him and loved him very much. Then her mom marries Hall, a drunk who the girls don’t like, and is forced to move into the city, out of the house she grew up in with her dad. Her mom then says she’s going to the hospital, and will be back in a few weeks. In the mean time Hall takes care of them, but just ends up cheating on her mom, and coming home drunk and abusive every night. One night he pins Troo, Sally’s sister, against a wall. Sally starts hearing rumors about her mom getting worse, and is now hearing she’s dying, and doesn’t have much time left. She also hears rumors of girls disappearing in her neighborhood. She knows one was killed, and another has recently disappeared. She has an idea that it’s the cop, Officer Rasmussen. She tells Troo about it, but Troo doesn’t believe her, and just makes fun of her. Then Sally starts thinking that Officer Rasmussen is after her. She sees her picture in his wallet, and he has mentioned her coming over to his house several times. One day Troo and Sally go fishing, and Troo finds a shoe that looks like the girl’s that’s missing. The shoe has blood on it, so they think they should turn it in. Troo says it’s a bad idea, so Sally puts it in the lake, and signifies for the police to come, without them knowing it’s her. Eventually she tells Officer Rasmussen it was her who alarmed them.

Carry Me Home 1-48

Earl Gunderman (Earwig) is a sixteen-year-old boy from Wisconsin in 1940. He lives with his family, including his older brother, Jimmy. Jimmy is his role model and best friend. Earwig isn’t “mentally challenged” or anything, but he’s definitely a little slow. He doesn’t have a lot of great friends, so Jimmy always lets him tag along. Jimmy gets drunk one night and signs up for the military on a bet along with another one of his best friends, Floyd. Before Jimmy leaves for the military, he marries his girlfriend, Molly. Earwig has a really hard time with Jimmy leaving. Earwig doesn’t really have any friends around home anymore, except for a six-year-old neighbor boy, Eddie.

Something Borrowed 101-200

Dex had called Rachel at work one day to discuss what had happened on Rachel's birthday. Dex says that he doesn't feel guilty at all about him and Rachel. Rachel decides that she can't have feelings for Darcy's fiance. One day when Rachel and Darcy are shopping for swimsuits, Darcy tries to hook Rachel up with Marcus. Rachel agrees to go out with him, at least once. Six people are spending the summer in a beach house. Rachel, Darcy, Dex, Marcus, Hillary, and Claire will all be there and Darcy thinks that Rachel needs to get dibs on Marcus first. Rachel ends up liking Marcus and Dex gets a little nosy about the whole situation. He always wants to know what is going on, along with Darcy. Overall, Rachel likes Marcus because he's a very nice guy that treats her nicely and isn't mean to her.

Someone Like You. P 100-281

Halley is told about Scarlets pregnancy. They then tell Scarlett's mother and she tells Scarlett that she thinks that getting an abortion is a good idea. Scarlett goes to the appointment and then calls Halley to pick her up becuase she doesnt want to do it anymore. Halley calls Macon and he goes and gets the girls. While he is getting them Halley's mother sees them and assumes that they are skipping school. She gets mad and Halley has to tell her what is going on. She freaks out on Halley and tells her that she needs to be careful and her mother is extra causious about Macon. Macon and Halley continue to see eachother but she is sometimes confused by him and all his secrets. She finds it hard to read him and keeps saying no when he wants to have sex. She finally plans on doing it at a new years party but gets really drunk and throws up before anything can happen. Macon is taking her home and upset about how she acted. He is yelling at her when he isnt paying attention and wrecks the car. They have to go to the hospital. Halley's mother is upset she lied about what she was doing and says she cant see Macon. Macon doesnt come visit when halley is in the hospital and when he does come when she is out, she breaks up with him thinking he doesnt really care about her. Prom comes up and by then Macon is dating another girl. Halley runs into his new thing in the bathroom and she tells her that Macon is still in love with her and wants to be with her. They are interrupted by someone telling them that Scarlett is going to have her baby. They take Macons car to the hospital where everyone one comes to wait for Scarlets birth. Scarlet has a healthy baby girl and names her Grace Halley. Halley and everyone look and the baby and Halley walks home thinking about who Grace will be.

