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Just finished reading this charming book for tweens and loved it for the genre! The name alone caught me, since mother daughter book clubs are such a cool, relatively new thing popping up all over, plus the girls and moms in the club discussed Little Women, my...

I am looking for a new book to read, but as I do, I am stumbling back upon the pages of this new-old favorite of mine. This book is challenging, yet like I have heard about deciphering Greek fables of old in Greek, well worth the effort put into it. Dickens' elicits...

I love the ethereal and soothing sound of the band The Innocence Mission. Simple, healing and echoes the depths of the heart. "Sweep down early, Tomorrow, come. Ring out. Tell me you have arrived. I will kiss all the faces of my beloved ones. I will meet the morning....

Recalcitrant adjective - resisting authority or control, not being obedient or compliant, refractory. When hearty Melody becomes recalcitrant, there is very little anyone can do short of hoping for the best.  This may get harder when she turns two....

I finished The Color of Water last night.  A last, beautiful description of McBride's mother follows: "She's always been slightly out of control, my mother, always had the unnerving habit of taking the ship into the cockpit screaming, "Someone do something, we're...

Derision de·ri·sion (d-rzhn) n. a. Contemptuous or jeering laughter; ridicule. b. A state of being derided: The proposal was held in derision by members of the board. 2. An object of ridicule; a laughingstock.