On [Maybe] Good Books That Defined You
@TyrannosaurusWreck "Oh, but strawberries will never taste so good again and the thighs of women have lost their clutch!" !!!!!
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On [Maybe] Good Books That Defined You
When I was six, I ordered Finding the Titanic by Robert D. Ballard from a book order and read it over and over and over and it was a childhood obsession that crescendo-ed until the movie came out when I was 11.
When I got to those formative teen years, the Georgia Nicholson books were big for a while. Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging is still hilarious to me.
And Nicole! My mom read Island of the Blue Dolphins into a tape recorder for some reason every night at bedtime when I was in elementary school and I got to be along for the ride!
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On The Thirteenth Non-Weekly Generic Broadway Friday Afternoon Post
I can do that!
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On How to Care for Dreadlocks
This makes me infinitely glad that I bought that groupon-type deal for Pirates tickets!
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On Unsettling Repetitions in Contemporary Literature: The Art of Fielding
I have 37 pages left of this book. I like it, but I'm not completely enamored of it. And I don't know how I'd like it if I didn't absolutely love baseball.
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On Vignettes From a Hospital Overnight
Oh man. Because it's been ten years or so since the last time I had any type of surgery, I'm always thinking to myself, "it's not THAT big a deal." But I was 12 the last time I had it and in that phase of development where everything was taken in stride and I get the feeling that if I had to do it again, I would be way more whiny about recovery and way more freaked out about my body going wackadoo.
Also, the part about your daughter being 11 and not understanding that there's always a risk of not making it...well, it gave me a greater appreciation for how my mom must have felt when I did go under that last time and now I just want to go home and give her a giant bear hug.
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On Really Good Books About Real People: Part Three
An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination is HEARTBREAKING but also amazing. I met Elizabeth McCracken and her husband Edward on the trip to New Orleans that she writes about in that book! They left a huge impression on me as genuine-hearted people.
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On How to Throw a Shrimp Boil
@leon.saintjean IT IS DEFINITELY MY DEATH ROW MEAL. And now I'm glad I bought a plane ticket home to Louisiana in eight days during finals week stress shopping.
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On Friday Open Thread
@Aunt Ada Doom That RDA joke is priceless! God, the first time I learned of FRBR it was like fireworks went off in my brain! It was soooo exciting!
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On Friday Open Thread
MY BEST FRIEND'S LYMPHOMA IS STAGE ONE AND HER HUSBAND IS COMING BACK FROM DEPLOYMENT OVERSEAS NEXT WEEK! This is accompanied by a happy dance.