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Apr.13.2013
Books (Photo credit: henry)
I've never been one to blow through my paycheck on a shopping spree. I do buy clothes more often than my husband but not nearly as often as most women. I never buy jewelry. I don't have a lot of knickknacks or art, although, with a mother who is an artist, I certainly...
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Feb.26.2013
I'm a latecomer to the Jennifer Lawrence party, but I've been doing my homework. With no acting training, she convinced her parents to go to New York City, where, at 16, she won a key role in a TV series. For that, she received the Young Artist Award for Outstanding Young...
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Jun.07.2012
Check out this week's Friday Writing Tips!!!
Fridaywritingtips: The Book Doctors on Not Following Trends & Seth Godin on Finding Your Tribe
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Apr.19.2012
The Hunger Games
The premise of this movie/book makes me feel uncomfortable and questions why write such dark stories. Then I consider the fact I haven’t read page one of any of the books, and have not seen the movie at the cinemas. This reminds me of a controversy that surrounded the film ‘The...
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Apr.19.2012
The Hunger Games
The premise of this movie/book makes me feel uncomfortable and questions why write such dark stories. Then I consider the fact I haven’t read page one of any of the books, and have not seen the movie at the cinemas. This reminds me of a controversy that surrounded the film ‘The...
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Mar.30.2012
As with most great movies, there are many parallels to our shared experience as human beings in the most recent blockbuster, "The Hunger Games."
I loved this movie. And now, I must read the books.
In one of the film's many memorable scenes, Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson), co-star who is in love...
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Mar.29.2012
About three years ago I was at Kathleen Caldwell's A Great Good Place For Books to see Sarah Dessen read, where the woman hosting the event Jake talked about the new book that was supposed to be the new big thing, the new Harry Potter. I wrote the author's name down, then the next day told...
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Mar.28.2012
Wow! I was quoted in an article “The Hunger Games: Empowering or Too Dark for Teens?” by librarian Audrey Barbakoff around YASaves! (beaming) She used quotes from my response to the whole Darkness Too Visible article and the YASaves movement because some parents are saying there is too...
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Mar.23.2012
The Hunger Games
Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Woody Harrelson, Stanley Tucci, Wes Bentley, Willow Shields, Donald Sutherland, Elizabeth Banks, Lenny Kravitz, Amandla Stenberg, Isabelle Fuhrman, and many more.
Directed by: Gary Ross Screenplay...
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Mar.05.2012
(The Hunger Games #2)
I had doubts about this book before I ever picked it up.
There was a list of things in my head that it could never do.
It could never be as amazing as the first one.
They would NEVER go back into the arena and therefore, it just wouldn't live up...
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