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Eat, Drink, Vampire, Bella: a Review of The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer
08.25.08 | Permalink | 32 CommentsThe 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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book review, divorce
Because I don’t think you understand (and I know I don’t) *Updated*
08.01.08 | Permalink | 19 CommentsI 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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book review, parenting
Would You Let Your Seven-year Old Read Books Six & Seven of Harry Potter?
07.28.08 | Permalink | 33 CommentsFirst, a confession. I never got past book two of the Harry Potter series. Not because they weren’t engaging, but because I got lazy, I guess. Where an 800+ page book used to seem like a challenge, now it honestly makes me a little tired. And it’s not my favorite genre. That would be romance [...]
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book review, kids, works for me
All you ever needed to know about manners, and how to teach them to your kids
06.09.08 | Permalink | 14 CommentsEverything I know about manners I learned from The Berenstain Bears Forget Their Manners. Brother and Sister Bear are just about as impolite as it gets. And then there’s Papa Bear, who’s basically Homer Simpson in a bear suit. In fact, if I were Promise Keepers: Men of Integrity, I’d be suing Stan and Jan [...]
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book review, fatherhood
In which I meet an icon: Dooce is about what you’d expect, as is her book
06.07.08 | Permalink | 10 CommentsDooce: love her or hate her (or both), you cannot deny that she does indeed live in Utah. On Thursday night, June 5th in the year of our Lord 2008, she had a book signing at a cute university bookstore in a seriously cute part of Salt Lake City. Dick and I went. We were late, just catching [...]
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book review, Makes-Me-Smile Monday
MMSM: The Rainbow Fish Conspiracy
05.19.08 | Permalink | 7 CommentsI could probably maintain an entire blog just about the (childrens) books that make an old-fashioned book-burning look totally defensible. But honestly, the gag-reflex I get from Angelina Ballerina is greatly eclipsed by the desire to glut myself on endless re-readings of Dumpy LaRue, Julius, the Baby of the World, The Ordinary Princess, and everything by L.M. Montgomery. But where’s the fun in slavering [...]
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book review, health, motherhood
The Book of Mom, redux
05.12.08 | Permalink | 11 CommentsIt is very difficult for me to write this, but my conscience will not be silenced: I must admit that I have judged something unfairly. I have prematurely condemned it for being unoriginal and unenlightening. You know what doesn’t really bite? What actually has moments of soul-searching, and, as Sally (7) says, many scenes that [...]
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