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While I want to be free to explore relationships, sexual or otherwise, with other girls, it doesn’t take away anything from my basic, enduring attachment to Ronna.

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All my favorite characters are real women. They don’t just act conventionally by dating or getting married or having children, they also have affairs, cut themselves, second-guess themselves and act like giant idiots.

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A guy runs around while holding knives, which is very dangerous and exciting.

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Fact: The Wizard of Oz has some of the wildest behind-the-scenes facts of any movie ever.

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Fact: Darth Vader never actually said, “Luke, I am your father.”

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Romance is a tough genre. Not because it’s hard to read, but because it’s hard to find the diamonds in the rough amidst the clichés.

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According to Love Twenty, women in their twenties are supposed to read diet books and novels about shopping. I disagree. Here are my suggestions for novels you should read if you’re a woman in your twenties.

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Don’t get me wrong, I have always been a dynamic personality who could interact with and befriend the dead — but in 2011, having 1200 Facebook friends enables me to give just a perfunctory nod to each of them on a semi-regular basis without having to sustain any meaningful adult relationships.