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On the heels of a flipping emotional week, came Melissa, Rachel and Amanda's party on Saturday. Because they're such nice, awesome girls, their friends were also nice and awesome. I arrived with Aaron and had a moment (okay, half an hour) of social anxiety, but then jumped right in with the help of Columbia Winery's tasty riesling, and proceeded to ( Read more... ) -
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T & B get in the car. The radio is tuned to classic rock, as usual.
AC/DC: So lock up your daughter, lock up your wives, lock up your back door and run for your life.
T: I think we just heard a thinly veiled threat of sodomy...
B changes the station. It's Coldplay.
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Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi - I liked how the first book had both her story and Iranian history...this one was more of just her biography. Still good, though.
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools by Jonathan Kozol - Oh man. This book has me so fired up. I don't know what I'm going to do about it yet, but I ( Read more... ) -
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The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart - GOOD! Not to be missed if you're a sucker like I am for clever kids + mysteries and puzzles for you, the reader, to solve along with them.
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl - I finally got sucked into the mystery after 300 pages. I suppose it was ultimately satisfying, if ( Read more... ) -
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Monday, Tuesday, and part of Wednesday I had jury duty. Sitting in a large waiting room, waiting and waiting and waiting and reading a 300 page book from start to finish, is not my idea of a good time. I finally got excused on Wednesday on a preemtory challenge. It was a little sad, because I was interested in serving on a jury, but this particular ( Read more... )
