Someone on FB posted a "response" to Brittany Maynard written by a priest who also is battling a terminal illness. I'm sure you can find it with some googling, if you're inclined. It pissed me off badly—at one point he wrote that "our lives are not our own; we don't get to decide how they end." And I just felt so…

Right? I remember being bummed out she ended up getting killed, I kind of wanted her to pull the whole thing off after all.

The best and most bonkers aspect of this book? It served as a plot device in another Christopher Pike book, "Gimme a Kiss", involving another faked death plot. AMAZING.

Do another one with Whisper of Death. It's got it all: paranormal insanity AND a heavy-handed "abortion is bad!" undertone (spoiler: the main character gets an abortion and the world literally ends—and then it turns out she dreamed it all because she was hemorrhaging or something?).

The Nancy Drew Files were AMAZING. I feel like I remember one on a cruise ship where George is the activities director and someone puts a scorpion in Nancy's bed. A scorpion! And another one where she's skiing and using a tow-rope and someone sawed it halfway through so it would give way. Um, they only use the…

Apparently they are making a Mike Tyson biopic starring Jaime Foxx. I really want to know how the rape will be handled, and my only guess so far: poorly.

I think my favorite Lois Duncan was just a standard crime thriller, Don't Look Behind You, the one where the family has to go into witness protection. The teen girl misses her boyfriend and can't take it, and ends up putting them all in danger. It scared the crap outta me when I was in 5th grade! I know I read…

Oooh, I know I read Daughters of Eve but I can't remember the fat girl! I will have to check that out again. And yes, definitely, fatness in YA (especially when I was growing up as a fat girl in the 80s) was almost always handled poorly. There are dozens of examples. Sigh.

I think it was "a thing" that Francine Pascal had a major boner against fat chicks. They are routinely described as sloppy, obnoxious, gluttons. Another good one from SVH is when the twins' cousin comes to visit who is (gasp) "at least ten pounds overweight" (ten pounds!!!) and is described like she is borderline…

All I remember about Silent Night was that the main character was a huge bitch and so someone put a needle in her lipstick so she'd slice her lips when she went to apply it. That is highly disturbing to me, and stuck with me all these years!

Ahhh, I think I heard about that happening, but actually stopped reading the series before the whole prom saga came out (and thank god). Aside from the Robin bullying, the other Jessica is a Sociopath stuff I can remember is her barring the "easy" girl from the cheer team, using surfer guy Bill Chase as a personal…

Please be Fall Into Darkness, please be Fall Into Darkness!!

I still sometimes get upset about Jessica Wakefield. They devoted an entire book to her mercilessly bullying Robin Wilson the Class Fatso, and Jessica's only comeuppance is that Robin ends up winning Homecoming queen (after going on an extreme diet and losing the weight OBVIOUSLY)?? She wasn't disciplined for hazing…

This post has me fixated on how much I fucking loved Fear Street and Christopher Pike books as an 11 year-old, and also that my Timehop reminded me of a Tweet I sent like FIVE YEARS ago the other day regarding my excitement that Diablo Cody was writing a Sweet Valley High screenplay.

It's so depressing. I've been reading and commenting for 7 years, and while the quality has fluctuated just as any popular site would, lately it's just been in the gutter. It really does bum me out. I used to check in and barely have time to read all the posts I wanted and end up procrastinating half my day away. Now…

George Will is a complete fucking idiot. But he's also a well known public figure, and well known public figures get paid five-figure fees to speak at universities all the time. I hate it, but I can't get overly worked up about it. I think it's incredibly dumb the way right-wingers get all in a frenzy over, say,…

I just know that the same argument is made for gun bans, which are very popular around these parts (even with me)—gun owners say "just keep your guns locked up and there's no problem!" Only problem there is the same one here: people are fucking idiots.

Thank you. I don't know about a ban, but I thought I was going nuts reading this thread and people making comparisons to medications and alcohol. None of which look like motherfucking LOLLIPOPS. And, as in the pic up there, Goldfish crackers!? Fuck, half a toddler's daily caloric intake is Goldfish crackers, that shit…

Maybe, but who cares? Why single Sasheer out? There are probably "funnier" people out there than pretty much every single cast member, so why does Sasheer get called out? Is it because she (until now) was the only black woman on the cast? Probably. I know they purged a few of the 6 (six!) random white dudes they had…