I love that book so much! Mary Stewart is the queen of Young Women In Trouble Behaving Sensibly though. I think I read that she deliberately wrote her heroines to be sensible because she was annoyed at all of the foolish heroines in the genre!

Same! Really one of my favorite genres is Young Woman Finds Self In Trouble; Behaves Sensibly. Also the Elizabeth Peters modern gothics which are very much in the same line.

Yeah it’s dark but I think the only possible explanation is that Trump’s followers truly are deplorably racist, sexist, ignorant etc. And they support, encourage, and incite him to make this extended and extensive mockery of the system because they don’t believe in it. Billy Bush, Hillary Clinton, and Obama are part…

This is slightly off topic. But sometimes I wonder if the president should be a moderate. As a liberal from San Francisco this seems crazy but the country does not agree with Sanders (or Hillary) and it does not agree with Cruz/Trump. Louis CK suggested alternating red and blue every year, which to me is horrifying.…

Yeah, I think I feel the same way as your son! I’m in tears every time I watch it.

I love you.

Benign Positional Vertigo was the name of highschool punk band. It didn’t work out.

WHOA. I can’t believe that! EMTs definitely should not be wearing cologne, holy shit! I hope you puked all over that guy.

God, thank you for mentioning Cotillion. Freddy Standen is like, one of my all-time favorite romance heroes. I’ve searched high and low for more historicals with heroes like Freddy, with no luck. Julia Quinn writes less alpha guys sometimes, but none of them are quite as goofy and hilarious as Freddy.