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You Know You Love Me (Gossip Girl)

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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.

"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.

Erika Sorocco

This book is about Blair and problems that are starting to occur in her life. She finds out that her mom is getting married to her boyfriend and that soon Blair will have a new stepbrother name Aaron. Nate dumps Blair for Jennifer, a freshman and Blair is upset. One good thing that happens, though, is that Serena and Blair fix their friendship and everything is back to normal. Aaron and Blair end up going to Yale together for Blair's interview. They decide to leave a day early and they stay up all night. Blair oversleeps and she has no time to get ready for her interview. She is so stressed that she ends up kissing her interviewer and spilling the problems she is having in her life.

Personally, I thought that this was better than the first one. It had a better plot and got into more detail. After reading this book I couldn't wait to start reading the next one.

This book is just as good as the first, in my opinion.

This one mostly focuses on Blair, Nate, and Jenny/Jennifer. Blair wants to finally lose her virginity to Nate, but the thing is Nate has started seeing a younger girl, a freshemn whom he calls Jennifer. Blair has no idea he is seeing someone else! Of course, Blair eventually finds out, and now her mom is marrying her boyfriend who Blair can't stand and he also has a son, Blair's new step-brother Aaron!
Blair's life has been so hectic lately that when she goes for her Yale interview she completely blows its! She told them about her family problems, a crime she did, and why her life is so screwed up, and after she kissed her interview, old enough to be her father! Blair's life is no longer so perfect.
An improvement to the first book with a better plot. If you read the first in the series and enjoyed it I highly recommend this book!

when i saw this book, i thought it wasn't going to be good. Boy, was I wrong. This book is a great read and if you love reading about hot people and their problems, you'll love this book. You'll get into every character you read about and you will also laugh out loud because it has it's funny moments too.

Gossip Girl is back with another deliciously addictive, rumor filled novel. Serena, Blair, Nate, and Dan are all applying for college. Blair has her heart set on Yale but, well, let's just say her interview doesn't go as well as she would have liked. Serena's desperatly trying to get it together so she can get excepted to anywhere other than South East New York U (FACT: Colleges with more than one compass point in their name aren't very good colleges.) Dan is still hopelessly infatuated with Serena, but she thinks he bordering on stalker. Nate ditches Blair for the most unlikely person. Oh, don't you just love a good scandal? Heads up social butterflies, you gotta read this one!

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!

I love this book. It is written soo well and so funny. i couldnt stop reading it.

The Gossip Girl series is incredibly addicting. Nate, Serena, Blair, Dan, Jenny, and all of their friends are living the high life in New York City. Serena and Blair are the two most beautiful girls at Constance Billard's all girls' school. They had been best friends since the fifth grade, but now something has come between them. Blair has lost her best friend and her mother is getting married to a guy she doesn't like one bit at all, and on her 17th birthday! To top it off, her college interview at Yale didn't go as she planned. Blair has to try to figure out how to get her life back, while Serena is having the time of her life chasing boys, buying clothes and make up, and partying with her brother at Brown University. Every guy that ever sets eyes on Serena falls in love with her; she's beautiful, popular, and very flirty. Serena's boyfriend at the time is Dan, a senior at St. Judes, and he is obsessed with her. Dan writes poems every day about Serena, and his sister, Jenny, wants to be exactly like her. Jenny is a freshman at Constance Billard, and tells her brother almost everything.
Nate and Blair have been dating for two years. Last summer, Nate cheated on Blair with Serena, so now Blair and Serena are worst enemies. Blair thinks everything is fine with Nate, but he's secretly cheating on her with Jenny, a freshman at Constance Billard. In two weeks, Blair's mother is getting married to a jerk, Serena is one of the bridesmaids, and Nate is supposed to be her date. Her Yale interview was a disaster. What is she going to do with her life? "There was a good chance she [Blair] wasn't getting into Yale, even after her father's embarrassingly outrageous donation. Nate didn't love her. She didn't even have the same last name as the rest of her family anymore" (Ziegesar 220).
Serena isn't too worried about not being friends with Blair. She knows she's more gorgeous than Blair. Dan is in love with Serena, but Serena isn't in love with Dan. He writes love poems about her in his free time and she doesn't know about them. Dan decided to send her a poem. It freaked Serena out; she thinks he's obsessive now. Serena stops talking to Dan and he doesn't know what he did wrong. Serena and Dan were supposed to go to Brown together, but before they leave Nate and his buddies ask if they can come along for the ride. Serena allows them to come and Dan is heartbroken. He thought Serena loved him. "What depressed him [Dan] was that she didn't want to be alone with him the way he wanted to be alone with her. If she did, she wouldn't have turned their cozy weekend away into a rockin' slumber party" (Ziegesar 125).
Eleanor Waldrof and Cyrus Rose are getting married two days after Thanksgiving, Blair's birthday. The Friday before the wedding, all of the bridesmaids go out to get manicures, pedicures, make up, and all of the things that need to be done before a big wedding. The guys are out trying on their tuxedos and getting hair cuts. Blair and Serena have to be with each other at the salon, and Blair isn't too happy with that. In the middle of her pedicure she gets up and storms off, no one sees her until the wedding. The ushers pick up the bridesmaids in their hotel suite and take them to the wedding. The wedding goes as planned, and everything is perfect. The reception, however, is a disaster. Serena ignores Dan completely, but Dan meets Vanessa and falls in love. Vanessa's more his type. Blair spots Nate with his freshman girlfriend and Serena spots Dan with his new girlfriend. Both Serena and Blair run to the bathroom, not knowing the other one is in there. Blair is crying on the sink, and Serena is there to comfort her. Blair's birthday didn't turn out to be so bad after all; she had her best friend back. "Blair scooted back on the bed so she was sitting right next to Serena...the two girls watched Audrey Hepburn flit around her apartment and flirt with her new neighbor" (Ziegesar 225).
Any middle or high school girl can relate to this series. The books keep you asking for more. Everyone deals with gossip in their school, everyone gossips. It's a bad habit but everyone does it. The characters in this book are spoiled, but have to go through the same things any regular kid would have to. Their lives aren't as great as everyone thinks they are. They are easy to relate to. This series is addicting and keeps getting better every time I read it. Every teenager should read this, you'd be surprised at how much it's like real life!

There are some people who are writing reviews stating that this is the best or one of the best books they have ever read. It is far from the best, but it is a really enjoyable beach read. It is a fun book to read and an entertaining one...