Blog Post #2 : KEEPING THE MOON

This last week, what I read was about Colie's mother, which is Kiki Sparks, had been trying to lose weight all her life and it started in Lady Fitness Gym. Then, Kiki started dragging her daughter to lose weight with her. After two years in Charlotte, Collie and Kiki had lost a hundred pounds. Kiki loved her new and fit body but for Collie, it was harder.

My reflection in this story is the mother and daughter were persevered to lose weight and change their lifestyle. 

The new vocabulary words I learned last week are:

1. turpentine - a yellow to brown semifluid oleoresin obtained as an exudate from the terebinth.

"She smelled like a mix of vanilla and turpentine."

2. mortified - to destroy the strength, vitality, or functioning of.

"I was immediately mortified to see the entire Kiki line right there next to my stuff."

3. spandex - any of various elastic textile fibers made chiefly of polyurethane,

"It was tuned to a wrestling match, and at that moment some huge man in cape and a blindfold was leaping to flatten another man in purple spandex, who was writhing on the mat."

Blog Post #1 : KEEPING THE MOON

The book, “Keeping the Moon”, is a young adult fiction by Sarah Dessen. She is the New York Times bestselling author of ten novels, which have sold more than seven million copies and have received rave reviews as well as numerous awards. She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with her husband, Jay, and their daughter, Sasha Clementine. I chose this book, because of the character’s life and their different personalities. The main characters I read so far are Nicolas “Colie” Sparks and Katharine “Kiki” Sparks. Colie is the protagonist of the novel, a 15 year old teenage girl, and the daughter of Kiki. When her mother, Kiki became a famous exercise guru, she shed her weight but not her insecurity to herself. Kiki is a famous exercise guru and Colie’s mother. The story starts with the introduction of the characters. Colie and Kiki talked about what they had been in their Fat Years where her mother had no decent job and house. When Kiki got into the job in Lady Fitness Gym, they started to have a steady income and apartment.

I can reflect myself into this book especially Colie who lived with her insecurity for being an obese. As an ordinary student, I also bullied by my classmates and friends for being overweight. The plot of the story is about Colie and Kiki used to be poor and moved often. They were very overweight and spent most of the time living in their car while her mother switched jobs. What I like in this book is how the author portrayed every character in this story because it can easily understand the flow of the story. The new vocabularies I learned this week are fidget, dune, impassive, subtle, and fathom.