Opal Mehta

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I said I'd leave her alone, but what can I say? This was just too good to pass up, and while I'm not usually one to take pleasure in the misery of others, I think our dear Kaavya "got" what was coming to her. Recent updates on the "How many authors can she possibly plagiarize in one book?" saga tell us that not only was a second author, Sophie Kinsella borrowed from, but also a third with Meg Cabot's The Princess Diaries. Could there be more? We'll have to wait and see.

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It seems Kaavya Viswanathan has "borrowed" material from more than one source. She is the 17 year old Harvard student who wrote, "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life." Her publisher pulled the book after many similarities were found between it and a book by Megan McCafferty.

New reports are coming out that she also has many similarities between her book and one written by Sophie Kinsella, called, "Can You Keep a Secret?" One of the passages concerns a fight between friends over animal rights. In Kinsella's book, it says, "The mink like being made into coats.� In Viswanathan's book, it says, "“The foxes want to be made into scarves." Both the male love interests have scars on their hands and "eyes so dark they’re almost black.�

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