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    • 12 Ratings
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    I've just discovered television and I think I'm addicted.

    FEBRUARY 23, 2011 3:09PM

    By Noelle Tankard


    Topics: saved by pop culture, television, childhood, books, family

    • Editor's Pick
    • 14 Ratings
    • 3976 Views
    • 29 Comments
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    When Is It Okay to Quit a Book?

    FEBRUARY 16, 2011 10:54PM

    By Nick Leshi


    Topics: reading, books, open call

    • Editor's Pick
    • 51 Ratings
    • 4186 Views
    • 60 Comments
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    The Phony Widow

    FEBRUARY 15, 2011 2:41PM

    By Nikki Stern


    Topics: grief, grieving process, loss-of-spouse memoirs, joyce carol oates, joan didion, 9/11, books, literature, writing

    • Editor's Pick
    • 65 Ratings
    • 2437 Views
    • 98 Comments
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    16 and Pregnant When Reality TV was Just Black and White

    FEBRUARY 16, 2011 10:46AM

    By Linda Seccaspina


    Topics: losing your religion, unwed mothers, adoption, street walkers, church, hookers, minister, white slave trade, adoption, quebec, teen moms, 16 and pregnant, baby broker, adoption, peacock babies, springer babies, rosen babies, hightower babies, montreal black market babies, cole babies, butterbox babies, belief/religion, books

    • Editor's Pick
    • 17 Ratings
    • 1234 Views
    • 18 Comments
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    Illuminated Manuscripts: The Survival of Print

    FEBRUARY 13, 2011 8:35AM

    By Steven Axelrod


    Topics: books

    • Editor's Pick
    • 12 Ratings
    • 1929 Views
    • 25 Comments
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    Do Barbie and Cinderella Destroy Girls?

    FEBRUARY 8, 2011 12:44PM

    By Tart & Soul


    Topics: saving ophelia, raising girls, raising a child, princess culture, princess costumes, pink aisle, peggy orenstein, girl culture, empowering girls, cinderella ate my daughter, barbie dolls, family, books, feminism

    • Editor's Pick
    • 5 Ratings
    • 992 Views
    • 7 Comments
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    The breakout novel of 2011?

    FEBRUARY 3, 2011 4:18PM

    By Dave Cullen


    Topics: books, bruno littlemore, writers, award-winners, novels

    • Editor's Pick
    • 7 Ratings
    • 865 Views
    • 7 Comments
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    How a Children's Book Helped Me Learn to Grieve

    FEBRUARY 1, 2011 4:34PM

    By Megan Scott


    Topics: mo willems, books, family, emdr, therapy, trauma, love, death, baby loss, stillbirth, loss, grief

    • Editor's Pick
    • 9 Ratings
    • 1594 Views
    • 22 Comments
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    Book Review: Loud in the House of Myself, by Stacy Pershall

    JANUARY 25, 2011 6:47PM

    By Zella


    Topics: borderline, anorexia, bipolar, mental illness, tattoos, book review, books

    • Editor's Pick
    • 4 Ratings
    • 855 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    Writing in Tongues

    JANUARY 20, 2011 12:01AM

    By Ranjani Iyer Mohanty


    Topics: books, authors, india, jaipur literature festival, jaipur, english, indian-english authors, india english literature, salman rusdie, vikram seth, jhumpa lahiri, kiran desai, pico iyer, namita gokhale, william dalrymple

    • Editor's Pick
    • 21 Ratings
    • 1090 Views
    • 28 Comments
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    Tripping the Country Side a photo-storyline

    JANUARY 19, 2011 3:17PM

    By Mauricio Betancourt


    Topics: video, travel, poetry, news, health, gay/lesbian, family, country side, farms, pance, colombia, cali, environment, books

    • Editor's Pick
    • 17 Ratings
    • 10571 Views
    • 26 Comments
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    Why David Brooks Gets the Meaning of Life Wrong

    JANUARY 14, 2011 1:23PM

    By Martha Nichols


    Topics: psychology, david brooks, new yorker, social animal, belief/religion, books, science

    • Editor's Pick
    • 10 Ratings
    • 1845 Views
    • 16 Comments
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    Amy Chua, there is a middle parenting road

    JANUARY 13, 2011 4:24PM

    By Amber Nasrulla


    Topics: belief/religion, chinese parents, why chinese mothers are superior, books, family, parenting, amy chua, battle hymn of the tiger mother

    • Editor's Pick
    • 22 Ratings
    • 3337 Views
    • 41 Comments
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    Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother - Book Review

    JANUARY 13, 2011 3:51PM

    By Grace Hwang Lynch


    Topics: family, books, belief/religion, chinese mothers, battle hymn of the tiger mother, why chinese mothers are superior, amy chua

    • Editor's Pick
    • 6 Ratings
    • 1310 Views
    • 14 Comments
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    I want Amy Chua to ambush my kid's recital

    JANUARY 12, 2011 5:06PM

    By Adequate Parent


    Topics: music, feminism, family, comedy, books

    • Editor's Pick
    • 24 Ratings
    • 1713 Views
    • 34 Comments
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    You Can't Take the NWORD out of the Huckleberry

    JANUARY 5, 2011 1:15AM

    By William Hazelgrove


    Topics: huckleberry finn, nword, twain scholar, censorship, books, writers, writing, novelist, novels, scribes, publishing, books

    • Editor's Pick
    • 10 Ratings
    • 1551 Views
    • 14 Comments
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    Trauma, Trains and Jonathan Franzen

    DECEMBER 30, 2010 1:20PM

    By Shadow8


    Topics: domesticity, toy trains, franzen, books

    • Editor's Pick
    • 12 Ratings
    • 1524 Views
    • 17 Comments
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    The Pop Culture Guy

    DECEMBER 28, 2010 1:10PM

    By Kevin Broccoli


    Topics: one flew over the cuckoo's nest, duran duran, breaking bad, rubicon, books, television, music, film, pop culture

    • Editor's Pick
    • 11 Ratings
    • 1680 Views
    • 33 Comments
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    Confession of an Ex-Cable News Junkie

    DECEMBER 22, 2010 1:59PM

    By William Hazelgrove


    Topics: hemingway, attic, matthews, odonnell, olbermann, maddow, readers, literature, books, junkies, television, writing, cable news, writers

    • Editor's Pick
    • 4 Ratings
    • 1616 Views
    • 15 Comments
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    Waiting for "Barney" (Mordecai Richler's version)

    DECEMBER 16, 2010 9:39AM

    By Beverly Akerman MSc


    Topics: biography, canada, charles foran, feminism, montreal, mordecai richler, novels, quebec, quebec history, review, societe saint jean baptiste, books, movies

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