Fallen Book Discussion (Week 4)
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
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Oh my goodness, that is exactly what I want to hear in the morning. She-man, Randy, telling everybody that they have to wake up at 6:30 am for a physical exam. Yeah so doing physical things at 6:30 in the morning. I wouldn’t blame Luce for not wanting to go. I think I would rather stick needles in my eyes. Roast my feet on coals. Then have to walk on glass. And then be exterminated by the Daleks. Rather than going to gym class at 6:30 in the morning. Wow, Jackie has gone morbid again. And has gone into her Doctor Who fandom world, come back to us, Jackie, come back. Never, I refuse. Randy’s voice is not a voice I would like to be hearing either. Luce whines about it and is still worrying about the relationship status of Gabbe and Daniel. Maybe she should just check Facebook when she can find a computer. Yeah, that would be so much easier but Luce isn’t that smart. She’d rather agonize over the fact. That’s just being a typical girl, that’s not exactly being stupid. Then use the resources available to her, i.e. social networking. Luce being the greater Samaritan than all of us combined, actually left going to do the dreadful deed of going to gym class. *in weepy tone* She’s so brave, she sacrificed herself. We should all praise her. So Luce arrives in the dungeon and sees Penn and realizes they are about to be sorted [insert Harry Potter reference HERE] into different stations. Alas, this is where we meet he-she number two!!! Randy may have competition, Coach Diante.
“’Nobody straggles on Coach Diante’s watch.’” –p. 128
Feels like they need a sombrero. I wonder if Mr. Cole is even really a
Mr. as well. Something to think about. So while Todd is left to go to the weight
room, Luce, Penn, and guess who, Gabbe, get to go to the pool. They are swimming in a church. Maybe this was Sword & Cross’s way of
trying to get these students cleansed of their sins. Yeah, we are trying to cleanse people when they are wearing too big
swimsuits on. They are big, hand-me-downs, gross swimsuits that,
“At least it smelled clean. Sort of.” –p. 126
I really don’t want to do that.
Don’t take me to reform school, Mommy!
I will try not to kill people with my knitting needles anymore. Actually
for Emma, make her go there. She needs some
of that discipline. Maybe they will
place her in a room full of mirrors.
She’ll like this. Gina, Gina, I am going to burn your books. Jackie, I’ll burn your Doctor Who and Star Wars collections. [This is where we kill Emma, I don’t
think she is going to come back for a while. (Don’t worry she is still very
much alive.) She is in the
corner with a dunce hat on, deprived of all mirrors so she can’t look at
herself every two and a half seconds, like she is doing right now. Our girl seriously has a
problem.] To bring us back to the book, Luce is about to start her
swimming, she sees Roland and all of the other people, the in-crowd, sitting over on the side, doing absolutely nothing. Laughing their heads off. Not literally. I’m sure Randy # 2 loved that. Sarcasm suits you, babe.
All of the sudden, Gabbe walks over and starts laughing like she already
knew what was going on. This makes Luce
either jealous or pissed off, not sure which.
Could be both,
thank God I’m not your typical girl. She’s
a robot. Now you know my secret, I will have to kill
you.
“’They always have notes to sit out,” Penn explained, glaring at the popular crowd on the bleachers. “Don’t ask me how they get away with it.’” –p. 130
The most I worry about is whether Darth
Vader will defeat Luke Skywalker or not.
Which
we all know the answer to. Coach Diante
is talking, but who cares about what she is saying when people are having fun
without Luce. No, not allowed. Luce starts to notice Cam’s absence and
worries about her leaving early at his party last night. She wants to make it right with him. And then everyone jumps in the pool, but
Luce. Enter he-she man once again, and telling Luce that she
should probably jump into the pool since this is a race. Somebody’s
got to win. Somebody’s got to lose.
“Coach Diante cleared her throat. “Maybe you didn’t catch that this is a race… and you’re already losing.’” –p. 131
Which would be Luce right now. Because she is a
loser. Only because after boasting about
her prowess at swimming when she was eight.
