Monthly Archives: May 2009

Book Review: The Strings of the Lute by Eileen Colucci

The Strings of the Lute by Eileen Colucci is about two friends who take different paths in their lives. Lorraine and Suzanne grow up together in Long Island, New York. In college, Lorraine travels to France where she meets her future husband, Larbi. Suzanne stays in New York to become a conventional wife in [...]
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Kanye West Comes Out of the Closet as a “non-reader”

Kanye West has just come out of the closet as a “proud non-reader.” He further states, “I like to get information from doing stuff like actually talking to people and living real life” because the rest of us are just dumb enough to like to read rather than live life. Huh? This [...]
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Top Five Potty Books

When my daughter, Magpie, started learning how to use the potty chair, I went a little overboard. I was so completely excited about the possibility of never having to change a smelly poopy diaper again that I may have put too much pressure on my little one. I went and got every single book about going to [...]
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Don & Audrey Wood: Imagery in Children’s Literature

I think that everyone has a list of authors in which they will buy their books no matter what.  For me (as of today because authors have known to fall off my list over the years), that list includes Jodi Picoult, Tracy Chevalier, and Stephen King.  When it comes to my little girl that list [...]
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Book Review: Diary of a Teenage Faërie Princess by C.B. Smith

Diary of a Teenage Faërie Princess by C.B. Smith is about a young girl, Jaynie, who is motherless with very large toe in this modern world. Yes, I said large toe. She has a very “large” problem finding shoes and that is where our story begins. Her mother disappeared when she was three; now she [...]
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