The Fattypants Papers Vox 2008-05-06T03:40:28Z Fattypants http://fattypants.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00c225274a5bf219/ Embracing my not-so-inner dork. Four Totally Different Books tag:vox.com,2008-05-06:asset-6a00c225274a5bf21900e398f6e7d60005 2008-05-06T03:40:28Z 2008-05-06T03:40:28Z Fattypants http://fattypants.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream The Invention of Hugo Cabret Abundance, A Novel of Marie Antoinette (P.S.) Shopaholic & Sister

Unfortunately--and this is all my fault and shouldn't reflect on the book--the main thing I learned here was that I should steer clear of audio format for anything that I actually want to retain. Since they end of tax season meant a return to ...

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]]> The White Cascade tag:vox.com,2008-04-11:asset-6a00c225274a5bf21900e398eef35f0004 2008-04-11T02:51:53Z 2008-04-11T02:51:53Z Fattypants http://fattypants.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche

I didn't have a clue that there had been an avalanche disaster at Steven's pass, just a few miles from where I live, until I first heard about this book, about an avalanche that took out two trains during a several days of snow storms in 1910. A...

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]]> TV Meme tag:vox.com,2008-04-11:asset-6a00c225274a5bf21900e398eef2d70004 2008-04-11T02:42:42Z 2008-04-11T02:42:42Z Fattypants http://fattypants.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom From Medlibrarygirl and EllBeeCee Empire Magazine has revealed its list of the "50 Greatest TV Shows" ever. Below is the list and here be the rules. 1. Bold the shows you've watched every episode of 2. Underline the shows you've seen at least on...

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]]> The Whistling Season tag:vox.com,2008-03-15:asset-6a00c225274a5bf21900f48ce4626d0002 2008-03-15T03:07:56Z 2008-03-15T03:07:56Z Fattypants http://fattypants.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

The Whistling Season

This book was just a nice little charming story about a homesteading family and one-room school in Montana. It actually reminded me a lot of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books, with the descriptions of all the different schoolyard personalities. The...

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]]> QotD: Who Should Pay? tag:vox.com,2008-02-23:asset-6a00c225274a5bf21900e398df63ed0005 2008-02-23T04:10:42Z 2008-02-23T04:10:42Z Fattypants http://fattypants.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom You crash your friend's car because you're driving too fast in bad weather. Everyone's okay, but the car has to go into the shop. Who pays the deductible? You. Only complete jackass would try to weasel out of that one.

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]]> Billion Dollar Kiss tag:vox.com,2008-02-17:asset-6a00c225274a5bf21900f48cdbc4050002 2008-02-17T04:20:24Z 2008-02-17T04:20:24Z Fattypants http://fattypants.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Billion-Dollar Kiss: The Kiss That Saved Dawson's Creek and Other Adventures in TV Writing

Billion Dollar Kiss is Stepakoff's account of his career as a TV writer, starting from 1988, when he went to Hollywood, up through a couple of years ago. The subtitle has caused some dumbasses on Amazon to give it bad reviews because they bought...

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]]> The Boleyn Inheritance tag:vox.com,2008-02-13:asset-6a00c225274a5bf21900e398dc0e5c0004 2008-02-13T01:10:06Z 2008-02-22T19:22:03Z Fattypants http://fattypants.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

The Boleyn Inheritance

I was excited to read this because I couldn't put The Other Boleyn Girl down. Although I enjoyed it, I didn't like it nearly as well. The story was just not quite as compelling, and it seemed like the stakes weren't as high. I did enjoy the multi...

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]]> World Without End tag:vox.com,2008-01-30:asset-6a00c225274a5bf21900e398d7c5710003 2008-01-30T16:12:41Z 2008-01-30T16:12:41Z Fattypants http://fattypants.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

World Without End

I was really excited about this quasi-sequel to The Pillars of the Earth, which I loved. (Just to clarify, I loved it a long time before Oprah did, okay?) Since this book is set 200 later, none of the same characters appear, although there are so...

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]]> Target Underwear and a Vera Wang Gown tag:vox.com,2008-01-29:asset-6a00c225274a5bf21900e398d7470a0005 2008-01-29T03:57:34Z 2008-01-29T16:01:14Z Fattypants http://fattypants.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Target Underwear and a Vera Wang Gown: Notes from a Single Girl's Closet

This is another one of those girly memoirs. It was entertaining enough but not spectacularly well-written or groundbreaking. I'm not very label conscious, so I wasn't really familiar with a lot of the designers that came up. I do like the idea t...

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]]> Another vivid dream... tag:vox.com,2008-01-16:asset-6a00c225274a5bf21900e398d3184f0003 2008-01-16T19:18:40Z 2008-01-17T16:40:44Z Fattypants http://fattypants.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Maybe I am eating something that is making me dream crazy. I started taking a daily vitamin E, do you think that could do it? Last night, I dreamt that I was being chased around by Tom Hanks, who wanted to strangle me. Tom Hanks! Who is famous fo...

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