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When your children grievously disappoint you
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awelborn
Son #1: Hey, Mom, you know that Love in the Ruins book you gave me? Me: Yeah? Son #1: I read it. Me. (Hopefully) And? Son #1: It was stupid. I didn’t like it at all. Me: (Deflated) Oh. Son #1: But I’m reading The Canterbury Tales now. It’s really good. (In my own defense:…
How to Be Good
By
awelborn
Couple of quick grown-up fiction notes: Last week, I read Nick Hornby’s How to Be Good, a book I’d meant to read when it first came out. It’s a comic (of course) novel about Katie Carr, a female physician, married with two children, in a miserable marriage to a newspaper columnist whose stock in trade is…
Quick book notes
By
awelborn
Just a couple of kid book suggestions. Yes, we still visit the library and check out 30 books at a time, which last us a little less than a week. In the chaos that is our house, books do indeed get misplaced and discovered under couches weeks after they were due, but the twenty bucks…
Voices from Burma
By
awelborn
As I have mentioned before, we have a very large population of Burmese here in Fort Wayne, growing by the day. I think around 300 have been resettled this fall with 800 more coming in the first part of 2008. Here’s a piece from today’s paper with views of what is currently going on in…
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