I have several books on the back burner, but I thought, I cannot celebrate the start of summer without the worst of the BSC summer books. It's not that the moral is horrific, like so many others; it's just so badly written right across the board. But first, this cover is a masterpiece:


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You guys. YOU GUYS. I picked this book to snark because I vaguely remembered that it hadn't aged all that well, and then I opened it up and remembered that it had the WORST PICTURES IN THE HISTORY OF ART. It is worth a read if only to gape at the pictures and try to imagine the meeting at Scholastic where someone managed to convince an editor they ( Read more... )

A quick question, guys: If you move to Wisconsin for your husband's job, then he goes on a business trip to Miami the day before this happens, and then you walk around to the back door and it looks like this, and you call him and say "I literally do not know how to get out of the house," and he responds, "Ugh, the air conditioner in my room was ( Read more... )