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		<title>book review and giveaway: ol&#8217; mama squirrel</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 22:57:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaime {sophistimom}</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Illustrations by Oliver Jeffers and Artwork courtesy of Penguin Young Readers Group Ready for a giveaway?? How long has it been, like a year or something? The people at Penguin recently sent me a copy of the book Ol&#8217; Mama Squirrel by David Ezra Stein to review for Mother&#8217;s Day, and offered to give away a few copies to some lucky readers. When we received the book it became an instant favorite in our house. Mama Squirrel is the kind of gal who back down, especially when it comes to her babies, a trait I can definitely relate to. I asked my seven-year-old what he thinks of the story. Here&#8217;s what he had to say: Me: Tell me about Ol&#8217; Mama Squirrel. CKR: It&#8217;s fun. Me: What else? What&#8217;s it about? CKR: It&#8217;s about a squirrel that loves her babies. Me: What does she do? CKR: Uh, protects her babies. Me: Whom does she protect them from? CKR: The doggie. But the doggie doesn&#8217;t want to eat them, right? It wasn&#8217;t a nosey dog. {My son loves dogs. The one part of the book he has trouble with is when the squirrel chases away a dog.} Me: How does she protect the babies? CKR: She says, Chook Chook Chook! Me: What else can you tell me about the book? CKR: It&#8217;s funny. Me: Why is it funny? CKR: Cuz, the guy that was gonna climb the tree was like this [makes a funny face]. Me: Do you think people should get the book for Mother&#8217;s Day? CKR: Yeah. Me: Why? CKR: Because it&#8217;s funny. Okay, so if you would like win a copy of Ol&#8217; Mama Squirrel, simply place a comment in the comments section, and say something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>book review: lost and found by oliver jeffers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 05:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaime {sophistimom}</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Illustrations by Oliver Jeffers and Artwork courtesy of Penguin Young Readers Group I watched an episode of Charlie Rose . . . oh, ages ago. Tom Hanks was on it, and he talked about loneliness, and about how all great stories in literature are about loneliness. Sorry I don&#8217;t have his exact words, but you get the idea. Loneliness is something we all feel; we all crave a sense of belonging. While I was searching for the exact words that Tom Hanks said, I came across quite a few of his ideas on the subject. In one instance, he explains how the loneliness he has felt over the years was different, depending on the phase of life he was in. I couldn&#8217;t agree more. I watch my kids, with their own struggles, and nearly every tear (besides the toe-stubbing tears) is from loneliness. They want more friends; they want to be accepted; they want to be with their daddy more often. I think they want to know, existentially, what their place is in the world, and how they fit there. They want to feel safe, and accepted, and loved by the people they are required to spend time with. My own childhood was the same. I wish I could tell them the feeling goes away. But it never really does. I remember in my twenties, when I was a missionary for my church, feeling lonely all the time. The weird thing was, we had a rule that we always had to be with the missionary we were paired up with&#8212;they were called &#8220;companions.&#8221; So here I was, with a companion 24/7&#8212;literally, 24/7&#8212;and I was still lonely. I learned you can feel lonely even when you&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>book review: the case of the deadly desperados</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaime {sophistimom}</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Could there be a better opening line for a book? Awhile ago, we received this book in the mail, and I had my oldest son read it. He blazed right through it, so I asked him to tell you all what he thought. SRR: The Case of the Deadly Desperados by Caroline Lawrence is an intriguing page turner. It starts with P.K. Pinkerton, a 12-year-old boy, living in Temperance, Nevada in 1862. He comes home to find both his foster parents lying in blood on the floor. His foster mother&#8217;s dying words reveal they were killed by a gang of desperados looking for a medicine bag, which she had successfully concealed in the floorboards. P.K. must hide the medicine bag, and sets off for Virginia City, otherwise known as the Devil&#8217;s Playground, but keeping it safe is a deadly endeavor. Exciting, funny, and very energetic, I would totally recommend this to kids ages 10 to 110.]]></description>
