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I read Creativity Inc, which is about the experiences of Ed Catmull, who is one of the cofounders of Pixar Animation Studios. I read the book after the recommendation of  a podcast named Cortex, the two hosts of the podcast gave a short description of the book and then said that anybody who is interested in business, animation, or Pixar should read it (As a side note I completely agree and recommend this book to anyone who is interested in the topics above).

In the book, Ed describes how the company began, he discusses how the founders struggled to make a business where there is no hierarchy and where everybody can speak freely. He also describes some of Pixar's biggest failures and how they recovered  from them. Among these failures are Cars 2 and Newt which ended up never being released to the public.

Throughout the book, I noted that a common theme explained by Ed, which was the process of how Pixar operates and what makes them one of the most successful animation companies in the world.

Animation is something that has always interested me, and business operations is something that I enjoy learning about. The selection of this book did not originally start out with the intended result of learning the inner workings of Pixar, but resulted in a great read for me.

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I chose the summer I turned pretty. This movie helped me understand the book better because adding visuals can help and it goes into more detail.

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The book i chose is Nothing to Lose by Lee Child.  The book is about a young woman named Kya, who is left to raise herself in the marshes of North Carolina when her family abandons her at a young age. She lives a lonely life, but her story is a hopeful one as well. With a little help, she's able to survive and even learn to read. At the end of the story, Kya is acquitted for the murder of Chase Andrews, and Kya realizes that she loved Tate all along. They start a life together and turn the shack that Kya lives in into a nice cottage. As the years pass, Jumpin’ passes away, and Jodie gets married and has kids that he brings by. The village grows into a city, but Tate and Kya never visit either way. Kya does not kill herself. Instead, she passes away at 64 while she’s out in a boat collecting stuff. Tate has “The Marsh Girl” inscribed on her headstone. As Tate goes to look through her possessions, he finds a hidden compartment with poems by a local author. He realizes the poet was Kya, writing under a pen name all these years. There is one poem about murdering Chase, and with it is Chase’s missing shell necklace, tying her to his murder.

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I read "The Age of Reason" by Thomas Paine, which I accompanied by watching a documentary called, "The Forgotten Father of Western Democracy". Understandably, this book might be considered quite taboo, as it tackles the problems - if you refer to them in that way - and hypocrisies of traditional Christianity. Paine delivers a strong, concise message, which although I do not agree with, I find to be fascinating. The documentary only adds to my infatuation with Paine, as it dives deep into his mind and background, paving the stones to his rock solid opinions.

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This summer, I read all three books of the “Summer I Turned Pretty,” series and watched the TV show remake on Amazon Prime Video. I personally liked the books more than the TV show. The books were great at describing the characters, the setting, and the background of each character in detail so readers can get a better understanding of the book. The show also added scenes on that weren’t in the book, which makes it confusing for some readers to differentiate between the books and the show. But overall, I really enjoyed reading the books and watching the show. I would definitely recommend both.

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This photo is taken where the plague was taken place by Albert Camus I learns and what I found meaning ful was action within the context of Camus' philosophy is to choose to fight death and suffering. In the early days of the epidemic the citizens of Oran are indifferent to one another's suffering because each person is selfishly convinced that his or her pain is unique compared to common suffering.

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The book I read this summer is called "The Man From The Train" By Bill James and Rachel McCarthy James. The authors of this book used this story to try and help solve the famous unsolved crime of The Villisca Axe Murders. This crime was the murder of 8 people in the middle of the night on June 9th 1912. The story goes through how the serial killer planned and executed. The killer entered the house in the middle of the night, climbed the stairs and killed the parents with the blunt end of the axe, in order to lower the risk of the axe getting lodged. He then moved to the children's bedroom and killed the children. Right as he was leaving he noticed two more children sleeping in the guest room. He covered the mirror and killed them. He went back around the house bashing them with the axe up to 20 more times. He then locked the front door and left through a window. Afterward he left on the train ands never came back.

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I read the trilogy The Summer I Turned Pretty and then watched the first season of the show The Summer I Turned Pretty. The show was able to give me visuals and give me a better understanding of things that’s I couldn’t picture in my own head by just reading the book.

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the lotus flower represents new beginnings and in the book the girls had to start their lives over to adjust to a new way of life. this symbolizes that change. 

