As you may remember, I was a judge for the National Book Awards this year. This meant reading 256 books in four months and discussing them with the other judges: Pete Hautman, James Howe, Patty McCormick, and Elizabeth Partridge. All of these folks are wonderfully smart and fantastic to talk about books to, which made the crazy-making reading schedule not only survivable, but a real pleasure.
They are all also terribly polite, which is a good thing. Here’s why: the judges meet the DAY OF THE AWARD CEREMONY to decide the winner of the award! We had lunch at a secret location and spent three hours hashing out which of the five nominees was the winner. It was stimulating and wonderful, and also heart-breaking to pick only one.
(Rumor has it that the non-fiction judges argued all the way up to that night, with many insults and brickbats thrown. But we were all very nice. That’s YA for you.)
There was barely time to rush home and get into black tie for the gala ceremony. Justine and I did the whole prom night thing and took photos of ourselves. It was also our sixth anniversary, so we had two excuses for frocking up!
And, of course, the only thing that’s more fun than wearing black tie is wearing black tie on the subway. Here we are in our finery en route to Times Square:
The best thing about selecting the winner that day was that I only had to keep the secret for five hours. So now the news is out: The winner in the young people’s category was Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, who gave a lovely and heartfelt speech about how much cooler it is to write YA than adult fiction. Amen, dude.
Alexie on giant screen and as a tiny bright blob on the right.
The book is about a Spokane Indian kid who commutes from his impoverished reservation to attend a relatively wealthy all-white school. It’s wickedly funny, an incredibly easy read, and yet has all kinds of epic emotional impact. Great cartoons as well.
But I must mention that all the nominees were great. Here are the other four in alphabetical order:
Kathleen Duey, Skin Hunger: A Resurrection of Magic, Book One
Two stories, set decades apart, intertwine and show how magic reenters the world. Dark and fascinating, and one of the more complex narratives I’ve read in years. (12 up)
M. Sindy Felin, Touching Snow
A teenage girl in a Hatian family in the US tells how she killed her abusive step father. A darkly funny glimpse into a brutal immigrant experience, with a vast emotional wallop. A first novel! (14 up)
Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Told half in gorgeous pictures and half in text, a young boy discovers mechanical secrets inside the walls of the Paris train station. Magical storytelling, completely original. (10 up)
Sara Zarr, Story of a Girl
A seventeen-year-old girl in a small town lives with a bad reputation. Pitch perfect realism. Another first novel! (12 up)
Go read them all!
November 16th, 2007 06:06
yeah more books to read… must put on christmas list!!! o uh i think i got number 1! yippie… sry been wanting to do that since summer
November 16th, 2007 06:15
cool. i read Skin Hunger, but not any of the others. i have a feeling that winning one was in my bathroom for a couple weeks.
you gotta love incongrous formality.
November 16th, 2007 06:26
unrelated, but it would really stink to be a guy whose last name is Alexie. i mean, dude.
November 16th, 2007 06:29
CONGRATULATIONS TO SHERMAN ALEXIE! I just saw him at the Texas Book Festival!!! I’m so excited for him.
November 16th, 2007 06:52
ahhhh sounds beast i should read it!!!
November 16th, 2007 07:51
Sounds like a very intersting book
November 16th, 2007 08:20
Oh my gosh 256 books in 4 months thats is soo crazy-making
Those books sound really good.
Now my list of books is even longer
November 16th, 2007 08:27
BOOKS!!!, they rock lol
November 16th, 2007 08:39
Aww, happy anniversary! 256 books in 4 months? You are a god. o.o
November 16th, 2007 08:48
Congrats to Alexie!!
& wow that is a lot of books to read in only 4 months!
November 16th, 2007 09:05
mad reading skills, with all the crap(well not crap but stuff)going on
November 16th, 2007 09:07
i was on the thing that goes from long island to manhattan (forgot what its called)with my dad in my nicest and only dress it was weird
November 16th, 2007 09:08
Congrats Scott-sensei!! procrastinating is so fun. not that you were procrastinating but still. its nice to hear that you made some new friends. and you look ever so classy in that bow tie.
November 16th, 2007 09:16
Well, i had heard about the book of the idian but it sounded kinda boring, but if you insist. Today was book fair for our class. We had 2 cases out of the 50. Wow, 2 cases of middle school, the rest all little kids.
November 16th, 2007 09:18
Sounds like fun. hehe. The whole “meeting in a secret place for lunch” thing for some reason gives me the image of the scene in So Yesterday when Hunter is supposed to meet Mandy with Jen. Congrats to Alexie. And now I have books to read! yay!
Happy anniversary, too!!
November 16th, 2007 09:18
Awwww… You look so cute together! Happy Anniversary! I wish I could’ve read all of those books…
November 16th, 2007 09:20
Ya there was only like one bookshelf of real books at our book fair
November 16th, 2007 09:39
I really need to find Skin Hunger… Justine talked about it so much! I’m having a hard time finding it though…
Y’all look so pretty! I love the subway pic!
November 16th, 2007 09:56
well, i must say, that’s THE CRAZIEST THING I’VE EVER HEARD. i mean, TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY-SIX BOOKS—in FOUR MONTHS?!?!?!
*scrambles for calculator*
that’s…that’s approximately 2.1 books a day (if two months had 31 days, and two had 30)!
that takes skillz, man, skillz.
and lucky middle school people, we don’t even have a book fair past 6th grade in my town.
but the thing that depresses me most? that our jr high/high school library has only 2 scott books: specials, and the last days. i told the librarian (in my nicest little voice) that there are two books preluding specials in the trilogy/series/whatever-you-choose-to-call-it, plus another book following it, that the last days is the sequel to another book, and that our library would greatly benefit from the purchase of those novels.
she said, “oh, i’ll look into it. ” well, nearly a year later, THERE’S NO OTHER SCOTT BOOKS THERE.
but back to the original topic…i already requested four of the five books from my town (much more wonderful) library!
November 16th, 2007 10:03
that is so fool scott.
Taylor, at least your school HAS scott’s books. mine has NONE! MY LAME SCHOOL HAS ZERO OF SCOTT’S BOOKS!
November 16th, 2007 10:06
I love your pics! Sorry you had to ride the subway in black tie. I bet that was awkward…
November 16th, 2007 10:34
Well all my library books of
scott-las are Uglies and Pretties. I mean, COME ON! Theses people have no taste in books!
