That’s a good link! I’m partially joking— My mom in her retirement started teaching ESL at a place run by cool progressive nuns, but she still sort of fears their judgement in a strange way I will never understand. :)

I know a cool nun who is former dean of a girls school and she is pro-reading. She is older than your mom by a couple decades. :-)

You’ve made me the happiest Girl Detective in the world. My only request is that we leave the reception in a blue convertible.

I totally knew that George was gay, and it was very confusing to me, because I was 8 years old and had been raised to believe that all gay people were bad and only lived in New York City or Los Angeles.

Would watch.

My theory is he didn’t want to graduate and leave all those frat boys behind.

WHAT? I obviously missed a very important plot point.

Ned Nickerson was in college for, like, 67 years. How many damn times did he change his major????

I’d watch a show about her ghost figuring out who murdered her in the early 50's while trying to navigate modern technology and taking revenge on all those who wronged her. She’s only borrowing her old earthly body though so if she doesn’t find out who killed her, she’ll return to the grave. Things get complicated…

What the fuck, Disney?

Wild Child. Literally just remembered it.

ALso, when are we getting a series about the Boxcar Children? Those books were the shit when I was in first grade. AND the Magic Treehouse books as well. Give me all the series about books I read in kindergarten/first grade.

Yup.

Only slightly related: My mom, who is 65, once ventured into her Catholic school library as a tween to ask them if they had any Nancy Drew. The nun sneered at her “You SHOULD be reading the LIVES OF THE SAINTS,” and my mom ran away terrified.

Hell yes.

I want her to be a teenager. That was the whole point.

Is that your leg? If that’s your leg will you marry me?

I think he played the villain in that horrible remake that came out in like 2010? I am thrilled he’s coming back to Pirates of the Caribbean, I also cannot believe that he’s managed to milk two roles for about twenty years and has made, I am sure, hundreds of millions off of them.

Great, another chance for me to disappoint my mother. She will again ask me why I didn’t become a detective, despite my never having shown any interest in such, and she will want to reminisce about Nancy Drew books that I never read because I was so bored by The Secret of the Old Clock.

Diversity is good but there had better be some Titian hair there. It would be like having a blonde Anne of Green Gables.