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my book was you bring the distant near by mitali perkins. the character i chose to describe in a spotify playlist was sonia / starry. i’m basing the playlist on when her mom couldn’t accept  the boy she was falling in love with.

link to the playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0bcqZoU1KdSN8hfqX3G2b7?si=88f7c5048ef94646

songs and explanations :
could’ve been by h.e.r and bryson tiller ~ this describes her thoughts of how much more they could’ve been if her mom accepted him.

necio by romeo santos and carlos santana ~ this song is basically saying how the love makes him do unwise things and sonia is being unwise by not listening to her mothers advice.

peligro by aventura ~ this song is saying how their love leads to destruction and it applies to sonia because her love with him is causing destruction in her and her mom’s relationship.

let me love you by mario ~ this is what sonia was hearing from the boy she was being forced by her mother to refuse , telling her you should let me love you.

i will always love you by whitney houston ~ this is what her mother wanted her to do and say goodbye but her true feelings wer hat she would always love him.

stuck on you by giveon ~ this song is portraying what starry’s boyfriend was probably feeling and telling her that he thought they’d last forever and he didn’t want to see her walk away because of her mom.

heartbreak anniversary by giveon ~ the way she couldn’t really be with him as much as if her mom accepted him made her say things to herself like in the song where it says “heartbreak anniversary, do you ever think of me?”

like i want you by giveon ~ she can express herself through this song by her feelings of wanting him and she can’t have him.

talking to the moon by bruno mars ~ sonia can relate to it by sitting alone thinking about the boy her mom can’t accept feeling lonely and wondering how he is doing.

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I read the book “the age of reason” and I listened to Thomas Paine own documentary about his own self, while listening I learned how his mind started to think about rule at a young age as he was able to change the world and all of a sudden the whole world turned against his ideas. Many people had forgotten about him when he died but his ideas of democracy, slavery, equality, the Bible, etc. would have created a different america. It showed his life and how the time of the age of reason was a very gruesome one but made himself realize what was happening in the world

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I watched the movie "Wonder", based on the book by the same name written by R. J. Palacio. Watching the movie helped me further put myself into the shoes of the main character August and his struggle with life shown throughout the film.

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I read the book The Body by Stephen King and then watched the movie Stand by Me that came along with it. Stephen King does a very well job writing the book and creating a visual in the readers head but it is nothing compared to watching the actual movie. The book and the movie didn’t have the exact same plot but it is very similar. The movie also creates a quicker understanding then the book in general. I did enjoy the book more to a greater extent.

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I read the book, “The Lying Woods” by Ashley Elston. This story was about a  boy named Owen who was very privileged, wealthy, and got things handed to him. His father stole money from his investors and now Owen and his mom have to deal with his father’s consequences. This illustration shows the struggle between owens whole life with fancy things and private schoold and doing what’s right for the people in their community.

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My book was The Art Of Racing In The Rain by Garth Stein. While I was reading I visualized what the main characters Denny and Enzo looked like and I looked at an image of a Ferrari and watched some clips from the ending from the movie and made a drawing of them driving together.

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In the book To Kill a Mockingbird It explores themes such as racial prejudices and injustice as shown in the Book which takes place in Maycomb Alabama. In Google Maps there isn’t a place Called Maycomb so I attached the closest image to Maycomb Alabama. This book has this quote “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view” which shows a lot of perspective on life and to think of yourself in others shoes.

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I read the book “The Maze Runner” by James Dashner and decided to make a playlist for the main character Thomas. In the book, Thomas wakes up in a metal cage entering a large field with nothing but 2 large stone walls in the distance. From the perspective of thomas, waling up in the middle of no where with only the knowledge of your first name and not knowing how, when or why your are in this place would be extremely scary. He later finds out that in the 2 stone walls is a huge maze that needs to be solved in order to get out of the of the oddity. Above, i made a playlist describing his feelings and emotions on entering the maze as well as the journey and humongous obstacles he would have to overcome in order to escape. In the songs, there are large messages that could help him cope and try to adjust to the new world he would be living in if he wants to escape.

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For this summer assignment, I read a book titled The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The author of this book outlines the tragedy of the character Jay Gatsby, specifically regarding his love for his teenage acquaintance, Daisy Buchanan. This story is told in the perspective of the character Nick Carraway, who was trying to understand his relationship with Jordan Baker. To add, the setting of this book is in the 1920s on Long Island, New York. The two main characters of this book would be Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway.

Jay Gatsby is a self-made millionaire who tries to use his wealth to attract Daisy who was already married at the time to Tom Buchanan. The book indicates that Daisy chose Tom over Gatsby because Gatsby was poor during their teenage romance. Regardless, Gatsby appears to have built himself up to win Daisy back. As a result, Gatsby seems to have a false sense of reality and an obsession with Daisy. He has the inaccurate perception that wealth will solve his problems. Even though Gatsby does get closer to Daisy, Daisy ultimately chooses her husband over him. Therefore, the character Jay Gatsby appears to be very naive. At the end of this book, Gatsby dies, likely due to his unrequited love towards Daisy Buchanan.

