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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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Dress Your Best: The Complete Guide to Finding the Style That's Right for Your Body
4 people recommended this item
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One of my guilty pleasures is watching "What Not to Wear". Stacy and Clinton take some very tragic cases, and with the help of their staff, really turn them around. I would LOVE to go on this show, but they would take away too many of my black clothes (which is pretty much 99.8% of my clothes). So, I'll just buy this book instead.
Updated Nov 23, 2008
The Handbag: An Illustrated History
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It's a HISTORY of HANDBAGS! For smart girls who love beautiful bags. (via blogher.com)
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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Reading is so relaxing for me. Picking a favorite is hard but I really loved this one by Elizabeth Gilbert.
Updated Jun 20, 2008
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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Cormack McCarthy is, to put it nicely, a man's writer, and his new novel, The Road, strikes me as a man's book, the kind you gift wrap with a nice bottle of scotch. This is a dark fable about the End of Civilization, the kind of book you buy for the Thinking Man in your life.
My husband will be getting this and a bottle of Glenlivit under the tree.
Updated Nov 23, 2006
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
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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