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Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Searching for Mary Poppins: Women Write About the Intense Relationship Between Mothers and Nannies
Searching for Mary Poppins: Women Write About the Intense Relationship Between Mothers and Nannies Review
Searching for Mary Poppins: Women Write About the Intense Relationship Between Mothers and Nannies Feature
Twenty-five bestselling and award-winning female writers explore the emotional minefield of mother-nanny relationships
From coast to coast, articles and commentary on the new nanny culture abound. Nanny novels have captured public imagination to bestselling results, and thousands of “how to hire a nanny” guides are purchased every year. But no book has addressed the unique intimacy and intensity of the nanny-mother relationship through narrative with the depth and sensitivity found in Searching for Mary Poppins.
Susan Cheever, Marisa de los Santos, Joyce Maynard, Daphne Merkin, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Roxana Robinson, Rebecca Walker, and Elizabeth Graver, along with seventeen other leading women writers, explore the nanny conundrum, delving into the complex issues that today’s mothers experience when they turn the care of their children over to a stranger. Raising questions that reach beyond money, race, class, gender, immigration, and legality into the darkest areas of love and fear that a mother feels, they offer viewpoints both rivetingly disparate and hauntingly familiar.
Providing hope, solace, and welcome perspective on this one-of-a-kind relationship, Searching for Mary Poppins sheds light on why nannies make us think so hard about who we are and what we want. BACKCOVER: “If you are a mother, a father, a child, a nanny, a prospective parent, or merely interested in the fascinating, complicated, intense, and poignant relationship between nannies and parents, you will find this book very hard to put down.”
—Susan Orlean, author, The Orchid Thief
“This marvelous, often moving, collection of essays contains at least two deeply comforting lessons: one: there are no perfect nannies; two: there are no perfect mothers. How miraculous then, that so many of us manage to produce perfect children. And, with insights from this book, they will multiply.”
—Susan Stamberg, Special Correspondent, National Public Radio
“Deeply personal and cumulatively political, these powerful essays are cautionary tales, love letters brimming with gratitude, dark confessions. They are full of true heartache, hard-earned wisdom, and inspiration.”
—Julianna Baggott, co-author, Which Brings Me to You
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Thursday, March 10, 2011
The Feline Mystique: A Man's Guide to Living With Cats (and/or Women)
The Feline Mystique: A Man's Guide to Living With Cats (and/or Women) Review
The Feline Mystique: A Man's Guide to Living With Cats (and/or Women) Feature
Women! By God, we men love them. We court them, we watch them, we crave them, we want and need them. We buy them candy and diamonds, we take care of them, we covet them. And still they drive us crazy. No matter how much we try to understand our female counterparts, no matter how much we give and give, no matter the size of the house or car or bouquet of flowers we bring them, we just never seem to be able to live with them without, at some point, seriously wanting to rid ourselves of them. And yet, no matter how much they drive us crazy, we still keep coming back for more. No use asking ourselves WHY, Men. Just accept the fact that we have to have them and let it go at that. The main thing we men have to learn, however, in order to keep our sane male outlook on life, is how to live with the little darlings. Because live with them we must, as siblings, as roommates in college, as lovers and potential long-term mates, as wives and mothers and, finally (and more or less inevitably) as daughters. Trying to live with a woman, however, is a scary proposition, one for which almost all men are ill-equipped from Day One. But don't despair, Guys. You now have a foolproof way to prepare yourselves for your everyday life with the woman of your choice. Gary Lukatch's newest book has the answers to your questions and dilemmas. Before you share your living space with a woman, all you have to do first is live with a cat. The Feline Mystique is the book to tell you how. Buy it, Read it, Profit.
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Friday, February 25, 2011
Stolen (Women of the Otherworld, Book 2)
Stolen (Women of the Otherworld, Book 2) Review
Stolen (Women of the Otherworld, Book 2) Feature
International acclaim for Kelley Armstrong's sophisticated debut novel, Bitten, is steadily growing. It was in Bitten that thirty-year-old Elena Michaels came to terms with her feral appetites and claimed the proud identity of a beautiful, successful woman-and the only living female werewolf.
In Stolen, on a mission for her own elite pack, she is lured into the net of ruthless Internet billionaire Tyrone Winsloe, who has funded a bogus scientific investigation of the "other races" and their supernatural powers. Kidnapped and studied in his underground lab deep in the Maine woods, these paranormals-witches, vampires, shamans, werewolves-are then released and hunted to the death in a real-world video game. But when Winsloe captures Elena, he meets his match.
Suspenseful, chilling, and witty, Stolen is a novel of rich and amazing versatility.
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