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		<title>Hands of my Father by Myron Uhlberg</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hands of My Father is the sweet remembrance of the author&#8217;s childhood, growing up with two deaf parents asa hearing child who had to serve as an interpreter in a world that was not too kind to any kind of disability and certainly not to deafness. Even his parents&#8217; families treated them with surprising callousness: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ftbooks.wordpress.com&blog=2705105&post=1214&subd=ftbooks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NurtureShock by Po Bronson and Ashley Merriman</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mother was a genius. And her mom as well. They knew that children function better with consistent sleep. They knew that empty praise makes kids suspicious, while heartfelt, suitably rare praise fills them with pride. They made it clear that telling the truth was always much more important than the original misbehavior. They counseled [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ftbooks.wordpress.com&blog=2705105&post=1206&subd=ftbooks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Invisible by Paul Auster</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Invisible is the perfectly constructed, tortuously complicated story of a psychopath and an incestuous brother (two different characters), mixed in with a number of airhead women who tolerate their ways. And it left me completely and absolutely cold. It turns out that I have great difficulty finding anything likable or even interesting in psychopaths or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ftbooks.wordpress.com&blog=2705105&post=1204&subd=ftbooks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You’d be Pretty If by Dara Chadwick</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:57:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The subtitle of You&#8217;d Be So Pretty If is Teaching our daughters to love their bodies &#8212; even when we don&#8217;t love our own, which should have been a clear warning sign that this book was not for me. Now I have daughters, two of them, but I&#8217;m not so sure mothers can, or should, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ftbooks.wordpress.com&blog=2705105&post=1202&subd=ftbooks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Wednesday Sisters by Meg Waite Clayton</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note to self: avoid books that include a reading group guide. Who writes these guides anyway? They are so simplistic and patronizing. The real problem is not the guide, naturally, but the likely pairing of said guide with fairly insipid novels,  The Wednesday Sisters being the second encounter for me in a few days (Bed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ftbooks.wordpress.com&blog=2705105&post=1199&subd=ftbooks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Homer and Langley by E.L Doctorow</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Homer &#38; Langley tells the fictional story of two real brothers who died in a Fifth Avenue mansion filled with treasures and detritus after a lifetime of collecting, much of which spent cut off from the world, having dismissed the staff and rarely venturing out. One brother is blind and the other is nominally the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ftbooks.wordpress.com&blog=2705105&post=1196&subd=ftbooks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thinks by David Lodge</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thinks tells one story from two perspectives, that of a department chairman at the (fictional) university of Gloucester and of a female visiting professor, newly widowed. Their very different reactions to the same events are often amusing and the story that appears to be a simple affair at first turns out to be pleasantly tortuous [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ftbooks.wordpress.com&blog=2705105&post=1194&subd=ftbooks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Marriage-Go-Round by Andrew Cherlin</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The state of marriage in the US today is interesting: we marry much more than people in other developed countries but we also divorce a lot more. Why? That&#8217;s what the author of The Marriage-Go-Round sets out to investigate. Armed with statistics, maps, and historical facts he shows how the cultural messages of &#8220;marriage is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ftbooks.wordpress.com&blog=2705105&post=1191&subd=ftbooks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Books of the Month – October 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found these two books to be close to perfect:
A Gate at the Stairs &#8211; a wonderfully well-told, intricate story of a college student with personal, job, and family traumas but grace throughout
Brown Round &#8211; the biography of a food critic with weight issues, a great family, and a sweet perspective on life
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		<title>The Lost Art of Gratitude by Alexander McCall Smith</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Lost Art of Gratitude is the last installment in the Isabel Dalhousie series, reviewed here in the past. There&#8217;s a significant dearth of any significant mystery in this one, but the usual complement of charming toddler, perfect husband-to-be, and nefarious plotter. I found Isabel to philosophize a tad too systematically so I hope the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ftbooks.wordpress.com&blog=2705105&post=1187&subd=ftbooks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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