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Thursday, May 22, 2008
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Reading List
-
Opting In: Having a Child Without Losing Yourself
by Amy Richards -
Marrying Anita
by Anita Jain -
Voyage of the Narwhal
by Andrea Barrett -
Unaccustomed Earth
by Jhumpa Lahiri -
The Maternal Is Political
edited by Shari MacDonald Strong -
Losing Kei
by Suzanne Kamata -
The Brotherhood of Joseph: A Father's Memoir of Infertility and Adoption in the 21st Century
by Brooks Hansen -
The Sky Isn't visible From Here: Scenes from a Life
by Felicia C. Sullivan -
The Gathering
by Anne Enright -
On Beauty
by Zadie Smith -
Prep
by Curtis Sittenfeld -
Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant:
Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone
edited by Jenni Ferrari-Adler -
Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
The spiritual memoir of a twenty-first century Christian
by Sara Miles -
What Is the What
by Dave Eggers -
Glory in a Line: A Life of Foujita--the Artist Caught Between East and West
by Phyllis Birnbaum -
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
by Marjane Satrapi -
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
by Marjane Satrapi -
A Family Daughter
by Maile Meloy -
Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell
by Janet Wallach -
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
by Barbara Kingsolver -
Brookland
by Emily Barton -
Water for the Elephants
by Sara Gruen -
The United States of Arugula: The Sun-Dried, Cold-Pressed, Dark-Roasted, Extra Virgin Story of the American Food Revolution
by David Kamp -
The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
by Ann Fessler -
Getting Unstuck without Coming Unglued: A Woman's Guide to Unblocking Creativity
by Susan O'Doherty -
Suite Francaise
by Irene Nemirovsky -
I Married My Mother-in-Law and other tales of in-laws we can't live with--and can't live without
edited by Ilena Silverman -
Good Grief
by Lolly Winston -
The History of Love
by Nicole Krauss -
Liars and Saints
by Maile Meloy -
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
by Simon Winchester -
Alice Waters and Chez Panisse: The Romantic, Impractical, Often Eccentric, Ultimately Brilliant Making of a Food Revolution
by Thomas McNamee -
The Gypsy Madonna
by Santa Montefiore -
The Glass Castle
by Jeannette Walls -
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
by Marisha Pessl -
Woman: An Intimate Geography
by Natalie Angier -
Secret Harmonies
by Andrea Barrett -
About What Was Lost: 20 Writers on Miscarriage, Healing and Hope
edited by Jessica Berger Gross -
Little Children
by Tom Perrotta -
Brick Lane
by Monica Ali -
March
by Geraldine Brooks -
Slow Man
by J.M. Coetzee -
The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger -
Elizabeth Costello
by J. M. Coetzee -
Money, A Memoir:Women, Emotions, and Cash
by Liz Perle -
Maybe Baby: 28 Writers Tell the Truth About Skepticism, Infertility, Baby Lust, Childlessness, Ambivalence, and How They Made the Biggest Decision of Their Lives
edited by Lori Leibovich -
Parenting and Professing: Balancing Family Work with an Academic Career
edited by Rachel Hile Bassett -
The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs. Beeton: The First Domestic Goddess
by Kathryn Hughes -
I Do but I Don't: The Uneasy Marriage Between Modern Women and Weddings
by Kamy Wicoff -
Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers
edited by Matt Kellogg and Jillian Quint -
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee -
The Omnivore's Dilemma
by Michael Pollan - The Pilot's Wife
by Anita Shreve -
Drowning Ruth
by Christina Schwarz -
Expecting Adam
by Martha Beck -
Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights
by Kenji Yoshino -
The Imperfect Mom: Candid Confessions of Mothers Living in the Real World
ed. by Therese Borchard -
Mansfield Park
by Jane Austen
Watching List
- Man on Wire
- Dear Frankie
- Vicky Christina Barcelona
- Burn After Reading
- Murderball
- The Women
- Frozen River
- Iron Man
- Sex and the City
- The Visitor
- Then She Found Me
- A Plumm Summer
- Autism: The Musical
- Infamous
- The Swimming Pool
- Helvetica
- The Counterfeiters
- In the Valley of Elah
- 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days
- Definitely Maybe
- The Savages
- A Mighty Heart
- There Will Be Blood
- Persepolis
- Winter Passing
- My Kid Could Paint That
- Atonement
- Volver
- A Map of the World
- Junebug
- Juno
- Enchanted
- Romance and Cigarettes
- Miracle on 34th Street
- Home for the Holidays
- Margot at the Wedding
- Dan in Real Life
- Committed
- The Station Agent
- How to Cook Your Life
- Into the Wild
- Gone Baby Gone
- Michael Clayton
- Across the Universe
- Mad Hot Ballroom
- Shut Up and Sing
- Mostly Martha
- The Invasion
- Whale Rider
- My Neighbor Totoro
- Becoming Jane
- No Reservations
- P.S.
- Once
- Hairspray
- Ratatouille
- Ocean's Thirteen
- Paris, Je T'aime
- Knocked Up
- Away From Her
- Waitress
- After the Wedding
- The Lady Eve
- The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
- The Lives of Others
- The Hoax
- The Last King of Scotland
- Capote
- The Namesake
- Broken Flowers
- Catch and Release
- Pan's Labyrinth
- The Interpreter
- Babble
- Notes on a Scandal
- Born Into Brothels
- The 40 Year Old Virgin
- The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
- Casino Royale
- The Pursuit of Happyness
- Little Children
- Bobby
- Borat
- Crush
- Sketches of Frank Gehry
- Transamerica
- 51 Birch Street
- The Queen
- Sherrybaby
- The Illusionist
- Little Miss Sunshine
- My Life Without Me
- Monster-in-Law
- The Beach
- March of the Penguins
- Scoop
- An Inconvenient Truth
- The Incredibles
- Word Play
- The Devil Wears Prada
- A Prarie Home Companion
- The Aristocrats
- The Break-Up



