Absolutely the Tiffany Aching series by Terry Pratchett. Fun, entertaining, and full of strong, likeable female characters. It's a wonderful series where the girls and women actually dictate and control the story as opposed to merely reacting to the men around them. Also, they are hilarious. Really, any of his witch…

@hfree: I was smug about that one too! My obsessive love of Heinrich Vogeler finally paid off!

I am counting down the minutes until the new book is out. I read the first 4 books last month (hooray for funemployment?) and can't believe I didn't read them before. I always thought they were for pimply-faced basement dwellers. Clearly my book-snobbery is my own worst enemy.

In 1990, my cousin was hit by a drunk driver and after a month and a half in a coma, she woke up with no idea who she was. Coupled with the complete amnesia was brain damage. 21 years later, she functions at the level of a 14 year old, though she's approaching 50. She claims she now has some memories of before her…

A few years ago, on a long flight from Texas to Alaska, I was seated next to an elderly couple who were both morbidly obese. They offered me the aisle seat which I gladly took, as I am a claustrophobic baby who is scared to death of flying as is. They were absolutely adorable people who kept me calm and entertained…

Now if only one of the Man Booker Prize judges would make the same argument against awarding and/or shortlisting John Banville ever again.

Wow. Talk about mean-spirited. I just don't understand the great lengths people go to in order to derive pleasure from other people's pain.

Kids these days have no ambition. When I was in kindergarten, I wanted to be ballerina/marine-biologist/astronaut/artist/model/jockey/first girl president.

What's scandalous is how many children/kittehs/bunnies I would sacrifice to look that damn good.

The Book Thief. I bawled throughout the last 40-50 pages. I was so upset I almost couldn't get through it. I just laid in bed crying and yelling at the book, telling the book how unfair it was. I honestly can't recall another book ever making me such an emotional wreck. I read it about 5 years ago and even thinking…

31 year old me is horrified by this story, but 6 year old me thinks this is even better than the time I snuck my favorite My Little Pony into my lunchbox.

@SlayBelle: People of Walmart is one of the most offensive things I have ever seen. I feel like if people submit pictures there or derive pleasure from looking at it, they are soulless husks. I live in rural Georgia, where there are plenty of "people of walmart" and if I ever caught someone trying to photograph them,…

@Nimnyn:

I strongly considered joining the PC in 2002, after I graduated from college. I thought it would be a great experience and was halfway through with my application materials when a friend of mine mentioned to me that a friend of hers had a really bad experience with PC. So I went and did some more research and came…

@theorgasmingnun: Oh dear god. I didn't realize Jedward were representing Ireland... My first exposure to them was when they were on Never Mind the Buzzcocks. I have never witnesses a more annoying spectacle in my life.

Note to Jezebel:

In the context of these comments, they certainly have been labelled sexist and rightly so. However, your "logical" leap that they must be racists too is ridiculous at best, trolling at worst.

@brijazz: Why? Are Hasidim all racists too now?

@claraleah: I'm sure you meant they are second class citizens according to this specific branch of ULTRA-ORTHODOX Judaism.

I am 31 years old and live at home. I flew the coop at 17 and didn't reallt look back until 29, when I had to return home to help care for my mom who was having a really hard time dealing with illness, my grandmother's death after her slow and horrific battle with dementia, and my aunt's death. My sister was in law…