Friday, January 28, 2011

The Princess Diaries Volume II: Princess in the Spotlight...pgs. 1-124

by: Meg Cabot

Summary:
Part II of the Princess Diaries begins with Princess Mia writing in her journal about some big news that her mom told her during breakfast...she is pregnent, with Mia's Algebra teacher....talk about awkard to the max! Mia kind of freaks out and writed in her journal a lot of stuff about how her mom is so stupid for not using birth control and other forms of protection.  So, to find out more information about how to make her mom's pregnency run smoothly, Mia looks up information on how to have a healthy pregnency. Lilly catches Mia and starts asking why Mia never told her that she was pregnent. Mia got super embarassed and tried to tell Lilly that she wasn't, but she didn't tell her that it was actually her mom that was pregnent.

The next big thing that happens in the book is when Mia's grandmother tells Mia that she is going to do an interview for national television.  Mia gets suuppeerr mad at her and tries to weasel her way out of doing it, but her dad is on her grandmother's side and told her that it would "be good practice" for when she has to do interviews in Genovia. To make matters worse, Mia finds out that her mom and Mr. G are going ot get married.  She is happy for them, but she can't help getting grossed out by the fact that she is going to be living with her teacher. As you can tell, Mia had been under a lot of stress so it's not schocking that she ends up getting sick.  She misses prertty much an entire week of school. On the last day that Mia stayed home from school, she gets a letter from a secret admirer. He goes by Jo-C-rox. 

On the day of Mia's interview, her cold has pretty much gone away, but her nerves make her feel worse than ever. She babbles her way through the entire interview and makes a huuggee mistake by saying that her mom is pregnent.  Her dad kind of flips out and her grandmother is outraged, but Mia's mom is totally understanding and thanks Mia for saying for her. Even Mr. G isn't upset. 

My reading ends with Mia finding out that her Grandmother flew the royal event coordinator from Genovia to plan an extravagent wedding for her mother and Mr. G.  Mia tried to tell her grandmother that this was definately NOT what her mom wanted, but her grandmother would not listen.  So now Mia has to try and figure out how to tell her mom this news...

Response:
So far I'm liking this book a whole lot :) It's..different.  I like reading it becasue it's just so different from the movies that were made, but they still have similarities. Other than the fact that Mia is a Princess, I am starting to see how similar we are.  We both have this quircky personality where we think we're really funny, but in reality we're just kinda weird.  Even though we tend to be kinda weird, we both still have a best friend that laughs with us and is just as quircky as we are. I like that I'm reading about a girl who is a lot like me :) (excluding the whole princess thing)

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