A line that made me laugh out loud when I read it this afternoon:
Oh, sure, Emily has a few flaws. But don't we all. For example, I am lax about cleaning out my three-hole punch.
Then came this gem, only a few pages ahead:
There are good silences, like the beat after a fabulous play has just ended and before the audience jumps to its feet applauding ( Read more... )

I just read lisayee's utterly delighful Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time in preparation for giving it to a niece for Christmas, and now I have to go hunt down the first book, which I am certain I will love even more, because the heroine is an 11-year-old girl with poor social skills and an enormous vocabulary, Y HELO THAR ME. (Only I was not actually a ( Read more... )