I read In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner over the weekend. I laughed, I cried, & couldn't put it down until the last page was turned. It's in production now, being made into a major motion picture starring Cameron Diaz and Toni Collette.

I couldn't put it down, and yet didn't like it that much. I liked the beginning, but hated the Hollywood stuff towards the end.

I hope Toni Collette and not Cameron Diaz is Cannie

Here’s something I thought Literary readers might appreciate:

The April 2004 issue of The New Yorker includes a profile of “The Storyteller: Madeleine L’Engle,” and the article starts off describing the Scholastic Books paperback edition of “A Wrinkle in Time,” the one with a blue cover decorated with concentric green circles. This is the exact volume I have treasured since 196 (cough).

“A Wrinkle in Time” will be presented to us as a made for TV special on ABC sometime in May. I take heart reading that the executive producer Catherine Hand says she “fell in love” with the book when she was 10. Furthermore, she’s quoted as saying “The engine that drives it is Meg’s inner life, and it’s astonishing, because here is a girl who at the moment is stronger than her father. For some of us, it planted the seeds of the women’s movement. I have had wonderful conservations with Madeleine, as a friend, who is, of course, Meg.”

Ima set my Tivo to capture this one.

“A Wrinkle in Time” will be presented to us as a made for TV special on ABC sometime in May. I take heart reading that the executive producer Catherine Hand says she “fell in love” with the book when she was 10. Furthermore, she’s quoted as saying “The engine that drives it is Meg’s inner life, and it’s astonishing, because here is a girl who at the moment is stronger than her father. For some of us, it planted the seeds of the women’s movement. I have had wonderful conservations with Madeleine, as a friend, who is, of course, Meg.”

And they got Gregory Smith to play Calvin.

t /shallow

t like that tag turns off

Gregory Smith? (checks boogle). Oh dear. I didn't enjoy his whiny angst ridden teen routine in Everwood. I must be getting old.

There's a petty font issue I've got with it ...

I hear this. I never did read Wally Lamb's "She's Come Undone" because the eyestrain factor produced by the too-bold, bleeding edged font was just too great. Also, books set in Souvenir automatically lose 20 or so intelligence points AFAI concerned.

I never did read Wally Lamb's "She's Come Undone" because the eyestrain factor produced by the too-bold, bleeding edged font was just too great.

The Picoult book is killing me! She's changing font for different voices, chapter by chapter. I can figure things out pretty well with just a character name at the beginning of the chapter, thanks. Maybe its a picky thing, and it is, but its bugging the crap out of me.

She's changing font for different voices, chapter by chapter.

Oh, dear lord. That would drive me insane.

She's changing font for different voices, chapter by chapter.

Wow, that's...kind of cool. Faulkner originally wanted the voices in the Benjy section of The Sound and the Fury to be in different colors. That would have been expensive, though, I imagine.

I suppose in theory its cool. But in practice, at least in this case, its aggravating. A technique that the author wanted to try but had no real reason to use. (Although she has got a lot of narrators. So far it feels like too many for the story she's telling.) Up until now I've loved her work, but the little things are grating on me in this one, which is a shame, because its a hell of a premise.