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Nick and Nora Charles. Solving mysteries and drinking martinis in fancy clothes. Classy, sophisticated, divine, darling!
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Role Model? What's That?
What does it mean to be a woman? After all these years of being one, I’m not sure.
The basic gist of it, as I understood while growing up, was this: you got married, had kids, cooked, cleaned. Sometimes you worked. This is what all the women in my family did. My mother- and her mother- loved to cook; they were great cooks. Food was love that boiled over and simmered in the kitchen. And tidiness wa Read more of this blog post »
The basic gist of it, as I understood while growing up, was this: you got married, had kids, cooked, cleaned. Sometimes you worked. This is what all the women in my family did. My mother- and her mother- loved to cook; they were great cooks. Food was love that boiled over and simmered in the kitchen. And tidiness wa Read more of this blog post »
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Just read this book this past month. Having written a very very short story on the same subject matter, I was curious how another author handled the m
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"Picoult is a good writer. Was the content of this one I didn't care for. Stopped reading as soon as I got to the high school shooting. Enough mass murders in real life. Don't need it in my fiction, even if the book goes on from there to be well struc"
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
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"3.5 Loss and loneliness are the main themes explored in this novel about friendship and the life of writing. When a woman loses her best friend and mentor to suicide she tries to understand his actions, deal with the loss of this person, and takes on"
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"THE FRIEND by Sigrid Nunez is quite simply one of the best personal narrative novels I've come across concerning dogs and writing. In the same vein as MY DOG TULIP, Nunez alternates philosophizing between her literary musings and the unexpected care "
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"Sigrid Nunez’s The Friend sometimes reads like a memoir, sometimes like a letter to a friend and sometimes, in an attempt to make sense of both her friend’s death and the dog who has come to stand in for him, a philosophical inquiry. I loved it! Nune"
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I’ve only started reading this (already saw the movie) and I absolutely love it and don’t want to read anything bad said about it, so there 😄 I’ll update my thoughts when I’ve finished it but I’m a dog mom and dog lover, so… |
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| The story was compelling but could have done without so much going on, so many characters, so much everything. I found I didn’t like many of the characters and it was a factor that made finishing this book a chore (I did finish it) Am I the only one ...more | |
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