Bogus to Bubbly: An Insider’s Guide to the World of Uglies will arrive in stores two days from now! That’s Tuesday, October 21.
The guide starts with a Hoverboard Manual from Tally’s era, which gives you tips on riding, repairing, and caring for your very on hoverboard. The manual and other sections of Bogus were illustrated by Craig Phillips, an Australian cartoonist.
Here’s a sneak preview of one bit of manual art:
And here as an added, blog-only bonus, is the rough sketch Craig sent me beforehand:
Actually, he pretty much nailed it the first time. But still, BONUS MATERIAL!
Here’s his website, if you want to look at other stuff he’s done.
One more piece of news: Justine and I will be appearing in Canada next Monday! I’ll be promoting Bogus and she’ll be talking about her new book, How to Ditch Your Fairy.
Indigo Bookstore
Toronto, Ontario
Monday, October 27
7:00pm – 8:00pm
Yorkdale Mall
3401 Dufferin Street
Hope to see some of you there!
October 20th, 2008 04:17
i saw bogus to bubbly at barnes and noble on friday well i was getting paper towns(which was really really really good) i wanted to get it but i didnt
October 20th, 2008 04:20
zomgzomgzomg tuesday yay im so excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
October 20th, 2008 04:24
hi
October 20th, 2008 04:25
OMG coment #3 coolio beans!! fitting considering i JUST finished Bogus to Bubbly 10 minutes ago (it is amazing)
October 20th, 2008 04:35
finally someone comes to canada….pitty it isn’t winnipeg.
October 20th, 2008 04:52
fawesomeness!!!
October 20th, 2008 05:02
i’m sooo excited to buy bogus to bubbly! i’ve been waiting for it to come out for a while now, and it’s only 2 days away!!! =]
October 20th, 2008 05:23
I’ve read it already- gotta love those book orders your little brother gets- and LOVED it. So interesting.
But the excerpt at the end- GRR! Want.
October 20th, 2008 05:31
Darn, wrong side of Canada for me, eh. I’m so excited for Bogus to Bubbly, I’ve had it pre-ordered for ages and just hope that it doesn’t take ages in the mail.
October 20th, 2008 05:49
fawesome!
-Lizzy-wa OUT!
October 20th, 2008 06:05
i saw and bought bogus to bubbly at chapters on saturday, and just finished it too! love it
i’ll definitley try to be there on monday at yorkdale… so excited
…
oh and also:
http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/sci-fi-truth-star-trek-replicator-is-working
far from a hole in the wall, but sorta close?
October 20th, 2008 06:24
Wow. Its already coming out? Thats a suprise. I didnt know it was so soon!
October 20th, 2008 06:35
i’ve already read it!!! actually, it only took me four hours. Then I read “How To Ditch Your Fairy”. Both were excellent.
October 20th, 2008 06:51
I read it, to so ici-licious i got it this morning at 10:30 and finished it at 11:30 (i have a serious problem) i loved the pictures of the special circumstances hoverboard, it looks SO bubbly-tastic, and the pics of Tally’s city (which he never named) are fexellent too!!!
October 20th, 2008 07:09
i’m trying to convince my mom to take me on the 22 hour drive to toronto, but she isn’t taking the hint…
October 20th, 2008 07:22
Oooh, very nice art. Pretty interested to see what’s in the actual book.
October 20th, 2008 07:54
I thought Bogus to Bubbly was really great. It explained a lot for me. I loved the maps because I’m strangely obsessed with maps (I know its kind of weird).
I would have liked it if there was a pronunciation guide for some of the words (like littlie).
October 20th, 2008 08:53
AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! CAN’T WAIT!!! that’s the one thing i have to look forward to this week! ugh two days…that’s forever! hmmm…maybe it’ll take my mind off of my busted shoulder. ya…gotta be more careful playing softball…watever.
GREEN DAY!!! <3
Looking back upon my life and the places that i’ve been.
Pictures,faces,girls i’ve loved i try to remember when.
Faded memories on the walls,
Some names that i’ve forgotten,
But each one is a memory i look back on so often.
October 20th, 2008 08:58
I’d like to bring it up agien that we need a 4th Midnighters like, soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And also I am totally going to buy Bogus to Bubbly!
October 20th, 2008 08:58
the one thing in Bogus to Bubbly that upset me was i found out that Aya’s name isn’t pronounced with the A sound, it is pronouced with an I sound and her last name is pronounced weird too, it changed the way i see the world (ok that might be a tad melodramatic but you get the point)
October 20th, 2008 09:51
Woot! This will be the BEST birthday gift ever (though I probably won’t get it exactly on my birthday, which is the 21st, the day it comes out!)
