It’s another cold, rainy Saturday at the bookstore. It’s January, and the holiday rush is over. But it’s warm in the store. Patrons line up in the aisles and the cafe like refugees who have survived an onslaught. Perhaps they have. After all, it is after the holidays. Read more….. »
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Feb 15th, 2011
Seeing that today is Valentine’s Day, I figured it would be a good idea to upload a book review on love and all its heartbreak. Susan Piver’s “The Wisdom of a Broken Heart” seemed to fit perfectly into this theme. Read more….. »
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Feb 14th, 2011
Feel the burn: it sears throughout the body as your legs struggle against the gravity of the hill you climb. Each step you take against this adversary, brings you closer to the goal you set: the summit that beckons closer with every passing moment. Everything crystallizes into this moment. Read more….. »
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Jan 19th, 2011
In the black of midnight, you don’t expect things to change; too much hides in its dark shadows. Even if you blink yourself awake to try to fight it, you succumb to its slumber; the surreal becomes your reality. Read more….. »
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Jan 15th, 2011
The house is empty. You hear the moving van taking the last bits of memories away, and then it fades away. Everything now is just as it was in the beginning, stripped of pretensions and presumptions. It is its own essence. Read more….. »
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Jan 15th, 2011
There you are, walking past me like I don’t exist, but I know you see me. Damn you, you are a liar. Everything that you said to me was part of, what? I don’t even know. Read more….. »
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Jan 9th, 2011
Hey, who are you? I see you hanging out all the time in here, but you never say anything, hello or anything else, nothing. Read more….. »
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Jan 7th, 2011
What happens when a woman who vows never to remarry is forced to do so, or lose her lover forever? This is what happened to Elizabeth Gilbert, the journalist of “Eat, Pray, Love” fame when she was forced into an engagement to her foreign lover by Homeland Security. Read more….. »
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Jan 7th, 2011
“……. and I used to go to Chuck E. Cheese with him, but no more. My mother-in-law wants to take him, so, as far as I’m concerned, good riddance. Read more….. »
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Jan 4th, 2011
Night: there is darkness on the road that we move on: but inside here, at least for short time, there is warmth. Read more….. »
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Jan 1st, 2011
Standing on your own in the midst of a crowd can be hard. Sometimes it is easier to just give in and go with the crowd. Read more….. »
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Jan 1st, 2011
You know, it’s like I have this kind of plan: I am going to get married? And then have kids? But I am going to finish college first I don’t know what it is I want to be? Read more….. »
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Dec 31st, 2010
What is it like to be bought for sex? What is it like to live the life of an escort? For three years, former college lecturer Jeanette Angell lived that life. In her memoir “Callgirl”, she tells her story of what it was like to live the life of an escort: a lifestyle scorned by some, secretly admired by others, and a little of both by even more.
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Dec 15th, 2010
If the past can teach you anything, there is no better lesson plan than to search through the wreckage of your romantic past. Read more….. »
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Dec 1st, 2010
What is it like to be a slave in modern society? To really answer this question, it would be best to hear it from someone who has actually experienced it, rather than get an intellectual treatise from a scholar who has studied it. Activists Zoe Trodd and Kevin Bales have compiled first-person narratives by slaves and former slaves in their anthology, “To Plead Our Own Cause.” Read more….. »
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Nov 29th, 2010
