I'm Outraged! - Gossip Girls!

"'Welcome to New York's Upper East Side, where my friends and I all live in huge, fabulous apartments and go to exclusive private schools. It's a luxury life, but someone's got to live it.'

This is the eighth book in the internationally bestselling series. It's almost graduation and the lives of New York's private high school elite are really heating up. Everyone's got into college and it's clearly time to party - not that they haven't been doing plenty of that already! Blair and Nate's relationship has moved on to a new level - but will the love affair continue? Or will Nate's love affair with his bong get in the way? Only time can tell how everyone will end up, bit one thing's for sure: love is in the air, and it smells a lot like Gucci envy."

That is a sample of what you can expect in the series "Gossip Girl" by Cecily von Ziegasar. With a target audience ranging from girls aged 11-20, these books are the latest teen craze. Now, as an English teacher, my policy has always been, if a student is reading ANY book, that's great. Until I actually picked one of these books up!

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(Unfinished)

Dove Evolutions

The Dove Evolution campaign shows us what goes into making those glossy, superhuman ads that we are bombarded with everyday. Now, I think we need to remember that Dove is still a company that is trying to profit, but it is refreshing to see an ad campaign that is also being socially conscious. It almost makes we want to go out and by a bar of Dove soap. (Isn't it funny that the simple act of me writing this entry is giving Dove free advertising? I guess that's why controversial ads work so well. )