October 20th, 2008 10:05
omg…it’s on a monday..blaaah I can’t go D:
this is sad.
But you’ll have lots of fun in Toronto
October 20th, 2008 10:07
TORONTO!
I would totally love to go so much, only I have classes on Monday… I could pull a trick and skip, but augh! So close!
October 20th, 2008 10:15
ahhh kewl! i wish i had it NOW!
October 20th, 2008 10:32
ugh. i bet that i could handle missing a day or two of school to go to toronto…unfortunatly it’s a 22 hour drive away and i can’t drive. so that sucks for me. and i highly doubt that my mother would drive me. HIGHLY doubt. actually, to the point where i haven’t officially asked. you know, cuz my mom wouldn’t approve of me missing school to go on a roadtrip to toronto. but whatever.
October 20th, 2008 10:32
Hoverboard are so cool. I really want one, of course i cant have one. I lovvvve Bogus to Bubbly, it is so cool.
<3 Nicole-la
October 20th, 2008 10:54
i NEED a hoverboard!!!!!
October 20th, 2008 10:57
I got my copy early, I like the cool maps and the nickname chapter. The only thing is the cover, It looks like it should be ugly Tally cuz of the plants, only, she looks too pretty to be ugly Tally. Confused. *sigh*
October 20th, 2008 10:58
i got my copy yesterday….
October 20th, 2008 11:25
i wish they were comming to Edmonton sigh* oh well
October 20th, 2008 11:29
i want a copy..grrr! idk when i gonna get it..
October 20th, 2008 11:31
Edmonton would be closer to Winnipeg than Toronto…*sigh*. Maybe I shall somehow convince my mom to drive me for 22 hours to Toronto….i think she might have friends there or something….*sigh*….i wish i had a hoverboard that i could ride there…or at least a car and drivers lisence.
October 20th, 2008 11:33
hehe…….i already have it!I’ve had it sense tuesday…..through my local school book order…..its so good……:)Thank you Scott-sensii!!!!!!!!!!
October 20th, 2008 11:41
i have BOGUS TO BUBBLY but i havent finished it yet. i started to read it as soon as i got into the car!! its sooo good!!!!! but i’m sad in the dedication, Scott-la didn’t mention anyone from the other tabs on here!!!
i wish i could go to toronto but its REALLY far away from where i live and i would need to have my passport……
See ya!!!!
October 20th, 2008 12:08
ugh….my hopes of hitchhiking to toronto have been squashed. my mom said that i couldn’t go. so now i’m trying to convince her that buses aren’t all bad. my next attempt (once she says no to my bus plan) is gonna be to ride my bike. Except that that wouldn’t work. So now i’m stuck. And I don’t have a goat. Cuz that woulda worked out nicely. Hmmmm….i need a new plan.
October 20th, 2008 12:23
Hey, Mr. Westerfeld, sir,
I just wanted to say thanks. I’ve been a fan for a while, and you got me hooked on science fictions books when I was twelve. Now I’m lending all your books out to my friends, and I wanted to thank you for writing such great YA books. It’s really helped me and my friends connect (and also helps them understand why your books never stay on the library shelves for very long- they go faster than Twilight!).
Keep writing, and thanks again,
Beka
October 20th, 2008 12:38
OOOHHHHH:(
I live so far away from Toronto…
Going to Cranbrook would be appreciated.
October 20th, 2008 12:54
i live a 22 hour drive away. but my parents wont drive me. so now i have to get creative.
October 20th, 2008 12:54
(this plan may or may not involve the invention of the hoverboard)
October 20th, 2008 13:46
Ah, the elusive hoverboard. I could do with one
October 20th, 2008 14:01
ACTUALLY? ACTUALLY? YOU ARE COMING TO TORONTO!?!?!?!
*dies with excitement*
I may have just borken something spazzing with excitement. I’m being repatative and not using synonms. And not spelling things correctly. THIS IS HOW EXCITED I AM.
See you in a week Scott!!!!
October 21st, 2008 05:40
I preordered it and it came to my door and my mom made me finish cleaning b4 she would let me read it but when i finally did it was fexcellent!!!
