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I saw my dentist this morning and he replaced the filling (at no charge, even though the prior filling was nearly two years old, I love my dentist!).

I am so glad it fell out now instead of next week when he joins the wife and kids on Ibiza for the rest of the summer.

Last night, I finished reading Lisa Tuttle's THE MYSTERIES, about people disappearing into Faerieland. Lovely writing, and I like how she kept the fae details to a minimum, so you're always looking for it out of the corner of your eyes. I wasn't so crazy about the stories about other disappearances (and/or reappearances) which were somewhat heavy-handed. I'd have liked these to have been better integrated through a frame of some sort--the characters reading them while researching the current mystery, or something. Or at least putting them in a different typeface to differentiate them from the main storyline. But these are quibbles more than anything else. The plot was nothing especially new, but it is very well-written (on a sentence by sentence level) and the characters well-drawn. I also like thats he doesn't try to explain or justify faerieland.

I'm now going to read Tuttle's THE SILVER BOUGH.

From today's Publisher's Weekly Children's Bookshelf

The movie adaptation of The Spiderwick Chronicles by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi has been greenlit by Paramount and Nickelodeon Movies. David Berenbaum (Elf) wrote the screenplay, with Mark Waters (Mean Girls) directing. Freddie Highmore (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) has been cast to play both of the twin boys. The film, which will begin shooting this September in Canada, is scheduled for a Christmas 2007 release.

Film rights to Libba Bray's YA trilogy, which began with A Great and Terrible Beauty (Delacorte), have been optioned by Mel Gibson and Bruce Davey's Icon Productions. Charles Sturridge will direct the first picture.

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Yay blackholly!
Yay libbabray!