“The truth is I still can’t quite get over that I’m using words like ‘aging’ and ‘elder’ in the same breath as I talk about myself and my friends.” –Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed To Get Old Brooke Shields cannot get old, because then…well, I’d be old, too. And so it goes, for a generation […]
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“But we are always optimists when it comes to time; we think there will be time to do things with other people. And time to say things to them.” -A Man Called Ove Poor Ove LIndahl. All he wants to do is kill himself, but nobody will leave him alone long enough to do it.
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Are you an Outlander fan? Book or TV show, it makes no matter. With the Season 7 finale of the Starz television series recently airing and book ten of Diana Gabaldon’s wildly popular Outlander series expected somewhere in the (hopefully) not far distant horizon, Outlander fans have a bit of a wait to get through,
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“It’s hard to be knocked down when you’re on all fours.” We listen and we don’t judge. We don’t judge when a woman tells her family that she is driving across the country from California to New York City and, instead, stops in a town 30 minutes from her home and proceeds to hole up
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“Only dying girls like Sleeping Beauty.” Spoiler alert – Zinnia Gray is dying. It’s not really a spoiler alert, because she tells you that fact herself as the story is beginning. It does, however, set the stage for her love of Sleeping Beauty throughout her life, even though her life seems to be increasingly reaching
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“We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.” – Cesar Chavez It starts with a book and a red silk dress…two of my favorite things! We meet twenty-five year old Elsinore, ‘Elsa,’ the spinster daughter of the well-to-do Wolcott family. Elsa was sick as
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“We are all stardust. The whole universe is inside us.” – Matt Haig, The Life Impossible Awww, Matt Haig…you almost had me. Almost. I really thought we were going to make it this time, that we would be happy together. Much like that guy (or girl) that all of your friends and family encourage you
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Let’s talk about Binti, the accidental heroine of our story. (Aren’t they all accidental heroines in some form or fashion? I digress…) One of 10 kids, Binti is a 16-year-old Himba girl who leaves home in the dead of night to fulfill her dream of attending the renowned Oomza University. She boards a transporter that
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Imagine if you will that you are walking along the streets of your town. You’re young, healthy, able to work. You show up for a job each day, hang out with your friends on the weekends, maybe go see your mom on Sundays to get your laundry done and have a home cooked meal. You
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One of my favorites, Griffin & Sabine captured my imagination when it was first published. I was working in a book store at the time and I recommended this book to everyone. Everyone. If you are not one of the seemingly thousands of people I preached to about this book and it’s new to you, let me
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