Duuuuude. Also basically everything E.L. Konigsburg ever wrote. Especially From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver, and The View from Saturday. And Paul Zindel.

"Witch" was my fave when I was a little girl, even over Island of the Blue Dolphins. Maybe even more than These Happy Golden Years, by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

My current reading project, from our Books For Young Adults class-turned-summer-book-club:

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson was the shit too! What a tearjerker! Also, I can't believe no one's mentioned The Golden Compass yet. I'm not an expert on the genre but that series is the most profound and best-written fantasy series I've ever read. Also, Judy Blume, obviously.

In no particular order:

Other favorites, besides Nancy Drew and the Dana Girls:

But if they are substituting maudlin teen dramas for the complexity of great adult literature, then they are missing something.

Some people are naturally thin and have really fast metabolism. That is totally a thing, and I don't love that this account does come off as rather mean-spirited at times.

'Twas ever thus. Very Serious Critics have sneered at readers of SF, fantasy, mysteries, westerns, and comics for decades. Sorry I'd rather read Jim Thompson than slog through Mill on the Floss (a true crime against literature). I've had my fill of deadly dull Adult Serious Fiction.

Not against it. I know lots of slim people are naturally slim but there are also alot who aren't but pretend to fall into this category and get their omg amazing body from eating chocolate everyday! It buys into that whole ridiculous perfect cool girl thing of the girl who doesnt care about dieting but has a slim…

I'm convinced whileEkaiote is a troll trying to disguise itself as a feminist. Otherwise, I'm fundamentally confused.

Maybe, but I think that's often true because of their partners skills and enthusiasm (or lack thereof) with anything other than the almighty P in V. There are few things more miserable and defeating than getting a half heartedly eaten out or fingered by a partner who would rather just stick it in. It's like a guy that…

My best friend from college was fond of saying: "there are those women who do...and those that say they don't."

What a stupid thing to say.

Me and my friends were relaxing topless on the beach, as one does in the south of France, and a group of American tourists (dressed from head to toe, literally, from hats to socks) descended on the beach and were besides themselves with all the nakedness around them. 'Everyone is fucking naked here, men, women,…

When we talk about rape culture, part of it is the idea that men have the right to do stuff like this because the women dared to go outside so they deserve what they get. Uggggh.

This is why there is porn, pictures of women nearly naked everywhere and yet...these guys still do this. It tells you something, namely that they do it because they get off on the lack of consent, on the predatory nature of it. That's was really grosses me out.

As a person with right-in-between-sized boobs that are neither particularly large nor particularly small (read: I don't have a dog in this fight), I see the same thing on both sides. Whenever there's a conversation about what a pain in the ass large breasts can be, there are comments from women with small chests…