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We’re real punsters around here – it’s an exciting Sunday when the New York Times delivers two copies of the Magazine with the “Puns and Anagrams” puzzle inside! We’re also grammar geeks. Well, persnickety about some things – when the teen daughter asks “Can Caroline and me go to the mall?” she’s answered with a chorus [...] To my friends who are celebrating today – Merry Christmas from the silly SITFOB family! Peace on earth, goodwill (and plenty of good books!) to all With apologies to Sally Field (who, as a non sequitur, I was said to resemble back in her Flying Nun days; the show ended when I was 5, so I’m not sure what to make of that!) … this blog post title is my not-so-subtle way of announcing that She Is Too Fond of Books [...] (say it to the rhythm of “lions and tigers and bears, oh my!”) We’re home from a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday with J’s sister in NJ, and hope that – if you celebrated – you had a nice time with family and friends, as well. The drive home was long. Very long. What should have been a four [...] “An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving” is a Louisa May Alcott short story that was originally published in the Aunt Jo’s Scrapbag collection "Orchard House" – the Alcott home in Concord The first paragraph includes this timely reminder: They were poor in money, but rich in land and love, for the wide acres of wood, corn, and pasture land fed, warmed, [...] I’ve got three books going right now - Traditional Print Format: The A.B.C. Murders: A Hercule Poirot Mystery by Agatha Christie This was a win from Harper Paperbacks and Booking Mama via the “Cool Down with AC” discussions going on this summer. I joined the discussion for Murder on the Orient Express (my first Agatha Christie!), and [...] Club Read is: October 15-16, 2011 Last month I posted about an author event with Laura Harrington and her novel, Alice Bliss. The novel is a coming-of-age story for 15-year-old Alice, who has to navigate the rough waters of her father’s absence (he’s been deployed to Iraq), her sometimes antagonistic relationship with her mother, and the aches and pains of [...] I’m stretching this one, because LM6 has asked for equal time to show off his Science Fair project. On with the show: Separating Mixtures “My sister did this experiment last year when she was in Eighth Grade. So, it’s a big kid science project, and we just changed it a little bit so I could do [...] |
 
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