i find it extremely weird to be a REAL person named Natasha Hyatt, and then have someone use my name for a character in a book! Thank for letting me share  :) lol

hello fellow The Basic Eight fans,

i'm currently reading The Secret History by Donna Tartt, and i'm seeing a lot of similarities between this book and TBI (notwithstanding that both are great books).

has anyone else read both and thought the same?

So, I need to hand in my selection for a senior quote to the school yearbook staff by this Friday, which means that I have no clue what I should do. I've decided that since there is no way my senior quote is going to be "meaningful" ("Dudez, this spacekraft landed in ur puuding, lolinjoke" ~~ my BFF Dudemeister John) or inspiring ("For attractive ( Read more... )

Has anyone else picked up a copy of Adverbs (Daniel Handler's latest) yet? I was reading the second chapter (Obviously) and had to laugh as the narrator mentions a friend of his named Garth and his short-term relationship with a girl named Kate. In The Basic Eight, I loved all of Kate's references to the difficulties that she and Garth went through ( Read more... )

The Basic Eight has a new cover!

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060733861.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

I read this book for the first time in the fall of '04 and it was really neat and slightly creepy because the dates in real life and the dates in Flan's journal ( Read more... )

if there is a movie, how do you think they will manage to block out V_____'s name?

Daniel Handler = Adam State!!!!!!!!

At least -- I think he is -- Handler was the choir teacher's assistant at Lowell in 1987. Coincidence? I think not.

Hello hello ( Read more... )

Morning all! Free period... *le sigh*... I love the area of school that involves little to no scholastic endeavours, subsequently, I am reviving a somewhat dead community if only briefly ( Read more... )

To everyone who has read Watch Your Mouth: I sympathise, I really do.

To everyone who hasn't: don't.

I don't think I will ever recover.