Claire captures moments with a pocket-size digital camera Massie sums up her days with short “in” and “out” lists because, the book’s omniscient narrator says, “diaries could fall into enemy hands.”īut as a preteen and young teenager - i.e. Where Claire wears Gap jeans and Keds to her first day of seventh grade, Massie wears a Moschino miniskirt and Jimmy Choo sandals. They mock her middle-class wardrobe, love of sugary candy and general childlikeness. In “The Clique,” the first of Harrison’s series, the mega-popular megalomaniac Massie Block and her three best friends Kristen, Dylan and Alicia - collectively known as the “Pretty Committee” - relentlessly bully a newcomer named Claire. As I clung to their every word, the stories taught me that other girls could not be trusted and that unpopularity, dowdiness and fatness were essentially worse than death. I’d internalized these beliefs from the Clique books, a popular series of novels by Lisi Harrison that follow a group of fabulously wealthy middle-school girls in Westchester, N.Y. I became brand-obsessed, convinced that if I could own just a Coach purse or pair of Tory Burch flats, all my problems would be solved. I asked my mother to buy me lower-calorie foods for breakfast. In 2005, I stopped rubbing my face with washcloths, for fear that I might stimulate early wrinkles.
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Just a reminder that Kate said Reb is the first time shes experienced true love and before that she was mostly on her own for a long time so this love she has with reb is so new compared to the solitary woman shes always been. Written as Lou for 2 years now, thought I'd upload some of my small pieces on here about lou, her life, her past, her love for reb, her fling with Marie, her history with boomer, her friendship with Mandy. Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death.I'll be writing Joan with as many different characters as I can, so feel free to request a ship! Language: English Words: 16,314 Chapters: 29/31 Comments: 142 Kudos: 109 Bookmarks: 4 Hits: 1955 Happy Kinktober! I decided to try my hand this year at writing a new short piece (100-250ish words) inspired by Kinktober prompts every day.
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