Mal Peet: The Penalty
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Sherman Alexie: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
native american genius
Ally Carter: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy
new one from a burger interviewee
Joshua Glenn: Taking Things Seriously: 75 Objects with Unexpected Significance
Dori Hadar: Mingering Mike: The Amazing Career of an Imaginary Soul Superstar
John Marks: Fangland: A Novel
vamp fans are calling it the best vampire novel since Interview with a Vampire
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but we at bookburger present the above YouTube video as evidence. This is why YOU MUST READ BOOKS. Books make you smart. Smart is good. Especially if you ever find yourself in front of a microphone at a beauty pageant. You don't want to end up like this poor gal in the Miss Teen USA pageant...
(though we hear she still came in third-runner up).
So feel good about yourself, burgerfolk. You read! You think! Sometimes even at the same time!
they sat down for our pop quiz interview, bared their souls, and designed their own burgers for our honorary menu:
The E Lockhart Burger: a well-spiced veggie burger, topped with blue cheese, lettuce, dijon mustard and extra pickles. ("I am a vegetarian, Bookburger. Like Roo in The Boyfriend List.")
read the interview
The Ally Carter Burger: mayo and mustard. And lettuce, pickles, and swiss cheese. ("Okay now I’m hungry. This is all your fault!")
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The Kieran Scott Burger: American cheese, bacon, lots of ketchup, red onions and
lettuce. ("Let no pickle touch my burger lest you wish to feel the full scope of
my wrath!")
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The Rachel Cohn Burger: turkey burger ("preferably from Barney's in San Francisco") with red onion, tomato and mayo. ("Don't forget the fries.")
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The Mo Willems Burger: Fresh and well-grounded ("like my daughter") with nothing on it.("I am deathly afraid of most condiments.")
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The Melissa Kantor Burger: Melted blue cheese with lettuce, tomatoes, and onions on the side. ("with a complimentary pack of 'Trident Blue' so you could eat all the onions").
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The Lisi Harrison Burger: A burger topped with Mac & Cheese and ketchup. ("Call it the Mac & Cheeseburger.")
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The Laura Dave Burger: Cheddar cheese and barbeque sauce. Extra pickles. ("and please...hold the onions!")
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The Stephenie Meyer Burger: another completely plain burger. ("I'm anti-condiments.")
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The Janet Fitch Burger: a burger with a hole in the middle, stuffed with something dark, like olives. ("There's always a certain darkness at the center of my books.")
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The Tanya Lee Stone Burger: medium rare with cheddar cheese, barbecue sauce, and an onion ring. "Overdone thick-cut fries on the side, please."
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The Maureen Johnson Burger: veggie burger with roasted red pepper, avocado,
and Monterrey Jack. Pickles on the side. "And all the condiments in the
house.
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The Alice Hoffman Burger: "It should have everything, but hold the burger. (Unless it's soy)."
read the interview
You're right. It is kind of mean. It's also embarrassing and funny at the same time... "such as."
Posted by: QueenMab04 | August 28, 2007 at 06:11 AM
Heyyy there! So funny, we posted this vid, too. Anywho, we heart your blog and just posted about it for BlogDay. Check out our blog, you are the darling #2, which is the best number ever because you're never alone!
Love&Cupcakes,
*Fran and Jude
Posted by: Judithe Francine | August 31, 2007 at 10:53 AM
That is so sad. I don't even know what she meant... and I don't think she does either. But I bet she thought she sounded SMART.
Wow.
Posted by: Jordyn | August 31, 2007 at 04:44 PM
wow, a little confused? lol but so funny. did she actualy say a sentince. Ok im going to stop being mean, im going to break my limit for the day.
Posted by: jessica | September 02, 2007 at 06:29 PM
Oh boy...mean, no. Funny, heck yeah! This story made it as far away as Singapore. When I saw it on the news here, I was stunned. Poor girl, she must have gone into hiding after that.
Posted by: Kisane | September 22, 2007 at 03:25 AM
Wow.. nice blog you have. Would you mind if i ask you for alink exchange? Nice work.
Posted by: CulinaryRecipe | September 25, 2007 at 12:53 AM
well well well...
I guess she's one of the one fifth?
Posted by: Jenn | October 19, 2007 at 04:30 PM
i hate it when stupid ppl
and it didn't help that she was blonde [[no offense..there has been blonde geniuses]] act smart its just stick with who u r and don't deviate with it cuz then ull sound rlly stupid...it's not mean its true! too many ppl are like that...thats why not as many hav posted here. so we need to help those ppl of south africa :P
Posted by: ♥natalia♥ | October 21, 2007 at 06:28 PM