A number of events occurred recently that motivated me to do some spring cleaning. The first was a crash in the middle of a Saturday night as my husband and I were sleeping. He got up to investigate and discovered …
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Meet Isaac Vanio in “Libriomancer” by Jim C. Hines, an adult fantasy about a cataloger who can pull an item out of a book to use before returning it to the story. Vampires attack Isaac in the library, and he …
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A week after seeing the movie “Julie and Julia,” my husband saw Julia Child’s two-volume set of “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” for sale in a bookstore. “We should buy that,” he said. I told him he was crazy—no …
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I found “French Kids Eat Everything” so thought-provoking I bought a copy for my son and his wife who are expecting a baby. For two days after reading it I told anybody who would listen about “this great book.” The …
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The Secret Life of the Grown-up Brain Barbara Strauch This is a fascinating book. The author has pulled together scientific studies of the brain and written a book I can understand. (And it didn’t put me to sleep!) She explains …
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