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    • A Window Opens, by Elisabeth Egan
    • The Girl Who Slept with God, by Val Brelinski
    • The Art of Memoir, by Mary Karr
    • Saint Monkey, by Jacinda Townsend
    • The Seven Good Years, by Etgar Keret
    • Girl in the Moonlight, by Charles Dubow
    • Etta and Otto and Russell and James, by Emma Hooper
    • Expo 58, by Jonathan Coe
    • Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America, by Linda Tirado
    • Confidence, or the Appearance of Confidence: The Best of Believer Music Interviews, edited by Vendela Vida and Ross Simonini
    • The Returned, by Jason Mott
    • Gun Guys, by Dan Baum
    • Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    • The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? by Jared Diamond
    • Me, Who Dove into the Heart of the World, by Sabina Berman
    • Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son’s First Son, by Anne Lamott with Sam Lamott
    • How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm: Child-Raising Discoveries from Around the World (from Argentina to Tanzania and Everywhere in Between), by Mei-Ling Hopgood
    • The Art of Fielding, by Chad Harbach
    • Mr. Fox, by Helen Oyeyemi
    • Microstyle: The Art of Writing Little, by Christopher Johnson
    • Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History, by Ben Mezrich
    • Embassytown, by China Miéville
    • Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar: Stories of Work, edited by Richard Ford
    • A Widow’s Story, by Joyce Carol Oates
    • When the Killing’s Done, by T.C. Boyle
    • Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl, by Donald Sturrock
    • Give Me Your Heart, by Joyce Carol Oates
    • At Home: A Short History of Private Life, by Bill Bryson
    • Red Hook Road, by Ayelet Waldman
    • The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, by David Mitchell
    • The Best American Travel Writing 2009, edited by Simon Winchester
    • The Year of the Flood, by Margaret Atwood
    • Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love, by Laura Vapnyar
    • Little Bee, by Chris Cleave
    • The Ten-Year Nap, by Meg Wolitzer
    • The Other Side of Desire, by Daniel Bergner
    • World without End, by Ken Follett
    • The Best American Spiritual Writing 2008 edited by Philip Zaleski, Introduction by Jimmy Carter
    • State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America, edited by Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey
    • No-Man’s Lands: One Man’s Odyssey Through The Odyssey, by Scott Huler
    • Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex (and How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple), by Jeffrey Kluger
    • God Is Dead, by Ron Currie, Jr.
    • Wolf Totem, by Jiang Rong, translated by Howard Goldblatt
  • Home
  • About
  • Caving
  • Jess’s Book Reviews
    • A Window Opens, by Elisabeth Egan
    • The Girl Who Slept with God, by Val Brelinski
    • The Art of Memoir, by Mary Karr
    • Saint Monkey, by Jacinda Townsend
    • The Seven Good Years, by Etgar Keret
    • Girl in the Moonlight, by Charles Dubow
    • Etta and Otto and Russell and James, by Emma Hooper
    • Expo 58, by Jonathan Coe
    • Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America, by Linda Tirado
    • Confidence, or the Appearance of Confidence: The Best of Believer Music Interviews, edited by Vendela Vida and Ross Simonini
    • The Returned, by Jason Mott
    • Gun Guys, by Dan Baum
    • Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    • The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? by Jared Diamond
    • Me, Who Dove into the Heart of the World, by Sabina Berman
    • Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son’s First Son, by Anne Lamott with Sam Lamott
    • How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm: Child-Raising Discoveries from Around the World (from Argentina to Tanzania and Everywhere in Between), by Mei-Ling Hopgood
    • The Art of Fielding, by Chad Harbach
    • Mr. Fox, by Helen Oyeyemi
    • Microstyle: The Art of Writing Little, by Christopher Johnson
    • Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History, by Ben Mezrich
    • Embassytown, by China Miéville
    • Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar: Stories of Work, edited by Richard Ford
    • A Widow’s Story, by Joyce Carol Oates
    • When the Killing’s Done, by T.C. Boyle
    • Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl, by Donald Sturrock
    • Give Me Your Heart, by Joyce Carol Oates
    • At Home: A Short History of Private Life, by Bill Bryson
    • Red Hook Road, by Ayelet Waldman
    • The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, by David Mitchell
    • The Best American Travel Writing 2009, edited by Simon Winchester
    • The Year of the Flood, by Margaret Atwood
    • Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love, by Laura Vapnyar
    • Little Bee, by Chris Cleave
    • The Ten-Year Nap, by Meg Wolitzer
    • The Other Side of Desire, by Daniel Bergner
    • World without End, by Ken Follett
    • The Best American Spiritual Writing 2008 edited by Philip Zaleski, Introduction by Jimmy Carter
    • State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America, edited by Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey
    • No-Man’s Lands: One Man’s Odyssey Through The Odyssey, by Scott Huler
    • Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex (and How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple), by Jeffrey Kluger
    • God Is Dead, by Ron Currie, Jr.
    • Wolf Totem, by Jiang Rong, translated by Howard Goldblatt

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    Spending Our Time Off

    Jess / December 28, 2008

    Well, the holiday was certain to end. I’m not too bummed about going back to work; I have Thursday and Friday off and we got outside today, finally! We had a great time…

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  • Books,  Breakfast,  Church,  Food,  Life @ Home

    Merry Christmas!

    Jess / December 25, 2008

    I repeat, Merry Christmas! We went to the 11:00 p.m. Christmas Eve service at church last night, so we got to start our celebration in the car as the new day turned over.…

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    In Lieu of Twitter

    Jess / December 24, 2008

    I don’t Facebook, and I don’t tweet. Nor am I entirely sure whether “Facebook” is already a verb. I’m happy to explain why I’m not a fan of these newfangled social networking devices…

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    XHTML Ain’t Brain Surgery

    Dave / December 23, 2008

    Coding things for the web isn’t really all that difficult. It certainly isn’t brain surgery, and it isn’t even computer programming—sorry if that deflates anybody’s ego. There are really just a few simple…

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    The Rest of the Weekend and Bonus Excitement

    Jess / December 22, 2008

    My poor old, old, old laptop shut down just as we were getting ready to leave The Cup. The screen suddenly went dark and a dire sentence: “Core temperature has reached 27° C:…

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    Getting Ready for Christmas

    Jess / December 22, 2008

    It seems like we’ve been getting ready for the holiday since Thanksgiving! I don’t know how people with kids do it. I didn’t even bake cookies, which I think is de rigeur once…

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    Procrastination

    Jess / December 17, 2008

    I just read a Newsweek story about procrastination. I’m serious—I just read it, and here I am, responding! All jokes aside, it was interesting to me because I’m a procrastinator—I always have been.…

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    Dinner Party

    Jess / December 13, 2008

    Dave and I had fun at our dinner party last night. Our guests were our caving friend Jen, our church friend Rob, and a co-worker of mine, Andrew, and his wife Maggie. The…

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    Food and Exercise

    Jess / December 11, 2008

    I’m here to talk about food. Food and exercise. This afternoon I pulled on my running shoes and went for a jog. The whole time, I was thinking about how much I hate…

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    Two Haircuts and A Little Bump

    Jess / December 7, 2008

    Dave and I both got haircuts this weekend. His was the standard Great Clips $14-with-a-$2-tip haircut. He seems to have quite a bit of skin behind his ears this time–his haircuts are always…

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