Meggin Patricia Cabot (born February 1, 1967) is an American novelist. She has written and printed over 50 novels of younger grownup and grownup fiction and is finest identified for her younger grownup sequence Princess Diaries, which was later tailored by Walt Disney Pictures into two function movies. Cabot has been the recipient of quite a few e-book awards, together with the New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age, the American Library Association Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers, the Tennessee Volunteer State TASL Book Award, the Book Sense Pick, the Evergreen Young Adult Book Award, the IRA/CBC Young Adult Choice, and lots of others. She has additionally had number-one New York Times bestsellers, and greater than 25 million copies of her books are in print internationally. (wikipedia)

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So I’m going to maneuver now from blaming my attainable running a blog impairment on jet lag to blaming it on sickness (and likewise nonetheless someway jet lag). I used to be on the sofa all day watching films whereas my spouse was in mattress all day simply sleeping with the cat (who was Extremely proud of this growth, thanks very a lot—nowhere he’d slightly be than curled up subsequent to “The Lady,” which is what he, that’s I-doing-his-voice, calls Penelope). It is presently 11-something PM and I simply *awakened* from my newest quick / fitful sleeping episode. The worst is over, however oof, sleep, it’s not on schedule. Anyway, my fixing expertise appear to be nonetheless intact, however I really feel like I will need to have missed one thing with the theme, as I can not discover the “MOVE FAST” element and I’m certain there should be one. Or else, I really feel there must be one and so I’m stubbornly nonetheless looking. The lack of such a element, mixed with my inherent revulsion on the revealer phrase (tech bro’y sloganeering can go bounce within the sea), meant that I did not actually groove on this one. Its popular culture universe can be (largely) not my popular culture universe, however that is simply … the breaks (increase, large pun, even in illness, nonetheless received it!). Don’t know something about “The Princess Diaries” so 2x “Princess Diaries” = 2x = [shrug] (22A: ___ Thermopolis, Anne Hathaway’s function in “The Princess Diaries” => MIA). MEG CABOT’s identify does ring a bell, although—I’ve in all probability had her identify in my eyeline numerous occasions on the bookstore). Never did take to “THE WEST WING,” however the entire Aaron Sorkin “stroll and discuss” factor, I’ve positively heard of (I was an enormous fan of Sorkin’s “Sports Night,” which in all probability shares some dialogue traits with “West Wing”). I’ve learn Sally ROONEY, although (61A: “Normal People” writer Sally), and anyway, it is not such as you wanted to be Very conversant in any of those popular culture solutions to unravel the puzzle pretty shortly. My points with the puzzle are, as I say, primarily thematic, in that it appears incompletely executed, and that revealer phrase, blargh.

It’s bizarre that puzzleworld needs to perpetrate “I WAS HAD” on the world when my ear at all times needs it to be “I’VE BEEN HAD!” Now, “I WAS HAD” returns essentially the most Google hits, however you get an entire bunch of wierd hits for grammar websites, cases the place there is a comma between “was” and “had,” cases the place the related phrase is one thing like “who I used to be had nothing to do with it.” I feel the phrase I’m *actually* listening to in my head is “WE WAS ROBBED!” however I watch loads of gangster movies, which could clarify why I hear what I hear. On the symmetrical facet of the grid, “WANNA GO” feels good. Fresh, present, terse, bouncy, good. “SEEMS OK” is in the identical common class. As for issue, there wasn’t a lot as we speak, but it surely did not appear unusually simple, both, for a Tuesday. I had JET earlier than SST (the retired FRANCo-British supersonic crosswordese that point forgot!) (47D: Concorde, e.g., briefly), however no different errors / write-overs. I’m presently amusing myself by studying a few rows on this grid as if the solutions went collectively. I’m notably intrigued by the existential query “IS LAM LAM?” and by the potential animated sequence “EEL TEEN” or “TEEN EWE.” I’m imagining a juvenile delinquent younger sheep simply hanging out beneath a road gentle, smoking, obtrusive defiantly at me as EEL TEEN rides up on his motorbike and does the identical. I’d watch a present in regards to the escapades of those two, for certain. Sorkin, name me.

See you tomorrow, everybody.