Cool Story, Sis: I had attention issues as a kid which made getting through a book nearly impossible. The Goosebump books became popular around the time I was getting super sick of not being able to read a "larger" book. I forced myself to read through one of the books. I literally stopped doing everything else,…

I remember my mother reading Harriet the Spy to me a few years before the film version came out. Most vivid memory: my mother stumbled across the one or two curse words in the book, refused to say it out loud (even though I promised not to repeat it, as that generally worked for movies), and skipped over like a…

So, you might be the only person outside of my family who I've ever heard (read) mention the Great Brain books. I loved that series (until Brain's father died and the series went darker). That was the series my mother used to read to my brother and I when I was super young. Great books!

Read it for the first time in my early twenties and I loved every minute. I wish I had read it (or had it read to me) as a kid. If I ever have kids, that will be an essential read.

The part that always throws me is that, at the end of the book, Mrs. Darling agrees to allow Wendy to go back to Neverland once a year to do Peter's spring cleaning. I know that book is of it's time period and I shouldn't argue with gender roles of a previous century…but that's messed up.

I vividly remember my entire high school English class just spending an hour calling Tom Sawyer a little shit for playing with Jim's life like that. Had there been a visual representation of Sawyer in the room that day it probably would have been burned in effigy.

Catcher in the Rye is a "right moment: amazing/ Wrong moment: stupid" book. If you read it at just the right phase of life (whenever that is) it can be a life changing, motivating read. If you read it 30 seconds too soon or too late then it's just a bratty, over-privileged kid whining about his life.

Berenstain Bears are still great books. My (30 year old) brother gave me (27) one for Christmas just last year. They age really well and I never felt like they were heavy-handed.

By far: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. I read it at least once a year, probably more than that. Whenever I get a new phone/kindle/electronic reading device I always download a copy of the book. It makes me cry every time and no movie version has lived up to the book (Alastair Sim's version is closest, Muppet…

and now I have that song stuck in my head.

This quote was my immediate reaction.

I was more confused about how disproportionally angry the guard who asked Felicity to leave the table was. He was super pissed without a lot of reasons. Apparently, underground casinos don't have great customer service.

lol, I always have a moment of "Laurel is a pretty name, except….laurel and Hardy."

Pre-Island Olvier reminds me of Bobby Cobb from Cougar Town. Oliver could be Human Travis II.

I just started watching the show about five episodes ago so I had an odd moment of: "Wait, that's Walter? And he's British?!" They haven't even had a family photograph or anything in other scenes to make me realize who he was until Oliver flat out said his name in the cell.

I love when he gets paniced about his son's lack of powers: "We could put him in a vat of toxic waste….I know, where would we even find toxic waste?!"

"Daddy's little girl!"
"I told you to NEVER CALL ME THAT!"

Drood was decent. I felt like it fell apart as it went along but the characterization of Dickens was pretty spectacular.

Although it's been a few years since I've read his work, I feel like no author has expanded my mind like Dostoevsky. I enjoyed Crime and Punishment better but Brothers Karamazov has Alexei Karamazov and that's all you really need.

The second book, Drawing of the Three, is pretty strong and you wouldn't miss that much by jumping in there.I honestly didn't like the series until Drawing of the Three. All the information you'll need about The Gunslinger is this: The Man in Black fled into the desert and the Gunslinger followed.