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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 the [...]

• book review, tv shows

  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 write. Or [...]

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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 | 18 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 nice [...]

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

  09.09.08 | Permalink | 13 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 Austenland, Shannon [...]

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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 [...]

• book review, divorce

  Because I don’t think you understand (and I know I don’t) *Updated*

  08.01.08 | Permalink | 19 Comments

  I got in trouble yesterday for a comment I left on my sister’s blog about her soon-to-be ex-husband. My sister is extremely circumspect, and, while she is open with our family and her friends, she isn’t one to badmouth or vilify or be vindictive. In other words, she acts in a saint-like manner where I [...]

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