Book response #4

Further on in my reading Mia and Simon start to build a more serious relationship.  Corinne throws another party at the beach house when their parents leave and Mia invites Simon. She finally tells her cousin and her friends about how she has been seeing Simon. The only thing that is making Mia worried about the party is that Simon is going to see Stacy and fall in love with her again.

At the party there is a lot of drinking, by the time Simon arrives Mia had already had a glass to drink. She offers Simon a drink and he turns it down replying with how he can’t drink. Stacy walks over to talk to Simon and Mia leaves them alone to talk to each other.  Mia walked down the beach and found Corrine smoking pot and doing ecstasy with her friends. Corrine is a complete mess and doesn’t know what she is doing. Mia tries to help her up and bring her to her house but she yells at her to leave her alone.  As Mia walks back up to find Simon she realizes her parents are back, they make everyone leave and get mad at the girls about all the alcohol. The party got out of hand and then when Corrine walks in high her parents get so mad that they threaten to send her back to the city for help.

Book Response #3

Further into the reading of the Summer of Skinny Dipping, Mia sneak out her window one night to go take a walk on the beach. That’s when she finds Simon, and they talk together again.  They end up taking a walk together and talk about their lives and problems, this turns into a nightly thing. Mia realizes that Simon isn’t an uptight person, and doesn’t like her snobby cousins like her. He isn’t as rich as most of the people who are in the Hamptons, his family is only renting a home for the summer unlike everyone else who own their own beach house there. She learns that the reason why her cousins and all her friends think he’s weird is because last summer hi, and Corinne’s friend Stacy had a secret thing and Stacy cheated on him with his brother. Simon got mad at his brother when he walked in on them and punched him in the face during a party where everyone saw it. Ever since then Stacy denied to everyone ever having a relationship with Simon and that’s why they all call him a creep.

                At the end of their walks Simon tries to get Mia to go night swimming with him because he thinks night time is the best time to swim in the ocean. Mia won’t swim with him the first couple of nights, but eventually she does. Then Simon tells her to go skinny dipping because it is even more fun, Mia again won’t do it but eventually does.  Mia thinks she is starting to fall for Simon but she’s worried that the only reason he is talking to her is to be near Stacy again

Book reaction # 2

As I continue to read The Summer of Skinny Dipping I still find it a very interesting novel. In the second part of my reading Mia has realized how much her favorite cousin Corinne has changed. She is very uptight and snotty and only cares about her appearance and money. Mias family isn’t as rich as Corrine’s family so she doesn’t have the expensive clothes like Corinne.

                Mia finds it awkward talking to Corrine now because she is so much different than her. Even worst news hits Mia when Corrine tells her that she is having her friend Gen stay with her for the summer too. When Mia meets Gen she is just like Corrine and Mia feels ignored by the two of them. When Gen and Corrine throw a party while their parents are out for the night Mia also realizes her cousin is now smoking, doing drugs, and drinking. This makes Mia not even want to hang out around Corrine and her friends. During the party Mia leaves and walks on the beach where she runs into the boy who lives next door named Simon. Simon seems to be more like Mia and she’s excited to see how close they will get throughout the summer.

Book reaction #1

                For my independent reading book I chose to read The Summer of Skinny Dipping by Amanda Howells.  So far I have found this book easy to read and very interesting.   The main character in this novel is Mia. Mia is a teenage girl who lives with her mom, dad, and little sister Eva in Georgia.  Mia and her family are going away for the summer to visit their family in the South Hamptons at their beach house.

                Mia is so excited to spend the summer on the beach with her cousin she hasn’t seen in years. On the last day of school before she leaves her boyfriend who she thinks she loves broke up with her. This leaves Mia heartbroken and even more excited to see her cousin to talk to her and help her forget about her brake up. When the family pulls up to the beach house Mia runs out to see Corinne, but Corinne responds very differently. Mia has realized Corinne has changed so much since the last time she saw her and that the perfect summer she thought she was going to have she is now having second thoughts about.