Books
BlogHer Book Club – Theodora: Actress, Empress, Whore
A few months ago, Mr. M and I were watching The History Channel’s The Dark Ages on Netflix. It was a pretty decent documentary of a time period I don’t know much about. We didn’t really cover the dark ages in high school world history, except for the Plague. Go figure. One portion of the [...]
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BlogHer Book Club: Love at First Bark
Julie Klam loves dogs. LOVES them. In Love at First Bark, she describes three different dog-rescue scenarios, and how helping save these dogs affected her life, and the lives of her friends and family. From the streets of New York City, to post-Katrina New Orleans, Ms. Klam works to make these homeless dogs safe. As [...]
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Case Histories on PBS
I have been absolutely devouring Kate Atkinson’s series featuring Jackson Brodie (he used to be a policeman). (That last bit was funny for folks that have read the series.) (Moving on.) There are four books in the series, and even though I’m reading them out of order, they are still fabulous: Case Histories, One Good [...]
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Populazzi by Elise Allen
OK, folks, I’ve got a good YA pick for you: Populazzi, by Elise Allen. I loved, loved, loved this book. I feel I need to point out right from the start that I know Elise. We were college friends, and Elise is one of the funniest, funnest, most creative people I’ve ever met. It’s no [...]
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BlogHer Book Club: Slow Love
Today I am writing about the latest BlogHer Book Club book – Slow Love by Dominique Browning. Oh, you guys. I really wanted to like this book. It is a memoir, describing the events of her life following her layoff from House & Garden magazine. Considering my recent stint of unemployment, I thought I’d be [...]
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