Wednesday, May 15, 2013

"It's good to be home! Let's have a party!"

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I love classic Little Golden Books. We tend to think about old-timey morals as being all hardass, but when you really examine these books, t...
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Wednesday, May 08, 2013

11 Children's Classics Re-imagined as Serious Adult Fiction

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There's a whole (justifiable) kerflap happening out there about book covers and gender and blabbidy-blah. But I'm not going to wade...
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

#2. Comfort Me with Apples by Ruth Reichl

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Ruth Reichl was the longstanding editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine until it shut down. She also does all kinds of cool food-related stuff ...
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Wednesday, April 03, 2013

I'm afraid to blink.

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When you have kids, time is scary. One minute they're eating books: The next minute they're setting themselves up with a litt...
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Monday, April 01, 2013

#1. French Lessons by Peter Mayle

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Okay, this is getting ridiculous. If you've been coming here for any amount of time, you know that even at the best of times the posts a...
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Should 2013 be the year of the official Moby Dick Throwdown?

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Okay, I swear to god that I'm not going to be totally lame and post nothing but pictures all the time. My reading is galloping along at ...
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Sunday, January 13, 2013

If you want a non-annoying inspirational poster, make it yourself.

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I was a regular contributor to Apartment Therapy for a few years, and I was there when the typographical poster wave started to crest. (I r...
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Tuesday, January 08, 2013

Oops... we did it again.

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As I mentioned last week, my dog Dobbs died just over a year ago. (You may remember him from this post , which I'm so glad now that I wr...
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