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This to me is the telling part. They probably have some attitude that the daughter living away is the black sheep of the family, so the gift thing was a statement. The money issue is almost certainly not true. It's a slap.

My sense of posterity is stronger than my plans that require money. I really am trying to go for the classic.

Waiting in line for concert tickets.

Yep--and satire can reflect truth and spark discussion, so here we are. When I said he had that mother's number, I knew what I was saying (and so did the BBC guy, though, as I say, he got a little silly).

This woman is actually the ex-wife of the friend we borrow the kids from. That BBC guy definitely has her number. My husband always works the word "motorcycle" into any conversation with her just to watch her turn pale.

Well, I think some of his specific examples are frivolous. I like sitting with my friends' kids and watching their tv shows sometimes. Half the jokes on Sesame Street are for adults anyway. And I like the occasional ball-pit wallow. Dignity is overrated. I also think he's just being silly...

Yeah, sorry for the confusion. I said that tongue in cheek, and I forgot for the moment what a wonderfully international site this is.

Lani Fogglebottom wouldn't prevent me from buying a book, but Lani Kantrite probably would. I happen to think that a name with one trendy word like Wilderness or Gaia is getting old. I'm sure something close to your real name would work. Give it the Ellis Island treatment and see what you...

Yay! I love Mrs. Piggle Wiggle! I read them out loud to any kid who will sit reasonably still. The Radish Cure is my favorite, and once you get through the whole series, the What'll-I-Doers brings it all together. A classic.

I think this is the thread to post the following comment a friend of mine made today: "I stopped reading when I discovered people."

Bridget Jones. What a simp.

I read that book when it first came out, so my memory is a little vague, but I think I got the impression that he had gotten a little dotty, and maybe a little more conservative politically. I felt that he had written one book too many. His latest collection of essays, however, is somewhat...

Since when is Hitchhiker a geek book?! It's one of the coolest books ever written. Did the word "geek" evolve and I didn't know it?

A friend of mine with two children lives in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC. I think we all need to move there because the public library allows each person to check out fifty books. Yes, his home has had 150 library books at times.

I confess! *sob* I'm the one who "shifts" books in our home. Ok, so it's just the two of us in a one-room apartment, but books keep moving from his tbr shelf to mine. He has far more books that he intends to read than he realizes.

I want that job.

While the penguins were indeed cute, the little kids we saw it with loved the lemurs the most. They did the lemur dance for weeks afterward.

That's happened a few times. For example, poetry is a compressed form of writing, and the reading experience can be intense. I read--or started--some anthologies of political poetry, and ended up throwing them across the room, yelling "What bullshit," etc. Another example is the fourth...

His school accommodates his ADD by having him use audio versions of some assigned books. He enjoyed Huck Finn that way, especially because of the picturesque dialects.

The son of one of our friends has ADD, which doesn't necessarily prevent reading, but didn't make it easy in his case. When he was 14, he finally rebelled and announced that he wasn't going to read anymore. For the next two gift-giving occasions, we gave him the Guiness Book of World Records...