Outside Reading - Week 7, Post B

You Know You Love Me, a Gossip Girl Novel by Cecily Von Ziegesar

I just started this book, and so far it is every entertaining! This is the second in a series of 10 books in the Gossip Girl books, so I am already familiar with the characters and the storyline somewhat. There is also a T.V. show based on these novels with the same name, and I started watching the show before I read the books. My friend has all the books and she lent them to me after I started to watch and get interested. They are a little juvenile I must admit, but they are fun to read, and everybody talks about them so it's good to be in the know. It is different watching the show first and then reading the books, because they set the show up to be different than what it says in the books, so it is hard to follow two different stories, but fun at the same time. The good thing about seeing the show first is that now I can put faces with names, although normally when I read the book first the movie ruins it for me. Part of the fun of reading is imagining what everything looks like and what will happen, but because of the writer's strike it has not been on for a while, and now that I am seriously reading the books that's not a bad thing.

xoxo, gossip girl