However: I think summer reading lists were often a place for contemporary or young adult fare in the past as well. Alexie is probably pushing aside Robert Cormier and S.E. Hinton and whoever wrote Summer of My German Soldier. Catcher and Mockingbird, even though they might have been slotted as YA if they had come…

The summer reading lists posted at a local bookstore seemed to be very heavy on recent books. Sherman Alexie is a big favorite. Pop nonfiction books such as The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks or Unbroken are also common.

Thanks. Generally such basic information should be in the article.

He is originally from Indiana, though.

I followed a long series of links and never found the name of the newspaper in which this appeared - are we 100% sure that it really appeared in one? (Would a newspaper really print the phrase "self-BJ," even in a paid ad?)

I thought the original article mocked the controversy as much as, if not more than, it criticized Selleck. Sometimes snark becomes an end in itself in these Newswire pieces and leaves it hard to figure out what the author actually thinks about the story.

I think I may have seen it even longer ago than that, although I am not completely sure. (I know they have been playing somewhat similar animated Matt Pinfield anecdotes since last fall.) It is still a great story, though.

No, he synced it up with the dialogue (or noises) from the original scenes from which the clips came. I actually give this a moderate thumbs-up. I like that Ryan was saying "I heard they might be closing this branch down" for all those years. (My nitpick, however, is that the credits used for most of the show's…

I happened to tune in for the very day that the invention of Botox was announced.

I hope people (and especially Marah herself) have the energy to read to the bottom of these comments and discover this.

I would just have pointed her towards mysteries written for adults (especially the ones written eighty or more years ago). There is nothing either plot-wise or vocabulary-wise in Agatha Christie that a twelve-year-old could not handle. Those old mysteries are not great literature (except maybe for the Sherlock…

I think this discussion has awakened very hazy (and therefore possibly false) memories of reading the first book, being disappointed that it was not a mystery as I had expected, and never reading any of the rest.

Babe Ruth is often said to have been an orphan even though he never really was one - his parents just sent him off to a Catholic orphanage/reform school for several years.

I remember the title Ronia the Robber's Daughter but not the plot or even that it was written by Lindgren.

The plot of this sounds inspired by/ripped off from the St. Christopher legend.

The Deschanel/Perry resemblance is overstated. They could be sisters, sure, but the frequently made claim that they are outright doppelgängers - I think that is exaggerated.

Warner, Esther Forbes, and Robert Cormier make up an unlikely trio of children/young adult authors from the Greater Worcester area. (Warner was actually from Northeast Connecticut, but that is closer to my own hometown than the other two.)

The Olympics always promote the runner-up (even if he may have been doping too, it only counts if you get caught), but they may be distinctive in that policy. No one ever got Milli Vanilli's Grammy.

The best part of this news is that it indicates that the management does consider the original cast an integral part of the show. It makes it less likely that they will try to keep the show running forever after the original cast finally retires for real (or dies, to be blunt).

At least according to the recent movie, Dr. Landy kept him from seeing them for several years.