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  Easy Enough

  07.27.10 | Permalink | 15 Comments

  I just finished Three Cups of Tea. One of the best things about our electricity fast was the books I read, especially since, for a former English major, I don’t always read well. I devoured Hunger Games and Catching Fire; I cried through The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, I loved/hated Eat Pray [...]

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  Reading in the desert

  04.19.09 | Permalink | 18 Comments

  This week I read a book that made me want to get down on my knees and give thanks that I know how to read. That there are women and men who sit down to put words on paper. That I have the time and thought and leisure to read. That I am a woman [...]

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  How are Mommy Bloggers like a Gang of Crack Cocaine Dealers?

  09.23.08 | Permalink | 20 Comments

  In the gilded ghetto of purpose-driven motherhood, the A-list Mommy Blogger is a glamour job like no other. Mommy Blogging is the ultimate think/work-at-home-while-the-kids-THRIVE endeavor. It glorifies motherhood even as it thrillingly confesses how mindlessly stultifying it can be. And children are the ultimate source of tragic/comic/heart-warming narratives. While mommy blogging is not dangerous in [...]

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  Stephenie Meyer, have you been talking to J.J. Abrams?

  09.18.08 | Permalink | 14 Comments

  (Breaking Dawn and Fringe SPOILER ALERT) Dear Stephenie, Did you catch the second episode of the new (almost-as-good-as Alias, probably-like-X-Files) show on Fox, Fringe? I know you’re sad, sad, sad right now about the internet-leaking of Midnight Sun, and probably you have better things to do than watch House and Fringe on Tuesday nights. Like [...]

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  Once upon a time (or, Susan’s book pick: Fanny’s Dream by Caralyn Buehner and Mark Buehner)

  09.16.08 | Permalink | 19 Comments

  Sometimes I fantasize about organizing a “too much stuff” intervention for my parents. I try to tell them, nicely, that we have libraries, Blockbuster, and WalMart for a reason: so we don’t have to stockpile every last ding-dang thing in our own homes. But ever since Sally learned how to read, it’s been kind of [...]

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  Sally Reviews The Princess Academy; Everybody is Guest-Post Writing

  09.09.08 | Permalink | 14 Comments

  I learned about Shannon Hale from Stephenie Meyer‘s Breaking Dawn acknowledgments page: Thanks to my peer support, Shannon Hale, for understanding everything. Oh! How joining that group would be sweeter than all the Be Fri – St Ends necklaces in the world. The next best thing was a trip to the library, where I got [...]

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  Eat, Drink, Vampire, Bella: a Review of The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer

  08.25.08 | Permalink | 32 Comments

  The perfect romance novel of all time is The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery. It was great when I was an innocent twelve, and it’s fantastic now that I’m the 31 year-old mother of three girls, who I would love to have read every single word of Montgomery’s. In fact, if they wanted to read [...]

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