We last left Veronica Mars back in her hometown of Neptune, California, following (Spoilers for the VM movie) a case that involved her on again/off again/epic love interest Logan Echolls, a high school reunion for the ages, and some people with a grudge against her dad. Since that adventure, Veronica has decided to stay & work at Mars Investigations, but the beginning of The Thousand Dollar Tan Line finds that Spring Break in Neptune is not exactly old-home week. There’s a distinct lack of casework […]
“I want to be a comfort to my friends in tragedy and I want to be able to celebrate with them in triumph. And for all the times in between, I just want to be able to look them in the eye. “
You know those personality tests you take (mostly online now, but I’m from the stone age when I had to take some of mine on a Scan-tron), and they supposedly tell you what careers you’d be good at or what traits are your strongest? Well mine always came/come back teacher, or counselor. Which was a good thing, as I always knew I’d be a teacher, and when it came to my family and friends, even as a kid, I might as well have hung out […]
“Oh God; Middle School. “
That’s what a lot of books for kids boil down to: Just “Oh God; Middle school”. And for good reason. I didn’t go to middle school – in my city, elementary school was K-8 and then it was high school that hit you like a hydrogen bomb (although you may, questionably, at least have had a few more years of ‘maturity’ to help you deal with it by then) – but it’s still all the same principle. You’re going along, living your regular kid life, […]
Mmm… books about books
At the risk of becoming too meta, I’m going to talk a little bit about one of my go-to books for choosing other books to read.* I tend to think – judging by the Cannonballers I actually know, the general bookish-ness around here, and the sheer amount of things that Must. Be. Read – that a lot of you CBReaders are similar to me, in that you tend to read quite a bit. (And write rather less often than you should/would like too, but that’s […]