November 16th, 2007 10:55
i so read stroy of a girl! it was like bogus good! i read it in less than 12 hours. my family would call me pathetic, but i would call it an obsession. btw, im reading extras finally, and i love it! good going scott!
November 16th, 2007 11:00
hey umm, how if i was lookeing into it woule i be able to do the award thing. like i mean me reading all those books and doing what you did. that would be cool and fun in my eyes. especially since you get all the books free!
November 16th, 2007 11:01
but when i was older i mean. da.
November 16th, 2007 11:07
hehe. now i have to read those to. i now officially have 57 books on m NEED TO READ booklist in NEED TO READ order. hehe.
-Lizzy-wa OUT!
November 16th, 2007 11:10
cool
November 16th, 2007 11:14
Happy Belated Anniversary!
<3
November 16th, 2007 11:14
wow.
57. so what’s the first one on the list, lizzy-wa?
and bran-la: at least they’re in order! lucky…but that’s what town library’s are for! i heart mine…it’s so wonderful i remember when i was in like 2nd grade and the magic treehouse books were popular…my library had nearly every book, and i read them all, thus, my reading obsession was born! lol
November 16th, 2007 11:17
where’s my head today?
November 16th, 2007 11:21
number one on the list is twilight. but im trying to avoid it by reading Magic or Madness r…e….a….l….l…y…slow. yeah.
-Lizzy-wa OUT!
November 16th, 2007 11:40
I was going to read twilight but i don’t think i’m going to. They started a twilight club at my school and its only open to 8th graders. lol
November 16th, 2007 11:50
I have been wanting to read twilight but i still have some books of Scott-las to read. Btu wat i really want to read is Before i die. Sad, but it sounds really good. Go to http://teenreads.com/reviews/0385751559.asp
November 16th, 2007 11:50
how many times you been around the sun Sly-chan?
-Lizzy-wa OUT!
November 16th, 2007 11:52
hey Bran-la! how is it over there in your world?
-Lizzy-wa OUT!
November 16th, 2007 12:12
Uhh, good, lizzy-wa. Just hangin out. Writing my story.
November 16th, 2007 12:39
oh, serifina zane, my mom does that, too! when she has a good book to read, the highest compliment is to say “put it in the bathroom…” hmmm…same w/magazines, but the only problem is that the things sometimes get covered w/water…it’s sad…
) and totally bogusly long post, too! 
) and flower-child-something-ah says hi…she’s my sis…one of them, neways…
URGH!
oh, and about the “to read” lists, another book is really good: it’s called, “i’d tell you i love you, but then i’d have to kill you,” then the next book is called “cross my heart and hope to spy…” it’s about a girl who goes to a boarding school for spies….
oh, and scott-la! so good to have you back again!! and happy anniversary!! you look totally kick in that black tie thing…
oh, i keep on saying “oh…” totally random of me…
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gtg! have to do my chore
-Riderchild-wa
November 16th, 2007 13:23
it’s gotta be said,
there’s something insanely fun about being dressed up on the metro (subway, muni…)
only it can be dangerous,
to be a teenage girl in a dress,
at night.
cause the homeless people stare… O_O
November 16th, 2007 13:50
hehe. hobos. there are a bunch of hobos at the albertsons my scool bus passes. we named them. theres Bob, Billy Bob, Billy Sue, and Nicole. nicole is a guy. but we thot he was a girl when we named him, so the name kinda stuck. hehe.
-Lizzy-wa OUT!
November 16th, 2007 13:53
Haha I can’t imagine being dressed up on the subway(Though it should be hilarious)
Story of A Girl is actully really good. I just finished it
November 16th, 2007 14:06
well, i’ve read like 50+ books in three months without a deadline…..i read waaaay fast.
knew today was gonna be a good day when i got home from school to a free copy of uglies on my doorstep. (i’ve already got one, but still)
my middle school librarian would buy whole lists of books i made. i will never forgive her for thinking Peeps was the third in the Uglies trilogy though.
November 16th, 2007 14:11
I loved that book! I bought it in the airport on Sunday morning (I spent a lot of time on planes over the weekend) and finished it on the trip from Boston to Chapel Hill. It was amazing. Sherman Alexie is brilliant–I’m so glad that he won.
November 16th, 2007 14:15
haha, on sunday i went to the city w/ a bunch of friends, and we took the suway to get to canal street. none of us had ever been on a subway before, and there were no open seats when we got on so we had to hold onto a pole. unfortunately, we weren’t holding on tight enough when the subway first started moving, and at the first jerk we screamed and almost fell.
it was pretty fun though, b/c on the way back we had gained better balance and were spinning around and between the poles. yeah there was no one else in the car that’s why we were able to…
November 16th, 2007 14:16
EEK! I just saw him speak in Austin at the Texas Book festival (You should come down one year!!! It’s amazing>) and got the book signed. Yay. He’s just amazing. I’m glad you choose his book.
November 16th, 2007 14:17
serafina, why did someone send you a copy of uglies today? I WANT A FREE ONE TOO!
November 16th, 2007 14:19
lol u just wish u got one. it’s cuz i signed up for that simon pulse reviewing deal and stuff. they haven’t asked me to review anything, but they keep sending me free books so whateve. i like books.
now i’m debating what i’ll do with this second copy…..probably pass it off to a friend.
November 16th, 2007 14:28
last question…then i must go to bed…are you ‘joy from manhattan’ or is that just an account that you liked??? fawesome photos either way…
i wanna sign up for the simon pulse thing! darn i must’ve missed the link; was it in a blog post?
sry that was two. oh well off to sleep!
November 16th, 2007 14:40
scott that is amazingly fawesome.
im sort of late commenting cus the teachers decided that right before thanksgiving break would be an excellent time to pile on the homework and projects.
i am so ready for a whole week of sleeping in.
scott i think you should post the list of the 256 books you read in the past four months.
we can all read them adn pick our own winner.
or just read them all in four months..
anyway. ive got projects to finish..gak
November 17th, 2007 04:30
hey! i wanna sign up two! hehe. thats pretty wierd Taylor-wa…you just said everything i was going to say…except the apologizing. i never apologise for tallking to much. hehe.
but yeah. those pics are so kick. i have yet to post my costume for i cannot get it to copy and paste. stupidness.
-Lizzy-wa OUT!
