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You Know You Love Me: A Gossip Girl Novel (Paperback)
by Cecily von Ziegesar
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Author: Cecily von Ziegesar
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Pub. in: September, 2002
ISBN: 0316911488
Pages: 240
Measurements: 8 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BC00330
Other information: ISBN-13: 978-0316911481
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- Awards & Credential -
Teens and adult readers can't get enough of Gossip Girl, the anonymous narrator who made her catty debut in the bestselling Gossip Girl and titillated readers in the juicy sequel. |
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The title, You Know You Love Me, is most likely derived from the way Gossip Girl signs her web posts on her site, gossipgirl.net. All the fans know this!
Blair may be bitchy but she does have the most depth out of all the characters - and she is bright, unlike...
...Nate, who acts like an utter jerk at Mrs. Waldorf's wedding, the worst day of Blair's life, a time when she reallllly needs some support. He takes it up with Jenny Humphrey, a stalker freshman at Constance Billard, a prestigous all-girls school where she gawks at and aspires to be the kinds of girls Blair and Serena Van der Woodsen already are without any effort required on their parts. All Nate does is smoke weed and he expects to get into Brown because his interviewer convinced him to apply early action. So suddenly, right before the application date, he's completely diligent and absorbed with his school work. Nate is instantly drawn to Jenny because he feels he doesn't need to strive to impress her, which is the opposite of the state of his relationship with Blair.
Serena is no longer the leper she was in book one. Nope. Now she is officially cool again, despite the fact Blair hates her guts. Now that Serena is herself again, boys flock to her as if they have been beckoned. She is beautiful, graceful, and lithe, just like a delicate nymph. Still, she is the source of a lot of Blair Waldorf's anger and frustrations, especially with her constant nonchalant and carefree attitude. She too wants Brown admission. She too has mediocre grades. So she figures she'll win the film festival and show Brown she's something more. With Vanessa Abrahms, film lover and admirer of Dan, who once swooned over Serena (romantic triangle!), things work out in Serena's favor. Even if they didn't, you know she'd persevere. And if Brown doesn't want to accept her, "&@#$ it!" as her hot older brother and Brown enrollee, Erik, tells her.
Dan is pathetic. He writes poetry expressly for Serena, all about his "love" for her. Alas, Serena wants no more than friendship. Dan and Vanessa get together over his caffeine and nicotine fix, and suddenly, everything is peachy and Serena is old news. I love how GG's pressing issues are always solved, if not in the first, then usually by the next. Except for...
...Blair's Yale admission. It's her father's alma mater. Blair is gorgeous and has brains to boot. She could probably even do Harvard if she felt like it. But she only has eyes for Yale, which is a shame since she totally screwed up her interview. Of course, she can always blame her stepbrother, Aaron, being he had her in a cheesy motel room eating Chee-tos and chocolate bars and didn't wake up (and wake her up) until a half hour before the very interview began. Still, she can't blame Aaron for the fact she kissed her interviewer!
Aaron is laid back and Ivy League bound. The son of fat and rosacea-faced Cyrus Rose, his existence thrives on herbal cigarettes. He's a good character addition to the series and although Blair seems to loathe his existence at first, by the end of the book, she's coming around to being okay with him, in the tiniest way imaginable, that is.
Now for Mrs. Waldorf's wedding to homely Cyrus! Everyone has a part in it, whether it be a guest or a maid of honor, like Serena, Kati Farkas, and Isabel Coates. Everyone will be there, including the staff of Vogue magazine, to take pics for an upcoming issue. Blair seemingly at first has no support or a way to channel her teen angst and anguish over the fact her mother is marrying a rich nitwit. Rich, yet a nitwit nonetheless. Nate is no help, as he totally blows her off and then goes off to smooch with Jenny behind her back. Mrs. Waldorf herself is urging Blair Cornelia Waldorf to become Blair Cornelia Waldorf-Rose. Until Serena finds her amidst a hysterical sobbing fit, complete with mascara-laced tears, it seems as if Blair is destined for doom.
I love that Blair and Serena rekindle their friendship in Blair's time of need. You knew their reconciling was going to pop up sooner or later. Everything usually does go right in the world of Gossip Girl. Read this one. Von Ziegesar has her great and okay Gossip Girl books and I have yet to hate an installment of the series. This second book is one of the better novels!
(From quoting an American Reader)
Target readers:
Teens, young Adult.
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Cecily von Ziegesar a writer who is definitely of the world about which she writes - she attended a fancy Manhattan prep school and lived to tell all about it. She walks the walk and talks the talk, so her characters and their conversations and antics ring completely true.
