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Monday Jun 30, 2008

Posted at 03:18PM Jun 30, 2008 by Anna in General  |  Comments[9]

Hi, everyone,

Thanks to all of you for leaving such amazing comments. I love hearing from you, and I hope you’ll keep writing and reading!

As some of you already know, in The Luxe Elizabeth Holland finds herself caught between two worlds. During tea-drinking and ball-attending hours, she is the perfect society lady, immaculately dressed and impeccable in her manners, but in secret, stolen moments, she is a girl who is simply and intensely in love with Will, the family coachman. She's extremely convincing in the former role, but her heart lies in the latter.

I think many of us divide ourselves in this way. Some may don a different personality at work than at home, or act one way with family and another way with friends. Others may pose as someone different on the internet than the person they truly are away from the computer. Many people also float between two totally different groups of friends, yet find a way to fit in with both.

Do you ever feel like you travel from one world to another in a single day or week? What is difficult or interesting about that? How do you negotiate it? I'd love to know!

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OMG I LOVED YOUR BOOK! I finished Rumors in one day, it was so hard to put down! I can't wait for Envy!

Posted by Haley on June 30, 2008 at 03:40 PM EDT #

I am often, many times, a different person per se. With my family, I am talkative, energetic, and loud although I am quite a shy person. When you first meet me, I am very shy and "crawl" in my little shell, or so you call it. I may be shy upon first meeting, but definitely warm up to people fast and then I can be my true self around them. I make online friends very easy, so I don't really have that "shy" phase when I meet them. I guess it's just easier for me to be myself when online. My online friends know the real me, and so do my family and friends. Very interesting question, Anna! I think I could write a whole essay on it. :) I love your series, by the way. I finished Rumors about a week ago and I am anxiously awating January!

Posted by Jamie on June 30, 2008 at 11:56 PM EDT #

well 4 me.im much of a talkative person every where.....except temple....there im a little shy freak....ROFL....so yeah im pretty much like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde type of person....except i dont murder people....i reallly think u should make elizabeth pregnent.......that would be great......

Posted by Prit on July 01, 2008 at 11:50 AM EDT #

I love your books! I so wish I could have lived back then! I can't wait till Envy to see what happens. I do feel like I live two lives sometimes. I really don't like it. :(

Posted by Amanda on July 06, 2008 at 08:52 PM EDT #

I'm kinda in the phase where I'm discovering myself because I'm a very different person the certain people. I act differently with my family, with close friends, with certain adults, and with guys. I feel like such a fake with those people because I have such different attitudes and comportments with each one of them. I feel like I'm deceiving them, like I'm putting an act on every time. I keep hoping that I will mature into the person I want to be and drop all the false demeanor.

Posted by monika on July 06, 2008 at 09:06 PM EDT #

you should make diana pregnant with henry's child

Posted by jaz on July 21, 2008 at 06:14 PM EDT #

no, no, no! please no more pregnancies! I have really honest and truly had enough of that plot line; it's everywhere. Plus, in that time period, the girl would just be sent away to some women's home and never be seen again, so that wouldn't be very exciting.

Posted by Audrey on August 22, 2008 at 06:34 PM EDT #

Yes. Split personalities. :) I've heard [and read about that] I act the reserved, cautious, and the good girl in school. My schoolmates label me as the quiet, nice one who won't hesitate to help you out. But when I'm at home, I can be dominating around my siblings, acting this girl who have some power complex issues.

Posted by Noelle on October 31, 2008 at 04:04 AM EDT #

I know you're not suppose to judge a book by its cover, but the cover for Luxe was really well done and once I read that I had to read rumors. Anyways, I thought this was a good question. For me, I grew up in a very diverse world. I am youngest of 6 kids, so I had to learn how to be mature when I was around my older siblings friends and learn how to be immature when with my friends. Plus my parents made sure that each child did something athletic and something musical on top of the fact that my mother was a theater director and we were always with theater type of people. In these situations I learned how to be myself but still fit in with each group. I learned early on that I am horrible at keeping my thoughts to myself, which is sometimes a good thing and sometimes not, but I also learned how to keep that part of my personality but mold it to fit the group I am with. Because we all know that a girl who says everything that comes to her mind, and is loud with a reserved group is not going to have a reserved group to hang out with anymore. Basically I bring out which ever part of me that fits with my surroundings while still keeping what makes me...me.

Posted by Heidi on December 03, 2008 at 09:07 PM EST #

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