The narrator of the book The Great Gatsby is the character known as Nick Carraway. He is an observant character that has some participation in the conflicts of the story. Nick shares his thoughts on his experiences with the other characters and is often pushed around by the other characters. For example, he often does what he is asked, such as inviting his cousin Daisy to his house so Gatsby can reunite with her. In a sense, he can be described as a wingman to Gatsby. Moreover, his relationship with Jordan Baker is described, but does not lead to anything serious. Their friendship ends by the conclusion of this piece of literature. Truly, Nick Carraway is a medium used to describe the tragedy of his acquaintance, Jay Gatsby.

The book titled The Great Gatsby may indicate that wealth does not equal success as Gatsby’s wealth did not allow him to fulfill his desire of marrying Daisy. Moreover, this story may suggest that an obsession over love is dangerous as romantic relationships often have other weighted factors other than love. This can include parental approval, societal approval and security. Therefore, this book ultimately would regard the misfortune of Jay Gatsby told by his neighbor.

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The book I chose to read was the 57 bus and here is a short summary of my favorite character One of the protagonists Sasha. Sasha is an agender teenager from a middle-class section of Oakland, California. Sasha, who has Asperger’s Syndrome, is interested in languages. They use they/them pronouns and enjoy wearing skirts, causing Richard and his friends to perceive them as different. Sasha wants to raise awareness and acknowledgment of those who identify as agender

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The book “The Lying Woods” by Ashley Elston The father used the family business to embezzle millions and strip his employees retirement accounts to almost nothing, Owen's father vanished without a trace. This forced Owen to balance The embezzlement money and what’s right for the people

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In the book The Master, by Colm Toibin, Henry James, the novel's main focus first lives in the De Vere Gardens, London. At the beginning of the story, James is the writer of a play called Guy Domville, performed at a theater across from St. James’s Square. James was too concerned about how the play would be received, he watched a different play across the Haymarket, one of London’s most famous streets. Colm Toibin writes a beautiful monologue of James' inner thoughts while walking through St. James’s Square.

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Michael Corleone character analysis (Brian Gay)

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Michael Corleone character analysis (Brian Gay)

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Micheal Corleone is the youngest son to infamous New York City mob boss Vito Corleone and at first not wanting to be involved in the family business he later becomes the boss himself. When Micheal came back to New York City after being in the marines he didn’t want to be in the family business but his father thought he would be an asset because he was always the smartest out of his two older brothers Sonny Corleone being the oldest, Fredo being the middle child and Tom Hagen the step brother. During the 1930s olive oil was the main source of money for the family but during the turn into the 40s the other family’s wanted to sell drugs but Vito being old school refused so a hit was put out on Vito Corleone. When Vito was shopping for fruit, members of the Tattaglia family saw Vito and shot Vito seriously wounding him. When Vito was in the hospital the guards that were supposed to be protecting him were not there so Micheal in a state of panic brings his unconscious father out of the hospital before anyone from the Tattaglia family kills Vito. During that whole experience that made Micheal more loyal to his family then started to be involved in the business that he never wanted to be a part of. Now a made man in the Corleone family Micheal is going to find the men who shot his father. When word gets out when the assassins were visiting a restaurant Micheal was going to kill the men by planting a revolver in the restaurant’s toilet then nonchalantly walk into the restaurant get the revolver and kill the men, and that’s exactly how Micheal did it. Now after his decisions of revenge a war broke out and Micheal went into hiding in Sicily. When Micheal is at Sicily he finds it peaceful and finds a girl that he likes named apollonia and Michael lives a happy life. While Micheal is in Sicily and his father wounded, his hot headed brother Sonny is in charge of the family, with Sonny in charge it only causes trouble because when something goes wrong Sonny always goes ahead instead of thinking of the consequences while Micheal is always a thinker. When Sonny finds out that his sister’s husband was abusing her, Sonny in a fit of rage beats him up in public and tells him to not do it again or else he (Sonny) will kill him. When word gets out to the Tattaglias they use this as a trap to murder Sonny so they lure him in and while he goes through a toll both a bunch of Tattaglia hit men with Thomson guns brutality kills Sonny which exactly went to plan. And without a leader Michael is forced to go back to America even though he was enjoying his stay at Sicily and right after hearing about his brothers death apollonia is killed in a car bomb which signifies the destruction of his happy life because once you’re in the mafia you can never leave. While back in New York his Father now healed and acknowledged his oldest son’s death he calls a truce and allows to sell drugs. After playing around with his grandsons Vito has a heart attack and passes away and wanted Michael to become head of the family even though Fredo was older. In a state of panic Micheal orders the death of the other 4 family’s bosses after what they did to his family.

