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Teen #1: “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?“ Mom: “The egg. Eggs were around a long time before the chicken.”

Today’s vocab­u­lary lesson–Smarticle The Urban Dic­tio­nary defines the term “smar­ti­cle” as: (adj) Describ­ing someone/something being smart, smart in nature. Iron­i­cally uses incor­rect gram­mar. Usu­ally used in an infor­mal or jok­ing fash­ion “The girl read her smar­ti­cle answer out loud to the class.” “That was quite a smar­ti­cle maneu­ver, he thought.” That’s all well and good because …

But I’m not. http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6517352.html?nid=3323.  Scroll down.

Liz Gallagher’s novel, The Oppo­site of Invis­i­ble, is mak­ing its debut!  Here’s the review I posted awhile ago: “Alice is a Seat­tle teenager who seeks advice from a poster. She has two tree-hugger par­ents, one good friend, and an end­less thirst for vanilla lattes. What she’d really like, though, is a boyfriend, some­one, any­one who …

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One of the delight­ful things about get­ting ARCs is being among the first read­ers to lay hands on a remark­able book and then hav­ing the plea­sure of shout­ing from the moun­tain­tops about this exquis­ite thing you’ve found (or, um, had mailed to you). It must be the same feel­ing that edi­tors get when an “it” …