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May 22, 2012

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  • Naked Mom By Brooke Burke

    04/23/2011

    Here are some things I learned from Brooke Burke’s book (try saying that three times fast), Naked Mom: Brooke Burke, host and former champion of Dancing With the Stars, is the type of lady you would probably call if you wanted to go out for quick pedicure and some girl talk. Brooke is good mom with cool kids, a nice house, a dedicated soulmate for a husband, and a busy schedule. Dancing with the Stars is really hard and time consuming. She runs some businesses. She likes using “LOL” in contexts that are neither the Internet nor text messages.

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  • My Father At 100 By Ron Reagan

    02/16/2011

    Is My Father at 100 a sensationalist commentary by an opportunistic son? Unfortunately not. Such a text would have been a lot more gripping. Instead, this book by the son of former President Ronald Reagan, intended to commemorate the centennial year of his father's birth, reads more like the author's journal. That is, it's a collection of notes, ramblings and opinions that are important to himself, but that to anyone else just sound really self-absorbed. Ron's intention with My Father at 100, the first book he's ever written, does not seek to take a political position or to reveal any large secrets from the Reagan family history or the Reagan administration.

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  • Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King

    01/05/2011

    Iconic novelist Stephen King is running out of formats to perfect. The master of horror is once again tackling the novella, releasing his fourth and arguably best volume of short stories to date, Full Dark, No Stars. The four short tales that comprise King’s latest effort take us into the depths of human darkness and despair. The title of the work never appears in the book, but operates to create an overall mood and paint a picture of the abysmal, vacant desolation into which King plunges his anticipant readers.

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  • Oh No She Didn't by Clinton Kelly

    10/26/2010

    As you may have already surmised from its title and its candid (though well-intentioned) author, Clinton Kelly’s Oh No She Didn’t is not your mama’s fashion tome. Brutally honest, Kelly’s book addresses the atrocities that occur in the world of women’s fashion. You get the sense that a gender-inclusive book would either have encyclopedic heft or disastrous effects on Kelly’s sense of Zen. Each two-page spread consists of one bright, looming image of an oblivious model proudly sporting a hideous garment on one side, and a well-observed rant against her and anyone who might be so unfortunate as to align with her, on the other.

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  • Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris

    10/20/2010

    In his latest book, Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk, David Sedaris takes on the animal kingdom. Armed with his usual arsenal of humor, satire and wit, the author manages to transpose the most human of characteristics on everything from warblers, baboons, snakes, lab rats and hippos. While the most obvious companion to this book would be Aesop’s fables, Sedaris shies away from that comparison. “I was going to call them fables, but fables always have morals, and not all of these do,” Sedaris said in an interview on NPR’s Morning Edition.

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  • The Bedwetter by Sarah Silverman

    09/28/2010

    Sarah Silverman’s book, The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee, is hilarious and quirky, full of dirty words and filthy stories and yet, above all else, it’s quite touching. It’s refreshing to see Silverman strip off the absurdist façade and speak honestly. Though it’s a change of pace for fans of her silly, and oftentimes controversial, on-stage persona, it’s not necessarily a total change of style. It’s simply a redirection of substance.

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