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Book Review: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search For Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
Ms. Gilbert begins her journey as a whining white woman whose privileged life is falling apart. That's a problem.
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Book Review: Tales of the Heartily Homeschooled by Rachel Starr Thomson and Carolyn Joy Currey
20 children, 4 parents, and a trip across Canada - all par for the course when you're Heartily Homeschooled.
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Book Review: Lit by Mary Karr
A beautifully horrific tale of recovery.
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Book Review: In Search of My Homeland: A Memoir of a Chinese Labor Camp by Er Tai Gao
Chinese intellectual's memoir reflects how even aesthetics are perceived as a threat by totalitarian regimes.
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Book Review: The Sugarless Plum: A Ballerina's Triumph Over Diabetes by Zippora Karz
Dancing in a ballet company while struggling with diabetes
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Book Review: All the Fishes Come Home to Roost: An American Misfit In India by Rachel Manija Brown
The best stories are often hidden behind the most puzzling titles... or buried in the bargain bin
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Book Review: Tide, Feather, Snow: A Life in Alaska by Miranda Weiss
A beautiful, poetic naturalist's log, but a dull memoir
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Book Review: Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father and Son by Michael Chabon
Chabon on being a son, husband and father
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Book Review: A Drinking Life by Pete Hamill
A Drinking Life is a slice of Americana at its best.
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Book Review: The Sixties by Jenny Diski
British author uses memoir approach to ponder if "The Sixties" had lasting meaning.
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