November 17th, 2007 06:15
it wasn’t in the blog, it was a random link thing i found from somewhere through the publisher…..mighta been an ad in my paperback Specials. either way, c’est awesome.
and yea, joy from manhattan is me. that’s my Melissa costume. it’s only linked to my name on my home computer, i think. i use like 3 different computers so the links r all different.
November 17th, 2007 06:36
I gotta read those. Especially ‘Story of a Girl’, I’ve been wanting to read that one. YA totally rules
November 17th, 2007 08:30
wow…serafina’s got skillz! seriously when the whole lolcat contest was going on i hearted your winning entry (eyeball tattoo…lol), although at the time i didn’t know whose it really was! but you should really go into art—but you probably already know that.
anyway, i’m gonna go do some obsessive googling on that offer, even if it is too late for uglies!
November 17th, 2007 09:07
ahh I HATE missing out on so many comments b/c there are so many things I want to say…like how I loved I’d tell you I loved you but then I’d have to kill you” (finished it 4 the 2nd time 2day) and cant wait to get “Cross my heart and hope 2 spy”…and how I TOTALLY HATE how teachers always give u homework rite b4 Thanksgiving break and evry other long break from school…and how I don’t think my school has even one Scott book (lame, lame LAME!!)…and how i have ttly started making a list of books I need 2 read (I just started it around 12 today) – with Twilight at the top!! Along with “Snakehead”, which just came out the 13th (so it’s bound to be good, of course, coming out on the 13th. And I’ve been waiting for it for a whole year.)…And how you aren’t missing out on much if your school doesn’t have book fairs, they suck badly)
But i can’t say any of that because its bringing up a subject that has already come and gone.
Plz tell me i’m not the only 1 w/ this problem. maybe if I stayed up latr, I could-…or is 12am already 2 late? (I was up til 1:15 exact the othr night then woke up at 6:30 the next mrning 2 do homework I forgot 2 do.)
This why I always have such long comments!!! I srsly need my own blog but parentals would kill me if i did…
November 17th, 2007 09:39
Well im about to eat a brownie. Oh, not just any brownie, a brownie with an inch of whip cream and a layer of chacolate. Oh, and i got the last days. Um sad its not about Lacy and OMG I FORGOT HIS NAME! Someone please tell me his name. the point is i loved them together!
November 17th, 2007 09:43
bran-la: you mean Cal! and yeah it’s not about them but it’s just as good anyway, i loved the last days
allie-wa: i have that problem too…and then (b/c i’m JUST THAT OBSESSIVE) i have to read through all of the comments that have gone up since i’ve last checked, too—unless it’s like 100 or something, and then i skim.
November 17th, 2007 09:49
OOOO YA! I knew that somewhere deep down i knew his name, just coulnt think about it. O and i read the first to chapters. At first a thought Moz was a girl, guess not. Pleas correct me if it i a girl. But i think its a guy.
November 17th, 2007 09:58
moz is a guy. a pretty cool guy. the last days rocks. and yeah, it’s Cal.
thanks taylor! glad u liked my entry. and thanks for the compliment! i never think i’m that good at art…especially not people. but writing will always be my first choice of a career, of course…..
i ttly have that prblm 2, allie-wa, whenever i leave for a while. i just kinda comment on them anyway or regret it. then again, i got no life so i’m on here all the time.
i’m eating banana bread. and reading Maddigan’s Fantasia (post-apocalyptic circuses pull me in, even if they are MG) and watching fuse.
November 17th, 2007 10:06
lol I ain’t never read that many books before but i did read 50 books in 2 and 1/2 months. xP
November 17th, 2007 10:28
Ya i should be doing something useful right now but, w/e. Im lazy. Lol. I like cinnamon bread. Have you ever tried. The best! So far, the last days id good (so far as in chapter 3).
serafina Zane: Im pretty sure you have a life. From just hearing you comment on Scott-las blog i wish you were my friend or at least new you! You seem like a fun person!
They say that the worst critics are yourself!
November 17th, 2007 10:31
yeah, but you might notice that i’m commenting on a blog on the internet. that in itself shows i have no life.
people like me better on the internet then in real life. that’s slightly sad. but then again i am awesome. lol.
and i don’t mind. i’m tremendously antisocial.
i’m not a cinnoman bread person. i made banana bread today for the second time this week….and i smell mexican food now.
the last days rock.
i confuse this guy in my math class because i’m always making last days logos and stuff.
November 17th, 2007 10:32
yeah comment 60.
November 17th, 2007 10:39
what’s Snakehead, allie-wa? hunger…for…books…growing….*goes to look at that spy book*
anybody got fantasy for me? esp. urban fantasy. werewolves are always appreciated. any kind of apocalypse acceptable.
November 17th, 2007 10:44
You seem fine to me!
You dont seem antiscoical, those are people who literally were muzzles.
im pretty sure ur not a dog.
I like bananas. YUM!
I will now bore my self some more. yeah. whoa. (bored face and unexcited yells)
There is no one on to talk to!
November 17th, 2007 10:45
OH YA. who won the voting !!!
November 17th, 2007 10:45
I mean who won the contest for best paragraph of Darkling Warewolves.
November 17th, 2007 10:45
i think i’m very different in person, apparently. or maybe not. whatever.
i’m here and completely bored with no one to talk to. i sense a common thread.
hmmm….not feeling like wearing a muzzle.
i’m a cat person.
November 17th, 2007 10:46
Yeah i check the blogs on here all the time and if leave for a while i have to read all the blogs that were posted when i wasn’t constantly checking the computer screen. Yup i have no life.
November 17th, 2007 10:47
hasn’t been announced yet. i was just stalking the HQ—no new developments i can see.
November 17th, 2007 10:54
I am VERY scoial.
I like to talk.
I must go now.
Well i dont have to but i am going to.
November 17th, 2007 10:57
i talk a lot, but i hate people so i think i’m anti-social. now i go eat mexican food.
November 17th, 2007 10:57
woo! comment 70 too!
