I don’t care how modern your family is, there are just some things that you don’t want to talk about at the dinner table. But after a couple of glasses of spiked eggnog, your judgment might not be top notch. Hey, it happens to the best of us.
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Time for a reality check. We’ve got a Tory government. The economy is broken. Spike Milligan is still dead. We’re one year closer to the day our sun explodes. Banging on about how much you enjoyed Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom isn’t going to cheer anyone up or change anything. Except maybe making them worry about how much closer they’re going to be to death by the time they’ve waded through its 600-odd pages.
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From samurais to dysfunctional relationships, this year’s best book list includes serious reads and fun times, too. (Including two Goose Lane Books, of course -ed.)
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“This journal is a glimpse of him as a young man,” said Behne, who is in the process of writing Adney’s biography in addition to editing his journals. “Adney has become my obsession,” Behne continued, comparing his fascination with the journal author to Adney’s fixation with canoes. “I realized I think about him every day. I really enjoy the work, discovering more about him. I get a pleasure through telling stories about him and watching the light come on.”
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We love to eat our fast food. It’s the taste. The low price. The ability to eat on the go. And the ease of not having to cook dinner for the family after a long workday. Yet, we have to know that fast food is bad for us …. It’s time we find a better and tastier way.
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Marie d’Origny, deputy director of the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, accused Rolling Stones guitarist and best-selling memoirist Keith Richards of murdering her plant.
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Did you know there were approximately 25 billion tweets sent forth in 2010? I know!!! Here are the top ten Twitter trends from this year. See how many you can guess before you click through.
Conversation. In particular, a live chat with an author who wrote and illustrated a memoir about her mother’s Alzheimer’s. It’s since been a finalist for the Writers’ Trust Award and chosen as a Globe 100 for 2010. I do these chats once or twice a month. This one was quite special.
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