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September has drawn to a close and October is [...]

In My Mailbox is a weekly feature that is hosted by The Story Siren. Every Sunday (maybe Monday if I’m feeling off) I will post a list of all of the books I received or bought over the past week. I don’t expect this to be a weekly feature at TS – but hey – [...]

Ladies and gentlemen, it is now time to announce the lucky winners of the NurtureShock Giveaway! Using Random.org, three lucky winners have been selected win a copy of Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman’s NurtureShock in either hardback or audiobook – winner’s choice! And now, the lucky winners are…
1. Julie
2. Mik
3. Jenn
Congratulations to the winners! I [...]

Book lovers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania are not exactly “feeling the love” from the City of Brotherly Love right now. The Free Library of Philadelphia has announced that it will be closing their doors on October 2, 2009. The Free Library has reported that without the necessary funding from the State Legislature it will be unable [...]

Butcher
by Gary C. King
ISBN-13: 978-0-7860-1934-2
ISBN-10: 0-7860-1934-4
A few years ago, I recall hearing and seeing a few news reports on the serial killer who targeted prostitutes and fed their remains to his pigs on his farm. I was actually [at the time] surprised to realize that it was already going to trial and I was only [...]

Jim Carroll, a renown poet, musician, and author, passed away last Friday in his home in Manhattan at the age of sixty. Carroll suffered a fatal heart attack.
Carroll, whose life was shaped by drug use, gained attention in his teenage years for his poetry, most notably in 1967 for “Organic Trains”. Carroll would continue to [...]

In My Mailbox is a weekly feature that is hosted by The Story Siren. Every Sunday (maybe Monday if I’m feeling off) I will post a list of all of the books I received or bought over the past week. I don’t expect this to be a weekly feature at TS – but hey – [...]

You’ve read my review of Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman’s NurtureShock and now, courtesy of the Hatchette Book Group, I have 3 copies of Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman’s NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children to give away to 3 lucky readers in either hardback or audiobook. That’s right, winners’ choice.
Po Bronson and Ashley [...]

NurtureShock
New Thinking About Children
by Po Bronson and Ashely Merryman
ISBN: 978-0-446-50412-6
When I cracked open my copy of Bronson and Merryman’s NurtureShock I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. Would it be the equivalent of a condescending lecture on how one should be raising their kids or would it instead be a dry collection of statistics and [...]

In My Mailbox is a weekly feature that is hosted by The Story Siren. Every Sunday (maybe Monday if I’m feeling off) I will post a list of all of the books I received or bought over the past week. I don’t expect this to be a weekly feature at TS – but hey – [...]