She jumped into the pool and was winning--
“She was nearing the end of her eighth lap when her head popped above water just long enough to hear Gabbe’s slow voice say, ‘Daniel.’” –p. 132
She hears from the lovely voice of Gabbe. She stopped. Cold in the water. And some other kid won the race. Because she heard Gabbe say this wonderful
name. Maybe she wasn’t even calling out
his name. Maybe she was just mentioning
his name in passing. Maybe Luce has a
serious problem of listening to when his name just so happens to come into a
conversation. Seconded. It
was all Luce’s fault that she lost. Then
she gets out of the pool and Roland, being a gentleman, gives her her
belongings. Luce
being her typical, normal-self blurts out what she is thinking instead of what
you would normally hear from a person.
“But before she could say something normal, like “Thanks for the towel,” or “Guess I’m just out of shape,” this weird new hotheaded side of her instead blurted out, “Are Daniel and Gabbe together or what?’” –p. 133
This is why I enjoy not being a
girly-girl. This is why she
is a robot. Roland notices Daniel passing by and
tells Luce to go ask for herself. She
goes outside, without changing her bathing suit and starts watching
Daniel. Turns
out Danny-boy is in the weight room, jock, skipping rope. How he can make that manly, anybody’s
guess. But Luce goes into a poetically
obsession about it. An obsession that only a girly-girl
could have. I mean really, how can you
go on for a few pages about a jump rope next to a hot guy’s body for that
long. Excuse, Jackie, she can’t
take any romantic thing about anything.
She is, after all, a robot or a Doctor, you can figure that one out on
your own. Luce needs to get a life, away from guys
because that is just pathetic. I thought
maybe like looking at a guy and thinking he is cute is enough for any person,
but not Luce. She takes down details
about him that he probably doesn’t even know he has at that moment. She probably can see his sweat glands for all
we know.
“His golden skin was almost radiant, and every movement he made, whether he was rolling out his long neck in a stretch or bending over to scratch his sculpted knee, had Luce completely rapt. She stood pressed against the doorway, unaware that her teeth were chattering and her towel soaked.” –p. 134
But
what is interesting about it was that when he stood to start his jumping, she
noticed his stance, like she had seen it before. I want to know where she has seen it.
When I think of jump rope, I think of
one of two things, a little girl with pigtails, and then after some long hard
thinking, a boxer. Not sure where Daniel
fits in this one. Is he going to
sing—“Cinderella, dressed in yellow, went upstairs to kiss her fellow—“ That would be way more entertaining than Luce talking about it. Wow, harsh. I think it would be funny if Daniel started
singing. It would be cute to see him
like that, but of course we won’t. Then
the shadows show up. That’s great and
something weird happens. Like they touch
her. And push her into the hallway. Then she noticed that she had dropped her key
and it landed far into the weight room, right next to Daniel. Oh, no.
Oh me oh my. Now she
has to go get it. I’m sure Luce will hate that. Not. This
has moved beyond a crush. Well, is he shirtless?
If he is shirtless, then I can understand it. Well, I guess so. It is kind of stalker-like. She goes to grab her key and Daniel turns to
face her like he can taste her essence that she is behind him or
something. Then Luce actually says hi, still dripping wet. And Daniel responds with a nice
hello and asks her… He is actually making
polite conversation. Whoop-di-do for Luce. Well it
actually is, better than flipping her the bird like last time. He asked her how she did in her swimming and Luce did not do so hot. And then Danny
lets something slip.
“Daniel pursed his lips. “But you were always…’” –p. 137
Another
major mess-up. Daniel has a real problem
about this. It is almost like he can’t
control himself when he is around her. He
clumsily tries to fix his mistake and starts closing up to her again. Until he sighs longingly. You guys are nerds, longingly,
really? Shut
up. Daniel says it like he has
said it before. Luce is drawn to it like
he is a Siren. She calls him out on
it. Then he rejects her, which I was really pleased about,
only because Luce was having a crazy obsession over Daniel, so much so that she
may have needed a strait jacket. Daniel
was the one who snapped her out of it.
