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Attention Geeks
The Ender’s Game movie is coming. You need to prepare yourselves: it will be Different From The Book. Deep breath. Relax. Hold your fire. Image via (you guessed it) Entertainment Weekly One does not...
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Pearls of Wisdom
“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme...
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The First Edition
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, by Betty SmithFirst EditionCopyright 1943 This is one of my favorite books. It’s not much to look at It tattered, worn, wounded Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you...
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Rodalena Reviews: The Fault in Our Stars
“That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence” Before I begin, I want to thank Esther Earl and...
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Rodalena Reviews: The Red Tent
“If you want to understand any woman you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully.” -Anita Diamant, The Red Tent Genesis 34: 1 And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto...
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Payday
Today was a big day for me. To the casual observer, it looked a lot like many other days, but I celebrated Something Major: I got paid today. I have a new paying job (well, two actually, but the other...
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Rodalena Recommends: Kennedy Tomes
President Kennedy died fifty years ago today. The amount of attention being paid to this anniversary is indicative of his impact on our country. Every time I’ve looked at any news source over the last...
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Books that Move
Social media can be #sofrustrating. So, yeah, I got “tagged” by a friend on Facebook to list “Ten Books that Have Stayed With Me in Some Way“ (a Rather Vague distinction if ever there was one), and I...
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The Interview
My son and my niece are in the eighth grade. For history, they have been asked to interview a couple of family members for a project that’s due tomorrow. Continuing the great tradition of teenagers...
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Rodalena Reviews: Doc
Doc is Mary Doria Russell’s foray into the Wild West. It seems to be her aim in life to leave me a blubbering pile of mush when I finish her novels, but, I must say, the emotional roller coaster is...
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