Forum: Arts & Entertainment
03-05-2014, 06:23 PM
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Just finished The Husband's Secret by Liane...
Just finished The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty. The cover and the title make it sound like fluffy chick-lit, but it's a lot more than that. It's about secrets, moral responsibility, vengeance,...
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Forum: Arts & Entertainment
12-19-2013, 08:22 AM
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Update on Reconstructing Amelia -- I'd give it...
Update on Reconstructing Amelia -- I'd give it 3.5 stars out of 5. There were some unresolved plot points and the last third of the book was weaker than the rest of it. Interesting food for thought...
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Forum: Arts & Entertainment
12-17-2013, 11:35 AM
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Forum: Arts & Entertainment
09-11-2013, 08:11 PM
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Forum: Arts & Entertainment
07-09-2013, 07:54 PM
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Randomly picked up a novel called "666 Park...
Randomly picked up a novel called "666 Park Avenue" by Gabriella Pierce at the library today. Started reading before lunch and just couldn't put it down -- finished it this evening. The tag line is...
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Forum: Arts & Entertainment
06-26-2013, 08:01 PM
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Forum: Arts & Entertainment
01-02-2013, 02:55 PM
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Just started Rowling's new book, The Casual...
Just started Rowling's new book, The Casual Vacancy. I'm only about 15 pages in, and I'll admit it made me giggle to see characters say "fuck." Makes me think of all the cursing Harry Potter would've...
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Forum: Arts & Entertainment
12-27-2012, 04:12 PM
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Forum: Arts & Entertainment
12-27-2012, 03:12 PM
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The Burning House: What Would You Take?
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The Burning House: What Would You Take?
Based on the blog of the same name, this book is a collection of photographs with captions depicting what people would take with them if their houses were...
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Forum: Arts & Entertainment
12-03-2012, 09:37 PM
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About 3/4 of the way through Cinderella Ate My...
About 3/4 of the way through Cinderella Ate My Daughter by Peggy Orenstein.
It's a non-fiction book about the effects of the "girlie-girl" culture on young girls. All that pretty pink princess...
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Forum: Arts & Entertainment
08-25-2009, 10:01 PM
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Forum: Arts & Entertainment
06-17-2009, 12:06 AM
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Tears and hugging of disoriented,...
Tears and hugging of disoriented, sleeping-until-just-now husband as I finish reading The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger at one in the morning. I borrowed it from a friend after she...
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Forum: Arts & Entertainment
05-05-2009, 05:56 PM
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Still finishing up The Graveyard Book. It was...
Still finishing up The Graveyard Book. It was delayed because I picked up Hanging Out with the Dream King this weekend, a book of interviews with Neil Gaiman and his collaborators through out his...
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Forum: Arts & Entertainment
04-12-2009, 02:55 PM
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Steamrolled through To Kill a Mockingbird...
Steamrolled through To Kill a Mockingbird yesterday because I have to start teaching it tomorrow. (Yuck.)
Reading The Graveyard Book for pleasure, during that imaginary thing they call "free...
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Forum: Arts & Entertainment
10-04-2008, 06:54 AM
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Currently listening to Neil Gaiman's recently...
Currently listening to Neil Gaiman's recently released The Graveyard Book.
Mr. Gaiman is on tour, promoting his new book, and reading one chapter of the book at each stop. Videos of the readings...
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Forum: Arts & Entertainment
08-05-2008, 10:29 AM
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Forum: Arts & Entertainment
08-04-2008, 08:39 PM
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Forum: Arts & Entertainment
07-23-2008, 03:31 PM
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Forum: Arts & Entertainment
03-02-2008, 06:08 PM
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Forum: Arts & Entertainment
02-21-2008, 08:19 AM
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Forum: Arts & Entertainment
01-10-2008, 03:31 PM
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Recently finished:
Jerry Spinelli - Milkweed ...
Recently finished:
Jerry Spinelli - Milkweed
William Goldman - The Princess Bride
Dashiell Hamett - The Maltese Falcon (As an aside, this book ended up inspiring a weird dream last night where I...
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Forum: Arts & Entertainment
11-19-2007, 06:57 PM
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Forum: Arts & Entertainment
11-07-2007, 09:19 PM
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I just finished Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett...
I just finished Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett this weekend. Of the 30+ Discworld books I've read, the books in the Tiffany Aching arc have been my favorites. I was a little disappointed by this...
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