I’ve fallen behind on my audiobook reporting! When last I posted on the topic, I was listening to The Graveyard Book, written and read by Neil Gaiman. The story is quite good; intriguing, with those odd bits that make it Gaimanesque. There were a few parts that made me say, “Huh?” But most of his books …
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Turnoff Week 2009
Remember how I just posted about Ellen Currey-Wilson’s The Big Turnoff, about raising a TV-free kid? Guess what? next week is Turnoff Week! Check out the full article here. I especially like the quote from second grader Drew Henderson at the very end…
Mini Reviews: “The Big Turnoff” and “Her Fearful Symmetry”
Whew, the past few weeks have been busy! Not only has not much posting happened, but not even much reading has occurred. Here’s what I’ve gotten through: I really enjoyed The Big Turnoff by Ellen Currey-Wilson. Published a few years ago, the memoir follows the author’s adventures raising her son without television when she herself …
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Mini Reviews: “Cartwheels in a Sari,” “The 19th Wife,” and ”Spellbinder”
Whew, I’ve been slacking! Just on the posting though, not on the actual reading, which is an improvement! I finished Cartwheels in a Sari by Jayanti Tamm first. It’s a very well written, interesting memoir about growing up as part of a cult. When her parents break their guru’s rule about sex and her mother …
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Thoughts on “At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream” by Wade Rouse
Whew, what a title! The cover is what drew me to this book initially, followed by the title. Those, and the opening story, in which our protagonist fights of a living coonskin cap he’s acquired while taking out the trash with nothing but tube of Burt’s Bees lip gloss and some breath spray. At Least …
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