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The Lucky Shopping Manual

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Lucky knows shopping. (via blogher.com)

Updated Dec 1, 2007

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The Handbag: An Illustrated History

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Don't judge a book by it's cover because this cover is fug. The colors are all wrong and the girl is in desperate need for a manicure. But once you get past the cover the book is really good -- informative, fashionable, and has a ton of history which is written in a not-so-boring text booky way. It's a good thing, trust.

Updated Dec 1, 2007

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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

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Summer reading shouldn't leave your brain feeling like a melted popsicle. Elizabeth Gilbert's journey through divorce, depression, and spiritual awakening (oh, and also Itay, India, and Indonesia) will inspire you to find your own center.

Updated May 25, 2007

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The Emperor's Children

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Claire Messud's new novel, The Emperor's Children, was long listed for the Booker Prize three weeks BEFORE it's official release, which says something, I think, about what kind of novel this is. The Emperor's Children follows three college friends, now all 30 and living in New York in the months before the 9/11 attacks. It is a smart, provocative novel about the loss of innocence and what comes after childhood. Messud's writing is beautiful and her story is compelling.

A nice gift for the readers on your list.

Updated Nov 23, 2006

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The Road

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Can't wait to read this. NYT review sounded incredible.

Updated Oct 12, 2006

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The Early Birds: A Mother's Story for Our Times

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Jenny Minton's twin sons, conceived via in vitro, were born prematurely and spent nearly three months in the NICU. Minton recounts--honestly and fluidly--what this time was like for her and how her experiences caused her to question the culture of infertility and wide availability of fertility treatments.

I suspect that this book will resonate most strongly with women who share Minton's experiences of infertility and prematurity; I also suspect that Minton's honesty about her priviledged social position will irk some readers. But as a reader who identifies with all of those things, I found this to be a compelling read (which is code for Jenny Minton made me cry).

Updated Aug 29, 2006

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It Hit Me Like a Ton of Bricks: A Memoir of a Mother and Daughter

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Burns writes in spare, lean prose. What she finds as she delves into the mother-daughter relationship is that there is no one right way to love a child, no one truth about how to mother. Instead, like all of us, she finds that the ideal picture of motherhood that we all carry with us has nothing to do with the day-to-day of loving a real child: "My daughter, who was supposed to spend her childhood basking in the warm glow of my idyllic maternal love, is having a time-out in the next room. And I am in a foul fucking mood about shit that has nothing to do with her." The revelation that motherhood is hard, that children are trying, that perfection is a lie, isn't new or startling; what is new and startling is Burns' ability to talk about how a mother can seemingly fail her child and be a good mother all at once.

Updated Aug 29, 2006

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The Perfect Parents Handbook

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My favorite parenting book ever is Jennifer Conlin's The Perfect Parents Handbook. In in, with a mock seriousness similar to that in Spinal Tap, Conlin asserts that the most important part of being a good parent is identifying your perfect parent group in order that you and your children will associate with the right people. She offers each group tips on maternity fashions, what to name the baby, how to announce the birth, how to chose a preschool, what sports to play, and so on. While Conlin is being funny (and she is, truly, so very funny), her parody works because it strikes at the heart of the Mommy Wars: unless you are part of the 'right' group, you are a failure as a parent. Conlin's book is funny because, at so many levels, it is entirely true.

Updated Aug 9, 2006

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