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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,...
Book Review: Storm
Do not be the slowest zebra. I was looking through my friend's comic collection, and she showed me Storm by Eric Jerome Dickey. Eric Jerome Dickey! I used to love his books. (Did...
Book Review: Icon: A Hero’s Welcome
When you can fly, there's no burden you can't bear. When you can fly, gravity can't touch you. When you can fly...you can do anything. I love the cartoon Static Shock, and so I...
Book Review: Nappy
The librarian suggested Nappy by Charisse Carney-Nunes after hearing a conversation I was having with another woman in line about finding a natural hairstylist. Carney-Nunes...
Book Review: Witch Week
The note said: SOMEONE IN THIS CLASS IS A WITCH. The librarian recommended the audiobook version of Witch Week by Diana Wynne Jones (narrated by Gerard Doyle) to my daughter...