While we have been quite busy moving across country and attending the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) in San Jose, it is also summer which means there is time (and therefore a requirement) to read fiction. My mom sent me three new books before we left Princeton and I just finished the last [...]

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There are books that are amazing to listen to on CD and books that are better read. Saving the World by Julia Alvarez is the latter. We listened to this book on our way out to Idaho in August and while I enjoyed the story, I had to agree with Adam that it was [...]

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If you’re feeling slightly bereft from the ending of the Harry Potter series there is good news: His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman. Apparently this series has been around for some time now, so it’s possible you’ve already read them (in which case I’m very sorry you can’t enjoy them again for the [...]

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Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee was a surprising book for me. I read about it first in the New York Times Book Review section and probably never would have bought it myself, but added it to my wishlist so I could get it from the library some day. Adam bought it for me shortly thereafter [...]

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Part of my birthday present involved driving four hours to this bookstore in Vermont. You, like Adam, might think that four hours is a long way to drive for a bookstore, but that only means that you, like Adam, have never been to this bookstore because it is so worth four hours in the [...]

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It is finished. Sadly. Though appropriately I suppose - good things can’t go on forever or they stop being good. Right? Right.
Well, I won the bet and finished the first six Harry Potter books well before the seventh book came out. The terms of the bet turned out to be Adam cleaning up from dinner [...]

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(I am going to talk about the movie in this post (duh) so if you don’t want to know what happens in the movie; which IS slightly different at points than what happens in the book, I would not read any further)
Initial disclaimer: I have yet to like any Harry Potter movie when it is [...]

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Well, we survived our first married Christmas with lots of family and even more traveling. In the end, I think we’re both glad we have a few days to recover before class and work begin again. We’re going to have to work on this bi-coastal family experience in future for vacations, but that is too [...]

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It’s reading week here at lovely Columbia and I am celebrating by doing lovely things. Like sleeping in, and baking bread (all by myself) and repotting plants, and enjoying this wonderful new magazine.
Having called recently to unsubscribe myself from all unnecessary catalogues and such (for the good of the trees), I felt okay about subscribing [...]

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This man has the sexiest voice I think I have ever heard - so sexy. If you haven’t heard his new single, Would You Go With Me, you ought to go and get it right now. Dreamy. And I promise I’m not a dreamy kind of girl.
And, while we’re on the topic of music, [...]

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