93&94
Book Title: Gossip Girl - Nobody does it better & Gossip Girl -Nothing can keep us together
Author:  Cecily von Ziegesar
Page Count: 480
First Published: 2005
Summary:  Part 7&8 of the "Gossip Girl" series. Graduation draws closer, there's a Spa Weekend that I would KILL for, and then there's graduation itself, and I'm really confused as to what else is going on. Oh, Jenny goes to boarding school. To have her own series, apparently.
Rating: superfunk -golden - sweet - blah - superblah - blergh

I'm DONE. Well, at least with the parts Ziegesar wrote herself. I'm not sure I want to read more. Graduation seems such a nice place to leave everyone, and if I read on, I will have to look into the Sequels, and let's just face it, there are tons of better books out there to be read. Not that it wasn't fun. It was fantastic fun. Shallow, guilty, but fantastic fun. I liked the character dynamics a lot, how even the fierce rebels can get along with the poshest bitches, and how little prejudice there was between, for example, Vanessa and Blair at the end.
And another big plus was that Dan's poetry wasn't actually painful. This ties nicely into the next book I'll talk about - "Der Mädchenmaler". The first part of that series, "Der Erdbeerpflücker" ("The Strawberry Picker", it has actually been translated, yay for Feth!) had poetry in it that was constantly lauded as great (I might have written about that already, actually) and it SUCKED. It was of the
"Take a sentence
break it
down into seperate
lines -
instant poetry"
variety.
Dan, on the other hand, criticises himself, suffers, and actually has nice ideas, without having found his own voice or a constant style, so kudos to Ziegesar for making that believable.