“’You have never in your life seen me before this week.’” –p. 139
SEVEN:
SHEDDING LIGHT
Enter our heroes, stage left. Luce: as she is trying to get to her lovely,
entertaining class, to Mr. Cole’s class.
A class that we would all love to go to.
Not! And somehow, by some
coincidence, Cam is there and he flashes her the whites. *smiles* Yeah, Cam shows up and demands to know
where she is going. I don’t know about
you, but Cam is obnoxious and he already knows that he can probably have his
way with Luce. So why not already go at it? I think
she has a self-esteem problem, because it kind of seems like she is settling
for him because he is “nice to her.” She just needs a man to carry her
around; she is not independent at all.
She got to the school and immediately started looking for guys. Obviously, we can’t survive without a man by
our side.
“Except—the longer Cam gazed at her, the less important it felt to leave.” –p. 141
Yes,
exactly. It seems a bit Twilight to me. But she is keeping her options open. Boy number one hates her, but I would keep
him around for eye-candy and, you know, never give up because one day he may
like her… One day… Boy number two is
just being nice and turns out to be a flirtatious snob, so she is a new student
and wants to feel accepted; I would keep them both around for different
reasons. True that. Besides
girls aren’t good-enough friends, if you have guys as friends and you want a
hot make-up session, you can have it right then and there. Just saying, that is how the girl’s mind
operates. Maybe that is just how
your mind operates. No, I am just explaining how the
girl mind operates. Besides I would not
be the one who is looking for guys when I first get to school. Luce is a
freak. I can’t comprehend how you need a
guy to live. Because, for me, having a
guy is great, but it is not necessary.
You can be happy with just friends and family. I think we are just thinking way too
much into this one. All Cam did was bump
into her and ask her to skip class with him to take her on a picnic. Which, by the way, I love the idea of having a picnic in the
cemetery. Especially if the zombies
start to pop up, now that would be fun. Yes, Jackie, you would think that. Yeah, but he is secluding her to do the hanky
panky, to seduce her.
“’And you had this whole scheme of a romantic picnic,” she finished. “In the scenic cemetery?”’ – p. 148
Yeah you are right, I am reading way too much into this. Dude, you are
reading way too much into this. He gives
her a snake’s skin. Yeah, that is disgusting. I mean, they were almost having all this fun:
trying to guess how the people who are buried in the cemetery died and then
they have lunch and things get weird. Yeah, for lunch, he brings all this food. He brings olives. Olives are
disgusting. Yeah, but, my point is that originally he wasn’t going to
eat with her unless he is spying on her and planned on taking her out to
lunch. He’s a creeper. Duh. Was he spying on her,
like he had implied, or just has a big appetite? Plus, what was the whole touching her knee
thing? They are not even on a date; he
is being way too forward with her. I think guys like Cam like to move
along quick, when they have the chance.
Remember he’s a play-a. Oh, snap. At least, they are enjoying their lunch for now, even though Cam is
using Luce as a table. Yeah, his
hand is all over. Her knee. I would rather want a gentleman, but Luce is just going to have to settle,
isn’t she? Poor Luce, she could do so
much better. Then both of them.
Yeah, where’s Todd? I think Todd is hiding from
Luce. I would too. Why?
Luce is kind of guy-hungry at the moment. I wouldn’t want to be around that crowd at
the moment. Cam makes
conversation. He goes on telling her
that he has had a bad childhood.
“Cam couldn’t even see a way out of Sword & Cross, something more hopeful on the horizon, then maybe his had been worse.” – p. 150
The poor dear. It is so sad.
