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Links For Fans Of Breaking Bad
from Flavorwire Vince Gilligan And The Dark Comedy Of Breaking Bad from SplitSider Breaking Bad Season 5 from Slate 20 Breaking Bad Locations In Real Life from Twisted Sifter The Real Walter White (is...
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The Joy Of Book Ownership
My brothers and I had a lot of picturebooks as kids in the 80s, especially Golden Books. But for some reason the book buying came to an end in primary school. By the time we were teenagers I guess we...
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Habits
By the time you get to be a big fancy adult with a career and a house, your daily routine is basically just a collection of unconscious habits: You make coffee, commute by car, attend meetings and...
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Anxiety
from Drawing A Blank Identifying A Nagging Sense Of Anxiety from Artist’s Road Uncomfortable photographs examine what it’s like to deal with anxiety from io9. Here’s the rest of them. Your Emotions Are...
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Interesting Links On Jane Austen And Her Work
1. The Skeptical Pride And Prejudice, from Greta Christina, in which the first sentence is updated somewhat, and sounds like psych-speak. 2. Jane Austen By Name, Badass Hipster Rebel By Nature from...
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What True Equality May Look Like
Did you ever feel you had to do something extra raising black children in white places? A whole lot. It’s very hard to raise black children, especially black sons, because that’s the target. You have...
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Women’s Fiction. What is it?
ASN: What is your definition of women’s fiction? LM: To me, women’s fiction is all about the journey, either external or internal. Women have so many roles in their lives, so many challenges and...
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Chick-lit. What is it?
“The term “chick lit” drives me absolutely insane, as it has no real, identifiable meaning except books by women, for women.” - Maureen Johnson What is chick-lit? from Book Riot Jenny Geras says in...
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Our Obsession With Murder and Gore
Grisly Photos of Miniature Crime Scene Models from Feature Shoot So I watched the local news. Principally this consisted of a run-down of the day’s murders in Las Vegas accompanied by film from the...
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More Interesting Links About Children’s Literature
Children’s Book Layouts from Once Upon A Sketch Exploring Author’s Voice Through Picturebooks from Teach With Picturebooks The Subtle Code Of Inequality In Picturebooks from Jezebel Little Brown’s...
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Perfume
We love the smell of our first girlfriend’s perfume, no matter how cheap or tacky it might have been. - When Books Could Change Your Life Here’s a reason to go easy on the cologne: When the Nose Knows:...
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The Gender Of Evil Baddies In Literature
I’m usually more interested when I see a female baddie in a fictional story, whether on the screen or in a novel, because we seem to be going through a period in which male baddies are a lot more...
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Romantic Comedies
1. I Spent A Year Watching Romantic Comedies And This Is The Crap I Learnt from Jezebel 2. How To Be A Single Woman In A Mainstream Rom-com, from Thought Catalog 3. Romantic Comedies Aren’t What They...
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Zombies and Walkers (Actual Walkers)
The Walking Dead Has Become A White Patriarchy, so I have been going elsewhere for my zombie stories. See also: Walking Dead Writers — Don’t Ruin Carol, from Persephone Magazine. See also Thoughts On...
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For Anyone Who Still Thinks The Male Brain Is Better Suited To Mathematics
1. Undoing Gender Math Stereotypes from Sociological Images 2. Researchers Weren’t Looking For Gender Stereotyping By Parents – They Just Found It, from Mommyish, in which it is discovered that parents...
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The One Big Lie Of Storytelling
There have been some terrible kids’ films released this year. Terrible. They look wonderful, of course. CGI continues to improve at an extraordinary rate. Possibly one of the worst of the bunch is...
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On High Heels, Backwards
At the age of three, Grandmother’s feet had been wrapped tightly witha long, narrow cloth bandage, forcing the four lateral toes under the soles so that only the big toe protruded. This bandage was...
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It’s all uphill from 35.
Slate has an article out this morning with the title: Parents Make Better Teachers: Charter schools are hiring young educators who only stick around for a few years. Bad move. At first glance this...
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Hysteria
“AS A SOCIETY, WE ENCOURAGE GIRLS AND WOMEN TO BE EMOTIONALLY ACCESSIBLE, AND IN TOUCH WITH THEIR FEELINGS; WE SAY THAT IT’S AN INNATELY FEMININE TRAIT. WE SAY IT, THAT IS, UNTIL THEY HAVE FEELINGS...
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On Commas
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath. - Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart HOWEVER. Fanfare for the Comma Man from The New York Times Commas, and what you...
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