November 17th, 2007 11:38
mmm, banana bread, my favorite!!!! my dad makes the best!!!! i like to put peanut butter on mine. some people think that’s weird, but it’s really good!!!!
yay, more books to read!!! a while ago someone commented on here and talked about alot of good vampire books, so i wrote them down, and i’m just now getting to them all. blue bloods was one of them, and is completely AWESOME!!!! it’s right up there with all of scott-la’s books!!!
in earlier comments it sounded like some people on here are already on thanksgiving break. are you? i have only 2 days next week!!! it’s completely flip flopped!! 2 day week and a 5 day weekend!!! and my school is pretty nice about homework over school breaks. except freshman science. last year spring break totally sucked. we had to do a stupid rube goldberg project. and my teachers are just lucky that me and my partner don’t ever go anywhere on spring break, cuz if one of us did, my mom would have to yell at them. and she would. anyway, cya!!! this was a long post. but so fun!!!
November 17th, 2007 11:43
i have a whole week of thanks giving break! IT ROCKS! We started today. We got out early.
November 17th, 2007 11:52
hmmm….person listing lots of vampire books…..funny feeling that was me.
if so, yes! i influence the world.
if not, WHO? who has book reccomendations they have been hiding from me?!! gimmie!
i got 2 and a half days of school next week but i’m skipping 2/3 of one.
i have a 10 paragraph essay to write that i don’t know the topic of on a book i haven’t read and lost my copy of and it’s due monday.
November 17th, 2007 11:59
we just got out todayy..
full week of sleep yess.
i have to do a book report this week, but thats nothing compared ot what some teachers give out over break.
hmm..i plan on sleeping adn reading. a lot.
November 17th, 2007 12:34
I have homework but…
ill do it like, sunday…..
of next week.
November 17th, 2007 12:35
ooh, that’s bad, serafina zane. if that happened to me, i would be freaking out so much i’d go insane. and i don’t think it was you who recommended those books. the name was way shorter. i don’t even remember what post it was on, so i can’t tell you.
yeah, i’m gonna read alot too. i mean, what else is there to do on a school break? you know, except obsessively watching and recording the 3 things the jonas brothers are gonna be on in the next week!!! yeah, i love them, they are sooooo awesome!!! ah, my 2 obsessions, books, and jonas brothers. i will get alot of both this thanksgiving!! ha, guess what i give thanks for!! lol!!
November 17th, 2007 12:54
eh, i don’t really care about english class.
maybe it wasn’t me. eh. whatever.
*goes back to researching obscure things on wikipedia*
i second the “doing homework on sunday” deal.
November 17th, 2007 13:48
yeah, i found the sequel was actually better than the first, but i wasn’t such a big fan of Blue Bloods in the first place.
i second the Blue Girl though…..very cool. loved the cover art too, unrelatedly.
and Wicked Lovely….i just (like literally just) came over from the author’s livejournal. so yeah, i’d say i’m a fan. very Tithe-y but distinctly different.
November 17th, 2007 13:48
wooo! comment 80 as well!
ooh, i was coment 60, 70 and 80. i need to go do something else more.
November 17th, 2007 14:55
yummm…banana bread. i make the most fawesomest banana bread! i rule at cooking stuff. but i dont do it to often cause my mom makes me clean it up.
-Lizzy-wa OUT!
November 17th, 2007 16:49
i dont know if anyone is here, but has anyone heard of the Darfur Genocide?
Women are being raped and murdered by the militia every day, but we can help.
if you donate just three dollars to the DarfurFast, you can protect one woman from the genocide for an entire year.
or you can organize your school or other group and do Dollars for Darfur.
Whichever, they both greatly help the refugees of Darfur. already, hundreds of women are being protected (i know for a fact more than 141 are being protected just in the harry potter community) and if everyone joins in, so many more can be saved. here are links,,
http://www.savedarfur.org/content
http://www.standnow.org/darfurfast
November 18th, 2007 02:02
well it was just like banana bread from a box. i just ate some more of it.
yeah, i actually cook a lot, which some people find incongruous with my personality. i make these great chocolate chip cookies from scratch, and they’re all giant…..Mmmm…
ugh, i’m so bogusly sick today. ttl sore throat, can’t talk, headache, suckage.
November 18th, 2007 03:45
Any movie newss??? on audtioning for Tallywa in Uglies? Please?
November 18th, 2007 04:25
haven’t heard nothing bout auditions
woooo000000oooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I WON DA CONTEST!!!!!!!!!!
November 18th, 2007 04:47
hehe. yeah Co-Prez-la. your were fawesome. i hope you get better! im always sick on the weekends. it stinks! like, i wont feel so brite an shiny when i get home from scool on friday. then on saturday i have a fever and have to miss EVERYTHING! then on sunday i feel kinda bad but im getting better. then on monday im coughing up a storm and needing to blow my nose every two seconds, but the parentals make me go to scool anyway! just cause im not running a fever or puking! wazup with that?!
-Lizzy-wa OUT!
November 18th, 2007 04:52
– I like Eggs ?
November 18th, 2007 05:00
oh, serifina zane, in answer to ur previous question about snakehead, i think it’s another alex rider book…and i totally know how you feel, allie-wa from comment 53…see? the fact that i’m talking 2 u right now is living proof that i hate it too…
i finished i’d tell u i love you but then i’d have to kill u…i’m waiting for cross my heart and hope to spy to come from my liberry…i ordered it WEEKS ago! pain and suffering!!
i have school on monday, tuesday, and somewhat on wednesday…but then have thursday, friday, saturday, and sunday off too!! yay!! and i don’t really have homework over long vacations…i’m homeschooled….
well, right now my sis, flower-child-something-ah wants me to turn on some music…gtg!
-Riderchild-wa
November 18th, 2007 05:06
hhmmm…that book sounds…interesting…the hop to spy one….*adds to list*.
-Lizzy-wa OUT!
November 18th, 2007 05:07
Err I have to go to school 2 days next week. It’s pointless, really.
I can’t wait til I see if my Special pictures came out…I used a really crappy disposable camera so I’m not sure how they turned out…
But I can’t wait to see!!!!!!
hehe I’m home right now. alone. its fawesome. Cause I blast my music on three different stereos in the house.
Serafina, why do you search obscure things on Wikipedia? I actually edit the articles sometimes. I have an account. But I can’t say what it is b/c the peoples there probably think I’m 18+. Which is kinda cool yet sad, considering…well, I’m not. And I don’t want them to find out. It would kinda ruin reputation.
Scott-la has his own category on Wikipedia. Go to the Uglies article and go down to the bottom where it says Category:Novels by Scott Westerfeld. Fawesome, huh?
