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I've never read any of the Ripley novels or anything else by Highsmith, but I was intrigued by this book when I saw it on a friend's bookshelf. It was published under a pseudonym because Highsmith didn't want to be pigeonholed as a "lesbian writer" and this is the story of the erotic awakening of a ...

Yes, okay, I did it. I read it. I bought it at an airport and read it on a plane. And... I ENJOYED IT. I thought I was going to be annoyed, because I don't generally understand people who love to shop, and I don't really relate to the whole designer lust/labels thing. I thought I would want to take ...

A very cute YA book that I put on my wish list when John Scalzi mentioned it on his blog, and I subsequently got for Christmas. I loved the central concept (everyone has a personal, invisible fairy that brings them a very specific type of good luck, like the ability to find loose change), the main c...

I got this book for Christmas from La Wade and was very excited about it, as I, like Sarah Vowell, really like going to see morbid things like the mummified hand in St. James Church in Prague or Lizzie Borden's house. And I wasn't disappointed in this, loosely a memoir about visiting various relics ...

This is kind of the first time I've realized it's going to be 2009 in two days. Damn, ham. (And now I'm nostalgic, because I used to say "damn, ham" all the time. When did I stop? Why did I stop? WHERE HAS MY YOUTH GONE?!) Well, I don't think I'm going to finish any of the books I'm reading (Georgia...

A YA novel recommended in my workshop, where we read the opening scene, which is the main character on a subway platform, contemplating suicide. (We were talking about ways to establish character. Yep, that'll do it.) I loved the way the main character's fat was a throughline of the whole story--for...

I believe it was on the advice of Wendy that I decided to read this one after not being wild about Diablo Cody's stripper book. I definitely enjoyed it more, although it's still not the perfect stripper book. (It's still not as good of a read as Jenna Jameson's How To Make Love Like A Porn Star.) Is...

Just for the record, I have recently gotten really into "Before He Cheats" by Carrie Underwood. I didn't particularly like her on the show and I think she's a robot, and according to celebrity gossip, she's a raging bitch. Also I don't listen to country music. Yet I watch this performance and listen...

Pie I have refilled my champagneI can tell you my thoughts about last week, or the last two weekswhich basically boil down to OMG David Cook Billie Jean OMGalso, Chickeze refers to him as "Cookie"also, David Archuleta's dad possibly beats him and is a maniacalso, I love Carly, even though she sang "...