October 21st, 2008 06:15
is it just me or do i have the date wrong my calender says its the 21 and i got this book friday the 19th. ok besides that i thought the book was totally the best ive read all year it was very cool. it was like being in tallys world. i liked looking at the diffrent veiw points of what other people thought hoverboards looked like. ok thats all by:smile:
October 21st, 2008 06:59
I got my school book club to read uglies like last week, and now there are tons of kids walking around my school with copies of Uglies, Pretties, Specials, and Extras covering thier faces. It’s all pretty cool. Now I have to make them all read Midnighters. (I was gonna sugggest them for the book club, but when I tried to explain why we should read them everyone was like “What?”, Wich was really funny, but didn’t help convince them to vote for my book choice.) So I swtched to Uglies and got everyone to vote for it and got the whole school (Or atleast the “book nerds” A.K.A. The only people in my entire school who have ever read a book just to read it, not for school……a surprisingly small percentage of the te general poulation) Adicted to Scott Westerfeld books!!!!!!!!!!
Wow that was long……..
October 21st, 2008 07:00
I already saw Bogus to Bubbly on Saturday at Waldens’. Didn’r get it… yet. But the maps and junk was cool. the Cutters’ hoverboards and the city were pretty close to how i imagined them. And finally! the mystery behind David’s scar! It still doesn’t answer my question tho’. How would he have told Tally the story of how he got it?
October 21st, 2008 07:01
October 21st, 2008 07:01
heh. cool.
October 21st, 2008 07:05
I don’t get it. Since when were release dates optional? I mean, that’s good for you guys who got it early I guess, but not so much for those of us who can’t get it… Yet. Tomorrow I shall seek thy bookith guide…ith.
Unless my mom won’t drive me to B&N. In which case I’ll probably go all 5-year-old-not-allowed-to-have-a-puppy on her. Which’ll probably get me grounded, but still.
October 21st, 2008 07:06
Grrr, I wish you people would stop saying what’s in the guid,e btw. I’d like to find out myself, thank you very much >=(
October 21st, 2008 07:10
Just checking to see if comments are working . . .
They are!
Return to your homes.
October 21st, 2008 07:13
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I GOT BOGUS TO BUBBLY YESTERDAY!!!!! TWO DAYS EARLY!!!!! SOOOOOOOOO COOL!!!! ok so i was on the computer doing homework (so naturally i was on this blog) and i saw that a ton of people had gotten the book early, so i decided to tempt fate, try my luck, or watever u wanna call it and asked my dad to take me to B&N (after church, of course). so i get there and start looking at the new arrivals section in the front of the store, but it wasn’t there. then, i went and looked back at the teen section where the rest of Scott’s books are, but it’s not there either. at this point i was giving up hope so i started looking at other books and i saw Skinned. sooo i’m thinking maybe i’ll get that and then i remember Cycler and start looking for that, but i couldn’t remember who wrote it. so i started to look at the beginning of the teen section and then i see 3 sections of NEW TEEN ARRIVALS sooo i started to get really excited. sooooo excited that i forgot that the books are in alphabetcal order by authors last name until i saw the big a** BREAKING DAWN book and then everything clicks, so i look down where the W’s would be and IT’S THERE!!!!! i didn’t scream but i was soooo mixed up with emotions that i couldn’t think and i almost cried (ok bit drastic). i started it last night and finished it today!!! YYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYY!!!
ugh…typed that all with one hand!
October 21st, 2008 07:44
Off to canada, eh?
October 21st, 2008 08:39
Yay!!!!! I just got Bogus to Bubbly!!!!!!!!!!
~Aryll-wa
October 21st, 2008 08:39
I’m so so so so so excited!
I made my hoverboard for my costume, and I’d give it a couple mili-Helens.
Yeah.
It doesn’t work though…pity..Yay!
October 21st, 2008 08:44
My dad is getting it tomorow the 21st spending the rest of my birthday money at all cost I will wash dishes to pay off my tab f I don’t have the money.
October 21st, 2008 09:05
Um…Is that book not out yet? Cause I already have bought and read it…
October 21st, 2008 09:07
Like a month ago… And now my friend KaityBug is getting ready to read it after she finished Extras.
October 21st, 2008 09:14
i totally killed my thumb in gym class today….we were playing volleyball…which is hate….anyways, so i totally busted my thumb and it’s definetly sprained which is gonna kill me cuz it’s my right thumb, the one that i need. you know, to play clarinet and oboe and basically every single instrument in the world. except that i think it’s strong enough to play soprano recorder…which i don’t need to play cuz i’m playing alto in recorder ensemble this year. so yeah. my typing skills are okay though, cuz you don’t need a thumb to type. i mean, it hardly moves. yeah. let’s just say that it’s a good thing that the band concert isn’t for two weeks and that right now i just need to focus to singing and dancing…cuz of the musical. which i’m auditioning for. just i can’t dance really well, so it’s gonna be bad…but i can sing and i can act. i’ll learn to dance, whatever it takes. which is why my friend is gonna teach me. yeah. so i’m basically really busy right now. VERY busy, actually. which is good, cuz if i’m not busy then i start freaking out. yeah. so i’m just gonna go practice the dance moves til i have to go to triathlon training….
