Monthly Archives: January 2010

Demon Possession: an Everyday Occurrence

I read Come Closer by Sara Gran in one day. Besides children’s books, I haven’t read a book in one day since high school. Come Closer was so completely petrifying that if I didn’t read the book in one day, I knew that I wasn’t going to be able to sleep. I had to know [...]
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Walking Away

The Journey One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice– though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. “Mend my life!” each voice cried. But you didn’t stop. You knew what you had to do, though the wind pried with its stiff fingers at the very foundations, though their melancholy was [...]
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Punk Chick Meets Corporate Journalist

In The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson, Mikael Blomkvist, a journalist recently convicted of libel, partners with a ward of the state, Lisbeth, to find out what happened to the niece of one of Sweden’s richest families. What seems like an impossible case takes many twists and turns as Mikael and Lisbeth [...]
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Messages of Beauty

Jessica Alba is featured on the cover of Self Magazine’s February 2010 issue and in the issue she talks pretty blatantly about her body after baby. Pregnancy was the most incredible experience I’ve ever had, so I’ll take the stretch marks. I’ll take the sagging boobs. I’ll take the cellulite I can never get rid of. [...]
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Stripper Talk

I’ve just finished the book Diablo Cody’s memoir, Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper. While there were times I was shocked, appalled and disgusted, I couldn’t put the book down. Cody is hilarious and her frank look at the the Minnesota stripper scene was hard to turn away from. I [...]
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