I actually love being sick. Unless I still have to go to school. Like this week – I’ve had a sore throat all week, my temp is 99.0, but I STILL have to go to school. But at least I didn’t have to play stupid games in PE and run around the gym floor. That would suck. Especially since I have giant blisters on my feet. I mean, they cover my whole heel.
ok, was that disturbing/nasty/tmi?
hooray for long comments!!
November 18th, 2007 05:10
Yes! Alex Rider! i took so long on my comment that I didn’t see yours, Riderchild-wa!
If you want to read Snakehead, then you must read Stormbreaker, Point Blank, Skeleton Key, Eagle Strike, Scorpia, and Ark Angel first. I’ve been waiting for Snakehead for forever. And its finally out and I’m getting it today!! yay
November 18th, 2007 05:31
i haven’t quite finished ark angel yet…heh, heh…but i have read all of the rest!!
oh, and lizzy-wa…if u want to read cross my heart and hope to spy, u have to read i’d tell you i love you, but then i’d have to kill you…(oh, and they’re by allie carter)
ull really love them!!
oh no!! u guys have given me the obsessive-checking disease!!! AUGH!!
well, i’ll probly be back in like five minutes…
-Riderchild-wa
November 18th, 2007 05:40
okay, this won’t be a long post, i promise!! i just forgot 2 mention something…(u know, we would be able to cut the amount of comments in half if we didn’t all post evry five minutes…)
i’m just gonna check the liberry to see if cross my heart and hope to spy, because i’ve been waiting for t for WEEKS, WEEKS, i tell u, WEEKS! my sis, warriorchild-wa, just woke up, and it’s like 1:35…and almost 100 comments…hmm….this is a sign that scott-la should like post again…
i do this homeschool science-club thingey, and by our next meeting, we have to classify the horse, cat, and human (like the kingdom, phylum, class, species thing…) actually last year we did this classifying thing and i chose the horse, and i still remember the species…equus caballas…i have all of this pointless stuff stuck in my brain now…poor me.
right now we’re listening to les miserables…good movie, about the french revolution (i think)
okay, i know…very long post…sorry…i’ll shut up now…(meaning like five minutes…)
-Riderchild-wa
November 18th, 2007 05:43
URGH!!!
i just checked!! i cant believe it!! it hasn’t arrived…only another alias prequel novel (actually pretty good, but i want cross my heart and hope to spy! i’ll now start pouting, and i don’t think u want to hear me…
-Riderchild-wa
November 18th, 2007 05:44
hehe. you can tell we’re all really bored. were all commenting like crazy. hehe.
-Lizzy-wa OUT!
November 18th, 2007 07:40
Yeah we start talking about random stuff when Scott-la doesn’t post for a few days
November 18th, 2007 08:25
yeah. i think some of us (like, say, me) need to cut back on commenting.
and yes. sickness sucks. have spent whole day on couch.
oooh….that’s an alex rider book. suspected as much.
same thing happened to me with Valiant, Riderchild. weeks and weeks and weeks and then it turned out that the stupid library system had me chasing after the one paperback copy when there were like 80 available hardcovers. arrrgh!
and i think we digress pretty fast.
and i was looking up Code Lyoko cuz i was just remembering how i used to watch that show and it was awesome. it’s funny, looking back, but all those themes (teenagers at boarding school with other world defeating stuff getting possessed, emo main guy character and goth girlfriend, blond slacker guy, geeks, ect) have all really influenced me. crazy.
i hope i get better by monday—i want my braces OFF!
November 18th, 2007 08:47
whoa….extra’s only been out a little over a month and the spoiler page’s up to 600 comments already. we comment way too much.
November 18th, 2007 08:52
the last days thread has 1033 comments
November 18th, 2007 08:54
the specials spoiler thread has 2184 comments
November 18th, 2007 09:00
the blue noon spoiler thread has 1647.
this now has 100.
November 18th, 2007 10:21
hello!
wow, that’s a lot of comments!
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, SCOTT!
please visit my book club; it’s http://fansbehere.wordpress.com/ or you can just click on my name, i created it like five minutes ago so it doesn’t have much on it but with a little fan-ness it could be like the ones you guys have…!
yay!!
November 18th, 2007 10:44
thanks for commenting, serafinazane!
once again, wow that’s a lot of comments.
November 18th, 2007 10:49
my school is still gonna be in session on monday and tuesday, but then we get a five-day weekend from wednesday to sunday.
luckily, I’M GOING TO THE ATLANTIS RESORT TOMORROW!!! seriously google it. it’s ah-mazing! yeah i haven’t been on vaction in 2 years so i’m flipping out over this…and i can get a tan. i heart tans. i heart summer/hot weather in general. it’s just my parents and me that are going from tomorrow to friday, but i’m so talkative that i’ll probably make around 10 friends there. seriously, on our last vacation we went on a cruise, and by the time i got home i had fifteen email addresses/phone #s of new friends. so i guess i can’t really include myself in the “antisocial” category.
on the other hand, being overly social has it’s cons…for example, people get annoyed if you talk too much. i babble. a lot. like right now…
i convinced my dad to bring his laptop there, though, b/c that’s how addicted to email/this blog/the internet in general i am. so hopefully i’ll get a chance to use it and comment on here a bit.
k i linked my name to the website for it. click! click now!
are ya seeing the annoying-ness yet? are ya?
November 18th, 2007 12:16
yeah, i’m bored and support up new bloggers.
yeah. i’m like the exact opposite of that. don’t like summer. don’t like cruises. don’t like making new friends.
am also addicted to internet though.
November 18th, 2007 12:31
Ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh
I have to convince my mom that the internet isn’t evil. Any ideas? anyone? anyone?
*crickets chirping*
well, geez, don’t all speak at once! lol jk.
but srsly she thinks that i’m like gonna commit suicide like that girl on the news
November 18th, 2007 12:57
oh one more thing that’ll probably be the opposite of serafina: i’ve been accused of having ADHD more times than i can count. seriously, i NEVER. STOP. MOVING. i’ll just be sitting in class, tapping my feet or swinging my legs, anything! and then i’m pretty random too, but—lucky for me—people don’t get annoyed at that very much.
but no, i’m not one of those girls who downplays their intelligence.
really.
ask any of my friends, they’ll vouch for me
so yeah, don’t think that. i’m just a teenager with a yet-undiagnosed case of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
November 18th, 2007 13:04
and why do you need to convince your mom of that, allie-wa?
but i suggest telling her about how schools can have websites, and (at least on my schools) they have a sex-offender registry that’s available online, as well as at the building, that any parent can check.
in my opinion!
which checks out at non-
and how authors can have websites, not just “bad people,” and who can disagree with the idea that authors make good role models?
does she have any favorite stores/companies that have websites? does she ever shop online? is THAT evil too?
hehe. hopefully that was at least a little bit of help!