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		<title>book club for june: edenbrooke</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaime {sophistimom}</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phew! I turned in my manuscript, and I just finished moving. I was a crazy person for a little while . . . well, crazier than usual. But now things should be back to normal for awhile. And I can finally get up these posts I&#8217;ve been dying to write. This one is long overdue. This is Julie. I&#8217;ve mentioned her before. She&#8217;s the one who gave me that great banana bread recipe. Several years ago, we were both writing books. Hers was a novel set in Regency England, and mine was a contemporary novel set partly in England. Naturally, there was only one thing we could do: we had to go there to see for ourselves. We each saved our pennies (or opened up new credit cards), and met at the Gatwick Airport in London. What followed was a whirlwind of exploring the southern half of the country over the next five days. But it was enough for her to research what she needed to write Edenbrooke. Edenbrooke has a deep meaning for me, as I was a witness that week to so much of what inspired her writing. Nearly every scene in the book takes me back to a place we saw there. But for all of you who weren&#8217;t there with us, I think you&#8217;ll find Edenbrooke positively delightful. As many times as I&#8217;ve read it, I have a hard time putting it down. What I love most about it, is how Julie fully explores the relationship between Marianne and Philip, with several moments of clean, blissful sexual tension. Once you&#8217;ve finished reading it, I&#8217;d love to know what your thoughts are. As with other reviews, be sure to write at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>how to break in a book binding</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 05:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaime {sophistimom}</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The English language is a funny thing, especially when &#8220;breaking-in&#8221; something is what you do to prevent something from breaking. But there it is. I love hardcover books. The quality of paper the printers use is generally of a higher quality, and the bindings tend to last longer. But a good binding will only last if it is treated properly. When you get a new book, you never want to open it straight down the middle when you first handle it. Doing this can damage or even crack the spine and ruin your new book. Instead, you want to ease it open, little by little. When I got a new set of leather bound scriptures for my birthday a few years ago, it came with a little set of instructions on how to condition its new binding. I asked my son to help demonstrate how it&#8217;s done with the new collection of Sherlock Holmes he got for Christmas. Here we go. Start with your book, flat on a table, with the spine down. Like this: Open the front cover and lay it down on the table. Then open the book to the twentieth page or so, and smooth the pages down with your hand. Nice and gently. Don&#8217;t force anything. Do the same thing on the other side. Go back to the first side, and turn down another ten or twenty pages, and smooth them down. Repeat with the other side. Keep going with another twenty pages, and alternate back and forth between the front and the back. When you reach the middle, you&#8217;re done. Close the book, open to the first page, and start reading. Now that, my friends, is elementary. While I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>book club for july: sense and sensibility</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 07:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaime {sophistimom}</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few of you voted on which book to do for July, and Sense and Sensibility beat out These Is My Words. Since These is My Words is one of my favorites, we&#8217;ll do it next month. I think you&#8217;ll love it.But now, to Sense and Sensibility . . .&#160; Ah, Jane Austen. I don&#8217;t think we could have gone on with the book club very long without doing something from her. Not only did she write in a time when female authors were a rare breed, but she also wrote when the English novel was relatively new to the whole scene of literature. &#8212;I love how she takes strong women and places them in probable situations of her age&#8212;quite horrible situations, actually, where having the freedom to choose her own destiny was very limited. I love Sense and Sensibility for the fact that it really has two main characters: Elinor and Marianne. And that will give us a lot to talk about. Here are two of the questions I found on the Penguin Classics. But, like always, you can bring up any topic you like. &#8220;Do you think that Austen is simply &#8216;for&#8217; sense and &#8216;against&#8217; sensibility? Does Elinor ever seem to be limited or constrained by having too much sense? Does Marianne ever seem more sympathetic than her sister? If so, do you think Austen intended us to have these responses, or do we respond to her characters differently now than her contemporaries might have?&#8221; &#8220;&#8216;Wealth has much to do with&#8230;happiness,&#8217; Elinor states at one point. &#8216;Elinor, for shame!&#8217; says Marianne. &#8216;Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.&#8217; What is the relationship between love and money in [...]]]></description>
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