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Books and Beyond

http://www.christinadudley.blogspot.com

Posting 3x/week on books, book clubs, my own writing, movies, events. Favorite genres include classics, disaster books, non-fiction, and some contemporary fiction.

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  • Best Books for Christmas Gifts 2009

    Posted on Thursday December 3rd, 2009 at 11:09 in best books 2009

    ***Don't forget to come see me: University Bookstore Mill Creek, Monday 12/7, at 7:00P and Parkplace Books Kirkland, Thursday, 12/10, at 7:00P. Free cookies! A reading! Free gift-wrapping at both stores!***Christmas shopping is upon us, and every yea...

  • She\'s Come Undone (at Least Halfway)

    Posted on Tuesday December 1st, 2009 at 10:00 in self-publishing, university bookstore appearance

    ***Meet me in Mill Creek at University Bookstore, Monday, 12/7, at 7:00P!*** The life of a self-published author is almost too glamorous to write about.It was time to pick up more copies of MOURNING BECOMES CASSANDRA, so off I drove with a friend (re...

  • Adventures without Sarah Palin

    Posted on Sunday November 29th, 2009 at 12:12

    Just thought you'd be interested in my near-brush with celebrity. It wasn't terribly near, but we did happen to be in Richland, Washington, for Thanksgiving, and our visit coincided with Sarah Palin's. There was Sarah Palin in the local paper, having...

  • Ten Reasons to Be Thankful

    Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 16:53

    According to Robert A. Emmons' THANKS!: HOW THE NEW SCIENCE OF GRATITUDE CAN MAKE YOU HAPPIER, grateful people show measurably more contentment than whiners. Well, duh, you may think, but, like most obvious good advice, it's not something that shapes...

  • Here is the Steeple

    Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 10:32 in steeple hill

    Yesterday I was looking over my 3rd grade son's homework, and there was the time-honored assignment: use the following vocabulary words in a sentence. For "countries," my boy had really turned on the creative juices and come up with "I love countries...

  • Cake or Death?

    Posted on Monday November 16th, 2009 at 10:20 in eddie izzard, the custom of the country, those who save us

    For those of you who can stand a few f-words mixed in with your stand-up comedy (and by "a few" I mean QUITE a few), check out Eddie Izzard's DRESSED TO KILL. Parts of it are cannibalized for YouTube, but it's worth watching in its entirety. But if y...

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