November 18th, 2007 14:33
OK Scott I know you look at this sometimes so hopefully you’ll read this.
OK I love the Uglies books and I reallly want to audition for the part of Tally. In the movie being Tally would be so insanely bubbly/icy I would scream for a good hour. So do you have any information? Thank you so much for taking time off of your busy schedule to read this. =)
-Callywa
November 18th, 2007 16:46
thanks for posting, Taylor!!
yeah, it would be SO bubbly/icy {as Cally-wa says} to be in the actual uglies or midnighters movie/s!!
y am i so hiper?i’ve been adding !s all day.sheesh.even i’m annoying to myself…
ok, well, yeah about the persuasion of the internet for your mom,”MOM!YOU DON’T LIVE IN MY SHOES…IVE BEEN DOING HOMEWORK LIKE ALL DAY!!!AND WHAT DO YOU THINK I DO IT ON?YEAH, THE COMPUTER-SMART ONE!!”jk.try writing it down.think of ideas is much easier when it’s written.good luck!
November 18th, 2007 19:13
You should totally make another Midnighter’s book and make it about the Bermuda Triangle.
Mysteriously technology stops working there.
November 19th, 2007 00:12
Yeah! A fourth midnighters would be awesome. Especially with Darkling Werewolves. Which is why we have an HQ: http://chasingmidnightwerewolves.wordpress.com I always mess that up so hopefully it works this time.
My mom hates the internet because she thinks I’m doing dangerous stuff. She hates fanlib just because she saw the word f*cking on a thread. That I wasn’t part of.
And then she saw that story about the girl that committed suicide b/c of a Myspace friend, and totally used that to support her ‘internet is evil’ thing. Which isn’t fair!! need I even say why?
hmm…I don’t think she knows actually what this is. she just says “Westerblog” (It sounds really dumb when she says it) She doesn’t know about the HQ…well, she does, but she doesn’t know what it is (A blog to persuade Scott to write another Midnighters book – yeah.). She says I am “addicted” and I ask her what is so bad about that, and just says “Its not healthy”. Why isn’t it healthy? well, “anything you do that much isn’t healthy” according to her. I was on 15 minutes yesterday before she told me to get off. ttly NOT fair.
And trust me, I’ve tried everything I can think of.
*moving on*
hmm…I don’t know. I wouldn’t want to be in an uglies movie. If they are actually going to have one, because at this state, I’m not even sure they will ever make one.
It might be better that way. I mean, I don’t want them to ‘ruin’ Uglies by making a crappy movie.
November 19th, 2007 01:53
i dunnno….it probably is unhealthy, but who says that’s a bad thing?
and actually, i do that too Taylor, i’m like always tapping my fingers or stuff like that. constantly have songs stuck in my head too.
and, like, the internet’s not evil if you aren’t an idiot about it. like, avoid people who seem like pedophiles. don’t mention your age/location/ect. don’t keep a public myspace page and then post that you’re having a party where everyone can see it. don’t get TOO invested in it. do something else (once in a while). don’t like post pictures of yourself, especially not stupid slutty ones. don’t talk to people you don’t know about wierd stuff.
DON’T BE AN IDIOT.
see? really not that hard. but yeah, some people are just crazy about that sort of thing. they want to blame everything on tecnology.
i’m cynical about the movie-production process, so i kind of hope there isn’t an uglies or midnighters movie.
November 19th, 2007 02:08
hey, Lizzy-wa, can you moderate my comments over at the HQ? it’s randomly not showing them.
November 19th, 2007 02:09
wooo! i got comment 113!
November 19th, 2007 02:39
you also got 104, a multiple of 13. So…lucky you.
And I’m not an idiot on the internet. I mean, people here know my age (some of them)…but so what? as long as they don’t know where I live…its not like I tell people where I go to school…and I would never post pictures of myself (unless its just like my hand to show flash tattoos or whatever. hard to identify a person by their hand…)
hehe. I have a confession to make. Allie actually isn’t my birth name. But it is my nickname…what I go by.
I’m not even on here all that often. I do other stuff. lots. of. other. stuff. Like, SCHOOL for example.
November 19th, 2007 03:28
ha. i get like every number cuz i post waaay too much.
and school does eat my life.
i know, if you’re like smart about it, it’s not like dangerous. i mean, serafina zane isn’t my real name either. i don’t tell people specifically where i live. i’m vague about my age. like, don’t give out specific information and it’s not dangerous.
November 19th, 2007 05:05
I kinda used my real name.
Yeah, i think it is dangerous. It is. There are some really creepy people in this world!
November 19th, 2007 05:08
Im soooo glaf i dont have school this whole next week. YES! i mean, hello!, no school. Who wouldnt pass up thsi great offer. I can acculy read, do things, read, shop, read, see my friends, and read! Did i say read? OH, only 4 times!
November 19th, 2007 05:15
OOO, and i know how you guys got the Fawesome thing, The Last Days. I love how he says fool instead of cool. Thats so fool. I love it. Yeah. Everyday my language becaome so much fooler because scott-la has a lot of book words, that no body else knows about!
November 19th, 2007 05:19
yeah. i dont no why your comments keep needing to be moderated Co-Prez-la…i’ll go fix that…
-Lizzy-wa OUT!
November 19th, 2007 05:44
i think the HQ is jealous i won.
the last days are fawesome.
and first names aren’t so big. it’s if you put like your real full name and location that’s stupid because you don’t know who’s out there.
502 words into my 1500 word essay due tommorrow on a book i haven’t read.
November 19th, 2007 06:34
hey look. http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/twilight_movie.html
they cast a vaguely-generic looking person to be Bella in the Twilight movie. she does have that vague brainless-but-admiring look down.
yeah, i’m totally working on my english essay. 625 words.
November 19th, 2007 06:53
wow, 122 comments in two days. we’re way obsessed, ain’t we?
