Speak

I'm sick. No earthly idea why, but I've been nauseated since Monday night. I went home from work Tuesday and Wednesday, and didn't work at all yesterday. Thankfully, I have today off. I finally called the Advice Nurse, and he suggested that I fast (drinking only clear liquids, especially ginger tea) for 24 hours. If I'm ravenous, I'm allowed plain rice or bread. I am so hungry by now (almost 12 hours into the fast), which irritates my well-meaning liberal self, because there are plenty of people in the world who are even hungrier, and who won't be able to start eating tomorrow at 11:30 a.m.
So what does this have to do with books, you ask? Well, in the midst of this general malaise, I found myself watching Lifetime. There was a movie - very Lifetime - about a teen girl who gets into soft porn. I got hooked by this, and I'm glad, because the next movie was the film version of Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak. It was pretty good - in particular, Steve Zahn and the actor who played Melinda did well. My very kind SO brought home the book tonight. I've read it before, but not for a few years. I'm not sure Melinda's voice is as convincing as the narrator's voice in Megan McCafferty's Sloppy Firsts, but Speak is still quite a good book.
The other book my SO brought home is Meg Cabot's new teen novel, Avalon High. I don't have a lot of faith that it'll be good, but even a bad Cabot book is usually fun to read.