Also, must share: I named my Ford Explorer LURLENE and everyone asks me what kind of name it is and if it is even a name. silly people.
I was a book snob in HS. It is was made me read Les Miserables and I’m SO GLAD.

I can see that. My mother read it and liked it a lot — way more than me — so I dunno. It’s at least not at all MY type of book. (Meanwhile, I crazy loved Eleanor and Park, which is not UN-problem-novel-y. It’s weird.)

Right? It would be awful. We’d have to endure the books AND the movies that would get made of the books. Ghastly notion.

REALLY good call, Past Memory! I am the same about Teen Issues-type books. I started reading another one this weekend and then skipped to the end, and the end was so unbelievably stupid that I gave it up. I’m reading a YA ghost story instead. It’s real creepy so far.

Ahahahaha, I am laughing hysterically at how right I was about the girls of my generation and the crushes they had on JTT. But yeah, Carl Anderson. He was my first love. I still have such a crush on him.

Ahahaha, you have nothing to be ashamed of. We all read things in middle school that wouldn’t stand up to scrutiny. I was reading A LOT of Babysitters’ Club books at that age.

I love that album! I listen to it embarrassingly often. And yeah, I was a huge book snob in middle school. Not my finest hour.

Yes! But it makes sense. Eleanor and Walker would have been way too young for that whole trend. You’re well out of it. You’re glad you missed her. She’s nooooot great.

Hahahahahahahahaha, yes, you definitely are making up for it with that!

Hahaha, sure! I haven’t read anything by Wally Lamb so I don’t know why I’m disliking him, but I’m always happy to jump on board a disliking-things train!