October 21st, 2008 09:54
Don’t worry too much if it’s a sprain Andrea-la. I broke my left thumb a few years ago and it only took two weeks to heal so yours should be better in no time. Also, I obtained the not so useful skill of being able to do up buttons with one hand because of it. =D
October 21st, 2008 10:02
*bangs fist on table * CANADA?! How about North Carolina? Please? (Like that’ll happen but, a girl can dream.)
Stop after school pick up= bookstore. Then home, where I will invite my friend over to watch Howl’s Moving Castle. xD
The art looks fexcellent, bubbly, fawsome, and so not daylight.
October 21st, 2008 10:04
Huh. I thought BtB was already out. My friend’s got a copy…
October 21st, 2008 10:06
finally you’re coming to Canada
but will you come to Vancouver????
and I cant wait til tomarrow!!!!!!
October 21st, 2008 11:11
Yo Scott, please oh please when you write that new book go on tour to New York! And tell me the exact day when you will be doing a signing there and I will be so happy! PLEASE! lol.
October 21st, 2008 11:12
Scott should come to Winnipeg!!!!!!!
October 21st, 2008 11:40
I love my school book fair. They had Bubbly to Bogus! It was so awesome. However, they didnt have Paper Towns. When I went to Borders in they had postponed the release date or something ridiculous like that. Must get Paper towns.
October 21st, 2008 13:01
Wow, I just finished it, and it’s so interest-making!
The history behind the Rustie’s bogus mistakes is quite bubbly XD
October 21st, 2008 13:09
ok you guys have to hear (or read) my story!!!
Ok so i was taking a nice little shower right. I was getting all religious singing some praise-the-lord songs (beautifully i might add) when i felt something on my leg. Now, at this point i was happy and i was shampooing. So my hair was very bubbly. So then i look down to see what on my leg and it a freakin ROACH! So i scream. And as i am screaming kicking this roach off, i get shampoo in my eyes. So then i was s crazy girl with shampoo in her eyes and it was burning. So i turn off the shower, grab a towel and run to my dad. All this with burning eyes and a head full of shampoo. So he killed the roach and i didnt even want to get back in the shower. I just stuck my head under to rinse it. And thats my story for today.
Now tell me that my very gross event didnt make you feel better about your day? Because mine ended poorly.
October 21st, 2008 13:10
I went to Indigo today and Bogus to Bubbly wasn’t out, so I asked someone if there was a chance they could give it to me anyway and they said NO which is random because a month ago someone at the same store went into the back room to see if they had it for me. Crazy salespeople. Anyways, alternatively to lats me 24 hours I got How To Ditch Your Fairy, which I am almost done and LOOOVE.
October 21st, 2008 13:37
Um, I’m no Dess, but wouldn’t two days from October 20th be October 22nd? I’m gonna check the origional post to check for the date, because I want to get it the very day it comes out, and have to finish my current book before then!!
October 21st, 2008 13:38
Plans to skip classes have been nullified; I have an exam from 6:30 to 8:30.
Curse you, socialization institutions!
Maybe I’ll get one of my friends to go and relay a message. Or get a book signed.
October 21st, 2008 13:40
Bran-la: I think you took it pretty calmly. I. Would’ve. FLIPPED (and not in the good way)!!! Absolutley terrified of bugs, to the point where it’s actually quite pathetic. And I hate when I get shampoo in my eyes, which I actually do quite often, so that wouldn’t have been happy-making either.
October 21st, 2008 13:43
i like roaches!!!! why’d you kill it????? i like bugs….hmmm….like this one time, at band camp, when there were wasps surrounding us….yeah…..they were cute…..
October 21st, 2008 13:48
CUTE??? Um…backing away slowly…. Jk, guess it’s just a matter of opinion. I personally am creeped out by even butterflies (Ever seen a close up picture? They’re like furry ants with wings!). Well my school’s been having a wasp problem lately, but if any one is happy about it, I think they’re keeping it to themselves….