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I chose “The Perks of being a Wallflower”. The movie helped better understand the adversities of the main character Charlie. While well explained in the book, the movie more graphically explains everything.

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The book I read was called “Who Killed Christopher Goodman?” by Allan Wolf. The book is about the murder of a high school student, Christopher Goodman. This illustration depicts Christopher Goodman’s deadly decision of offering a ride, to his murderers. The illustration shows the murder weapon, a revolver, and the three occupants of the vehicle. The image’s perspective is from the back of the vehicle.

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For my book, I read Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone, the first in the Harry Potter series. For once, it’s a relatively strait-forward drawing. Here, we see Harry clutching the stone (I think it was orange?) wearing his iconic school uniform. I did the little smoke display in the background just to make the image pop, as well as to add more red to the image (I was considering putting images in the smoke, but the file wanted to crash as it was, I wasn’t going to risk it) giving it more of a griffendoor vibe (I hope). He’s missing the little patch-like logo on the right hand side but I wasn’t going to try drawing it, not risking a hand cramp today. A nice warm up sketch for a lot of doodles to come. My friend says it would make a cool book cover, so I’m proud :)

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This summer I read Harry Potter and then I watched then movies and the visuals helped me understand the characters and the plot a lot better.

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I chose the film  “The Help”. This film helped me understand the book more by just getting the point of view and to experience and see for myself what the book talked about even though the book gave a lot of more specific details like some things that aren’t shown or said in the movie. It helped me understand a lot of things.

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This summer I read is the outsiders it  is about two weeks in the life of a 14-year-old boy. The novel tells the story of Ponyboy Curtis and his struggles with right and wrong in a society in which he believes that he is an outsider. Main summary about the outsiders is It tells the story of 14-year-old Ponyboy Curtis and his two older brothers, Soda and Darry. The boys are orphans and struggle to stick together in their lower-class neighborhood, known as the East Side. They and their friends are part of a gang of working class tough street boys called the Greasers.

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In the book It Ends With Us written by Colleen Hoover, the main character Lily Bloom has a love for gardening. She uses this as an escape. In this fiction book Lily follows her dreams and also opens her own flower shop. This drawing represents not only what Lily loves to do but what I believe she represents. Throughout this novel she has two love interests, with the first love interest she helps him and provides for him when he doesn’t have a place to go home to. Just like a flower needs the right amount of water and sun her love interest needed the right amount of love and care.

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The book I read was, “Places I’ve never been before”. In this image it shows everything that they went through wether it was good or bad, the sketch book always brought them together. It reminded them of their best memories and why their relationship is worth fighting for.

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I read the story, You Bring The Distant Near, by Mitali Perkins.
This illustration represents the main character and her family’s change in culture from England coming to America.

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I read Bridgerton, and watched the show on Netflix. I liked how in the book, more about Simon is revealed, and it gives the reader a better understanding of him as a person. But I liked how the Bridgerton siblings relationships were portrayed on camera. Also in the first season of Bridgerton, Daphne is the “diamond” where as in the book she is not as wanted, since most eligible bachelors see her a friend. Also Anthony knows about Daphne and Simon’s scheme in the book, but not in the show. Overall, I feel like the subtle changes made from the book to the show, enhanced the viewers interest, because keeping the book word for word would not have been as suspenseful.

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Over the summer I read the novel The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris. It is a horror novel about someone from the FBI who is after a serial killer. I also watched the movie The Silence of the Lambs which is based off the book. They both share a very similar plot but have some different scenes. I enjoyed the novel more because it contained more scenes that the movie left out. But it was also very nice to watch the movie because it helped me visualize what was happening in the book. I enjoyed both the movie and the book and recommend both.

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The book that I read was, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. Evelyn grew up in Hell’s Kitchen in New York City with her parents. Her mother passed away when she was young so that left her with her abusive father. Her childhood was horrible as she got beat all of the time. This picture gave me a better understanding of what her childhood was like and where she was raised.

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The book I read was "A Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy" by Mackenzi Lee. This book follows the character Felicity Montague in the 18th century as a woman interested in the medical field. The playlist I made is based on her.

