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Review: The Year of Magical Thinking

June 20, 2010 – 9:31 am

The Book: The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion
The Story: This book covers the full year after the author’s husband dies during dinner of a heart condition.  During the same time, their daughter is being scooted around from ICU to hospital to ICU because she is having serious, serious issues after what seemed to [...]

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Review: The Idiot Girls’ Action-Adventure Club

December 20, 2009 – 9:55 am

The Book: The Idiot Girls’ Action Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life, by Laurie Notaro
The Story: There isn’t really a story here, so much as a collection of essays (and that is to intellectual a word… I don’t know what to call them) about random stuff happening in this woman’s life. [...]

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