The Mystery of the Emeralds (Trixie Belden #14) by Kathryn Kenny
finished 05.11.08

My dad found a few Trixie Belden books around the house and thought I might like looking at them. They each have my grandmother’s name inside them, so I know they were her books at one time. The Mystery of the Emeralds was first [...]

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finished 05.09.08
Another book by Krakauer. I find he jumps around a lot in his writing, which is fine when there is a limited number of characters like in Into the Wild or Into Thin Air, but when you’re taking about the 100+-year-old history of the Mormon church and fundamentalists today, it gets pretty confusing. Still [...]

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Celebrating Cinco de Mayo with bananas:

Interesting sub-genre of fiction:

America’s Next Top Model in the toy section. Is that really appropriate?

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finished 04.15.08
Bought this book in the New Orleans airport thinking about how I used to read Koontz and King a lot and it’s been a while. It’s a fast read. More gory than scary, I thought.. although the website for the movie makes it seem like it’s going to be scary.

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Last night we watched Quinn so that Jen and Chad could get some time out and go to see a show at the Old Town School of Folk Music. Quinn celebrated his first birthday last weekend but we weren’t able to go to the party because we were in New Orleans. (Btw, that was the [...]

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