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new fall season reactions (big damn tv post)
I started working on this post last week, when I got to the end of my "to be taped" list. I give up on it. So VMars and Night Stalker get only cursory sentences.
Gilmore Girls
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in which I get vaguely political
Okay, so I was over at DailyKos, where I really need to stop hanging out because some of those people are just as crazy as the wingnuts they oppose. Does anyone know of a left-wing, progressive community that hasn't gone nuts? Anyway, Senator Barack Obama, the guy whose speech at the Democratic Convention was supposed to herald a new era for that ( Read more... ) -
Donna Anders - Another Life
Sharon Moore runs from her abusive husband with her son David. She fakes their deaths, and takes on another identity, that of dead artist Janice Young. But this new life may be just as dangerous as her old one, since someone still wants Janice dead.....
Dum da Dum!!!
This book read like a Lifetime movie. And then all of a sudden everything is ( Read more... ) -
Don't pray in my school and I won't think in your church.
So the government can get politicians to and from Iraq in just a day. But it can't get a soldier home to see his father. Story hereI sat and cried this morning. It just doesn't seem right. What are we doing? Where are we going? Are citizens of other countries feeling this? Or is it just me, because I get to live in Bush's America, where our ( Read more... ) -
Dorien Kelly - Do-Over
Do-Over is the second of the Harlequin Flipside romances I read this week. Like the previous one, Forget Prince Charming, this book was sweet and fun with little to no distracting subplots ( Read more... ) -
Natalie Stenzel - Forget Prince Charming
I didn't realize when I put this title on my booksfree list that it was a Harlequin. The two or three historical Harlequins I've read in the past weren't very good, so I have a sort of stereotyped view of them. But this title and another one (Do-Over by Dorien Kelly) turned out to be a new, to me, imprint, Harlequin Flipside, which has the ( Read more... ) -
Barbara Colley - Maid for Murder
Publishers Weekly summary: Fifty-nine-year-old Charlotte runs a successful maid-for-a-day business, and many of her clients reside in the exclusive, historic Garden District of New Orleans. Single mother to a successful, handsome young doctor, and with a parakeet named Sweety Boy to keep her company, Charlotte has a straightforward, simple life. ( Read more... ) -
obligatory Katrina post
I've been basically making DailyKos my homepage. They've got some truly horrifying information there, like stories of groups and individuals (including sheriff's deputies) who've gone to Louisiana to help, and have been turned away by FEMA ( Read more... ) -
the DawnEden abortion discussion, if it deserves that term
I went to this woman's blog following a disgusted link from raincitygirl. She wrote the following entry in response to an article which states that a fetus at 28 weeks exhibits crying behavior: tears and what the pediatrician described as a trembling bottom lip ( Read more... ) -
(not so) massive defriending
I just spent some time trimming my flist. I know I don't have nearly as many friends as some people, but there were people on there who hadn't posted in a while or whose interests had diverged from mine. I also left a lot of communities that I hadn't even bothered putting on any filter ( Read more... )