Nice! Read more
You took it home so elegantly! Read more
Alas, I cannot, but I’m glad my dumb joke spoke to you. ;-) Read more
Aww! Thank you! I aim to please. Read more
Believe me, I’m right there with you. Read more
Because while one biographer believes this was their fate, it wasn’t clear whether it has been established via record (death certificate, etc). That makes sense, seeing as record-keeping was not consistent at the time. Some of my family also almost certainly died in the Holocaust, but the Nazis did not do us the… Read more
So happy to oblige. :) Read more
Right? Read more
That is TERRIFYING. Glad you’re ok. Read more
Aww, I hope today is much, much better. Take care. Read more
Hey there! High school (I’m assuming you’re in high school) can be extraordinarily rough and miserable, but you will get to the other side — and it’s much brighter there. Listen to Lemonade every morning; you’ll walk down the hall like a BAMF. Read more
Oh, I strongly agree. I LOVE 10 Things I Hate About You. Read more
Wonderful contextualization, thanks! Read more
You’re not having a meltdown, but I nearly did trying to keep them straight as I was writing this. I do wish the writers of the complaint had branched out just a little. Read more
YES. Hmm. I am actually quite concerned about this now, because eroticizing a rape scene is monstrous. Read more
I definitely agree. I expect it will be staged more as a threesome. Read more
Oh I agree. I wish they had cast someone older too rather than try to sex things up (antithetical to the point of the Ceremony, after all). But two young women, with only one “fertile” could introduce a different sort of tension. I don’t love it, but I’m curious enough. Read more
I was thinking something similar. I still think the casting is far too young and an attempt to sex up “the ritual,” but I’m nonetheless interested in how it will play out. Read more
Oh yes, that would have been a superb casting choice! Read more
It’s...fine. When I taught the book in a Women’s Lit course I used a scene or two for comparison, but it’s nothing special. Read more