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Continue reading →: Book Review: Daddy-long-legs by Jean Webster
Every now and then a book comes along that feels like a long lost friend or a true literary kindred spirit, that makes you wonder, “Where have you been all my life? How did it take me so long to find you?” Daddy-long-legs by Jean Webster was written in 1912,…
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Continue reading →: Happy Holidays from my family to yours.
May your holidays be filled with inside jokes, loved ones and good cheer!
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Continue reading →: Thirty something.
It’s my thirty first birthday today, a milestone which seems both significant and small at the same time. While it’s not a birthday with a nice round number that you would see on greeting cards at Hallmark, thirty one also seems better in some ways than thirty because now I’m…
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Continue reading →: The Page 69 Test: Judging books by a single page.
Anne at The Modern Mrs. Darcy wrote today about the Page 69 Test that she heard about in a recent podcast by Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan that is supposed to help you decide if a book is worth your time. The idea is pretty straightforward: When you’re trying to decide if…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
This month my book club read Life After Life by Kate Atkinson – a book that has gotten a lot of praise (it was a 2013 Goodreads Choice Winner) and stimulated a lot of complex conversations among my fellow book clubbers. No surprise considering what a complex book it was.…
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Continue reading →: 5 of my Favorite Modern Christmas Songs
One of my favorite things about Christmas is listening to some of our favorite holiday songs together, usually in the car while running errands with the family – sometimes while cooking or cleaning. We’ve been slowly collecting a “family” collection of songs from artists like Dean Martin, Bing Crosby, BNL,…
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