I plowed through two books over a 24-hour period this weekend, something I haven't done in... a long time. One was A Beautiful Child by Matt Birkbeck, which tells the true story of "Sharon Marshall," who was kidnapped by a man named Franklin Floyd when she was a little girl, raised as his daughter and then later married him. He forced her into ( Read more... )

1. Hate - My dad wouldn't let us decorate the house. Dad has never been wild about holiday decorations (probably because he'd always have to be the one to set them up and dismantle them later), so we never got much of a chance to pimp the porch in preparation for Halloween.

2. Love - The little "fun-size" Snickers bars. Can't get enough of these. ( Read more... )