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The Lovely Bones

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I just finished reading The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold for my book club. For the past couple of years I have heard so many people…

"Nineteen Minutes"

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"In nineteen minutes you can mow the front lawn, color your hair, watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes you can order a a pizza and have it delivered. You can read a story to a child or have your oil changed." "In nineteen minutes, you can get revenge." In Nineteen…

The Best Book Club Ever!

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While I do encourage the exploration of literature and support of new works, I do not care for traditional book clubs. My position has always been: if I really wanted to know what you thought of a book, I would buy it, give it to you, and have you tell me all about it. Books are subjective; everyone…

Book Club Read #1- Prodigal Summer

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Our first book for May! I am going to take my copy to the beach this afternoon and start reading... update as you progress through it and let's see how this goes ;) Happy Thursday to all!

New Book Club- for anyone who loves to read!

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I want to start a book club! We pick a book per month and discuss it as we progress through... anyone interested? I just started reading A Million Little Pieces by James Frey and love both fiction and nonfiction reads... One of my favorites was My Sister's Keeper... I find that I am more…

Hot and Bothered: Book Club

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Once again, it's time for a blog that goes between the covers in the most literal sense!

Right now, my unsexy read that I carry on the subway to look smart is

Let's start a Shine Fashion book club!

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Hey ladies (and gentlemen whomever you may be), I was thinking yesterday about how much I love this community and the unique take you guys have on style and beauty, what you'll buy, what's ridiculous, etc (a perfect example of this is the silly/sassy exchange I had yesterday in the comments section with reader Sarah Y). Anyway, given that you're all so smart and opinionated, I thought it would be absolutely the funnest thing if we started a book club.

I propose we begin with...

Elastic Waist book club: Making the Cut--how do you keep going?

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We're at or nearly or so close to or just a little bit past the halfway mark in the 30-day Making the Cut program! Woo! Sob. So let's talk about how not to give up: When you're standing in the middle of the kitchen, eyes glazing over, about to faint from hunger and so tired and so not...

Dr. Daphne Miller, author of The Jungle Effect

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Kim gets on her soapbox to talk about the importance
of body acceptance before getting on the yellow phone to call up Dr. Daphne Miller, author of The Jungle Effect.

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Elastic Waist book club: Making the Cut--the preliminaries

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Okay. So a goodly number of you are going to do this crazy Making the Cut thing with me, but we've all solemnly sworn to not be crazy about it, right? If we can't do a side plank, we're not going to burst all the tendons up and down our bodies trying to do a side plank, and if we...