'cause secretly I'm timid

Tiff posted her top love songs list.
I'm wearing a skirt today.
It's so nice out today. How am I really supposed to fear the greenhouse effect when it's so nice to have sunny warm days? I know it's unnatural, but still, I like the pretty.
I got an email yesterday from someone I never thought I'd hear from again.
For those who like closure: my stalkee seemed to actually be doing the dumb boy not calling thing. And we all know I don't make out with stupid boys. This "news" is actually a couple weeks old, but I figured my enormous readership was interested.
There's an EXTREMELY LOUD child in J-Fiction. Not upset or anything, just LOUD.
So many popular kids and YA books, especially fantasy, become series these days that it seems like my kids think everything has a sequel. I mean, I'd like to read Saint of Dragons 2, but I know it'll be a long time coming.
Speaking of, I really wish my favorite authors would all come together and spread new books out. In the next 6 months or so, I'm looking forward to these:

1. Prom by Laurie Halse Anderson (I hated Catalyst, but Speak is amazing)
2. new Holly Black
3. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
4. new one by that guy who wrote Everything Is Illuminated
5. Shrimp by Rachel Cohn (sequel to Gingerbread--see what I mean about those sequels?)
6. Blue Monday: Painted Moon being finished and put in trade paperback form. Do I buy for myself or the teenhole? Tough call: I've got In Between Days, and it seems to circ respectably, mostly because I push it on people a lot.

Plus, I just finished Doug Coupland's latest and the 3rd Traveling Pants book. Right now, I'm kind of in between books, because I'm waiting for all the new YA stuff to be processed. I've been trying to listen to A Great and Terrible Beauty, because the stuff that was said about it on YALSA-BK made it seem good, but it's actually kind of boring. I can't tell if it's the story that isn't holding my interest, or the reading of it. It's one of those tales of teenaged surliness where the narrator makes snarky comments to herself a lot, but sometimes she says bitchy things out loud, and it's hard to tell which is which without italics-y help. And I found a review somewhere that called it a well-told story that would be more interesting with more plot. I fear I might be agreeing with this person.