October 21st, 2008 14:24
ick. i hate most insects
October 21st, 2008 14:24
i like spiders, however
October 21st, 2008 15:17
ewww! sorry about your nasty roach experience Bran-la! that’s horrible! i would have screamed too. but i’d probably jumped out of the shower got the soap out of my eyes and taken my shampoo bottle or something long and hard and beaten it to death, screaming ‘DIE’ all the while. that’s how i kill bugs, spiders, and other creepy insects.
October 21st, 2008 16:53
heh heh…
I’ts probably what I would do too. Only, you know, without the screaming DIE! part
Who here likes anime? And if so, do you like Loveless?
October 21st, 2008 16:54
And Soul Eater?
October 21st, 2008 23:22
what’s wrong with the world? does nobody else love bugs and other insects? cuz i remember this one time, a couple years ago, i found the most cute cockroach that anyone could ever find!!!! i picked it up and took it inside the school…lol…everyone freaked out….oh, and there was that time at outdoor education last year….let’s just say that i took advantage that there was no rule against bringing bugs in the cabin….lol…
October 22nd, 2008 02:03
i LOVE bugs i had to baby sit for a little girl that loved bugs also and she collects them so she made me pick up a spider and worms witch isn’t pretty bad but considering i am a girl thats a little weird.
October 22nd, 2008 02:04
answer me back please Andrea-la
October 22nd, 2008 03:34
(: OMG It’s out today!
I’m gonna try to go to Barnes and Nobles today
or at least ay-sap
♥Hannah-la
October 22nd, 2008 07:07
I finished Bogus to Bubbly last night (IT was amazing!) But now I’m aching to read Leviathan(sp?).
October 22nd, 2008 07:43
ughhh… i feel like crap. i’m getting sick and i have fianls this week. this is like the worst time of year to be sick. i have 2 finals tomorrow and 2 on thursday and both those days we get out at 11:15 and then friday and monday we have off. i don’t want to be sick right now. ughhhhhh. well i’m gonna try to go sleep this cold off. i hope it’s only a cold though… i have a sore throat and a really bad headache… what if my brain is all screwed up from that concussion i got a few months back? could it still be screwed up? i’ve been getting headaches lately and before my concussion i would never get headaches. ugh.
October 22nd, 2008 07:51
SHAY-LA: yeah. I love bugs. I babysit for my little cousins, and they HATE bugs…it’s so annoying cuz they freak out whenever they see one.
Kay-wa: It sucks to be sick. It probably isn’t cuz of the concussion, though. It’s probably just stress.
ugh…my little brother is freaking out cuz today he got HOMEWORK!!! yeah. i have homework too, but i’m not crying cuz of it. gosh. he says that the worst part is that he has to “read three chapters of a book”….which i can understand cuz they pick terrible books to read at school, but really, i always read the books for english class the day that we get them, that is, if i haven’t already read them. so yeah.
October 22nd, 2008 08:07
I am so happy! Today by luck I was able to get it the first time! My mom took me out to get a winter coat and since Coles was so close by..hurray! I am so excited to start reading it, this book coming out has made my day all the better! Thank’s Scott for writing this awesome book for us! ^^
October 22nd, 2008 08:45
I got and finished reading Bogus to Bubbly on Sunday, on Monday i brought it to shcool and 2 of my friends finished reading it in school, so far 4 of my friends have borrowed and finished it. I literaly should have a waiting list for it
October 22nd, 2008 08:49
by the way, you poor people that can’t go to toranto cause its to far, i feel your pain. I live in Rhode Island. Nothing happens here, scott-la probably would never waste his time here. No major cities. Nowheresville! (sigh and pout)
October 22nd, 2008 08:51
yeah. try living in Winnipeg. trust me, it’s nowheresville with snow.
October 22nd, 2008 09:07
Has anyone seen the Midnighter fanfics? They are no where near as good as the original but they are pretty good. I found two awsome ones, One was about the Midnighters getting stuck in an airport and the other was about them in NYC! Talk about lol!
October 22nd, 2008 09:16
My trusty local Borders apparently had 8 copies of BtB but it was nowhere to be found.
October 22nd, 2008 09:40
YOU’RE ACTUALLY COMING TO TORONTO? TO YORKDALE MALL?
I LIVE 10 MINS AWAY FROM THERE. OH MY GOODNESS, I’M SO EXCITED.
Yaaaaay! I’ll soo be there, and I’ll be telling all my Torontonian friends
Hoverboards, that looks like the one from Jak the video game! Cool.
October 22nd, 2008 09:50
ITS FINALY OUT!!!!!!!YES
October 22nd, 2008 09:52
Oh thats just weird. You like bugs! The ugly things that bite you and are UGLY!
