Current Thoughts

  While the roots of some sibling rivalries are made clear, others are more complex.  Take The Simpsons episode when an IQ test made the family believe that Maggie could be smarter than Lisa.  Homer and Marge could care less about their older daughter’s academic excellence, First Chair in the school band, College-level reading and multilingual skills, Homer even refused to let her attend a better school on a well-earned scholarship because he didn’t want to drive forty-five minutes every day, despite the fact that if they live that far from the school, Lisa would likely have taken a school bus.  But when their younger daughter exhibits the slightest hint of intelligence, they buy her educational toys, quiz her with flashcards and do everything in their power to encourage her. And when an envious and jealous Lisa makes a clearly sarcastic comment during flashcard practice, they yell at her, saying she’s not being a good role model, resulting in Lisa shutting hers...

In  situations like The Wild Thornberrys Movie, I get that Eliza was being punished for putting herself in danger like she did, but Cordelia was completely out of line. She basically forced her son and daughter-in-law to let her take her youngest granddaughter to boarding school even though she knew full well that they didn’t want to separate their family and that an adventurous tomboy like Eliza would find attending an upper-class British boarding school tortuous. Grounding her to the Comvee, (the family's mobile home) for a month would’ve been more effective. At least she realized her error when Eliza ran away from the school and hitched a ride back to her family.  Does Cordelia really think keeping her family’s name at the top of the social ladder is more important than her relationship with that family? Just because she doesn’t happen to care for her son’s career and lifestyle choices does not give her the right to order her family around.  If her grandchildren ...

Did that general really have to send his daughter to study in a convent school as punishment for once again, causing trouble?  I know that Maria made it very clear that she’d loved the experience, but come on , spending ten years away from her two best friends with limited time with her family, (or at least her father since a source from the film crew on the fandom site says Maria apparently lived with her mother during the interval), because her father couldn’t accept that he was raising a tomboy? I get that he had to punish her for acting out, but did he consider the possibility that maybe she was doing it because she wanted the attention of her busy father?  Just so you know, no, Maria did not become a prim and proper lady. (Thank goodness). She actually just became the older version of a rebellious tomboy. She even took up fencing as an extracurricular activity. If you’re going to send your child aboard, they should have a say in it, and you should put yourself in thei...

 Does anyone have any suggestions for how I can get more people to read this blog? Because I've run out of ideas and am open to suggestions.

I've decided that if I want to know the answers to my many, many questions from my book hangovers, I'm just going to contact the writers. Other than GoodReads, I've had to look up a lot of authors' websites. Anyone else have any questions for a writer?

  I'm not much of a Star Wars fan, but I just realized that if Luke and Leia are brother and sister who had to be separated to protect them from Vadar, then doesn't that mean that their first real crushes and kisses were with their sibling?! EWWWW.  I mean, I'm all for sibling love, but does nobody else find that... ICKY?