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5/20/2013
No Kidding: Women Writers on Bypassing Parenthood, edited by Henriette Mantel
Seal Press, $16.00, 248 pages
Another invitation arrived today. That makes six this year.
Everybody but you, it seems, is having a baby, and therefore, a baby shower. Consequently, you’ve bought enough receiving blankets to cover your city and wrapped enough tiny outfits to outfit an infantry of infants.
You’re good with babies. Everybody says so. But for whatever reason, you’ve ...
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5/6/2013
NOS4A2: A Novel by Joe Hill
William Morrow, $28.99, 692 pages
The Christmas tree is long gone.
It shed its last needle on the curb more than four months ago, looking sad without baubles on branches or gifts around its trunk. It’s probably mulch now, and that’s okay: the baubles are in a box in the garage, the gifts half-used or half-forgotten already, and you’re thinking summertime, not Yuletide.
But what if it was Christmas every ...
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4/22/2013
Decadence by Eric Jerome DickeyDutton, $25.95, 368 pages
You’ll try anything once.
You’re daring when it comes to a new restaurant, new clubs, new fashion, pretty much anything. Something different for your plate? Bring it on. An activity you’ve never done before? You head the line. New technology? They call you First-Adopter.
Being open to new adventures keeps life fresh and exciting. And, as you’ll see in the new novel Decadence by Eric Jerome ...
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4/8/2013
Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses by Bess Lovejoy2013, Simon & Schuster, $22.00, 329 pages
You walked into a room the other day, and completely forgot why.
These lapses in memory just kill you. If you couldn’t remember what you needed, you were dead in the water. But ideas don’t expire, which is a good thing, because it took awhile to recall what you wanted.
Seriously, sometimes you’d forget ...
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4/2/2013
Spring cleaning is always a good thing.
You find a lot of dirt when you’re scrubbing the corners of your house. You find a better mood when everything’s clean and tidy. And you find things you thought you’d lost and things you never remembered you even had.
Like gift certificates left over from December.
Uh oh.
So, you've got a bookstore gift certificate and you don’t know how to use it. Why not check out ...
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4/1/2013
Prairie Silence by Melanie HoffertBeacon Press, $24.95, 238 pages
The faces in the pictures look back at you with hopeful, aching eagerness.
Ah, your high school annual is such a trove of memories. There you are at Senior Skip Day, making goofy faces. There’s a picture of the class Black Sheep, now the president of the local bank; remembrances of prom, homecoming, first kisses and team spirit.
You haven’t seen a lot of those ...
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3/25/2013
Mundo Cruel by Luis NegrόnSeven Stories Press, $13.95
The neighbors sure got an eyeful last week.
Then again, they always do. They don’t miss a thing when it comes to you and, no matter what it is, they always know your business. Guests, groceries, gifts, whatever comes through your door is another topic of interest for them. Just another thing to gossip about. It’s small-town living at its very worst, whether your city is ...
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