I waited for a month or so to get my hands on The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz. It's the latest Pulitzer Prize winner, and everyone's reading it. There were forty holds on it at the library when I gave it a click. I was very excited.

I loved all the geeky references, from Akira to The Stand, from Doctor Who to Dungeons and ( Read more... )

If I recall correctly, as they say on the Internets, I was first introduced to the Harry Potter series in the summer of 2000 by a girl named Felicia, girlfriend of my roommate for the summer. I got hooked on the series just in time for Goblet of Fire to come out, which is around the time that it was becoming uberpopular (although I don't really ( Read more... )

Tonight I participated in an online press conference with Rob Thomas and Jason Dohring, sponsored by UPN and their marketing obsession with bloggers. We called in and asked questions, and they answered. Yes, there were some small spoilers, as there always are with these things, BUT thanks to beppergirl, you can still read my recap because the spoilers will ( Read more... )

Many of you know I am a giant spoilerphobe, though I'm not exactly Bubble Boy. If I were a hardcore spoilerphobe, I wouldn't use the Internet and I would never talk to anyone.

So the following IM conversation will, in fact, make you laugh your ass off. It will also spoil you for the death of a character in the final seasons of Oz (But Sunil, you ( Read more... )