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It appears today will be a “catch-up day” without my usual Wednesday review / give-away…  I had hoped to finish Chris Meeks’ short story collection (which I am enjoying immensely) and review it today, but it deserves more than a hurried, rushed review… so look for it soon!
In the meantime…  check out [...]

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Last week, while playing cards with my girlfriends (the game was 500 — a cross between Bridge and Euchre), Eve mentioned a feature in Newsweek that asks people what 5 books they believe have been most influential in their lives so far.  Notice the category is not “favorite” or “best” books, but “influential.”  [...]

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I’m just back from ”on the road” so to speak, and I thought I would send along an update on two recent projects: Blogging Idol and Tiny Tales.
First, Blogging Idol has been an interesting experience.  Initially I had hoped to enter my new site, LitGuides.com, but was a little too intimidated and a little short [...]

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After a wonderful weekend in Iowa with my husband’s college buddies, I am now on the North Shore with my girlfriends –  It’s been a whirlwind couple of weeks, but well worth it! 

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I’ll be home and back online tomorrow, but in the meantime check out the interview with Julie P. [...]

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I have a serious aversion to commercials, possibly because I used to teach an advertising unit to my mass media students and have intimate knowledge of the devious ways companies try to get us to buy what we what truly don’t need. 
However, I don’t mind one bit when my favorite Shopaholic Becky Bloomwood specifies [...]