"Alison Brie as an outspoken American heiress who’s quite aware everyone just wants to marry her for her money"

Based on the words "extremely nerdy" in the title, I was expecting a six-hour rendition of "The Rains of Castamere."  I am disappointed, since that would have been like fifty times as nerdy as what they're actually doing.

I remember The Big Bazoohley!  It was so trippy and unusual, and a really fun read.  Wow, I had no idea it was by Peter Carey.  I went to see him when he spoke at my college a few years ago just because I tried to attend the literary events; if I'd realized he'd written that one I would have told him how much I…

I've seen it mentioned a bunch of times recently since E.L. Konigsburg just passed away. :(  I definitely wanted to be Claudia Kincaid for years…when I finally went to the Met for the first time (in high school, I think, or maybe even during college) it was super exciting mostly because of that book.  The details are…

More or less a tie between From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and The Phantom Tollbooth, for books that were my absolute favorites from childhood and that I still enjoy rereading today.  I read both of them around 2nd or 3rd grade, and my family also regularly listened to the audiobook versions of…

Inspired by the release of the movie, I'm finally reading Les Miserables, since I'm a longtime fan of the musical (obviously the book is a very different beast).  I've been reading a library copy and my brother just gave me a different translation for Christmas; theoretically I'd be interested in comparing them but to…

I actually thought Hunter Parrish would have been exactly right for Peeta, so I'm not sure I'd want to see him as Finnick—it would mess with my head-canon too much.  My top choice would probably be Ian Somerhalder for Finnick, since I do think, based on the description of him in the books, that it should be someone…

Wow, interviews with Adam Scott, Kate Beaton, and Ryan Adams, all within a week?  I'm flattered that you're apparently rounding up all of my favorite people to talk to, AV Club, but it's starting to get a little creepy.

I just saw her speak today (at the Boston Book Festival) and she really does laugh pretty much every other sentence.  And is very likable and hilarious as a speaker.

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned yet that Bowling for Soup didn't actually write "1985."  It's actually by SR-71, whose lyrics are very slightly different but somehow a lot better (it comes off as more of a story about a woman wondering what happened to her life, rather than just a bunch of random '80s…