I have such incredibly mixed feelings about James Kochalka ending American Elf.

On one hand I'm sad. I'm really, really sad, because American Elf is this happy place for me. It's this place that's warm and fun and real; James is a real person who has real anxieties and failures and triumphs. He worries about things that are important and that ( Read more... )

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In rereading The Lightning Thief (a month and a half later, I am still on Chapter 1), I keep thinking how frustrated Chiron and Grover must be with Percy while they're all still at Yancy. Like, they know there's all this super big stuff that's about to go down, but they have to put up with Percy just being this 12-year-old kid ( Read more... )