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I solemnly swear that next year I will start Ben's book earlier. Like January.

I don't know why, but I'm in an Austen mood. I want to read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and then read one of her books I've never read, though I've heard Northanger Abbey is only so-so. I want to watch a bunch of Austen-related movies, like just-released to DVD ( Read more... )

LOOK AT YOUR CHILDHOOD TALE SPRUNG TO GLORIOUS LIFE ( Read more... )

Is it sad that I watched this:

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809961064/video/11947180

And my first thought was, "wow, his hair could totally take Edward Cullen's hair?"

It would be a follicular battle for the ages.

Dear Robert Pattinson ( Read more... )

So Robert Pattinson (Edward from Twilight OMG!) was at the Orland Park Mall today. I know this for two reasons: it's been on the news, and I tried to help my cousin get a pass to see him. Hot Topic passed out flyers that people could come at 7:30 this morning to buy a t-shirt that would get them a wristlet which would get them in to meet ( Read more... )

Seriously, every library I've come across lately is doing a Twilight event. I understand, these books are intensely popular, they are getting young people (at least the ones with ovaries) to read, and that's always a good thing. But man, they suck. It's like, if Laurell K. Hamilton had to write something PG (for some violent content), it would ( Read more... )

Finished the book this weekend. Gave it to Rosie, she finished it last night. It's actually required reading for her gender and humanities class next semester ( Read more... )

Pray for me internet, I've cracked the spine on Twilight. Yes, I know, my last deliberate foray into Young Adult literature was a catastrophic event, Eragon was painfully bad. But I promised a friend, and my cousin, that I'd see the movie, and that if I did that I'd read the book first. Said cousin loaned it, and its first two sequels, to me ( Read more... )