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Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd - Scott Westerfeld, Holly Black, Cassandra Clare, Cynthia Leitich Smith, Barry Lyga, Cecil Castellucci, Hope Larson, Lisa Yee, Tracy Lynn, Wendy Mass, Greg Leitich Smith, John Green, Sara Zarr, Bryan Lee O'Malley, Kelly Link, David Levithan, M.T. Anderson, Libba Bray, Garth I have seen all the Lord of the Rings movies. I’ll even admit to having watched them more than once. I have read Harry Potter. But if we’re talking fantasy, I am very INTO David Eddings. Do these facts make me a geek? Erm, reading the stories in Geektastic seem to throw support toward an affirmative answer. So OK, I think I may be a geek. But, I am not as hardcore geek-y as the characters in these stories. For instance, I’ve never debated about the virtues of one Star Trek captain versus another! I’ve never thought about what would happen if a klingon were to fall for a jedi! I’ve never travelled cross country to meet my favorite author to ask if he had had an affair with my mom… these things happen in a couple of the stories, and I will be damned if I didn’t find myself chuckling softly or laughing out loud at odd times. (I ride public transit, so I might just have scared a couple of kids when doing these.)So while I could not relate to some of the stories, they did make me laugh. My favorite story was the stereotype bending one where the popular girl pays a bunch of geeks to teach her “to speak geek for her to understand her boyfriend a little more.” P.S. What the fudge is a WOOKIE?P.P.S. I still don’t know who the best Star Trek Captain is. But I do know that Captain Kirk always gets the girl.