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Mclean Sweet: Not Perfect, But Perfectly Written

7/11/11 6:00am by rockle
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Mclean Sweet, the main character in Sarah Dessen's latest novel What Happened to Goodbye, might be the world's most perfect teenager.  Read more >

Getting to Happy or Getting to Nowhere in a Hurry?

7/6/11 2:30pm by rockle
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I was in college when I read my first Terry McMillan book. I was taking a course in African-American literature, and the last novel for the semester was Waiting to Exhale. I loved that book.  Read more >

A Jane Austen Education: I Found It Hard to Empathize

5/20/11 6:30am by rockle
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As a huge fan of Jane Austen -- so much a fan, in fact, that for a long time the only name on my list of potential names for potential daughters was "Emma Jane" -- I was intensely excited about the mere potential embedded in just the title of William Deresiewicz's book, A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me about Love, Friendship, and the Things that Really Matter.  Read more >

Girl in Translation: An eye-opening immigrant experience

5/9/11 5:30am by rockle
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Reading Jean Kwok's Girl in Translation briefly took me back to high school, almost 20 years ago (!!), when it seemed like a large percentage of the top students in my multi-ethnic graduating class were Asian. I never understood why this was -- they seemed so much more focused than the rest of us, a lot of the time, so much more driven and determined to excel than almost everyone else.  Read more >

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Rachel Gonzales
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I've spent pretty much my entire life hopped up on caffeine, but I have never once finished a cup of coffee -- not even coffee ice cream! I can't stand the stuff, even though I love the smell.

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