Colleen McCulluogh (author of the Thorn Birds) felt so bad for Mary she wrote “The Independence of Mary Bennet.” Set about 20 years after Pride & Predjudice, everyone else’s lives have gone to shit and Mary finally gets hers.

I am so making this! I never had Watergate salad, but I did love grandma’s pistachio pudding.

Am I the only one that thinks he looks like Steve Gutenberg...only more asshole-y?

That is horrific. How can you justify doing that to a child for a MOVIE?

What the fuck? In what universe is a ring on somethings bloody heart romantic?

She’s the only politician I have ever called and left a tearful “You’re doing a great job, I’m proud I voted for you!” message, that’s for sure.

My very first roommate had a subscription to Playgirl. I remember a picture that she had torn out and taped to her bedroom door, some dude in a puffy maroon snowsuit, his back facing the camera with his head looking back over his shoulder and the pants on the suit pulled down just so that his ass was hanging out. He…

“He seemed like a person with a very short temper, so a person who shouldn’t have the access that he has to things. 

Is Gaga hiking in heels? She may be committed to her look but not so much to her feet.

That is fucked up. My brain refuses to accept that is a real person and not a cyborg of some kind.

Yeah, this is where I went from “seems like maybe a pretentious douchebro” to “Definitely a pretentious douchebro.”

Ugh, it took me a while to see it.

It’s horrible that someone got shot and my first thought was “How is 45's administration going to use this to further his agenda?’

So which were the Protestants and which were the Catholics?

I will be hitting up my local used bookstore in the hopes of finding it!

At the start of his presidency his tweets caused stocks to fall, but they recovered pretty quickly. Now that we’re all used to his shit, I don’t believe he has the power to make the market react even that strongly.

Right? I’m not sure why “Fitness enthusiast”, “Fitness entrepreneur”, and “Fitness expert” all need separate entries.

Me too! I’ve read so many of the books in this list and I am ready to read more.

I believe in this case it’s the Russian mob, but yes.

I’ve never understood the super-long nails either. Why do you want to make your own life more difficult?