November 19th, 2007 07:09
Yes we are, Scott-la, wat did you put on this site! Its like you can never leave it alone!
November 19th, 2007 07:11
I agree with the first name. but there are some names that are kinda one in a million. Like, if there was a guy named Zane, he would be easy, you dont no that many Zanes. I am really likeing the last days. I havent read much, distractions, but i will get to it, i promise.
November 19th, 2007 07:14
the last days are fawesome.
i wish i knew somebody named Zane. that’d be awesome.
i know so many people with the same first name.
my essay is now 882 words out of a supposed 1500, and halfway through the tenth of ten paragraphs. and that’s counting the inserted Against Me! lyrics and excerpts from The Day After Tommorrow and also the word pork mentioned a few times.
November 19th, 2007 07:31
Huh, my comment didnt go, well that stinks! O well, wat i said was, i forget.
November 19th, 2007 07:33
Looks like its time for scott-la to write another blog entry!
November 19th, 2007 07:42
What’s the essay about?
You know, I would make a longer comment and all but my sister would ttly tell…
November 19th, 2007 07:43
yeah….sad thing is that it’s only been two days. we post waaaay too much. i mean, friday to sunday 128 posts.
how bout some more Hiro chapters?
or an Extra name post? (or a Last Days or So Yesterday or Peeps one, for that matter)
or some fanart…perhaps from me??? or some stuff about Levithan?
or (while i’m being demanding and hopeful) some sort of…fourth midnighters? with some sort of…darkling werewolves????
November 19th, 2007 07:45
the essay’s on Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. except i haven’t read the book. and i lost my copy. and i’m 600 words below the goal. and it’s due tommorrow.
i am so doomed.
i’m great at making crap up though. and inserting “i like pork” and song lyrics and that ever-useful phrase “And then the giant hail rained down upon the Tokyo buisnessman in revenge for his sins.”
November 19th, 2007 07:54
Well, i am sitting here, fun. I was going ot floss my teeth but decided not to. you know. i think im going to make fan art and send the pic to scott-la. There something fun, useful, and will make me famous. No, jk. I do it because i love scott-las amazing powers. BOOKS!
November 19th, 2007 07:59
lol teeth flossing. i’m *not* eating vanilla ice cream out of the container and blasting fall out boy. no, really i’m not.
fanart = awesome.
fanfic = awesome.
fans = awesome.
when i’m an author, i hope i get people this awesome.
November 19th, 2007 08:13
My mom never even buys ice cream…but I did have a large size Wendy’s frosty yesterday while reading Snakehead by Anthony Horowitz…fun…instead of using periods for this comment I have to use ellipses…the dot-dot-dots…lol I can’t even believe I know what they are called…Yes, I want more Hiro chapters…better yet, fourth midnighters…
how many of these comments does Scott-la actually read…
And the Tokyo-ma-phrase-thing makes me think of that scene in The Day After Tomorrow with the giant hail in Japan…is that where you got it from…or is it from somewhere else…that I’ve never heard of…and does your teacher actually rad the report…
I didn’t use one period in this whole comment…
November 19th, 2007 08:25
i wonder…probably not past 100.
and yes, that’s totally what i was watching as i typed that. u win the prize. i’m testing to see if he actually reads it, in fact. or just freak out whoever has to peer-edit it.
ellipses rock…
we only got ice cream cuz my throat hurt a lot yesterday and i couldn’t talk so my mom decided to buy some.
i’m working on a City of Bones fanvid right now! yeah!
November 19th, 2007 08:43
HI
i am sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
sleepy
HAPPY ANIVER :clueless: (i hope that that works)
I HAVE NOOO CLUE HOW TO SPEEL THAT BUT YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN
board so now i must go back to sleep
even so that it is 3:35 pm
i lust read i’d tell you that i love you then i’d have to kill you
great book you should read it i will read cross my heart hope to spy
(the sequal) did i spell that right
after that i will read these books that i just got called
i forgot the name but whatever
i just know that it has the word barcode in it
i lost my voise
not fun
it hurts to talk
i am feeling very random right now so i just have to say that
i hate hanna montanna +tha jonas bro.
sorry too lazy to fix
gtg
sorry about the long post
November 19th, 2007 08:46
u sick 2, steph-la? i was sick yesterday….no voice, slept all day.
huh. it’s 4:44 where i am now.
the barcode tattoo? i read that. had the coolest name ever in it—zekeal. it was okay. the sequel was waaaay better, i think. got awesome there. with [hmm....deletes spoilage to be nice]
my fanvid is prettyful.
November 19th, 2007 08:58
Its not four here! Ha.
Im getting sick. I have to always blow my nose and i sneeze a lot. O and Steph-la! you made the page weird wil you so…….. thing! URG! I hate it when people do that, its all weird looking now!
November 19th, 2007 09:00
The barcode book sounds like a ripoff version of uglies.
November 19th, 2007 09:05
Did you know you could charge your ipod useing gatorade and an onion! How fool is that!
watch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfPJeDssBOM&feature=dir
November 19th, 2007 09:25
That would come in handy…cause my dad won’t let me use his laptop for another 4 weeks, and there is no othe way to charge it…
And I will be on the road 12+ hours for Thankgiving.
Jesus help me.
I was giong to read the Barcode book but I sorta forgot about it. It looks stupid or a ripoff on Uglies.
November 19th, 2007 09:38
no, it seriously wasn’t. i’ve read it—ttly different. plus, i’m pretty sure it was released BEFORE uglies was.
like, it’s hard to explain without spoilers but it’s really totally different than uglies. i mean, if you’re going to be all general like that than every fantasy book is a ripoff of Harry Potter and every sci-fi book is a ripoff of Uglies. but they aren’t.
true, they’re both govermental futuristic distopias, but they’re totally different in what the goverment is doing.
arrg! so hard to explain why they’re different without spoilers.
and it’s not stupid. first one’s a little detatched and formulaic, but the second one (the Barcode Rebellion) is awesome.
November 19th, 2007 09:44
I might read it. After im done with The Last Days, im going to read Elsewhere.
November 19th, 2007 09:48
my mom prbly wouldnt even let me read Elsewhere. isn’t that the book about the dead girl?
November 19th, 2007 09:54
elsewhere was good—actually, my mom loves that book. she’s the one who got me to read it. Gabrielle Zevin books are guarenteed to make you cry. yeah, it’s about the dead girl. and the afterlife. pretty good. my mom luvs it.
