Below, my friends, is a hot mess (of links) I believe the French call
this a cassoulet. Touche! I have been le busy - I made the brilliant plan to
run a book a week book club, and train for a half marathon allll at the
same time. Miraculously, I survived both! I have a goal to eventually
write review and recipes for Middlemarch (preview: it wasn't enjoyed),
Slaughterhouse Five (preview: not easy, but powerful stuff), and a
few other things I've been ripping through, chiefly
CODEREDOHMYGODREADTHISNOW: Code Name Verity, by Elizabeth Wein. Yes, it
is good enough to demand all those caps and no spaces in between. It
may be the best thing I've read all year, and it made me cry on a park
bench normally inhabited by a hobo (so you know it's good!). I'll write
more - if you promise to read it.
- I defy you to deny that Lebron James, has, in fact, taken his
talents to South Beach. Behold, the photographic greatness, spotted on
Jezebel:
YESS. Please get more boys to read!
- Have I told you, lately, that I love you, @Queen_UK? This is all that is right with Twitter and the Interwebs. My favorite of all the twitter feeds in all the lands, "The Queen" always brings a self aware silliness to the table. Articles like this don't hurt either.
- I am a younger female faculty member in an environment with lots of teenage boys, commonly know of by its formal name, a high school. This means it is always high comedy to ask me to the prom. Somehow, it never gets old to anyone besides, oh, me. In case the whole "being an adult" diagnosis wasn't enough evidence of why it's a bad idea, some lady proved it. "[S]he went to last month's Condon High School prom with a boy from the
track team because the boy felt bad about not having a date and had been
struggling in English class." Struggling in English? Why didn't you say so? That TOTALLY makes it not weird! This is too terrible to even earn a Case of the Terribles rating (Spotted on Jezebel).
- The Great Gatsby trailer is out, finally! And yet...I have no recollection of this story. Except for Daisy. And I don't remember much about her, other than that she was flighty and blonde and tragic. And I like what I'm seeing: If the trailer soundtrack is anything like what the movie soundtrack will be like, I'm sold. And please oh please where can I get me some of those dresses? More importantly, when does the next Bright Young Things book dropping already?
- The trailer for The Perks of Being a Wallflower drops soon! FINALLY. June 3, during the MTV Movie Awards, which I probably haven't been able to sit through since 2002. That's why I keep you around, Internets.
- Word and art lovers, check out this super cool cut paper artwork by Annie Vought. I would love to see famous letters of bygone days or love letters or clandestine paperwork with redactions get this treatment (can you tell I have Code Name Verity on the brain still?) - but can't actually pull an example for my brain. But still, this is super cool. (Spotted on Colossal)
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