Oh happy day! Not that I was really worried or anything (ok, maybe just a teensy bit) but a U.S. District judge has ruled that the odious "Coming Through The Rye" can not be published in the U.S.

In her ruling, Judge Deborah Batts wrote that J.D. California's (real name Fredrik Colting) claim that he wrote the book to "critically examine" the ( Read more... )

Have you ever connected with a song so strongly that it actually kind of depresses you? Sometimes a song can point out and bring to the surface all the things you've been trying to surpress or forget. That's how I'm feeling about Viva La Gloria at the moment:

Hey Gloria are you standing close to the edge?
Look out to the setting sun
The brink of ( Read more... )

We all have something that we love so much it eclipses fandom and moves into the realm of the sacred. For me, (and about a billion other people) that thing is Catcher in the Rye.

Catcher was the first book that I was forced to read in high school that I not only didn't hate with a fiery passion, but ended up loving. I've read it once a year every ( Read more... )

You guys should check out my latest post on my book blog:  http://youshouldreadmore.com

Leave comments! Let me know what you think!

I think every one of us carry the memory of our musical first; the first time you really heard music. Sure, it had been in the background for years, and, yeah, maybe you even had a huge crush on Joey from NKOTB, but that was more about how CUTE  and dreamy he was, and less about the music speaking to you. That comes later.

For me, it came the first ( Read more... )

HA! This is too awesome for words:  http://www.nme.com/news/green-day/43768

And it's in BERKLEY, not NYC, meaning I can ACTUALLY GO. Stoked.

Pride and prejudice / Jane Austen.
You suck : a love story / Christopher Moore.
Sister wife / Shelley Hrdlitschka.
Unwind / Neal Shusterman.
Rumspringa : to be or not to be Amish / Tom Shachtman.
Here lies Arthur / Philip Reeve.
Wishful drinking / Carrie Fisher.
Not a pretty girl [sound recording] / Ani DiFranco.
Ani Difranco [sound ( Read more... )

Am I the only one who thinks Twitter is sort of stupid and pointless?

I'd like a take a moment to say just how much I effing hate mothaeffing Daylight Savings time. Really Daylight savings? You're really going to steal an hour of my precious sleep? Oh, and good job on making it way darker when I crawl out of bed. no, honestly, it's AWESOME to drive eastbound INTO THE RISING SUN. Please, don't change a thing you ( Read more... )

So last night I'm on my long neglected OkCupid page (I just wanted to take some silly quizzes, I swear!) and an IM pops up from some dude in Australia. The first thing he says to me is "God bless you for the work you do." (referring, I'm guessing, to the whole CASA thing and not to the fact that I work as an effing paralegal.) he goes on to tell me ( Read more... )