Mostly Good Girls by Leila Sales 347pages

Violet's junior year at exclusive Westfield School takes an unexpected turn when best friend Kate, brilliant, beautiful, successful Kate, begins making choices that Violet is uncomfortable with. Kate chooses a loser for a boy friend and encourages Violet to co-author an article that costs her the editor-in-chief position on the school newspaper. Violet learns to stand on her own two feet and questions the politics that rule her school. Most readers will enjoy meeting Violet but would be glad that they are not enrolled at Westfield!

Eleven: a novel

Eleven: a novel by Mark Watson 302 pgs.

Chris Cotswold had a life changing tragedy but eventually picks himself up and moves to a new country and starts a new life as Xavier Ireland. Xavier seems like a good guy, he is the better half of a radio show duo who plays some music but is known for giving advice to callers. This book shows the relationship between events and people ala the six degrees of Kevin Bacon. Xavier comes upon a situation but doesn't effectively intervene, this, in turn ripples through the community as people react to information and situations that exist because of this one event. A fun premise but more importantly, the characters are real and relate-able. The cover of this book mentions One Day by David Nicholls which almost convinced me NOT to check it out but I'm glad I did.

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