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• movies

  The Camera Doesn’t Lie: Bella Really is a Whack Job

  11.21.08 | Permalink | 14 Comments

  The end.
  No — if you liked the books (the Twilight books, that is), you’ll probably like the movie. Even though Edward seems to be fighting dysenterial vomiting at the beginning rather than a burning desire for Bella’s blood, and even though Rosalie looks fat and ugly. (Sorry. I realize she’s probably a size 2, but [...]

• Spot

  Drinking Buddies

  11.20.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  I have three daughters. My sister has two daughters and a son. (I was going to say that she is lucky to have a mix of genders, but I don’t know how to phrase that without making it sound like I regret having three daughters, which I don’t, except when I think of poor Dick [...]

• book review, tv shows

  Stephenie Meyer, have you been talking to J.J. Abrams?

  09.18.08 | Permalink | 14 Comments

  (Breaking Dawn and Fringe SPOILER ALERT)
  Dear Stephenie,
  Did you catch the second episode of the new (almost-as-good-as Alias, probably-like-X-Files) show on Fox, Fringe? I know you’re sad, sad, sad right now about the internet-leaking of Midnight Sun, and probably you have better things to do than watch House and Fringe on Tuesday nights. Like write. Or [...]

• book review

  Sally Reviews The Princess Academy; Everybody is Guest-Post Writing

  09.09.08 | Permalink | 13 Comments

  I learned about Shannon Hale from Stephenie Meyer’s Breaking Dawn acknowledgments page: Thanks to my peer support, Shannon Hale, for understanding everything.
  Oh! How joining that group would be sweeter than all the Be Fri – St Ends necklaces in the world.
  The next best thing was a trip to the library, where I got Austenland, Shannon [...]