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  • why holden caulfield doesn't, and has never, worked for me and the exact reason I do love, and always have, reading. "I read the first twentysomething pages, and right off I knew why it was so popular. It was the way t…

  • "Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it. And I remembered I would not be the person I am without the authors who made me what I am--the special ones, the wise …

  • "I told her [my mother] that tea bags were just a convenience for people with busy lives and she said no one is so busy they can't take time to make a decent cup of tea and if you are that busy you don't deserve a decent…

  • Anaheim, 2008 Chicago, 2009 WELL, Chicago was a helluva time, JUST EXACTLY LIKE YOU'D EXPECT. I spent a lot more time than I was originally planning doing administrative, process, organizational stuff involving …

  • I looooove David Levithan. 90% of the reason I loved Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist so much was because of his writing. (hey, who's reading that, heh?) Critics talk a lot about how his book, Boy Meets Boy, ushere…

  • I was going to suggest that since Evan knows Angelo, he could just share his copy of Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist with him. And, lo, did another great idea strike me. (besides how I need to go to Canada, like, …

  • So, here's the deal. A while back, I posted just a handful of my favorite quotes from one of my favorite YA novels, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist. Everyone really responded. Elliott liked them so much he went …

  • hey, you! Wanna hear a whisper? --- I whisper in his ear, "I promise I will never break your heart." Because without a doubt, I will fuck up many things in this whatever-we-have-here, but that, I will never do. --- …

  • BOOKS THAT YOU SHOULD TOTALLY READ AND STUFF (soon to be xposted at my professional blog, I swear it!) Fortunately, none of the reviewers denounced me as a fraud. I began to relax a bit. And my very favourite review for…

  • Things I Recently Purchased From Amazon.com: Skim by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki Love & Lies: Marisol's Story by Ellen Wittlinger Awkward and Definition: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag …

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