We sure he wasn’t talking about Piers Anthony? Cuz, “bad Florida fantasy”...

Re: Faulkner

you are not missing much.

Ever seen the OG True Grit with John Wayne? The Coen Bros remake is better on every level (I agree with you about Ocean’s Eleven, is why I’m mentioning this - its the only other remake I can think of that’s objectively better than the original)

I dunno, the gag in sequel where Fronk rolls down the window with Steve Martin’s face glued to it has never not gotten a laugh from me. Just really good physical comedy.

I saw this headline and was legit disappointed that it was not being covered by HamNo. It’s his legacy.

I turned my ring on for the first time a few months ago when my mom was in the hospital. I forgot to deactivate after she got the all-clear, it rang at work, and I nearly died of shame. In short: THERE IS NO NEED TO HAVE YOUR RINGER ON UNLESS SOMEONE CLOSE TO YOU IS DANGEROUSLY ILL, OKAY?

Does he openly dislike hiking? That’s the only explanation for such behavior. As for you not putting effort/money into picking a gift- in fairness, you haven’t put a ton in yet, it seems, but you’ve committed to do so in the future regarding planning the whole trip and paying for the hotel, so he needs to respect…

It’s pretentious and a bit cringworthy - why go out of your way to use a Japanese word, when “savory” exists and means the exact same thing?

I’m interested in the whole office-kid policy thing because I was an Office Kid for awhile. There were a few years where my dad would pick me up from school and bring me to his workplace until he was ready to leave. It was actually kind of good for me, because literally all I was allowed to do was sit quietly at a…

Do you quietly loom?

My immediate reaction to this question was: Alanna and Jon fucking in Tamora Pierce’s Lioness books. Then I felt embarrassed by how PG all of those scenes are (I was 12, ok?), and then I remembered that there was a frequent poster who went by AlannaofTrebond, and thought I wouldn’t mention any of this. But I feel…

Aaah... i can’t post the gif I wanted. Never mind, ignore this.

So, I’ve always heard that traditional caeser salad dressing is way better than the americanized-for-safety version with mayo. But I’ve had both and they tasted pretty much the same. Someone point me towards the magic raw egg dressing recipe that makes the small possibility of salmonella worth it, please?

Funnily enough, it was also Witch Week, followed by all the other Chrestomanci books that had been published by 2003. Charles Morgan, with his nasty glare that covered how furiously unhappy and terrified he was inside, writing “I got up! I got up!! I GOT UP!!!” in the journal he’s forced to write, because he knows he…

Oh, that makes more sense. The most disturbing thing about that one is that its actually heavily based on Jones’s own childhood (not the evil ghost-doll, the constant parental neglect).

I thought I had read every DWJ book ever (multiple times), but I’ve never heard of A Time of the Witch. When was it published?

Inside Books is based here, but I don’t know if they are looking for volunteers. They are not religious at all, though.

The part that really bugs me is that there are no books about law on the list. Of course prisoners want to read about law! Prisoners should read about law! There is something disturbingly Kafka-esque about preventing prisoners from learning about the legal system that sentenced them to prison.

Some quick research into the most popular books in prison reveal: both The Bell Jar and the Diary of Anne Frank are very popular. Legal guides, understandably, are also highly requested. Spy/thriller escapism of the James Patterson variety, and, (my personal favorite) calligraphy books are perennial favorites as well.