You did yourself a favor. I finished it and I regret the time I wasted reading it.

Ugh, Franzen. The only book of his I read was The Corrections and it was SO BORING. Just endless pages of miserable, rich, white people being miserable. This makes me glad that I’ve avoided literary peer preassure and havn’t bothered with one of his books since.

It varies by state, but most places view the engagement ring as a gift that the receiver gets to keep no matter what happens after they’ve accepted it. So, no the engagement ring and wedding bands don’t count as communal property. But again, check your state’s laws/talk to your divorce attorney.

he simply wants to thank his wife for being a good mother

Also Suite Francaise. Not technically a romance novel, but definitely a brilliant novel. Its original draft was literally drug across the landscape of WWII after the author died at Auschwitz before finishing it.

And you know foot binding can’t be too far behind. “Ladies, do you have gigantic, ugly, monster feet that you actually use to like walk around and stuff? Don’t you know men hate that? But don’t fret, I’ve got just the product for you!”

Yes! This happens to me on my phone all the time. I’ll click on the post I want to read and then suddenly everything moves down and it’s like, “Ha Ha, J/K motherfucker, you just clicked an ad!” Gawker & Co have to being doing that on purpose right?

Hey, those people writing the velociraptor and big foot erotica claim to be doing alright, so if they can make it, anyone can!

As a writer self publishing has really changed the game for good and for bad. In the old days “self publishing” was almost always a vanity project where the writer paid a company to publish and then print copies of the book that the writer then sold or gave away. Now it’s free (well, they take a cut) to publish…

A hundred years Rick and Morty!!!!

Man, I am never prepared for io9 book club! I just bought this on my Kindle yesterday and havn’t even started it yet. But I’m bookmarking this page to come back and read all your thoughts after I’ve finished it.

See, I think the title is too anachronistic. If it was called Cowboys and Aliens and took place in modern times the title would have worked perfectly. But Cowboys and Aliens the actual movie takes itself and the time period way too serious for that. Cowboys and Aliens immediately makes me think of Snakes on a Plane,…

YES! My friends and I were always trying to make skirts out of leaves because we read about it in this book. But we lived in the Poconos so we would try and make them from weeping willow branches.

I had a notebook full of my favorite quotes that I used to carry around with me.

I love this book and I’m always surprised that it’s never really mentioned when people talk about his works. It’s a really great fantasy book.

I was going to post this exact same thing! I read and re-read these books so much as a kid and the Dawn Treader was my favorite.

I still have a stack of these in a box in my closet. I loved them in middle school and the earlier ones (before the ghost writing got out of control) still hold up remarkably well. Some of them are really funny and I’ll occasionally pick one up and breeze through them it about an hour.

I had a friend who got married about two years ago and had an insane gift registry. She wanted these fancy Dutch (or maybe French) made plates that were seriously $100 a piece. For a single plate! Her entire registry was like that, it was all crystal and inlaid silver. I hate to say it, but it really made me look at…

The Room! You’ll hate it, then you’ll be confused, then you’ll love it. A full spectrum of emotions in 99 minutes.

And Big Love! Well, the mom anyway.