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a note to all my mama friends – These Sandwich Days
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8230;caught between toddlers tugging on one hand and holding the phone, talking to our parents on the other…(`Judith Shulevitz). A note to all my mama friends. One late spring evening a couple of months ago, I met my friend, let’s call her Anne, for dinner at one of our favorite spots in Pittsburgh. Privately, I often think of Anne as. My beautiful friend,. Thinking of her as my beautiful friend – it is what she became to me over the many years we’ve spent time together. Miscarriages are so common! I can...
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Books I want to read NOW… | Of Books and Bicycles
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Of Books and Bicycles. Reviews and podcasts →. Thursday, April 23, 2015 · 8:32 pm. Books I want to read NOW…. 8230;except I don’t own them and don’t have much time to read them in. But if I did have the time and felt like going on a book-buying binge, I’d buy:. I loved this interview. With Julavits on a new podcast called Lit Up, and her book sounds fascinating — a diary of sorts, with a unique structure. The People in the Trees. Nelson is just the best. I’ve read two of her books so far (. H is for Hawk.
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Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan | Pequea Valley Reader's Blog
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Pequea Valley Reader's Blog. One reader's take on books available at the Pequea Valley Public Library. Mr Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan. September 25, 2014 in Uncategorized. Mr Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. I’m annoyed that Word Press no longer automatically converts my smiley faces, so I’m moving to asterisks to rate books, which are close enough substitutes for stars.). Online renewal, here I come! 8221; Sloan strikes a very nice balance here bet...
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The Man Who Couldn’t Stop |
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The Man Who Couldn’t Stop. David Adam has written a wonderful book about his decades-long struggle with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Adam, a journalist for several years with. And who now writes for. Has written both a personal account of his OCD and a factual and historical account of this debilitating mental condition. The Man Who Couldn’t Stop. Adam provides a glimpse of possibilities (admittedly quite dismissively) in his final chapter:. Jenny Turner, reviewing in the Guardian, writes:. His fear se...
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Saying Goodbye « What's a Girl to Do?
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What's a Girl to Do? Truffle’s Final Afternoon. This morning I said goodbye to a loyal companion. My dog Truffle was only 13-1/2 years old, and because she was small I hoped to have her for 20 years or so. Fate doesn’t always fulfill our hopes, however. I wrote here early in 2014 that Truffle had been diagnosed with Doggy Alzheimer’s Disease. I dealt with this challenge using a combination of medication, observation (some techniques worked better than others! He is a chef and made a dish on the air with ...
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After Such Kindness ~ Gaynor Arnold | Thinking in Fragments
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But making connections too. After Such Kindness Gaynor Arnold. January 22, 2013. January 21, 2013. One of the books scheduled as a group read next month is Gaynor Arnold’s fictionalised depiction of the life led by Catherine Dickens after her husband fell in love with the young actress Nellie Ternan. I read. The Girl in the Blue Dress. When it first came out and so, knowing a little of the way Arnold worked in that novel, I decided that I would read her more recent book,. He [Jameson] smiled. “...I was e...
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Comfort Reading | Big Reading Life
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I Want to Read ALL THE BOOKS. August 2, 2015. February 2, 2016. My list of comfort reads is relatively short, as I tend to. To re-read books more than I actually do so. Too many shiny new books call my name and attract my attention! So here is my list of comfort reads, in no particular order:. 8211; Jane Austen (my most-read book, currently at 4 re-readings.). The Anastasia Krupnik series by Lois Lowry (I read these as a kid and still love them – they’re so funny and sweet and clever.). Liked by 1 person.
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Mid-August Mini-Reviews (Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Tar Baby by Toni Morrison) | Big Reading Life
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I Want to Read ALL THE BOOKS. Mid-August Mini-Reviews (Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Tar Baby by Toni Morrison). August 15, 2015. February 2, 2016. I can’t believe it’s mid-August already. I’ve been reading, but not writing. Ever since I finished Ta-Nehisi Coates’s. Between the World and Me. I’ve been dithering about how to write about it. Here’s another passage that affected me, about his educational experiences:. I just finished reading Toni Morrison’s. What’s up next? By Graeme Sims...
