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Nostalgia: Sharing Sam
"You know, just because she's sick, hon, it doesn't mean you have to put your life on hold. Just because something bad's happened to Izzy doesn't mean you can't have good things...
Book Review: Women Food and God
I will be forever annoyed that there are no commas in that title. I’ve told this story for many more years than I lived it, but it only recently became clear to me that the...
Book Review: Runaway
I couldn’t help lifting my hand to finger the spot on my own scalp where, more than three months earlier, surgeons at the Stark Institute for Neurology and Neurosurgery had cut...
Book Review: Flight #116 Is Down
[Patrick] tried to be glad that so few local lives were in danger, but deep down he was hoping for a really good catastrophe. In Flight #116 Is Down by Caroline B. Cooney,...
Book Review: Sex for One
Masturbation is a primary form of sexual expression. It's not just for kids or for those in-between lovers or for old people who end up alone. Masturbation is the ongoing love...
Book Review: Scarlett Fever
The questions that Scarlett was asking herself at the moment weren't quite that dramatic. They weren't even that specific. What was going through her head was a querulous...
Book Review: A Wrinkle in Time
"No, Meg. Don't hope it was a dream. I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be." I never...
Book Review: Diary of a Fairy Godmother
Mama took the lead and went on about how I'm first in charm school and how "she'll be the wickedest witch wherever the four winds blow." Doesn't Mama know it's bad luck to brag?...
Book Review: I, Tina
The fact is, I had no love from my mother or my father from the beginning, from birth. But I survived. To tell the truth, I haven't received a real love almost ever in my life,...