meara, I ahemed that movie at some point, because I LOVE the books so much, but only watched half of it. I should go back and rewatch.

Really, I love those books, especially the first several. Marsden does action like nobody's business: there's a sequence where the kids do some sabotage on an airfield and they are escaping in a dump truck, and Ellie climbs out of the cab and into the back, while the enemy is chasing them and shooting at them, and it's completely believable and just nail-bitingly suspenseful and awesome. Wish I could write like that.

Also, the emotional tone of the novels is so true: these kids are awesome, but they are so damaged by it, and the books portray it and show them struggling with it. So good.

The young man said that zombies couldn't be sexy, and one of the young women mentioned your book! Although, the zombie isn't so sexy....

Well, no. But still, very cool!

Has anyone over here burbled about Jenny Lawson (aka The Bloggess) and her split-your-sides-laughing memoir Let’s Pretend This Never Happened? [link]

Because seriously, people, I haven’t laughed that hard in...I don’t know how long. And it’s also tender and so heartbreaking in places that you’ll want to cry, but then it becomes incredibly, inappropriately hilarious again and you’re back to nearly peeing yourself. I enjoyed the hell out of it.

Pix, I just finished it this afternoon. I really liked it, and I managed to wake my husband up twice while I was reading it late at night because I was unsuccessfully trying to silent laugh. It was damn funny!

Pix, I am totally planning on getting that and reading it. I am a huge fan of hers. Glad to hear it stands up to her blog!!

this made me laugh out loud last night.

best animals being dicks.

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There's like half on this list that just hit my funnybone.

I've actually seen Jenny Lawson's book in the store ... but I'm trying to avoid buying hardbacks.

I did, however, knowing her love of taxidermied animals, send her a link to a story about The Famous Tommy Tucker (a squirrel, rasised by a woman, who'd dress him up and take him around). He's spending eternity dressed in pink satin and pearls (he wore dresses because tail + pants = problems).

good grief. I think I posted that in the wrong thread!

I was a mite confused but thought maybe it was somehow relevant because of F U, Penguin. Somehow.

I just finished Timeless ! I think I know what Jilli is gleebling about!

I liked it more than the last two, to my surprise. I thought I was just reading out of inertia (although I do enjoy the books), but I felt an unexpected fondness for the characters and the world.