I believe that is what happened in the book.

Also, I agree about the wind machine but love Joan's family and can't believe that Rove would just be there, as a regular part of the group so quickly. I am also pleased that "the adversary" is just another human who has chosen to not listen to god.

Gah, now I am confuzzled. Ryan is WindmachineBoy, and Rove is ArtistCutie , right? Otherwise, elsewise.

That's right.

Gus I think sumi mentioned Rove (Adam) being with the group so quickly--because of his cheating on Joan. He's played brilliantly. That's why I want to whack him. Ryan is the "connection" who has decided he didn't love God any more.

I really liked that Joan called God Ya Ya when she was little. It made me think "Yahweh" and I think Ya-Ya also a name for a Greek grandmother, and somehow, that worked for me, too (even though I'm not Greek, and Joan appears to be Italian + Generic White American--possibly Irish).

Ugh. Headache. In-laws & sprog gone. My own sprog are off to my mother's. I am going to go lie down on the couch and feel sorry for myself, because this cold is trying to kill me. I think dh wants to watch JoA again.

t hugs up on Cindy's cold, to distract it from bedeviling Cindy

I still like my boy Rove (Adam). The group let him back in because they know that adolescent boy + willing babe has an inescapable conclusion.

(JoA) I also made the connection between Ya-Ya and grandma -- and isn't there a folkloric Russian witch named something like Babayaya ?

Not quite JoA:

Baba Yaga. A hut on stilts, iron teeth...

Wait... The G -vs- S thing is getting all out of wack, here.

A hut on stilts

On chicken legs, actually.

Who you callin' "chicken legs"?

Oh. Baba Yaga.

Retracted.

t spinning a DVD of "Wrong Turn" 'cuz Eliza Dushku is purty