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From Publishers Weekly
College interviews, romantic troubles and a fancy wedding photographed for Vogue dominate this second installment of von Ziegesar's frothy but fun series about rich Manhattan prep school kids and the gossip Web site tracking their lives. Blair Waldorf's mother is marrying her "seriously tacky" boyfriend on Blair's birthday and has chosen the bulimic overachiever's former best friend Serena as a bridesmaid (Blair will be maid of honor). Meanwhile, "hunky" Nate avoids Blair (he's secretly seeing chesty Jenny Humphrey), and the compounded stress makes her act like a "freakshow" during her Yale interview. Blonde bombshell Serena is disturbed by poet Dan's intense affections, struggles through her own interview at Brown and scores first prize in a school film contest. The plot culminates at the wedding, where the girls' boy troubles come to a head. As with her Gossip Girl, von Ziegesar creates a complete world: the characters get drunk, shop and indulge in spa treatments plus, the film contest prize is two tickets to Cannes. While this is still strictly a guilty pleasure, the story lines are better developed in this volume and the characters show more growth. But it's their outrageous lifestyles and antics and the snide omniscient narrator that will keep readers turning the pages. Ages 15-up.
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A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-15 00:00>
After a stressful junior year full of books like The Scarlet Letter, The Great Gatsby, and The Grapes of Wrath, I was eager to fill my summer with some lighter literature. I found the first Gossip Girl book and read it about five times. After what seemed like an endless wait, the second novel came out, and I ate it up. Although you may not want to do your AP English 4 book report on it, You Know You Love Me is an awesome book if you're into gossip, money, shopping, scandal, and relationships (and who isn't???). The storyline, about a group of devious high society New York kids, may not relate to many people, but that's why we love it so much! However, I WAS able to relate to some of the things the characters are going through, especially their college applications and interviews. I would definitely reccomend this book, and the first Gossip Girl, to any teenage girl who's looking for a book that will make you smile but not make you think too hard.
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A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-15 00:00>
In Gossip Girl's second installment, Blair Waldorf and the rest of the Manhattan prep school kids are back in what was another round of great, whatelse, gossip!
Blair's seventeenth birthday is fast approaching and there is nothing else that she wants more than her hottie boyfriend Nate's full fledged attention. But birthday's aren't the only thing on Blair's mind. Blair has an interview at Yale coming up and her mother is getting married again, after a 2 month courtship, to Cyrus Rose, a man of the high society, who just happens to have a hot son named Aaron, a hippie. Worst of all, Blair's mom has chosen Blair's former best friend Serena as bridsmaid instead of Blair and of course such a big occasion must also catch the attention of Vogue, the magazine, who will be taking pictures at the wedding.
Then there is Nate himself. Blairs been so busy with all the wedding and college applications that shes been too busy to see that Nate isn't exactly hers anymore. He has been secretly dating Jenny Humphrey, a ninth-grader, whose got some pretty good attributes in the chest area. Jenny's brother Danny, the romantic poet, is still swooning over Serena, whose busy with her interview with Brown.
Bad languague, inapprapriate situations, makes Gossip Girl appropriate for only mature readers but once you get into them, you really can't put it down. The storylines are enticing and the scandals are just pure fun. The characters are great and there is never a dull moment. A definite must read if you want to catch up on some "gossip".
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Erika Sorocco (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-15 00:00>
You Know You Love Me is a continuation of the last book in the Gossip Girl series entitled Gossip Girl. Ziegesar brings back Blair and Serena's scandalous, yet enticing, affairs, and their minor problems.
You Know You Love Me begins with the characters of "Gossip Girl" applying to Ivy League Colleges, and Blair planning not only her seventeenth birthday, but also helping her mother get ready for her wedding, which is being photographed for Vogue. Yes, the magazine. Then there's Serena, who is being constantly pursued by Dan, a disturbed poet with intense affections.
But, although these kids are rich, obviously money can't buy you everything. At least it can't buy Blair Waldorf everything. For Blair's seventeenth birthday bash is coming up, and she knows that the only thing that she can possibly wish for is Nate Archibald, her troubled, yet gorgeous, boyfriend, of course. But little does she know that while she's sending out college applications, Nate is fooling around with Jenny Humphrey, a ninth-grader!!
This book is set for people 15 & over, due to bad language and racy content. Fans of "Sex and the City" and "Cruel Intentions" will relish in the likeness of this book, and the characters rich and scandalous lifestyles. A great read when you're looking for some...gossip.
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Catherine (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-15 00:00>
Although I can't say that I was expecting too much, I think this book definitely exceeded my expectations. It was a lot better than the first for sure, and the story line seemed to be much more interesting. Basically it builds on the main ideas from last time: Dan's stalker-like obsessions with Serena, Blair wanting to go all the way with Nate, Blair's mother getting married, Serena's movie, etc etc. The focus of the book is that everyone is getting ready to head off to university, so you read about a lot of them on road trips going to interviews with potential schools. This book had such a surprise ending, with some relationships breaking apart, and some new relationships developing too (there's especially one bizarre relationship between two people you'd never expect to get together). I guess that's what I like about this book, it's not predictable. It leaves you guessing right up to the last few pages. A great overall read. Make sure you've read the first book if you're new to the series, because I don't think you'd be able to keep up with this one if you haven't. If you've read the first, make sure to snatch up this second one!
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