November 19th, 2007 10:55
Yeah, i read the memiors of a teenage amnesiac. Fool book! i got the sighned version of elsewere.
November 19th, 2007 11:54
This is boring.
November 19th, 2007 14:12
memoirs of a teenage amnesiac was good too. makes you cry.
now i infiltrate my english essay with Nirvana lyrics to see if anyone REALLY reads it.
November 19th, 2007 16:01
i just started twilight.
im on page 13. hehe.
-Lizzy-wa OUT!
November 19th, 2007 16:28
O my gosh I’m soo excited I got one of my cousins to read the uglies seris! i didn’t spell that right. Whatever. Anyway she loves it! I finally got someone else to read scott books
November 19th, 2007 16:30
hey Lizzy-wa tell us if you like twilight cuz i’m debating weather or not to read it
Im going to read all of scott-la’s books first tho
November 19th, 2007 23:37
Serafina, put “In the dark, it’s less dangerous” Sorry, but I HATE Nirvana. But my ELA makes us listen to them.
November 19th, 2007 23:54
When I get home from school, I have terrific news…about me…that I just found out last night
The anticipation is KILLing me!!
November 20th, 2007 01:28
Ya me to. Twilight sounds like a good book but i dont no if ill like it. So let me know to lizzy-wa.
I dont have school!!!!!
YEAH!
O, and allie-wa, i want to know whats killin you. TELL ME!
November 20th, 2007 04:38
i didn’t like twilight. i mean, everyone on earth loves it but i got really sick of it and eclipse sucked. totally book crack. also crap. like, if you want to read it i won’t NOT reccomend it, but i can think of so many better books to read. i mean, everyone who reads it seems to love it but bella swan gets on my nerves she’s annoying and moony and the book has no plot and sigh. it’s like crack. good the first time, not as good as you remember the second, increasingly stupid and disgusting if you take the time to think about it, and eventually you grow to hate yourself for ever liking it.
Allie-wa—i only put in Nirvana cuz i was being faithful and writing down what i was listening to during the essay-writing and my parents were watching Classic Albums-Nevermind. i also put in arbitrary Against Me! lyrics that fit waaaay too well.
i got my braces off! i is free! and missing school!!!
November 20th, 2007 04:56
sounds fun .. reading books and all and i will definately check those books out ..
November 20th, 2007 04:59
Kathleen Duey, Skin Hunger: A Resurrection of Magic, Book One
that one looks the most interesting to me … right now i am finishing extras and then over break ..i am going to try to read a certain clant of light and start my book list that i made … well you wil be happy to know that midnighters and peeps is on there .. my friends say that they are wonderfull
November 20th, 2007 05:09
ooooh…i read skin hunger. was good. stopped waay too short. sort of reminded me of safe-keeper’s secret/truth-teller’s tale but darker.
all you people should go read midnighters. now.
beware….i am composing my long expose comment.
November 20th, 2007 05:16
and here it is.
WARNING AWESOME EXPOSE POST AHEAD POINTLESS YET SOMEHOW INTERESTING AND I LIKE WRITING IN CAPSLOCK. HI!
now let’s see…in front of me i have two copies of uglies. one i bought a few months ago (pre-extras release) when i decided to buy the whole trilogy. i got sent the other one last week. they’re the same book. same cover. both paperback. same first chapter of pretties in the back. even the same add for tithe and valiant on the last page. same tagline. same synopsis. same everything.
they’re exactly the same, in fact, except for one thing—the newer one has a little box on the top that announces it is “The New York Times Bestseller” (odd phrasing not. not “a” new york times bestseller. “THE” new york times bestseller. something oddly egotistical there…)
and the back is different too—the suggested retail price on my old copy is $ 7.99.
and the one labelled as an NYT bestseller is $8.99
same book. two months later. a dollar different.
either the cost of paper is going up, or that little phrase—that sentance fragment—is worth an extra dollar.
people often ask what the price of fame is. the price of success. the price of a lot of people buying your book.
i’ve found the anserw.
the price of being on the new york times bestseller list?
one dollar per book.
think about THAT.
November 20th, 2007 05:46
i’m drawing midnighters fanart! yea! and it’s coming out REALLY AWESOME! it’s like jess facing all the others in hte cafeteria and has all the symbols. came out awesome. don’t like how flyboy came out though…i might crop him out or replace him. dess’ mouth screwed up too. but is looking very very awesome. probably scan it tonight or something.
November 20th, 2007 05:54
wow. friday to monday, 160 comments. i should really start doing my bio homework instead of overcommenting and fanarting. but i gotta fix flyboy’s hair! it’s bothering me!
November 20th, 2007 05:56
I’m on my moms phone. Took me a while to scroll but I made it.
November 20th, 2007 06:01
ha ha scrolling. i love the little clock mouse deal on the midnighters page…it’s so awesome. flyboy’s still giving me trouble—i suck with faces. prefer the others who at least have glasses or sunglasses. and i just showed jess’ back. but flyboy…he’s hard to draw, man. i can’t do eyes. or, like, faces. and his hair’s messed up. *sad* now i try again.
November 20th, 2007 06:09
Do u have school today serafine zane? I don’t, I’m so happy!
November 20th, 2007 06:14
yeah, i had school but i had to go to the orthodontist (to get my braces off! woo!) and i’m still sick so my mom didn’t make me go back. which is good, cuz i didn’t do my bio homework
November 20th, 2007 07:17
i bet no one can guess what i’m listening to right now. seriously, i would give 10 bucks to anyone who can guess right (not really) i’ll give you a hint—it’s music.
November 21st, 2007 07:34
OMG!! Scott-LA!! MY teacher; she met you at a conference! She’s so lucky!
December 11th, 2007 10:18
*happy dance* more books.. must put on booklist… i’m a sucker for books. that’s all i want for x-mas is books/giftcards (for borders or itunes)/and more books!
December 12th, 2007 00:00
MEEEEEEEEE to *Smiles so big kids jump out of the way in blindedness
December 16th, 2007 16:28
Hi Scott-la~
Please believe me when I tell you that I am your number one fan I costantly check my e-mail to see if you have sent me anything please e-mail me!!!!! You are the most inspirational author EVER!!!
Thank-You For Your Time,
Ashley-Wa