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Reese Witherspoon, accepting her MTV Movie Award Generation...

Reese Witherspoon, accepting her MTV Movie Award Generation Award: "Girls, I know it's cool to be bad, but it's also possible to make it in Hollywood without a reality show. When I came up in this business, if you made a sex tape, you were embarrassed and hid it under your bed. And if you took naked pictures of yourself on your cell phone, you would hide your face. For all the girls out there, it's possible to be a good girl. I'm going to try to make it cool."

I so love this, but especially in the context of her tearing Rpattz (and his odd bunch of Merry Men) a new one by revising a joke with a better (read=coherent) punch line. She said aloud exactly what I was thinking only more eloquently. Major Klout points for the WSpoon.

Sienna! on Twitpic

Sienna! on Twitpic:

Sienna the Bunny had babies!

#ProudBookGrandma 

2011 Young Adults' Choices list!

Happy to report Sea was chosen as one of the recommended novels for young adults on this amazing list created by teen readers themselves! What an honor to be included!

http://www.reading.org/Libraries/Resources/YoungAdultsChoices2011_web.pdf

Thanks to author friend Jo Knowles for letting me know! 

X-Men: First Class = love! Mostly spoiler free thoughts...

What a great flick.

I've seen the first three movies a bunch of times, but going into this I didn't know anything about it other than one trailer I saw that told me X-Men: Only Younger. So the cast, a fantastic James McAvoy among others were all a surprise to me. Course the boy's favorite part was when a Certain Cameo Someone dropped the eff bomb. "Did he just say #u*&?"

Er. Yes? And was met by a giggling giddy audience.

PG-13 movies are so inconsistent. Sometimes they are fine and other times…not so much. Anyway, aside from a couple eyes-covering-ears covering moments, we were happily getting our latest addition of X-Men on.

A definite highlight was Michael Fassbender take on Magneto's compelling-and horrific-back story, bursting his character to life in such a way I couldn't not root for the guy even as he was maybe not making the best ethical choices. Kevin Bacon was appropriately evil as overtly Nazi/Shapeshifter, and the rest of the supporting cast made good use of their time. 

A magnetic Eric/Magneto and the lovely James McAVoy as Charles Xavier/Prof X. 

I hadn't realized Jennifer Lawrence (who, since being cast as Katniss in the upcoming Hunger Games movie is Everywhere) was in it. Her ID only clicked with me halfway through. (She plays shapeshifter Mystique or, as I identified her in my head, Holy blue alien boobs, Batman!)

[image error]Fabulous cast. Emma Frost was, for me, the only questionable casting. Maybe it was because she reminded me of Kristen Wiig?

Really, Kev? Can't you shop anywhere for me besides Victoria Secret?

S eriously, though. When she delivered her lines she looked/sounded just like the fantabulous Ms. Wiig.

It wasn't her. Was it? 

At any rate, go seeeee it!

It rocks.

What fun to see a new generation of X-Philes getting into my favorite superhero story!

Did you send me a Knight Rider shirt?

If so, thanks.

I think? ;-)

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"So I would encourage you all to read, read, read. Just keep reading. And writing is another skill...."

"So I would encourage you all to read, read, read. Just keep reading. And writing is another skill. It's practice. It's practice. The more you write, the better you get. Drafts—our kids are learning the first draft means nothing. You're going to do seven, 10 drafts. That's writing, it's not failure, it's not the teacher not liking you because it's all marked up in red. When you get to be a good writer, you mark your own stuff in red, and you rewrite, and you rewrite, and you rewrite. That's what writing is."

- Michelle Obama (via jennyhan)

Heidi in #Kidlitnight Wonderland

Heidi in #Kidlitnight Wonderland

Mickey Pancake Apocalypse!!

Mickey pancake.

UNDEAD Mickey pancake.

International friends...

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We had a beautiful day. A perfect day. All four of us, healthy,...

We had a beautiful day. A perfect day. All four of us, healthy, happy, running, playing in the sand and foamy waves. Building sand turtles who withstood the tide. Laughing at me when I didn't. Football and frisbee and peanut butter sandwiches crunchier with sand. Cheese crunchies and Vitamin Water and the wimpy pink shovel versus the good one with the green handle and yellow scooper. Four sparkly purple buckets filled with saltwater. And all of us happy and healthy.

On the way home, my son asked what Memorial Day was. We said it's a day where we remember those who aren't with us anymore, and then we went to Target and bought toilet paper and Legos and grabbed a pizza on the way home and kept on living.

But while lying with my baby girl as she fell asleep tonight, I stumbled upon a facebook post titled, "Remembering Bridget Zinn." The name sounded familiar. People have Tweeted it several times this last week, but I wasn't paying attention. I should have been. She was a librarian and 2012 debut author who just passed away from colon cancer. She was only 33. Thirty-three years old, a book on its way, a darling husband and poof! she's gone. Just like that. Bridget (which is also my sister's name)  lived in Portland where our dear Lisa Madigan lived before she passed this year.

I didn't know Bridget, but it's clear another bright star in our world is gone too soon. I hope they plan on publishing her debut novel, Poison, so I can get my own copy to keep. And to remember.

http://www.bridgetzinn.com/blog/