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group name: bookwomen
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October 17, 2006 02:09 PM EDT --
Seems like the movie can never quite live up to the magic of the book. I was wondering if anyone out there can think of examples where the movie actually surpassed (or at least matched) the genius of the . . . more
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August 07, 2007 09:41 AM EDT --
My publicist sent me an e-mail the other day, and I noticed an addendum to her standard signature at the bottom. It was a note written in green accompanied by the image of a small pine tree that said, . . . more
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November 06, 2007 09:28 AM EST --
I recently received a copy of "Downsizing Your Home With Style: Living Well in a Smaller Space from Bright Ideas Group. Author Lauri Ward gives wonderful tips about how to create a beautiful environment . . . more
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May 17, 2006 03:24 PM EDT --
In my last post, I was in Boston, heading back from a great visit at the Gather.com headquarters to the Inn at Harvard to prepare for my reading that night at the Harvard Coop.
Almost 50 years ago, . . . more
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May 17, 2007 11:30 AM EDT --
The Unanswered Question
I asked you a question--
Didn't you see?
Did you skim right over it?
Did you fail to see?
Or did you ignore me?
Decide not to respond?
Was I out of line asking?
Venture . . . more
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May 29, 2007 01:02 PM EDT --
So I was reorganizing my bookshelves this weekend when I came across some old college books. One of them was The Paston Letters. This is a collection of letters sent back and forth . . . more
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July 20, 2007 02:57 PM EDT --
I have 30,000.00 of credit debt that I incurred staying home with my daughter for the first two years of her life. I have a 401k with 50,000.00 in it that they won't let me have unless I quit my job . . . more
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July 11, 2007 10:31 AM EDT --
Horton's Books & Gifts in Carrollton, GA, would fit gracefully in the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The oldest bookstore in Georgia (established in 1892) with its wood floors providing . . . more
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January 31, 2007 09:12 AM EST --
I must confess that I'm not a fan of LL Cool J's music. There simply aren't enough guitars involved in it.
That said, though, I've always been a fan of the man . . . more
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May 03, 2007 07:22 AM EDT --
The jury seems conflicted on this. I put my heart and soul into my novel, carried my characters in the pockets of my brain for years. As my manuscript sits in a file, I miss them. I wrote the novel online-- . . . more
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June 19, 2007 03:23 AM EDT --
There are few memoirs that can compare with The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. The story begins as Walls is on her way to a party in New York City, traveling by taxi down from her Park Avenue apartment. . . . more
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October 13, 2007 10:54 AM EDT --
My friends, the past few weeks have been positively gruesome! Having never picked up a newspaper before in my life (did you think I would want to get my $200 manicure dirty with ink?), I couldn't find . . . more
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March 30, 2008 01:59 AM EDT --
A glance to Amazon and all you see are good reviews for Freedom From Oil by David Sandalow, here too the echos of a good review permeate the air.
Freedom From Oil has a lot of good things to say. . . . more
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January 08, 2007 12:51 PM EST --
As I sent out holiday greetings this year, I hesitated each time I wished my friends and loved ones “Peace.” How could I offer such wishes when I don’t believe peace is possible in a . . . more
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May 23, 2007 01:11 PM EDT --
The Dangerous Book for Boys
Con Iggulden & Hal Iggulden
Collins
270 pages
"I love it. I can't wait to make a bow and arrow," my son exclaimed when I asked him what he thought of the . . . more
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April 15, 2008 07:22 AM EDT --
Looking down through the clouds I see my island. My hand performs a little wag back and forth as I say a temporary good-bye to my little patch of the world. The passenger next to me grins and . . . more
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October 04, 2006 06:14 PM EDT --
Meet new people while discussing great books. Come to the Leonard Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library for a fun and lively monthly book discussion! October's selection is Mark Haddon's bestselling . . . more
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December 03, 2006 05:29 PM EST --
I thought I’d completed the process of writing a book when my memoir, The Scent of God , was published by Counterpoint, NY, this April. I didn’t realize that the most arduous part of authorship . . . more
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April 23, 2006 12:47 PM EDT --
Actually, this could have been titled, The Book of Bill, or The Book of Linda, or the Book of You. Why? Because every individual is worthy of their own book to be written about them. Every individual . . . more
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August 28, 2007 12:27 PM EDT --
In an arguably morbid conversation, my sister and I were discussing our funerals the other day. The two of us are pretty irreverent when it comes to death—this, naturally, drives my parents mad—and . . . more
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