Privileged (2008)
“After a weeklong sojourn at Les Anges, Laurel had returned to France until the Christmas holidays, so I didn’t have her looking over my shoulder and bugging me about the twins’ study schedule. To my surprise, they were spending a bit more time with their books and with me. They were up to an hour or two after school and ditto on weekends. Sage—who was a lot nicer to me when her sister wasn’t around—told me that she was hedging her bets. Hollywood shut down between Thanksgiving and New Year’s, s...o there was no way they’d find a new manager or sign any deals. In that case, if the studying continued to be relatively painless, she’d participate.
The weird thing was, paltry as their efforts might be by Yale standards, they were actually paying off. Rose proudly brought home a test from Palm Beach Country Day that had asked her to compare and contrast various sets of characters in Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. Not only had she read the book, as opposed to doing what she and Sage normally did—watching the movie—she’d written a halfway coherent essay.MoreLess
The weird thing was, paltry as their efforts might be by Yale standards, they were actually paying off. Rose proudly brought home a test from Palm Beach Country Day that had asked her to compare and contrast various sets of characters in Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. Not only had she read the book, as opposed to doing what she and Sage normally did—watching the movie—she’d written a halfway coherent essay.MoreLess
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