Something Borrowed 1-100

Darcy and Rachel have been best friends since the fifth grade. They did/do everything together! Darcy was always the more popular and prettier one. She always got what she wanted. For the most part she always had a boyfriend or if she didn't, she had her eye on somebody. Rachel, on the other hand, was kind of the opposite. She never had a boyfriend until she was a senior in high school. Ever since Rachel and Darcy were little, they had talked about what their lives would be like when they turned thirty. Rachel thought that she would have the perfect job and husband, with three kids, but that didn't work out so well for her. She had none of those. She worked at a large New York law firm and she hated her job. She was turning thirty and she didn't even have a husband, let alone a boyfriend. Darcy had everything that she wanted. She was an event planner and she just got offered the job, and she was engaged to Dex. Rachel is the one who introduced the two. After Darcy throws Rachel her thirtieth birthday party, Rachel realizes she has feelings for Dex and Dex has feelings for her. They don't want to tell Darcy about anything because they know that she will be furious when they find out, but then again, Rachel considers how Darcy gets everything she wants. Rachel basically decides to suck everything up and be the best maid of honor possible.

Stiff pgs. 200-292

In the next pages of Stiff the author talks of the human head. This included talking about human head transplants, and the experiments involved with this. Many of the experiments involved using dogs, and switching heads. Surprisingly, some of the transplanted heads with the dogs lived for two days or better. She also spent a lot of the time talking of cannibalism. Many of it included different beliefs of parts of cadavers that could help living people’s ailments. She also visited China to do investigate a man working at a crematorium, cutting off parts of the bodies, and giving them to his brother to use at his restaurant (turned out not to be true). She then talked of other ways to die, and about being cremated. I thought the book was very interesting and well written, but at times pretty disgusting. So, people who are squeamish, definitely NOT for them.

Flowers for Algernon 301-311

Charlie thinks that if he reads a lot of books, he’ll be able to keep some of his intelligence. However, it’s obvious that he’s declining very quickly. Alice and Professor Nemur come to visit him, but he makes them leave. He doesn’t want people to see him in this state. At the end, he finally accepts what’s happening to him and he knows he can’t make himself any smarter. On the last page, he says how proud of himself he is for making a scientific discovery. He doesn’t know what it was, but he’s glad he could help other people like himself.

Flowers for Algernon 201-300

Charlie starts working on his own project for the Weller Foundation, the foundation that was responsible for his surgery. He calls Alice again just because he wanted to visit her. Algernon starts acting very different than normal. Sometimes he refuses to run the maze. He’ll get very grouchy and hostile, and he even bit Fay. Charlie came across his father and recognized him, but he didn’t say anything because he didn’t know what to say. Charlie discovers what he calls the Algernon-Gordon Effect. It states that when someone is artificially made more intelligent, they will decline in intelligence as quickly as they inclined. He knows this will happen to him, and he visits the Warren Home for mentally challenged adults because he knows this is where he’ll live some day. Algernon died, and Charlie’s afraid that the same will happen to him. He goes to visit his mom to receive closure. His mom has become old and senile. It takes her a while to realize and comprehend who he is, but once she does, she is so excited. Charlie’s sister, Norma, happened to come visit her mother while Charlie was there. Charlie was talking to Norma, and he gave her a hug, and then his mom went crazy. She thought that Charlie was trying to put moves on his sister, so she tried to stab him. Things went back to the way they were when he was a child. Charlie’s starting to decline rapidly. He’s beginning to have suicidal thoughts. He’s having trouble remembering things, and he’s starting to get very temperamental like Algernon was at the end of his life. Alice moves in with him for a while, but she knows she’ll have to leave before he goes completely crazy. He gets really mad at her and kicks her out because he doesn’t want her to see him make his transformation back to a mentally challenged man.

The Help 1-100

The Help is written from three different point of views. Abileen, Miss Skeeter, and Minny. Minny and Abileen are both colored people who work in the same town. Miss Skeeter is a white woman who has colored people working for her. In the first one hundred pages Miss Hilly tries to get an act passed that states that all homes with colored people working in them must have a special bathroom just for the help. Miss Leefolt is Abileens boss and she makes her take care of her kid, Mae Mobley non-stop. Miss Skeeter wants to be a writer so she gets Abileen to help her with her column about cleaning. Minny gets a job out in the country that pays a lot better than any other job she has ever had. The only bad thing is, is that the woman that hired her did not tell her husband that she did. She is very worried that she will get caught and he will shot her. Minny also is trying to help learn how to cook. Unfortunately, she is the worst cook she has ever seen and Minny thinks this is why she wont tell him that she has hired help.

Deadline 301-316

Sooner's funeral takes place in the school gym because there are so many people, and Ben ends up carrying the casket. Ben and Dallas end up making up. Ben dies, but at the end of the book it tells how Ben did get a street name after Malcolm X.