Posts Tagged ‘books’

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14Jul09

Psychotic Letters from Men. Hilarious and yet so very, very disturbing.

I kind of want to see The September Issue. Clearly I have watched The Devil Wears Prada one too many times.

Awful library books, a new blog highlighting the fruits of weeding. It’s like shelf reading without the boring!

Swearing enables one to tolerate pain better, [...]


OMG

18Dec08

The Sleepover Friends = Sex and the City? Just wacky enough to work. So does The Babysitter’s Club grow up to be Desperate Housewives? And what about Sweet Valley? (Weeds, maybe?) I must ponder.


I endorse this product and/or service: Entertainment Weekly’s hilarious/horrific Twilight cover on Go Fug Yourself.


Sweet Valley High updated for the Gossip Girl generation. Don’t they realize that at least half the beauty of SVH is their pristine eightiesness? In my day we read books and ACCEPTED THAT THE DECADE WAS NOT OUR OWN. (See: Paula Danzinger and the 70’s.) No way are modern (pre)teens really this stupid. (Unless they [...]


Books: My favorite Jezebel feature, Fine Lines, revisits Madeleine L’Engle’s The Moon By Night. I never actually read the Austin books, but after I tore though my favorite L’Engle (A Swiftly Tilting Planet) a few weeks ago I think I might give them a try.

Geek: The Mario Bar, complete with themed drinks. (I long to [...]