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Book 43: Insatiable Meg Cabot I always enjoy Meg Cabot.  Her reads are fun.  Insatiable is no exception.  Cabot capitalizes on what I think is the crest of vampire fatigue.  They are everywhere these days: hovering outside our windows in the delectably creepy “Let the Right One In”; Sexing up our Sunday nights on True […]

Book 42: The Omnivore’s Dilemma Michael Pollan I first saw Michael Pollan on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and was intrigued then about his work.  I finally picked up a copy of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, well, the audiobook, and I’m glad I did. In Dilemma, Pollan traces four meals from start to finish, and […]

Book 41: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson Recently, amongst several people I follow on Twitter, there was a discussion about books everyone’s loved…except you.  I think that may be The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo for me.  Don’t get me wrong. I didn’t hate the book. In fact, I rather liked it and […]

Book 40: Homer’s Odyssey  Gwen Cooper I think I’ve said before in this blog that once in a while a book grabs me in an unexpected way, pulls me in, and affects my emotions in ways I wasn’t anticipating.  Homer’s Odyssey is one of these books.  Homer’s Odyssey tells the story of an abandoned, blind […]

Book 39: Pop Goes The Weasel: The Secret Meanings of Nursery Rhymes Most of us have sung them or chanted them. Little nursery rhymes our parents taught us to show how clever we are. Maybe to teach us a lesson of some sort.  But how many of us have ever really thought about what these […]