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Tentatively Untitled. Because you’ll see why.

Here’s what we need to just get out of the way: My writing is crap. Also, if another child gets out of bed to tell me something “important,” I may actually start crying. REAL tears. It’s not that I don’t want to listen to them tell me their importants, but I don’t really want to [...]

A Good Book for Christmas

One of my favorite gifts to give (and get) at Christmastime is a good book. Although I realize that the more organized among us have already finished their Christmas shopping, I’m guessing some of you are like me and still have some holiday scrambling to do. I’m hoping that I can share some of my [...]

Discovering Jane

Today’s guest post comes from Charise Hansen. Chariese has been trying to adjust for the past four years to the arctic climate in Minnesota, and is still failing miserably.  She is also the mother to 5 children, the latest of which came from China; he is quickly becoming the world’s most spoiled little boy with [...]

Confessions of a Compulsive Reader

Today’s guest post comes from Lindsay Denton, who lives in San Antonio, TX where she works full-time as a speech-language pathologist.  Her husband, Jay, graduates from dental school this summer.  When she’s not working or holed up somewhere with a book, you can find her snapping photos, doing something musical, trying (and failing) to organize [...]

the books of summer

My older boys set the rule: if you want to see a Harry Potter movie, you must read the book. It’s a simple way to monitor age-appropriateness and for me, at least, to justify a PG13 movie for a 9 year old boy. Motivated by the final movie premiering July 15th, my Gabriel is knee [...]

Leaving an impression

I am so impressionable, if you touched me I would probably retain your fingerprint on my skin. I’m kidding, but barely. What I read, watch, listen to, & see really colors how I see the world. (This is probably true of everyone but I might have it to such a degree that the Victorians would [...]

With a Lot of Lying Down Comes This

First it was Elizabeth Strout. A thorough reading and rereading of Olive Kitteridge wasn’t enough and I delved back into her other novels with abandon: jealous and thirsty. Then it was an inordinate amount of chick lit, the best of which (probably Jennifer Weiner?) I’m even almost too embarrassed to admit. Right now it is [...]

Segullah Suggests: Books to Buy This Christmas

I‘m a traditional kind of girl—you know, one who puts off her Christmas shopping until the day after Thanksgiving and then spends December in a frenzy of list-making, bargain-shopping and gift-wrapping. Although I wish I could be one of those women who creates dozens of heartfelt handmade gifts, alas, craftiness is not my thing. One [...]

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