How Kaavya Viswanathan Got a Book Deal, Panicked, and Stole From Megan McCafferty.

The passages that the Globe printed are pretty darn similar.  (There are lots more at the Harvard Crimson.)  I'm rather horrified.  I hope that McCafferty's sales get a good bump from this publicity.

Sloppy Firsts and Second Helpings both rule.  When I finished the first book, I threw a temper tantrum because I wasn't able to start the next one immediately.  So if you're going to read 'em, get them both.  (We're entering the annual Time of the Beach Book, and these are perfect.)

The library copy of Charmed Thirds finally arrived.  Now I have to wait for them to process it before I read it.  Grrrr.