Just Listen Part 2

I am still reading Just Listen this week. Since my last post Annabel has made a new friend or boyfriend, they are not calling themselves anything yet. She met Owen at lunch one day and they have been hanging out a lot in and out of school. Her sister, Whitney has also gone to rehab and wouldn't come out of her room forever after she got out of rehab. Their parents have not given her any freedom and she feels like she is locked up in her own house. When her parents start giving her some freedom, she starts showing up around the house more and is not always in her room. Annabel has also been doing more modeling lately and made it into the Kopf's fashion show at the mall. Lately things have been looking up for Annabel and her life has been getting better even with Sophie.

Just Listen

The book that I am reading this week is called Just Listen by Sarah Dessen. It is about a girl named Annabel Greene and hwo her life seems so picture perfect on the outside but when you really see what is going on, it is anything but perfect. Annabel is a model for one of the biggest modeling agencies and is in high school at her local school. What people don't know is that her sister has a serious eating disorder and no one is realizing except for her other sister, even her family doesn't know. They finally see what is happening when she collapses and the ambulance has to come and get her because her body couldn't handle it anymore. Annabel's sister, Whitney is going the be staying with them for a while until her parents let her go back to LA. Annabel has also recently lost her best friend, Sophie. Annabel and Sophie had been the best of friends forever and becuase of Sophie Annabel is no longer friends with Clarke anymore either. Annabel is slowly coming to realize who she is and what high school is going to be like for her, and so far it hasn't been good.

114-year-old woman to be the oldest

Gertrude Baines is 114 years old and is currently living in a California nursing home. Baines was first born to a family of slaves in a little town south of Atlanta in 1984. She spent most of her long life in Ohio as a house mom at a university and eventually moved to Los Angelos to retire after her divorce. She has no reason to why she has lived for so long other than that god wanted her to. She is living happily and seems cheerful and talkative. Baines did have one child, who died at 18 from typhoid fever. She has not yet been given the title or worlds oldest but will be soon after further investigation. The current oldest women just died on November 26,2008 and lived to be 115 years, 220 days old when she died. Gertrude Baines is a happy women in California who will soon be named the worlds oldest women.