Mary Daniels Brown

My mother always insisted that, as soon as I was old enough to sit up, she’d find me in my crib after my nap babbling away, with a Little Golden Book on my lap. I’ve had my nose in a book ever since. I grew up in a small town, with the tiny town library literally in my backyard. As an only child in an unhappy home, I found comfort and companionship in books. As an adult I wanted to be Harry Potter, although I admit I’m more Hermione. My life has been a series of research projects. Reading has taught me that human lives are deliciously messy and that “it’s complicated” isn’t a punchline.

P-I Gift Guide: Great books for kids

P-I Gift Guide: Great books for kids: If your holiday gift list includes children–toddlers through teens–the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has some suggestions for you.

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Best Short Stories | In Photos

Best Short Stories | In Photos | csmonitor.com: In a clever twist on the usual “best books” list, The Christian Science Monitor presents a slideshow of book covers for its 8 choices of best short story collections of 2008.

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The 10 Best Books of 2008

The 10 Best Books of 2008 – NYTimes.com: The editors of the New York Times Book Review have pared the list of 100 Notable Books down to these 10, 5 fiction and 5 nonfiction.

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Best Books of 2008 : NPR

Best Books of 2008 : NPR: This list includes links to recommendations of books in many categories, including fiction, foreign fiction, politics and current events, cookbooks, crime and mystery novels, and National Book Award Winners.

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The Big Pictures: Best Gift Books 2008

The Big Pictures: Best Gift Books 2008 : NPR: NPR (National Public Radio) weighs in with some gift suggestions, with the following warning: “A few of the gorgeous tomes below tip into the 20-pound range, so to give you a sense of what you might be lugging and/or mailing, we’ve included the physical attributes of

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Writers strike out on their own with a website

Writers strike out on their own with a website | csmonitor.com: Striking writer Peter Hyoguchi was walking the picket line outside Disney’s ABC Studios in Burbank, Calif., in January when he had an epiphany. What if scriptwriters launched a website featuring their work, which they would own and control free of studio interference? That hunch

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Best nonfiction books of 2008

Best nonfiction books of 2008 | csmonitor.com: The Christian Science Monitor offers its gift-giving guide to nonfiction.

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Things I’m Thankful For

Here’s a list of some of the things I’m thankful for as this Thanksgiving weekend winds down: family and friends, even though they’re scattered all over the country the Internet, which, in addition to enabling us to learn anything we want to know, also allows us to keep in touch with family and friends, even

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