Young Adult Revisited

What a horrid little book! So Robin Wilson starts off the book as the fat girl with the “pretty face” as they keep reminding us. Liz is wandering around the house when Jessica calls and gives her the old library excuse for why she can’t help clean the house. Then (shocker) Robin shows up with Jess’s stuff and her library books. She asks Liz about Pi Beta Alpha and mentions that she’s worried Jess won’t put up her name at nominations so Liz agrees to do it. Then we’re reminded for the 97th time that it’s not really Liz’s scene. We’re also treated to Liz’s perspective on Robin stuffing her face with a chocolate bar and watching it quickly disappear. Jess comes home with a new scarf and says that Lila’s aunt sent it to her from New York, but it isn’t her style. The twins fight over Robin, with Jess maintaining that she won’t fit in because of her weight. She then tries to trick Liz by closing the nomination meeting early, but Liz shows up just in time and tells the girls that Robin’s one ...

I stumbled across an online article today with the news that author L.J. Smith is getting the small screen treatment. Her series The Vampire Diaries is being turned into a television series for The CW. Of course the only reason it’s happening is because of the fan base spawned by Twilight. It will be awhile before another movies comes out, so we have to get those fans something else! Quick! Like a bunny! Honestly it’s kind of irritating to me. The article mentioned how the books were about a girl caught between two brothers who were both vampires, but I remember it being a lot more intense and deeper than that. Smith managed to finish off The Vampire Diaries in three books (though she did write a later fourth book, which is super hard to find apparently). How the heck are they going to stretch that into an entire season worth of television episodes. Oh yeah and Kevin Williamson was hired as the writer. Great, Mr. Dawson’s Creek himself is going to turn the books into a TV show. I can’t...