If I had shadows following me, I would feel every ounce of pity towards
them. Poor babies. They probably had to deal with a broken leg
or something. Do you really
believe that? What was so awful about
Cam’s childhood? What do you think would
make him so obnoxious, independent, confident, and a nice, but overall player
to girls everywhere? Well, you know his three sisters, could they have
died? And he was lying about it? And it was all his fault. Why would he lie about something like
that? That’s awful. Anyway, in the midst of talking about bad
childhoods and touching Luce’s knee, they discover a snake molting its
skin. A symbol, if I’ve ever seen
one. Cam is
such a snake. Look like Lucifer’s around. Well they are in a cemetery, after
all. You
know that is a really bad place for a “first date” because it is like telling
the person that their relationship is going to die, even before it even begins. It is a great break up place. Are you speaking of experience? Haha. That’s the romantic point of view, as far as the cemetery goes. You could have other ones, like how you are
in a dead place but you want to start over new and be more alive than the
people in the cemetery. So the nice
gesture of Cam: he hands her over a beautiful, delightful—icky. Your opinion. –snake’s skin. I know if I was on a date, I would definitely
choose a snake’s skin as the first gift I get.
Hands down.
“Cam smirked as he picked up the shed skin and placed it in her hand.” – p. 150
Uh,
gross. How
does he even rationalize giving her that?
It’s gross. It is downright vile.
Luce throws it aside.
Good, get that thing away from me. And then
naturally, as romantic as the snake skin gesture was, they go in for a kiss. Ick. As lovely as the kiss would be, luckily, for
me, someone breaks it off. Gabbe. Gag me with
a spoon. I don’t like Gabbe and I don’t
like Cam. They are caught skipping class. Ms. Sophia told Gabbe to go find them. Gabbe makes a big deal out of looking
everywhere for the two. Get off it. Gosh, it’s annoying. Gabbe is a person that I don’t like her right now. I mean you don’t tattle on someone. If two people are about to kiss, you give
them some space. Then they are at their
highest point, and then you can get them to their lowest. Why does
my brain hurt, when I think of the intricate minds of teenagers? I wished they got around to kissing,
but they didn’t and now they have to go to Ms. Sophia’s class. They all walk in and Ms. Sophia doesn’t even
care about Luce that much. So basically Gabbe was over exaggerating. Cool. Gabbe sounds like a guy I used to
know. I don’t like people like
that. But at least she gets back to
class. But, no, not to do the classwork. She finds Daniel in the classroom and
immediately deems him the better choice.
They have some work to do in the class.
They have to look up their family history. Daniel seems to have an interesting response, which seems to imply that
his family has a lot of history behind it.
He sighed and shrugged. “No, not at all. That’s fine. My family tree. Should be interesting.” --p. 155
Instead, she goes over to the computer to
look juicy gossip about her main man, Daniel.
He’s totally fine. I’m sure when I
type Daniel into Google, I don’t think I will find the same thing as Luce. Yeah, I don’t think so.
“Search.” – p. 156
What did you think:
Where
is Cam in all this drama, in chapter six?
What
problems did Cam have about his childhood?
2 comments
Cam....hmm i think he is staying out of it. I mean why get involved in the drama? Luce would probably get upset with him or start flinging shadows Cam's way if she got mad at him for getting involved. I like that Cam wasn't there, I mean I like him (only because in chapter 7 we find out that he gives her a snake skin-totally awesome!) but he is rather annoying. He also gets in the way of Luce and Danny-boy. I like Dan because you think he is going to be nice to Luce....and then he slips something wrong into the convo...then treats her like poop :) Dan is my favorite, Cam is too nice.
ReplyDeleteProblems in his childhood....well maybe his three sisters made him play dress up.....that would leave a wound on me too. Or maybe Cam was abused by someone, or his parents or something. Or maybe Cam found out he was the spawn of the devil, that would put a damper on someone's childhood. (not mine though, that would be so cool to find out! :D) Who knows...I guess I will find out.
Cam is busy taking care of more important things. His childhood was great until something very bad happened. It turned him into the angry person he is. I think the big reveal is in the third book. I won't say because I don't want to spoil things.
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