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BlogHer Book Club: How to Be an American Housewife

I’ve just finished reading How to Be an American Housewife by Margaret Dilloway for the BlogHer Book Club. It was such an amazing book! It was one of those books that you wanted to read slowly and enjoy every single word of it. The story is that of a Japanese girl named Shoko and the …

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A Percy Jackson Phenomenon

There has been a bit of what I’m going to call a Percy Jackson Phenomenon going on here lately. What happened was that a few months ago I stopped at the library and just grabbed a stack of books that I thought my daughter would be interested in. She had just finished reading The Diary of a Wimpy …

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Book One

This afternoon my daughter asked about the novel that I wrote  and if she could see it. So I dug out my one and only copy that is in print form and handed it to her. She was very impressed that it was 28 chapters long. And then she told me that I should write another book, …

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I. AM. ABOUT. TO. LOSE. IT.

We all remember the library book that the dog ate, correct? I had to return it to the library yesterday, and while I have a lot of libraries that I could have taken it to, there were really only two that were convenient for me yesterday. The first is a very small library, and when …

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24: I’m so lost

I spent the day being sick. My sinuses are all congested and my food tastes funny. But of course, the day I’m sick is the day the cleaners come and it just felt too weird to be laying on the couch (dying) so I went up to Panera to have a cup of coffee and …

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Page 343

I’m on page 343 of The Help by Kathryn Stockett. Thank you Jennifer for lending (loaning?) me such a lovely book. For a number of years now I’ve scoured the various bestsellers lists for what I should be reading next. I’ve actually read some really good books this way, and it’s always nice when Time …

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The One Without a Title

Tonight is wine club and this month we are tasting South American wines. One of the best parts about tonight is that the hostess has THE BIGGEST chick-lit book collection I’ve EVER seen! Oh Kate, I’m bringing my library book bag to check out some books. Tomorrow is yoga, a facial, probably the movies, and …

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