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Monthly Archives: November 2011

I still have no idea why I put this on hold at the library.  I was surprised to find it on the holds shelf and I’m still surprised. Nothing about it reminded of why I would have wanted it.  A 1984 romance novel, a long beach read.  Entertaining, forgettable.

Blue Nights

Blue Nights

Home Game

Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood Thanks for the recommendation, Peter.  This guy is my kind of writer:  personal, immediate, funny.  His chapter on getting a vasectomy makes me feel like I might owe my husband a little more compassion on that front.

Destiny of the Republic

Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President When I picked this up on hold from my library, I couldn’t remember where I had ever heard of it or why I had wanted to read it.  Probably some book review in O Magazine.  Totally outside my interest in […]

Mrs. Kimble

Another Jennifer Haigh novel.  I love her writing style:  you get right into characters heads without losing the narrative.  This is the story of 3 women all, at various times, married to the same man. They’re lives never directly bisect, but Haigh lets you in on the connections.  Very readable — I’ll be getting her […]

Big weekend

I feel like something big happened here this weekend.  Ben got a haircut.  His shoulder-length hair was swept into a ponytail and CHOPPED OFF.  By choice. And this is not the biggest part of it. One of you may remember that Ben decided to be an attorney for Halloween last year.  He decided in September […]