Pilgrims Don't Wear Pink reader's response by Alicea Mendez 805

                        The book I am currently reading is called Pilgrims Don't Wear Pink by Stephanie Kate Strohm. Its about a girl named Libby, a fashion-conscious girl who loves clothes and Historical Fiction novels. She is so psyched when she gets an opportunity to work as an intern at a historical museum. A living historical museum. A living historical museum is a museum in which the staff that work there have to dress and act like the people who lived in the historical times. In this case, Libby would dress and act like an "eighteenth-century New England colonist who lives on the coastline of the territory now known as the state of Maine". Her gay best friend, Dev, doesn't want her to go to the "Pilgrim Camp", as he calls it, but instead go with him to an internship at Teen Mode, a fashion magazine. But she didn't want to pass up her opportunity for working at her semi-dream job. She couldn't help it. Libby was in love with history.
                      Now she learned that everything wasn't as she imagined. When she got to her room, she already had an enemy, Ashling. Ashling was the type of girl that wanted things to go her way. If they didn't, then she wouldn't want anything to do with you anymore. Libby had tried to be friendly, but instead of gaining a friend in Ashling, she ended up gaining an enemy.
                      To make things even worse, she couldn't wear most of the stuff she had packed into her suitcase(I kid you not, her suitcase literally exploded, sending 3 pairs of bikinis across the room!). Bad enough Ashling told her that she didn't need to bring all of her shoes (Libby said that you needed to wear a different pair for every outfit, but Ashling disagreed, saying you only needed sneakers and Tevas to match everything. The word "Tevas" made Libby shutter. She hated those kind of shoes.) and that her clothes were too "out there", when the girls met their educational director, Maddie, Libby was shocked when Maddie told them that the girls couldn't wear makeup(GASP! for Libby), but they also had to wear 18th century clothes the whole time: the times that they didn't have to wear the costumes, they had to wear uniforms. Libby was mad that she brought an exploding-suitcase-full of clothes, yet she couldn't wear ANY of it!
                     Later on she gets a tour of the museum. First she gets to the kitchen. And yes, she would literally have to cook in that kitchen. She would have to cook 18th century style food, meaning she would have use a TON of lard, since that's what most of the food was made of. She would also use the kitchen to teach the all-girls summer camp, who were visiting the museum, how to cook. Then the main hall. Nothing interesting there.
                   Libby thought it would be fun, but instead, now she is regretting not going with Dev to work at Teen Mode. I haven't finished the book yet. So yeah... TOODLES!!!!