What a sweet review!

DH taught Olivia to do the "I < heart > you" thing where she points to herself, rubs her chest and then points to you.

I am slain.

Bush is apparently speaking in Cleveland today. Might 'splain the shitty weather in Ohio, what with the cloud o' doom following him around and all.

The real heart of the book is centered on the online friends that Allyson made who became real life pals,such as fellow campaigner Kristen, ita(yes,her name is ment to be spelled in lowercase)

The reviewer totally gets it. Even the grammar!

DH taught Olivia to do the "I < heart > you" thing where she points to herself, rubs her chest and then points to you.

I am slain.

Me too, even without actually seeing it.

YAY FOR NOAH BEING HOME! WHOO!!!

Yay for good review, paperdol! I suck as a friend and have yet to haul my ass to the bookstore, as my bed seems to have developed its own gravitational pull. I should get there tonight, though. Hopefully. And then I'll buy two books - one for me and one for lending.

I bought mine in Milwaukee, read it, gave it to my sister, and now I'll buy another in Chicago when I get paid at the end of the week.

The pimp your bookcart is totally the best thing ever! My librarian showed us that site a while back, which I think was a big hint hint. We plan on pimping her bookcart to make it a caffeinated cart. At Children's hospital, they have a cart pimped to look like a cow which says "Book MOOOObile."

I already have 4 (or maybe 5, I'm not sure) people in a borrowing-book tree, after I finish with it. I wish I *could* buy a copy for lending, because I'm still unable to part with mine!

Also, now I probably know how the people who ahem tv episodes feel when they can watch along with everybody else, with the addition of the way the un-ahem-ing people around them can't share the joy. Only with me, it's because I'm selfish and petty and wanna hug my copy.

Nice review, Allyson! Go you.

In unrelated news, my head hurts and I want to go home. But I will not.

Code question: Like how "Does this make me look fat?" and "What's up?" often mean something unliteral, am I amiss in often interpreting an intent "So...are you seeing anyone?" as first gambit in the asking out game, and a gambit you can reply to in code of "Yeah," or "I'm off the market" (if you want to make the subtext dom?

Got into an argument about it yesterday where I opined that a fictitious boyfriend is both more likely to work and less painful than the truth which may simply be "I just like you as a friend."

Speaking of The Book, I just pimped holy hell out of it to a mailing list for a Michigan-local SF group. Some might say THE PREMIERE Michigan-local SF group. The one what plans the best MI SF cons. Hope you don't mind, Allyson.

In other Buffista media-related news, I am currently downloading the latest ep of B-Movie Bastards. Go ND.

Well, fictitious boyfriend will work efficiently. Or at least it should. Yet if you like the person as a friend, it might not be the best route. If it is a stranger then hell yeah. It'll work.

The oxygen concentrator in the living room is both loud and weirdly soothing. We don't need white noise machines because we have fans, concentrator, ion breeze, baby swing and breast pump.

eta To do list excised because not board worthy.

Kat! How was Noah's first night at home? How was your night?

a fictitious boyfriend is both more likely to work and less painful than the truth which may simply be "I just like you as a friend."

I agree, for most cases. There's no place to argue with such a claim (no "but why don't you want to? for real?" or "do you think your opinion may change?" and the like), and there's minimum hurt-feelings potential, because it really is not about the other person at all, but about you, cliche or not.

It may be difficult if it's a person you get to see on a regular basis, or a very persistent one - these cases usually call for the truth, IMHO. [Edit: x-post with Kat!]

Of course, I'm only talking from my own dating experience (well, actually, from friends' experiences. Nobody ever asked me that question, myself), which may be a tiny bit hugely different than what you are probably talking about.