The Fattypants Papers

Four Totally Different Books

nobody@vox.com(Fattypants) — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:40:28 -0700

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

nobody@vox.com(Fattypants) — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:51:53 -0700

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

nobody@vox.com(Fattypants) — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:42:42 -0700

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

nobody@vox.com(Fattypants) — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:07:56 -0700

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?

nobody@vox.com(Fattypants) — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:10:42 -0800

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

nobody@vox.com(Fattypants) — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:20:24 -0800

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

nobody@vox.com(Fattypants) — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:10:06 -0800

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

nobody@vox.com(Fattypants) — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:12:41 -0800

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

nobody@vox.com(Fattypants) — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:57:34 -0800

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...

nobody@vox.com(Fattypants) — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:18:40 -0800

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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