When we left Karen, she was trying to steal all the attention from her "best friend's" sickness and hospitalization, turning the meaningful gesture of a get well card (one of her FEW meaningful gestures) into a show of one-upsmanship. Nancy being sick is the main drive of the plot, so let's see what else Karen gets into.

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Part 1: http://bsc-snark.livejournal.com/507283.html
When we last left Stacey, she spent four chapters to get to Fire Island and ran into Robert in the very last sentence of Part 1, setting us up for drama, popcorn eating, and gifs of people grabbing a seat to watch the carnage unfold.


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Sorry for my lengthy absence!  I was enjoying a visit from my brother, middle school brat turned “lawyer for all the lands,” as our local paper memorably phrased it, and my adorable niece, who is, as she herself will tell you, too. . .”funny and cute.”  And while I won’t claim she’s some kind of Gabbie Perkins, she does do some very funny riffs on ( Read more... )

So even as a kid, this book made me viscerally uncomfortable.  I related a lot to Mallory, as a klutzy, glasses-wearing, braces-having redhead who wanted to be a writer (and by the way, Ann, thanks for telling me in every Mal book I was ugly.  And you didn’t even know I was fat!).  But in other books, even when I thought Mal was being stupid, I ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas, y’all!  I am visiting my mom’s house on a break from grad school, and I’m sleeping in the attic, which is also where we keep all our forgotten treasures.  And lo and behold, what did I find but one of my old Little Sister books!  Even better, it happens to be a particularly snark-worthy AND seasonally appropriate one.  Everyone ( Read more... )

Snarking before breakfast! 'Cause I don't know what I'm gonna eat. And also 'cause I don't wanna go downstairs right now 'cause my mom is screaming about some shit.

( More creepy babby obsession )