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   Love this beautiful graphic of some of the most actively protested children / teen books.

  Gwennie-Gwen-Gwen's Best of 2009 Blog Challenge continues with a look at the books that have defined our year.  Reading is good for your brain.  Make your brain like you again. 'Change My Life Book' I Will Teach You To Be Rich (by Ramit Sethi) was a gift from our beloved happybuela – probably the [...]

We live in Houston, TX so are lucky enough to live in a big city with an ample supply of Indian and Pakistani restaurants.  Lately, some of our favorites have been getting pricier and, in one notable case – much to our chagrin, have been lowering their standards of deliciousness. I've always enjoyed making simple [...]

 I'm head over heels for a beautifully illustrated adult picture book called The Invention of Hugo Cabret.  The video above is an interview with the author, Brian Selznick.  He weaves a fascinating tale intertwining actual true-to-life stories about early filmmaking pioneer, Georges Méliès, and his passion for bringing his magician's tricks to the screen – [...]

Skinny Bitch by Kim Barnouin This book came into my reading queue at just the right time.  We’ve been eating vegan and increasingly raw for a while now so reading a hip little book advocating some of that lifestyle is a nice fit. Skinny Bitch is definitely not a book for every gal – particularly [...]

The Master Cleanser by Stanley Burroughs Actually, the Master Cleanser hasn’t completely changed my life yet but it’s got me on the right path. This book is, obviously, a must-read for anyone about to embark on a Master Cleanse (aka: lemonade diet… but I abhor most phrases that involve the word ‘diet’ as I feel [...]

The most venerable Governor Chavez / Pablo / Morton Hurley has released his first Spam Poetry Anthology.  I am buying one.  You should too.  If you know what’s good for you and I think you do. A quote from a possible inclusion: Clean faith, my paz.My reason behind it?I would dream of a Mahayana earthworm [...]

I stumbled across this great essay on The Fountainhead’s effect on teenage girls.  I was 15 when I first encountered Ayn and I’ve been intrigued/disturbed by her ever since.  If your private high school English teachers didn’t force you to swallow it whole during your impressionable youth, The Fountainhead is a fabulous fetishistic book on [...]

Feel like you haven’t been reading as much as you should lately?  I guess you shouldn’t feel so badly — here are some depressing factoids via ParaPublishing about readers, non-readers, libraries and publishing houses: One-third of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives. Many do not even graduate from [...]