Comments on: competition

By: Aubrey(AKAStacey)

Aubrey(AKAStacey) — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:01:29 +0000

Ally if your writing keeps getting better I will be blown away time after time! I am SO excited to see how Matched has turned out and I am SO excited for more from you in the future!

We missed you last night, love you and all wish you the very very best!

At least I get to see you this weekend!

By: HeatherSmith

HeatherSmith — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:07:44 +0000

I was pregnant twice while house parents in a sorority. I am sure you remember my fabulousness. Just looked at pictures of this time…I was more tent than person. And my girls wore less of their size 5-7′s each year!

These memories are not as harsh as realizing(upon moving from grad school and unpacking our few possessions) that we had smelled like mold for 5 years and never knew it.

I am looking forward to the next book that flows out of that brain of yours. So…the gauntlet has been thrown….I can’t wait!

By: ally

ally — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:32:26 +0000

Hey, I think this is the most comments ever on a post! Thanks, you guys! I should write about maternity pants more often. Jake, you made me laugh out loud with the line “pre-paternity pants.” So funny.

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:51:40 +0000

sorry I meant it took me less time to get over being beaten in a race than on a test.

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:04:30 +0000

Competition, it’s all relative. It always took me longer to get over being beaten in a race than it did to get beaten on a test. Medical school cured me of that for sure. Alas I’m still trying to get into my prepaternity suit and pants.

By: Tasha

Tasha — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:56:45 +0000

I’m ultra competitive!!! My husband won’t play Phase 10 with me anymore because of it.

I love a game on challenge. Working on that myself. It’s just finding the time….

By: becca

becca — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:06:12 +0000

“better than anything I’ve ever written before” — game on. And shouldn’t that always be the plan? Go, you.

By: Sara

Sara — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:48:04 +0000

Oh man, I hear you – I could only afford discount maternity clothes with my first pregnancy, and when you’re 5’9″ that is really not good. They don’t make “talls” at discount stores. Sigh. But I didn’t live at a sorority with girls wearing Sevens all around me! (just my sister)

We love Settlers too! But I am competitive, so… I definitely don’t throw the game on purpose. lol!

I agree with Erin – you are going to be uberfamous and be going to premieres of the movie of MATCHED and you’ll invite me right? You are such a talented author and I’m glad I know you now, before you get too famous and popular to have wanted to be friends with me!! If you have even better books swimming around in that head of yours, I can’t wait to read them too!

By: Rachel Coleman

Rachel Coleman — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:41:09 +0000

Thank you Ally for spurring a memory of: one pair of black maternity pants + 5-days-a-week job with hiply-dressed graphic designers.

As I’m writing I just keep thinking about how long it took me to master the piano. It’s got to get better. At least that’s what I’m betting on.

By: erin summerill

erin summerill — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:26:18 +0000

Seriously, I think Matched is your best. But then again, you will write something better and I will love it too. did you read Catching Fire yet? I loved it. It is excellent…and i think her writing improved. I love your novel just as much and I cant wait for you to be all famous and then I can be like, “Hey, Ally Condie and Me, well, we’re tight!” ha ha.

Also, I LOVE settlers. Now that I know you like it, I have decided to invite myself over and be more than just a once a month friend. (ugh, did that sound gross? a once a month friend?) ha ha