A Way of Life, Like Any Other by Darcy O'Brien My rating: 4 of 5 stars When I first laid eyes on A Way of Life, Like Any Other, by Darcy O'Brien, the book was in the fifth position of a �...
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Nobody's Child: Poverty, Justice, and the Insanity Defense in America by Susan Nordin Vinocour My rating: 2 of 5 stars "Nobody’s Child: A Tragedy, a Trial, and a History of the Insanit...
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Apropos of Nothing by Woody Allen My rating: 3 of 5 stars I didn’t even know Woody Allen was writing a memoir until I read in the news a few months ago that Ronan Farrow had taken to T...
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Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss My rating: 4 of 5 stars "Ghost Wall" had a beautiful cover and a constant flashing banner advertisement on the Lit Hub website, so when I saw that my library’s...
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In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado My rating: 3 of 5 stars Carmen Maria Machado’s “In the Dream House” is technically a memoir, but don’t expect to open to the table of c...
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Romance in Marseille by Claude McKay My rating: 4 of 5 stars I picked up “Romance in Marseille” based on some buzzy reviews from LitHub and New Yorker—a lost classic from a giant o...
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Hi ya, hi ya, hi ya. How ya been? source I have been gone a VERY VERY long time from this space, but in case you were wondering, yes, I am still digging up vintage goodies and blithering on...
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Good morning!! How's tricks? Undercurrent was part of a multi-disc set of Katharine Hepburn movies I bought circa 2007, back when I was a single gal working in a fully grown up job with h...
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Good morning!! Tell the truth-- are you a low down plant murderer like myself or are you one of the blessed few of my acquaintance who could keep an orchid alive in the Kalahari? And if you'r...
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Good morning! How's March treating you? I am still kicking. Today I thought I'd pop back in and show you a few of the things I've been drooling over in my free time (such as it is) that I in ...
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Good morning!! I have been gone but hopefully not forgotten-- how's tricks? Things are swimming along as smoothly as you could hope for with an almost fourteen month old under foot, but I tho...
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Good morning!! Howaya, howaya, howaya. It's Tuesday, saints bless us, and I thought I would take a minute to tell you about your show of shows, Unsolved Mysteries, and its triumphant return t...
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Good morning!! How's tricks? I'm back super fast to show you some little mementos from the life of yours truly, thanks to a recent scouring of the attic for things to list on Craigslist (note...
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Good morning! Betcha thought you wouldn't see me again what with an extremely active eight month old asserting his dominance over my previously placid personal life, but no! I carved out a mo...
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Good morning!! Don't worry, I haven't fled the internet yet-- I've just been busy the past several months as Matthew and I welcomed a brand new baby boy into the world...!! Our son, Remy, was...
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Hi-ya, folks!! When's the last time you saw a dress that made your heart skip a beat? I was minding my own business. prowling through the Met Museum's fashion textile collection (like you do), ...
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Good morning!! Long time no see! How've ya been? I'm peeping back in from the BLAZING, SCORCHED EARTH of Nashville, Tennessee to update you with a celebrity oddity I ran across the other day....
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Salutations, friends! How's tricks? Not much new here in this life of Riley except for one startling development of a few weeks ago. Would you believe....COULD YOU believe...that I finally have a...
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Good morning!! How are things? Same old, same old here in my camp-- I've been listening to a lot of Bruce Springsteen, going to a lot of estate sales, and eating as many tacos as my conscienc...
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Good morning! Well, it's been a tough 2016 already, friends. Last Monday morning around six in the AM, I was feeling a little under the weather and struggling to get my act together...
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HAPpy new year, kiddlings! How have ya been, what have ya been up to? It has been a busy holiday season-- I feel like I'm still saying "Oh man, what am I going to get so and so for Christmas"...
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Good morning! Whew, what a weekend it was, this weekend past! What did you get into? I spent mine in a flurry of activity as I hosted my second blogger meetup on Saturday night. Watch out, El...
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Good morning! Whew, boy, hasn't it been a rainy but productive week over here. I went to the flea market last weekend and while it threatened rain a good part of the time I was there, I did m...
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Hello, hello! I'm not gone again, I just got tangled up in a work-related web of busy-ness which has kept from my own little corner of the internet. Mais, me voilà! Here I am, and the weekend ...
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Good morning! As promised, I'm back on this bleary, dreary Friday morning to share with you a whale of a find from my anniversary travels in Louisville. Weekend before last, we ran up to the ...
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