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Top Ten Books as Gifts – IF YOU’RE A FAMILY MEMBER, DO NOT READ UNTIL...

I love Christmas! Sure, I love it for the music, the lights, and the good smells, but I really love it for the gift-buying! Mainly because it gives me another reason to push books! Everyone knows I...

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Vacation! All I Ever Wanted!

30 days without Admin breathing down my neck. 30 days without Greek and Latin roots, prepositions, thesis statements, and plot maps. 30 days without cooling down emotional, erratic, and hormonal...

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Happy Holidays! This Week in Advance…

So, Christmas is truly here now. As I posted yesterday, I am officially on vacation from work for the next month, and so this week is when I really get into Christmas gear. I’m baking cookies, wrapping...

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Top Ten Books I Hope Santa Brings!

This year, I asked for a whole lot of books for Christmas! Mainly, I’m trying to get books for all of the 2012 reading challenges I’ve signed up for. But, there are a few in here that are just for...

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Infinite Moments in Northern California

Image Credit: Shook Photos As some of you might remember, I am at my mom’s house in Sacramento right now. I’ve been up here since Tuesday night. As it is Saturday, the day which I reserve for random,...

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Book Review: A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

• A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan • Paperback: 341 pages • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday, 2010 • ISBN: 0307477479 • Genre: Adult Contemporary Fiction; Literary Fiction; Pulitzer Winner •...

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More Books, Trolling Author Controversy, Downton Abbey, and Training like Tris

So, it’s Sunday, the last day of my workless reverie before I start lesson planning this week and return to full-time teaching next week. Boo! Actually, I love the teaching aspect of my profession, I...

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Weekend Cooking: Review: Make the Bread, Buy the Butter by Jennifer Reese

• Make the Bread, Buy the Butter by Jennifer Reese • Hardcover: 256 pages • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing, 2011 • ISBN: 1451605870 • Genre: Cookbook; Foodie Memoir • Recommended...

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Classic Authors: They’re Just Like Us! Part Two

Classic Authors: They’re Just Like Us! (if we’re best-selling novelists, that is) or What I Learned about Charles Dickens, the Novelist from My Reading of Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin Part...

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Happy Birthday Charles Dickens!

It seems that San Diego is paying tribute to Dickens on his birthday–it is as gray and rainy today as the scenes he described in Bleak House. I can almost see Lady Dedlock, staring out my window at the...

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