Kay-wa ~ i kill most bugs by screaming DIE and hitting them with my shoe but this one was just to much to handle
And might i add that i was also attacked by ants today. Is it just me or does it seem that the world is out the get me?
October 22nd, 2008 09:53
Hmm… Sadly I can’t go to the bookstore to buy it today.. Nor do I have the money
*let me see if this works…
October 22nd, 2008 09:55
It does! Haha!
What about… T_T
October 22nd, 2008 09:55
aww, it didn’t work…
OOH! WHAT ABOUT THIS ONE?!
:dramallama:
October 22nd, 2008 09:56
OMG thanks you so much for putting me in your book!!!! I got it today and i’m SOOOOOOOO happy! I started to read it already and i just can’t wait to read the rest! YOU ARE AWESOME SCOTT-LA!!!
October 22nd, 2008 09:56
Oops. Posting too quickly…
October 22nd, 2008 10:05
Immmm baaaccckkkkkk…and ditto on the thanks for the Dedication Scott-la! I was so excited when I got it. I spazzed and showed the guy at the register, LOOK! THAT’S MY SCREEN NAME! THAT’S ME! THAT’S ME!
October 22nd, 2008 10:10
Lol, wow TZ… Did you scare him?
I’m sure you did. And I’m so uber-jealous of you guys. I’m so broke it’s not even funny… And I can’t drive, so I cant even get to the bookstore since my mom’s busy. Grrr.
October 22nd, 2008 10:16
Ya, but I know him so it was okay. I know everybody that works there, it’s like my second home. They’re all used to my random outbursts by now!
October 22nd, 2008 10:41
lol…right when i got to school today i showed my friends Bogus to Bubbly ….then i’m all “NO YOU MAY NOT TOUCH IT!” and it was so mega-funny cuz they’re all “is your name on it?” and i was all “uh huh”…and i showed them the dedication page…..to which they were not amazed, they just said “what’s with the “la”?” to which i promptly turned to the page with the stuff with “la” and “wa”….to which they said “hmmm…can i read?” and i said “NO YOU MOST CERTAINLY CANNOT!!!!!! MY. BOOK.” then i started stroking it like it was a pet…..then they gave me the whole “books are not pets” speech. yeah. I’d heard that one before. Then when I finally let them touch it, they were all amazed…..yeah….it was a mega-fun day…then i showed the book to my english teacher today….at which point i was spazzing…..totally and completely spazzing…..and she was all “Andrea? Are you okay?” and I was all “YES!!! I’m happier than okay!!!! I’m downright giddy!!!” then she was all “okay then”…..she didn’t understand how totally happy i was……..
October 22nd, 2008 10:49
Lol, Andrea I couldn’t help but laugh at your post… I’m serious, when I get that book I will probably come close to worshipping it… In a metaphorical way, of course, I would never worship anyone other than God =D That would be idolism. Which reminds me, some girl at school is like a major Christian, and really annoying too. We got off to a bad start…
She sits at my friend Teresa’s table, and I sit at that table every other day (other days I’m with Courtney, but that’s not the point.). The first time I talk to her, we get talking lightly about our religion. First, I tell her my brother’s an atheist, and had fallen out of his Chrstianity. She acts like she’d never heard the word before. I’m serious, she’s in 8th grade and is all “What did you just call him?!” THEN, the bad part, she tells me being a Catholic is WRONG. To my face. She thinks Catholics worship Mary, which is a form of idolatry which is wrong. Ugh, I hate when people think we worship saints and Mary… We pray to them, and we don’t believe prayer is a form of worship. We pray to them, asking them to pray for us. Note the, “Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amound women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus. Holy Mary, mother of God, PRAY FOR US SINNERS, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.” We ask for prayer, not like she’s a god (goddess… whatever you wanna call it.).
Then she has the effin nerve to come up behind me a couple days later and give me a huggish thing from behind me, puts her face up next to mine and goes all, “hey buddy how’s it goin’ yea blah blah blah…”
…Teresa agrees with me. She scares us. We seriously said it at the exact same time when she left to get in the lunch line. It was pretty freaky, actually..
October 22nd, 2008 10:52
I remember when I got a post card from Scott-la. It was prewritten, but still SO COOL! I let my friends touch it after them giving me a bunch of skeptical looks when I was all “STAY AWAY!”…but only by the edges, of course. OMG, I hope my name’s in there! I doubt it, but I will SCREAM right in the bookstore if my name is in there. On the off chance that it DOES happen, I hope I don’t break any of the store’s windows….
