Bunheads is a young adult novel written by Sophie Flack, inspired by her experiences as a New York City Ballet dancer. It is not related the TV show Bunheads produced by Amy Sherman-Palladino I know next to nothing about ballet, but when I stopped at the Little Brown booth at TLA, the rep told me that Bunheads was a debut novel by…
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Vegetarian Recipe #7: Flatbread Wraps
In a perfect world, I would rejoice at each and every single offering from my CSA box. But there are some foods that I just am not that enthusiastic about. When they show up in the box, I have to restrain myself throwing myself on the floor and weeping (I don’t because inevitably, by the time I’ve unpacked my box,…
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What I’ll Be Doing for the Next Three Months
One of my goals for 2011 was to be a judge for the Cybils (if you’re not familiar with the Cybils, they are book awards given out by book bloggers for children and young adult books in many different categories). I was on the second round panel for non-fiction picture books in 2009, and then didn’t get a spot last…
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Wish You Well by David Baldacci
This is just embarrassing. Wish You Well was the winning title for Tell Me What to Read back in MARCH. Yes, March. More than six months ago. But I have persevered. And now, many moons after finishing Wish You Well, I’m finally writing something about it (you may wonder if, after all this time, I can even remember what the…
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No Regrets
Sometimes, we leave Utah, and Bart and I wonder if it is a mistake to raise our baby so far away from her grandparents, her cousins, her aunts and uncles. We imagine a life where we didn’t spend $700 multiple times a year to fly west for family events. Bart talks about how much he misses the mountains. And then…
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