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books
Do your parents know what your favorite book is?
10.24.08 | Permalink | 26 CommentsSarah Palin is like a national Rorschach inkblot test, especially for women. What we see when we look at her tells an awful lot about us. I’m not talking her politics per se, I’m talking her great hair, snappy clothes, edgy glasses, and Tina Fey sparkle. Maybe we hate her because she’s beautiful. Maybe we [...]
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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 [...]
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book review
Once upon a time (or, Susan’s book pick: Fanny’s Dream by Caralyn Buehner and Mark Buehner)
09.16.08 | Permalink | 19 CommentsSometimes 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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book review
Sally Reviews The Princess Academy; Everybody is Guest-Post Writing
09.09.08 | Permalink | 14 CommentsI 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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book review
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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things that must go
Things That Must Go: Nora Roberts/Joan Wickersham Giveaway
08.02.08 | Permalink | 19 CommentsHey! Glad to see you back here for Things That Must Go. Somehow I think nothing will ever compare to the great underwear giveaway of 2008, but that’s okay. I have a couple of things I need to get off my chest (no, not those things, though frankly I didn’t like them even before they [...]
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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 | 28 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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