My sister (whose opinion I highly respect regarding books) gave me the first one and I didn’t pick it up for a year based solely on the stupid cover. But once I did, I couldn’t stop reading them or thinking about them. Really well written, really beautiful.

That was right around the time that Reversal of Fortune came out and I have this association of this being the era that wealthy Central Europeans ran wild

No, but I remember the Fresh Prince of Bel Air episode where they made a joke about it:

Yep. This is decidedly bad art ... but it’s not specifically because the art consists of magazine images smeared with toothpaste. The “hurr durr my two-year-old could do that!” comments are dumb and exhausting.

Pumpkin bread is phenomenal and suffers a grave disservice by the pumpkin spice craze.

Choose one Twitter account, and one only:

What about Betrayal? It was dumb, but it was 1) filmed in Chicago and 2) sex-crazed

As a mom in a household that goes through 4-6 boxes of Cheerios per month, I would like to see more ads featuring young white men high-fiving while doing extreme sports.

Ah yes, the “why are you hitting yourself” tactic used by older brothers everywhere.

I absolutely hate to be that guy, but since two people have said Bowie already -- it’s a traditional folk song that’s been around since the 19th century. Leadbelly was the first person to make it famous, I think, but there were probably other versions before that too.

How amazing it must be, living in a coastal city. In Chicago, where there is nothing and your only friend is the demonic avatar of winter riding a fixed gear bicycle, you’re lucky if you find an old broken acoustic guitar lying in a trash heap somewhere so you can pluck tuneless melodies next to a space heater until…

Anybody else not give 2 shits about the royals?

Perfect use of alliteration. I am so in awe of his prose that I forget I am being insulted.

There are so many Kardashians that I seriously cannot keep them all straight anymore.

yeah right...her ‘twin sister’ will show up next year.

Dentists’ Big Game Hunt Society

This guy is Danny’s Johnny Drama.

I dunno, maybe its the millennial talking, but I’m extremely uncomfortable letting a guy pay for everything. If I think I can settle down with him, sure, but anytime a guy I date pays for something and then I break it off, I feel I have a harder time working up the courage to do it. I’ve heard men say that women just…

“The people I’m flirting with? You can be sure that I don’t want you. I’m just trying to make you comfortable, make you feel good, make you feel sexy.”