Posts tagged 2012 Books

in Books on 24.Nov.12 24.Nov.12 with 3 Comments by Jodi Chromey

Every Love Story is a Ghost Story

The older I get the more I truly believe ignorance is bliss, especially if you’re the type to put heroes on a pedestal. I am that type and while the crumbling of the pedestal is…

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in Books on 14.Nov.12 02.Jan.13 by Jodi Chromey

Tiny Beautiful Things

One of the best things about reading Cheryl Strayed’s Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar was the memories it brought back. You know how you sometimes have memories that come…

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in Books on 22.Oct.12 21.Oct.12 by Jodi Chromey

Quiet but Mighty

One of my favorite things about being a reader is having a physical reaction to a book. Whether it’s tears or goosebumps or laughter, or in the case of Joshua Henkin’s The World Without You…

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in Books on 13.Oct.12 13.Oct.12 with 1 Comment by Jodi Chromey

And So On

Recently, one of the members for my Rock & Roll Bookclub wanted to re-read some Kurt Vonnegut. Since I’m a great lover of Vonnegut, I wholeheartedly supported this idea. I lobbied hard for Cat’s Cradle…

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in Books on 26.Sep.12 26.Sep.12 by Jodi Chromey

Swagger

Last weekend I got an email from Christa who was twenty-five pages from the end of Every Love Story is a Ghost Story and she didn’t want to finish it because she knew what was…

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in Books on 13.Sep.12 17.Sep.12 by Jodi Chromey

The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving

Jonathan Evison Reading 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 14 Magers & Quinn 3038 Hennepin Ave South Minneapolis, MN Benjamin Benjamin is not a likable guy. Even when you factor in the pity you feel for him…

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