Posted in Movies | March 7, 2011
The price of the movie theater experience keeps going up so it only makes sense to spend more time watching movies at home where you can make up your own rules and not bother the stranger in front of you. With a group of like-minded friends and some free DVDs from Queens Library…
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Posted in Books | February 9, 2011
Pink covers on a hardcover novel usually suggest a chick-lit book. The Richest Season by Maryann McFadden is much more than your typical boy meets girl story. The characters are older with the main character Joanna an empty- nester in New Jersey who misses her children.She is a…
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Posted in Books | February 9, 2011
Memoirists can pick and choose the stories they tell, and while some have been known to outright lie or embellish (i.e. James Frey or Augustan Burroughs), Julie Klausner in her memoir, I Don't Care about Your Band: What I Learned from Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers…
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Posted in Books | February 9, 2011
Dragon Slippers by Jessica Day GeorgeCreelisel Carlbrun is the daughter of a poor farmer and a mother who is talented in sewing and embroidery.When they die, she and her brother go to live with their aunt.Her aunt hatches an elaborate plot to get Creel married, but she decides…
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Posted in Books | February 9, 2011
Anne Frank: The Anne Frank House Authorized Graphic Biography by Sidney Jacobson and Ernie ColónDid you like reading, Anne Frank the Diary of a Young Girl, but wondered what happened before they went into hiding and what happened after they were discovered in the Secret Annex?…
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