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What Does Independence Mean To You?
At some point, we all strive for a little independence in our lives. We want to make our own decisions -- call the shots. We want to control our own destiny. Eva, the main character in Sylvia...
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How Soon Is Too Soon For Couples Therapy?
Since I had not read Bared to You, the first book in Sylvia Day's Crossfire series, I was surprised to find that Eva and Gideon were in couple's counseling. Based on what I had read to that point in...
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Lifelong Learning For The Win
My favourite parts of Kate and David Marshall's new book, My Life Map: A Journal to Help Shape Your Future were the subject maps. I loved the subjects they chose to focus on and I really, really loved...
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The Magical Post-Breakup Makeover
After a breakup, particularly one you did not initiate, your self confidence can take a bit of a beating. During this time my friends and I frequently turned to the magical healing powers of a...
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Making Play A Priority
I know I've said this but my favorite parts of Kate and David Marshall'sMy Life Map: A Journal to Help Shape Your Future really were the subject maps. I liked the service map because it made me examine...
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The 10 Year Plan
Before I read Kate and David Marshall'sMy Life Map: A Journal to Help Shape Your Future I would have told you that 10 year plans give me hives. One of the most dreaded questions in a job interview for...
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What Is Your Willpower Challenge?
In her new book The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do To Get More of ItKelly McGonigal, Ph.D., suggests the best way to learn about the self-control...
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What I've Learned (So Far) From My Willpower Challenge
I was scared when I announced my willpower challenge last week. While I totally understood why Kelly McGonigal suggests that you do one while reading her book, The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control...
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Discovering My Challenge Within My Willpower Challenge
I have to say that my willpower challenge is still going well. If I learned anything at all from Kelly McGonigal'sThe Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do To...
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Music Tells Your Story
One of the things I probably identified the most with in Jen Lancaster'sHere I Go Again were the discussions between Lissy and Brian about music. When you are teenager, few things feel bigger than the...
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Is My Willpower Challenge Over Now?
When we first starting talking about Kelly McGonigal's book The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do To Get More of It, I was intrigued but I wasn't sure how...
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Pain Has a Flavor
"Here is something I learned when I was eleven years old: Pain has a flavor. The question is, what does it taste like to you?"Libby Denbe kicks off the narration of Lisa Gardner's new thriller, Touch...
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Would You Like To Go Back In Time?
In Jen Lancaster's new novel, Here I Go Again, Lissy Ryder is given a potion that can help her right all her wrongs. Being the person she is, Lissy doesn't approach it cautiously. No, she throws it...
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Who Do You Want To Be?
When we first met Lissy Ryder in Jen Lancaster's novel Here I Go Again, she didn't know who she wanted to be. She was still focused on who she had been. Her high school days has been her glory days, so...
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Knowing Isn't Always Enough
In Lisa Gardner's new thriller, Touch and Go, the characters really knew better than to do many of things they did. The kidnappers knew that kidnapping a whole family was wrong. Libby knew taking drugs...
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Gastronomic Mosaics & Culinary Road Maps
Food quickly becomes important to the story in Alex George'sA Good American. Before the Meisenheimers ever open the restaurant, Jette finds herself homesick. She turns to the meals she ate in her...
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Do We Ever Really Leave High School?
Lissy Ryder, the main character in Jen Lancaster's new novel, Here I Go Again, never really left high school. She hit her peak during those four years and stopped growing and reaching. When she...
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Would You Maim a Buddy?
Now, hold on. I don't mean that the way it sounds, I promise! I like to read the author's notes and acknowledgements in books and Lisa Gardner's notes for Touch and Go were fascinating. I loved finding...
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Finding Beauty in a Harsh Existence
I spent a lot of time while reading Lisa Gardner's newest book, Touch and Go, trying to figure out Libby. She was broken but she also showed a resilience and strength that surprised me, as I believe it...
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Is Your Life an Opera?
In Alex George'sA Good American music is important to the lives of the characters and is integral to the plot. Jette and Frederick meet when he serenades her in a park. They find help in New Orleans...
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