The book "Play Me" by Laura Ruby is about some teenagers that had entered into a contest at the MTV channel. The contest that they had entered was about making a show that everyone was able to watch on TV. Their show was called "Riot Grrl 16." Eddy was the writer, director, and cameraman--the ma...
Does every second wife look like Julia Roberts? Lu Klein certainly doesn't, and her life is anything but glamorous. When she married a man with children, Lu had no idea that she was also marrying his shrewish ex-wife, Beatrix. And Beatrix had no idea that making a new home with her second husband...
Also appears on Lissa WritesI really liked this book.There are a few parallels with Forever, and in fact this book even references Forever, but unlike Forever I wasn't reminded of the awkwardness and quite frankly horrible memories of my ex-boyfriend, but instead I was actually reminded of my fia...
Even the other parents are getting impatient. "A little camera-happy, isn't he?" Pam's mother says. She's on her second glass of wine. My mother sighs. "I've learned not to fight it." 239 "Come on, Dad," I say. "We're sick of smiling. Our cheeks hurt." "Just one more," he says. "All of you line u...
Sean had not believed him, Jonas had not believed him, but Petey had believed him, had shown him how much. He’d fallen asleep with his nose in her hair, breathing her scent, holding on to her as if she were the only sure thing, the only real thing he’d ever known. It had been this way for the las...
We wander around until we find the right room, a small, dark auditorium that would seem more appropriate for hangings than for school-board meetings. In the front of the room is a long table with a series of microphones and some sweating pitchers of water on it. Even the pitchers are nervous. The...