We had book club last week. Sometimes I love getting out by myself. No one pawing on me. No one wiping their snotty nose on my pants and shoulders. No one rolling their eyes because I am the stupidest creature on the face of the earth or no one doing that that I take very [...]

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I went to book club tonight. We had an interesting discussion about the Time Traveler’s Wife. It got a pretty good rating. Though I’ve forgotten what it was. Susan was there. Man she really understands this stuff. And can articulate what she understand! I’d promised the BoyChild I would bring him a book when I [...]

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My blogging friend Melanie Hauser has a new book coming out, Confessions of Super Mom. It may already be at a bookstore near you! And if you’ll go to her blog, Refrigerator Door, and scroll down a day or two, you’ll see the source of my confusion. I have read the first chapter. It promises [...]

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This is going to be our next book club book. I’m not sure what it’s about exactly but it’s a real departure from what we normally read.

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We are reading The Swallows of Kabul for my bookclub this month. It is a sad, sobering look at life in Afghanistan under Taliban rule. It is a haunting read which I was compelled to stay up late one night to finish.

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At Book Club the other night the manager recommended some books. We didn’t pick any of her recommendations but I thought I’d share them anyway. The Italian SecretaryThe Drowning Tree-The woman who wrote this also wrote, The Seduction of Water which we read a few weeks ago. It was a pretty good book.Ella Minnow PeaNine [...]

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