I was wary when my 2nd book club chose Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua. I remember the controversy it created when published and I wasn’t sure I wanted that karma in my life. Chua documents what it was like to apply Chinese Parenting to her daughters. I was horrified by her […]
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TNT’s 2014 summer crime drama, Murder in the First, focused on one crime through the entire season. It was more like focusing on one suspect, a character played by Tom Felton who was Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter series. Felton plays Erich Blunt, a virtual reality app developer with money, power, and an ego
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A good zombie tale. That’s what I needed. In this case, zombies are called hungries because they just want to EAT. The zombie condition was caused by a naturally existing fungus Ophiocordyceps. The sci-fi aspect is that this ant-infecting fungus somehow leaps to create a human condition. It wasn’t revealed to the reader that the
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Yesterday I woke up to the email Hey! Want to join me at a Jack Johnson concert tomorrow night (Monday)?” The only answer to that question was “what time do we leave?” GirlFriend’s husband works at the SB bowl and got her 2 tickets. Sweet. Since she got the tickets, I needed to treat her
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Another long car drive, another search for anything to listen to on the trip. I was willing to listen to the last Jane Austen novel on my list to read (Northhanger Abbey) but it was not available. I picked something Austen adjacent. Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler is a fantasy,
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