Last month I read Augusten Burroughs's Running With Scissors on the recommendation of crocoWife who read it on the recommendation of a friend.  This book is insane.  For starters, his mother used to eat candle wax and bathe in broken glass.  It's his memoir spanning roughly from ages 9 to 17 and it's a fast read, sometimes hilarious and always entertaining in it's "I-can't-fucking-believe-this-is-real" prose.  You can buy the book here.

Turns out, a movie is being made based on this book.  If they do it right, it could be the shiznit.  And I like the cast they've put together: Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Gwyneth Paltrow, Alec Baldwin.  You can check out the film's details here.