October 22nd, 2008 11:02
Me too, PxMxR… IF I’m in there, I doubt I will be since I kinda stopped chatting for a while during the time period when he wrote it, I’ll probably scream. If not, I’ll probably jump up and down and cause a commotion… Hehe.
October 22nd, 2008 11:20
2 bookstores later…
I got BtB at Joseph Beth, after my mom asked a employee to see if there was a copy in the back. And there was, they hadn’t shelved them yet. WHOOT!
October 22nd, 2008 11:24
lol…..my english teacher thinks that i’m slightly obsessive….which i’m not…..i just really REALLY love that book….which explains why i told my friends that they are not allowed to borrow it cuz i don’t wanna let it out of my sight…..during lunch and spare today, me and my friends were reading aloud from Bogus to Bubbly….then we all burst out laughing cuz it just seemed kinda weird….then i’m all “OH MY GOSH THIS IS JUST LIKE…………..”I basically went on a really high-pitched rant about something in some book…..not like anyone could understand cuz i was using my “I can talk really high pitched cuz i’m excited” voice….
October 22nd, 2008 11:30
oh and then when i was stroking the book on the spine my friends were all “Andrea, this is NOT the monster book of monsters from harry potter…why the heck are you stroking it?” to which i said “cuz i love it and it needs to be cared for” then my friends are all “you can’t feed a book, you know” and then i said “yes. i know” then they said “….have you tried?” to which i replied “nope. i DO have more than half a brain you know” then my friends said “yes, we know. just you DO know that the book isn’t alive…right?” to which i said “uh huh. just like the sky is purple and cows can talk”….then they knew that i was totally sane.
October 22nd, 2008 11:55
Lol, I do that a lot, except my voice gets very very VERY fast, and it’s when I rant about anything, from Scott-la’s fawesome books, to the questionable etability of our cafeteria food. I also do the whole “the sky is purple thing,” except mine’s more like “and the sky is green, the grass is blue, and *insert random jking insult about the friend who is questioning my insanity.* I don’t feel too bad about the insults, because when I ask them if they know that I DO have a brain, they’re all “well…..”
October 22nd, 2008 12:21
yeah….sometimes i’ll say “did you not pay a second of attention during band yesterday? didn’t you notice that mr. klassen quoted this person? are you TOTALLY SUPID? or am i just incredibly smart?” then most people will say “huh? this time, say it a couple octaves lower and half that speed.” then i repeat myself and they say “oh ummmm….you just pay attention to details”….then i quote a random book and i know the page number and everything then they say “my point proven.” to which i reply “ah, but details are what fill up the white space in the big picture”…then they say “was that a metaphore? cuz i never really get it when you go all brittish philosophy on me”….to which i say “that was AUSTRAILIAN you idiot.” then they’ll say “ummm…i think i have math class now”….yeah….apparently i can be slightly weird………and my friends think that i’m slightly insane…but then they’ll start talking about something stupid such as early navigational techniques and i know that i’m the sane one. of course, they would argue that….
October 22nd, 2008 12:24
Andrea-la that sucks my sister HATES bugs to
October 22nd, 2008 12:41
hey people
October 22nd, 2008 12:43
my sister got freaked out by aunts isn’t that just so girly i am a tom boy so yeah i am the bug lover in my family.
October 22nd, 2008 12:44
Andrea-la are you a boy or a girl? and what grade are you in?
October 22nd, 2008 12:46
i’m a girl…duh…i’m in grade nine. you?
October 22nd, 2008 12:48
9 what school you go to?
October 22nd, 2008 12:50
you’ve never heard of it…..
October 22nd, 2008 12:50
i go to El Dorado. but were do you go to school?
October 22nd, 2008 12:51
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
October 22nd, 2008 12:51
that’s all you need to know.
October 22nd, 2008 12:52
cool
October 22nd, 2008 12:53
uh huh….especially in winter….but i guess then it’s just cold…lol.
October 22nd, 2008 12:53
lol i live in yorba linda
October 22nd, 2008 12:55
fun…it’s warm there…..right?
October 22nd, 2008 12:55
yes, always i hate it
October 22nd, 2008 12:56
i’ve lived in warmer places.
October 22nd, 2008 12:58
cool how warm
October 22nd, 2008 12:58
REALLY warm…I lived in Indoniesia for grades four and five….
October 22nd, 2008 12:59
omg i would have roasted
October 22nd, 2008 12:59
but i had a swimming pool…that part was good….
