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Aly is 70% done with Lolita

— Aug 22, 2017 09:57PM Add a comment

Aly is 77% done with The Princess Bride

"It would be nice if somebody, maybe a Ph.D. candidate on the loose, did a little something for Morgenstern’s reputation, because, believe me, if being ignored is suffering, the guy has suffered."

— Jul 28, 2017 04:34AM Add a comment

Aly is 10% done with The Princess Bride

"The beef-witted featherbrained rattleskulled clodpated dim-domed noodle-noggined sapheaded lunk-knobbed boys."

SPECTACULAR

— Jul 25, 2017 04:10PM Add a comment

Aly is on page 251 of 324 of The Red Tent

THINGS STARTED GOING DOWNHILL VERY QUICKLY

— Mar 23, 2017 07:18PM Add a comment

Aly is on page 132 of 304 of The Best Australian Science Writing 2013

"That men apparently engage in more casual sex with women than women do with men is a longstanding mathematical mystery"

— Mar 05, 2017 11:52PM Add a comment

Aly is on page 87 of 304 of The Best Australian Science Writing 2013

On the other side,
the observable spectrum shifts to markedly longer wavelengths.

— Feb 27, 2017 03:37PM Add a comment

Aly is on page 16 of 304 of The Best Australian Science Writing 2013

"Some people have to be garbage collectors, others have to be genitals."

— Feb 21, 2017 10:40PM Add a comment

Aly is on page 248 of 276 of My Life on the Road

"Our current plight is not made inevitable by human nature. What once was could be again--in a new way."

— Feb 21, 2017 03:55AM Add a comment

Aly is on page 174 of 343 of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two (Harry Potter, #8)

"I don't know what game you're playing but you're upsetting the Dementors and entirely ruining Voldemort Day"

— Nov 10, 2016 09:14PM Add a comment

Aly is on page 6 of 343 of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two (Harry Potter, #8)

Page 6 and I'm already too excited. Harry to his son at King's Cross: "Don't stop and don't be scared you'll crash into it, that's very important. Best to do it at a run if you're nervous."
BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT MOLLY TOLD HIM ALL THOSE YEARS AGO I'm ded

— Nov 09, 2016 07:36PM Add a comment

Aly is on page 120 of 420 of The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

— Sep 14, 2016 05:44PM Add a comment

Aly is 50% done with The Dispossessed

— Aug 19, 2016 07:45PM Add a comment

Aly is on page 284 of 334 of Wake Up, Sir!

"My spleen has got its head in the toilet and is vomiting. My liver is passed out in front of a Bowery mission, and my kidneys are in the fifteenth round of a brutal fight and my opponent has illegally removed the stuffing from his gloves"

— Jun 01, 2016 04:46AM Add a comment

Aly is on page 102 of 334 of Wake Up, Sir!

"Privacy being of the utmost importance for artists, since you don't want the tax paying public to know about the creative process - how much napping and procrastinating are involved - because otherwise what little funding there is would be cut immediately"

— May 26, 2016 06:13PM Add a comment

Aly is on page 30 of 334 of Wake Up, Sir!

I love the depictions of Jeeves materialising. For example: "Jeeves, like humidity, had accumulated on my left" Or "he evaporated and then reconstituted himself alongside me"

— May 25, 2016 03:33AM Add a comment