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YA didn't I read YA lit when I was actually a young adult?

So, yeah. I haven't posted in a while. To make a looooong story very short, one of my aunts is sick with cancer and most likely will not live to see March. So, I have been spending a great deal of time in a hospital waiting room. While this sucks on a whole lot of levels, all this waiting has given me ample time to read. And read and read. Here are three of the books I've read recently.

A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray tells the story of Gemma. Gemma is a 16 year old girl raised in India, in the last 1800's, but sent to England after her mother is murdered. After Gemma's mother dies Gemma begins to have visions. These visions are often of terrible things. The visions are just one of the bad things in Gemma's life; she also is the newest student at Spence Academy. What's worse having to make new friends or having magical visions? When Gemma stumbles upon the diary of another girl who had magical abilities she begins to learn more about herself and her new found friends.

Pants on Fire by Meg Cabot is a pretty awesome tale. See the thing is this: Katie Ellison is a liar. She can't help it. Her life is built around all these little lies and that works great for her. Well, it does until the day Tommy Sullivan returns to town. Tommy Sullivan her one time best friend who was run out of town four years earlier. Only now Tommy's a hottie and Katie suddenly wants to tell everyone the truth, even if she has to give up everything else.



Princess Mia by Meg Cabot is the ninth book in the Princess Diaries series. I was thinking that the series is getting better and better as it goes along. Like Beth, I am am totally rooting for JP and I don't know what will happen with book 10 but I really hope that Mia doesn't forgive Lilly right away. Anyway, Mia's a bit depressed and she starts to see a shrink. But the craziest thing of all is this: Mia and Lana kind of become friends and Lana totally isn't that terrible. Color me shocked.


Books Read in 2008:

Princess Mia by Meg Cabot
Pants on Fire by Meg Cabot
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
Fly on the Wall by E. Lockhart
Stowaway by Karen Hesse
The Boyfriend List by E. Lockhart.
Spike: Asylum by Brian Lynch and Franco Urru

Eli Stone

I don't know if any of you are watching Eli Stone. But I am. Created by Greg Berlanti (yes, of Everwood fame) and starring Johnny Lee Miller and Victor Garber (squeee!), Eli Stone is the story of a lawyer who develops visions after having an inoperable brain aneurysm. Is Eli a sick, crazy man or is he a prophet? Tune in Thursday nights to find out.

Also, I just want to say that my love of all things Berlanti aside; any show that allows SpyDaddy to be on my tv once a week and allows him to sing can have all the legal inconsistencies in the world. I will be watching and waiting for my next SpyDaddy song.

I am stupefied and also pleased

So, last night on Project Runway Ricky FINALLY got the boot. I have been wanting his cry baby ass to be kicked off for a while now. Alas, what has me stupified is that this guy who has cried all season for no damn reason did not cry when he's finally eliminated. I sat there and I kept waiting for the tears to come. And they did not. Ricky vexes me so.

I was happy to see Chris win last night although I happened to like Jillian's outfit the best. And I think that Rami needs to stop with the incessant draping. We get it, Rami. You like to drape things. And I say this as a Rami fan. Next week looks like it will be Sweet P elimination time so, I think I will be changing my fantasy team.

In other news, I finally watched Northanger Abbey and Mansfield Park from the new Complete Jane Austen. I really loved Northanger Abbey. I've never read the book but I thought the movie was quite good. Mansfield Park was fine but I didn't really care for Billie Piper's portrayal of Fanny Price. I think that is mostly due to the fact that I can't stand Piper's voice. Superficial, maybe but it's how I feel.

But the best thing ever is that we get a whole new Lost tonight! w00t!

The Ties That Bind

Thanks to GMYH I was compelled to watch The O.C. in syndication on SoapNet. Now, I've seen the series twice through now and I am working my way through round three. Don't judge me; there is a writers strike going on.

Anyway, I am continually amazed at how the final episode of season one makes me sob for the last 15 minutes. It's the perfect, sad culmination of a wonderful season. And it makes me cry. The Gruesome Twosome get married. Ryan finds out Teresa is preggers and chooses to leave his new life behind to care for his (possible) unborn child. Marissa hits the bottle again. Seth, in a wave of great despair, runs away because he lost his only friend (which I think is a misnomer because Anna was also his friend). Then we have the terriibly sad scene where Ryan tries to say goodbye to Seth. And when Kirsten loses it while gathering up the sheets in the pool house. OMG, the tears, they flow. It's like I can't help myself. All the while Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah is playing over it all.

What I never understand about this episode is why the fact that the baby might not eve be Ryan's is not pounded home a little more. I mean, dude, chances are it's Eddie's baby because Ryan and Teresa had sex maybe three times. That's all I am saying. Also, Sandy Cohen and his eyebrows have some of the funniest lines in this episode.

Anyway, while I think The O.C. has a great four season run; the first season is the most amazing of them all.

"I can confirm that a round of sniffing has started"

Hey Arrested Development fans,

BIG NEWS: We may be getting a movie, according to an exclusive straight outta Bateman's mouth. Jason Bateman (obviously) and Jeffrey Tambor have already agreed and I can't imagine the rest of the folks would say no. If you've ever listened to the commentary on the dvds you can tell how much they all loved doing the show.

This is so frakkin' exciting. I am squeeing like a fan girl.

Hillary's got a new boyfriend

Well, it looks like Mann Coulter is putting her weight behind Hillary. One more reason why I hope Obama gets the bid. You know shit is fucked up when MANN COULTER sides with Hillary over McCain.