October 22nd, 2008 13:01
i have never lived in a house with a swimming pool or a two story house before
October 22nd, 2008 13:04
Andrea-la you still here
October 22nd, 2008 13:04
here….just i’m multi-tasking….i have an audition tomorrow for the school musical…
October 22nd, 2008 13:05
oh what part are you auditioning for
October 22nd, 2008 13:14
everyone auditions for the chorus then there are call-backs for lead rolls. so i’ll get what i get. at my school, it’s a huge deal just to get into the chorus cuz the compition is just like that
October 22nd, 2008 13:16
awesome we audition for the part we want and if we don’t get the part we want we go into chorus but there are call backs for the lead rolls also
October 22nd, 2008 13:17
i’m sooooooooooo nervous….lol…
October 22nd, 2008 13:18
lol i do that every time i i audition to
October 22nd, 2008 13:18
g2g….i’ve got to practice.
October 22nd, 2008 13:19
ok i g2g to by
October 22nd, 2008 15:13
Bran-la… yeah i’ve only killed a roach once and it scared the crap out of me cuz like i didn’t wanna step on it cuz that crunchy noise i’d hear under my shoe so i took a metal pipe and started beating the crap out of it screaming ‘DIE, DIE, DIE’ lol. but the roach i killed was half way dead already so i had an advantage.
today sucked. it was good up until 4th block when i started to feel like my throat was gonna close up and my head was going to explode. it’s weird too cuz i went from being completely fine to feeling like complete crap in under 20 minutes. at least tomorrow is only till 11:15. but finals are going to suck! especially biology my teacher never actually teaches us so were pretty much screwed. oh joy. and he always throws stuff in the test that we’ve never even talked about.
October 22nd, 2008 17:35
I dont mind bugs too much, just as long as theyre not crawling all over me …
Cool, Andrea-la, living in Indonesia … do u kno any indo?
At least I’ve lived / been in more than one state!
I’ve neva left Australia …
I’m TRYING to write a short story thing for drama (I need something really spooky / horror themed for thw intro) but I’m completely at a loss …
October 23rd, 2008 09:45
lol…..i speek bahasa indoniesia just as well as i speek french…which is basically saying that i failed out of that class in a matter of months and got put into extra english classes! unfortunatly, during that time, i was missing some “important french lessons” causing me to still be behind in it! which basically means that either i’m an idiot when it comes to languages or i have really really bad luck. also, one of my friends who i met in indoniesia is austrailian and right now she lives in singapore. so yeah.
October 23rd, 2008 12:08
Some of my friends do Indo thru school. I chose German and most of my friends do French.
i got that story done … hopefully it’s good for the intro …
October 23rd, 2008 12:17
Oooh, ohoh, what’s it about???
October 23rd, 2008 12:25
That reminds me..
Andrea-la, have you worked on Untitled (Or whatever it’s called, idr.) lately? You said you had writers block, but you were a bit RTSish if I remember correctly…
October 23rd, 2008 13:41
Haha, I love British/Australian phylosophy (sp? I can’t spell for my life.)! IDK why, but just the word “Winnipeg” sounds familiar…. My area’s definatley getting cold–or at least colder than it’s been in a while. We had a very loooooong Indian Summer, and today it was in the high 40s, and today I actually had to go outside a lot, and I had on a very thin sweatshirt *shivers*.
My school’s drama is annoying, if you don’t get a lead role you at least get ensemble (out cast is over 100 every year), kind of like Shay-la’s, but they’re SO biased with the parts, that it’s barely worth it to audition. IDK why I did…three years in a row.
Ew, I hate that crunchy sound! Once I saw a rock or something in the bathroom and I kicked it aside and it made this weird sound that I knew it was a roach and I FREAKED. I’m pretty much to chicken to actually kill a bug, though I’m sure I have before.
That’s what my social studies teacher is like, she puts things on the test that we never learned and then lecture the class when we all do terribly.
SONJA, you live in AUSTRALIA! LUCKY!!
I absolutley suck at languages. I pull off a high B, low A, or (if I’m lucky) high A on the tests, then I forget everything the minute after I’m done with it, so I do SO BAD on the review test.
(Wow, this is long considering that it’s just me adding irrelevant comments to other peoples’ conversations….)
October 27th, 2008 00:24
I got the book yesterday and I LOVE IT!!!!! Thanks so much for dedicating it to us commentors. It makes me feel so loved.
October 27th, 2008 23:56
I am lucky
Oz be a sparky place
My drama thing is about the darkness and how people get dragged off / infected by it … hehehehe.
September 12th, 2010 06:09
I got it on my kindle so the maps are bogus, I’ve got so find a better map…(that tiny smiley face at the bottom of the page just made my day)