So Abe Lincoln was the Ned Flanders of his generation?

A question…
Does this book contain a lot of blokes?

No best pic nom for Wall-E?!?
More proof that the Best Animated category will forever snub Pixar of the best picture Oscar they've deserved many times over. The Academy Awards are a sad joke.

Laura Lippman
So is this book comparable to "What the Dead Know"? Because that book was all assorted types of great.

I don't know why…
But reading this review reminded me of "Never Let Me Go". Partly because that was another book to take potentially exciting genre conventions, but present them in a very muted and insular way about struggles with self-identity.

Versus the Book
From your review, it sounds like this is a pretty faithful adaptation of the book, which also features too many main characters and strange plot structuring for kid lit (there are flashbacks on top of flashbacks). I couldn't quite get a handle on what DiCamillo was getting at. Does Sigourney Weaver…

He's very famous.

That's very gracious of you.

Great List…
Thanks for all the book recommendations (you too Tobias!).

You know what this video needed?
Fred or Phil.

"Within the hour?" Fantastic! I'm even more excited knowing it's been laid out and whatnot.

Big Boy Rules
My 5-year-old son has a ever-expanding set of Big Boy Rules that he has to follow. The newest rule being "Big boys never pour Mr. Bubble into the mouthwash, no matter how funny the faces Daddy makes when using said modified mouthwash are."

A question
Are we going to get a best books of '08 feature? Have there been 10 good books released this year? Man, 2008 has blown, pop-culture-wise.

Typo needs corrected…
Please change all instances of "Ray Wise" to "Ray Motherfucking Wise"

Dwight/Angela
Good call about the Angela/Dwight relationship. Both characters have lost any humanity they had last season (Jim consoling Dwight in the stairwell was one of last season's best moments) and are simply one-note characters this season. They kinda are the weak-link of this season. (Although Andy has been…

The Killers:
I'm on the fence as to whether or not I like these guys.

Cool deal. Here's hoping she doesn't suffer a back injury reading the thing.

Unrelated Question
Is there a review in the works for "2666"?

I'm probably wrong…
but he sounds like the Japanese Lloyd Kaufman. Or am I completely off-base?

Back in my candy store days, an older women asked if we had any "Black Licorice Babies".