Week 3.

This was a really good part of the book, all of the stories are coming together. It was really hard for me to not read on..... I had read up to page 306 by Tuesday.... hahaha, and just waited until the end of the week so I could start up again.

Ummmm, Tate being "second" choice, but really "first" choice, didn't even seem to matter. Tate and Barrett seemed to be hitting it off great. As we go through this section of reading though, their new relationship is being tested. First by what Birdie said, and Tate overheard, about the relationship just being a summer fling. Then, Barrett's mind seeming like it was somewhere else. And again, the Fullin family getting in the way.

That Anita Fullin is beginning to really tick me off. What kind of audacity this woman must have to outright ask for the sculpture, and then really not take NO for an answer. I wonder if someway, somehow she ends up getting it. And then the whole job offer to Barrett. She really just WANTS Barrett as well, and can't take NO for an answer either.... Even though Barrett says he is going to take the job, I really hope that he doesn't.

Chess, slowly but surely, is starting to open up. I am looking forward to finding out the conclusion to her whole drama. However, there was one part where Chess said to Nick, "I keep wishing that Michael would fall in love with someone else." And Nick responded with "I keep wishing Michael would die." (P.234). I hope I am just reading into it... but really was that a precurser for what happened with Michael. Maybe he slipped and fell and Nick just didn't try to save him... I hope not.....

Birdie... Just like what I thought was gonna happen... the ex is back in the picture. I think that he has realized what a wonderful woman Birdie was, and now is not as busy with everything and is missing her. Birdie just wants whatever attention she can get because she is feeling lonely.

India... I think whatever happens with India will be perfectly fine for her. She seems like a very confident person and will do what is best for her, and what makes her happy. After going through what she went through with her husband she deserves to be happy. Whatever she decides will be the right choice.

I am excited to wrap this story up. Here's what I want to happen.. Barrett doesn't take the job, and continues to see Tate.. (however I doubt that will happen). Birdie will move on from both of her men and learn how to be independently happy (however the way the story is going, I think she will end up back with Bill). India will end up moving past the whole Lulah incident. And Chess will continue writing in her journal and finally tell Tate what has happened, completing the trip and their time together with completion and finalization.

What do you guys think?

Aunt Joyce or Mom, you guys pick the next book.... You decide who wants to... and hopefully as the months continue on we will get more readers!!!!! Can we have the booked picked by the middle of the week?!?!?!?!