NYPL

I can’t decide what I like best about this site: the fact that the blogger makes jokes about how to pronounce the acronym for New York Public Library (never occurred to me before, but now I odn’t know if I’ll be able to stop thinking of it), the fact that she (?) is clearly a huge Scott Westerfeld fan, or maybe, because of this:

Secret Society Girl
Maybe it’s because I went to Dartmouth and the “Eli” university in this book is very similar, or maybe it’s because I was in a coed frat, but I absolutely ADORED this book.

Peterfreund, Diana Delacorte Press
Secret Society Girl: an Ivy League Novel 2006
Amy Haskel, editor of the “Eli University” (Yale) literary magazine, is a shoe-in for Quill & Ink, the literary senior society, so when she’s tapped by Rose & Grave, the most powerful, most secretive, most all-male society at Eli, she is surprised to say the least. As Amy enters a world of initiation and tradition, the reader enters Peterfreund’s colorful and witty world of college life. The adventures of the last few weeks of Amy’s junior year are as exciting as any episode of Alias, with the added advantage that there need be no suspension of disbelief as the author creates a very real world it is easy for the reader to relate to, even if they do not have the Ivy League experience or the vocabulary of the main characters of the book. Peterfreund puts the first person to good use in this “confession”.

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