Spotify Link: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6dhVNu1ZxlUQ1DUmlGjvvb

The Man by Taylor Swift: This song talks about the double standards that women face compared to men. In the book it is the double standard of men being able to practice medicine while Felicity is denied every opportunity and is instead offered a secretary position.

Oh No by MARINA: In the book Felicity goes back and forth between being very sure of herself and being convinced she’s going to get the outcome she wants and questioning if she’s following nothing. While most of the time she’s confident in what she’s doing like the songs there are points in the book where she is questioning whether or not she’s going to fail.

Crush Culture by Conan Gray: Throughout the book Felicity sees others such as her older brother and her childhood friend start creating relationships however she doesn’t feel the same way. When she thinks about it closer to the end of the book she decides that kissing isn’t her thing and she’d be okay in a house by herself near her brother.

Matilda by Harry Styles: While she eventually grows closer to her older brother Monty Felicity was never close to the rest of her family. Growing up with money led to a lot of her family not interacting with each other and overall being very distant. Though by the end of the book she has her own support group of friends.

The Family Jewels by MARINA: As stated before Felicity was never close to her parents or younger brother. She was always pushed to give up reading and her love for medicine and instead focus on something society deems feminine.

Seashore by The Regettes: When trying to get positions in the medical field Felicity is constantly being shut down and talked down upon by men who hold those positions. So she decided by the end of the book that she’s going to take matters into her own hands and make a name for herself another way.

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I read the book “it ends with us” by colleen hoover where the main character Lily Bloom has a traumatic past and upbringing caused by her parents and peers around her. she had a consistent dream of opening a flower shop and she leaves her troubled past behind her and pushed through to accomplishing her dreams even with set backs on the way to success. this taught me you can be successful no matter your past or blocks on the road to success and sometimes you have to make decisions that are hard.

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This summer, I watched The Summer I turned pretty and read the trilogy. The show has one season released. I read the books after I watched the show and I thought this was very helpful. I found that the books went into more detail and some parts were left out and or added into the show.

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This summer I watched and read the novel "The Summer I Turned Pretty" by Jenny Han. The first season of the show released on Amazon Prime was wildly popular and for a good reason. The summer tale and love triangle of Jeremiah and Conrad fighting over their childhood family friend Belly is addicting to watch. After reading the book I realized that the show missed some small details that are addressed in the novel. This is a typical occurrence for film adaptations of books, but I happen to like having the smaller details left in the story. One example of this is the symbolism of a stuffed animal Belly has. In the show, it can be seen that Belly has a Polar Bear stuffed animal sitting on her bed that she interacts with multiple times. There are also scenes where Conrad sees and plays around with the bear. The symbolism and meaning of this stuffed animal is left out of the show but addressed upon in the book. The book tells a story of how Belly and Conrad went to the fair together when they were younger and how Conrad won her the stuffed Polar Bear. The fact that Belly still keeps the bear years later shows the love she has for Conrad and the memories they made together. This is just one example of how little details left out in the show from the book could make the story just that much more meaningful. Overall I liked both the book and show a lot! I'm not sure which one I like better, but I believe it's both a book and TV show everyone should see!

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The book I chose to read is “The Girl on the Train” by Paula Hawkins. The story takes place in New York. The main character is named Rachel Watson, and she is divorced from her ex husband. She currently lives with her friend Cathy and is an alcoholic. She takes the train into work everyday, and each time it passes her old house, where she used to live before she divorced, and her ex husband and his new wife still live there. She watches their house everyday and observes their neighborhood, where she also sees a happy couple, the Hipwell family. What Rachel doesn’t know is that Megan, the wife of Scott Hipwell, has many affairs behind his back, so the marriage isn’t perfect after all. She learns that Megan becomes the babysitter for her ex husbands child, Evie. One day she sees Megan on the balcony with another man that isn’t her husband, Rachel cannot make out the male figure but she is upset. She decided to confront Megan at the bar after drinking, but she was so intoxicated she passed out, and when she woke up, she was in her hotel room all bruised, and covered in blood, and Megan is gone, she is confused. She turns on the TV to find out Megan went missing, and she has no idea what happened the night of. But since she was with Megan she is a prime suspect. She is interrogated but denies claims and says she can’t remember what happened, so she joins in on the case to find out what happened to Megan. After a lot of hardships in the end, the killer turned out to be Tom, Rachel’s ex husband.

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This sketch is of the character Harley Quinn from the book Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass by Mariko Tamaki