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Belly Laughs

by Jenny McCarthy  ()
average customer review:  4.4 out of 5 stars  (607)

McCarthy applies her in-your-face manner and blue humor to the subject of pregnancy and childbirth in this little piece of fun. The former Playboy centerfold and all-around bad girl recounts her journey to motherhood with utter abandon, discussing topics that those other wholesome books tend to treat too gently, such as enemas, pubic hair growth, and sex in the ninth month.

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Posted: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 at 10:28 pm by Sylvhania
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The Family Butterfly Book

by Rick Mikula  ()
average customer review:  4.8 out of 5 stars  (15)

Everyone enjoys seeing butterflies flitting about on a warm summer day, but few people realize that many species are endangered. Without help, nine out of ten caterpillars won't survive long enough to become butterflies. The "grandfather of butterfly farming," Rick Mikula, wants to improve these odds.

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Posted: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 at 4:08 pm by Sylvhania
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NPR Driveway Moments Moms: Radio Stories That Won’t Let You Go

by NPR  ()
average customer review:  5.0 out of 5 stars  (2)

Stories so compelling you’ll stay in your car to hear them through—even if you’re sitting in your own driveway. Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! host Peter Sagal captures your attention with colorful tales for and about moms.

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Posted: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 at 10:02 am by Sylvhania
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The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror

by Christopher Moore  (2005-11-01)
average customer review:  4.3 out of 5 stars  (207)

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Well, no, actually, it's not unless your version of Christmas includes shovel-wielding murderesses, stoned officers of the law, one half-witted agent of The Lord, a flock of undead zombies fed up with the living, and Roberto The Fruit Bat.

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Posted: Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 8:31 pm by Sylvhania
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The Class “Entre Les Murs”

by Laurent Cantet  (2009-08-11)
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment  (128 minutes)
average customer review:  3.9 out of 5 stars  (43)

Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.

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Posted: Friday, September 18, 2009 at 8:29 pm by Sylvhania
Filed under: Film, Watched

What Just Happened?

by  (2009-02-24)
Magnolia  (104 minutes)
average customer review:  2.6 out of 5 stars  (41)

Two weeks in the life of a fading Hollywood producer who's having a rough time trying to get his new picture made.

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Posted: Friday, September 18, 2009 at 8:27 pm by Sylvhania
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Horrors! A Prairie Home Companion

by Garrison Keillor  ()
average customer review:  4.5 out of 5 stars  (4)

Horrors! features eclectic musical performances, commercials for loyal Prairie Home "sponsors" like Guy's Shoes, and lighthearted comedy from A Prairie Home Companion's cast of regulars.

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Posted: Friday, September 18, 2009 at 4:35 pm by Sylvhania
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Deja Vu

by Tony Scott  (2007-04-24)
Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone  (126 minutes)
average customer review:  4.0 out of 5 stars  (227)

Called in to recover evidence in the aftermath of a horrific explosion on a New Orleans ferry, an ATF agent gets pulled away from the scene and taken to a top-secret government lab that uses a time-shifting surveillance device to help prevent crime. Can he change the past?

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Posted: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 9:44 am by Sylvhania
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The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove

by Christopher Moore  (2004-05-25)
average customer review:  4.4 out of 5 stars  (151)

Like its Puff-the-Libidinous-Dragon protagonist Steve, this novel delightfully runs roughshod over trailer parks, scrip-happy psychiatrists, right-wing moralists and "nuked-out future movie" stars with laugh-aloud wit and gentle affection.

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Posted: Monday, September 14, 2009 at 10:13 pm by Sylvhania
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Busting Vega$: The MIT Whiz Kid Who Brought the Casinos to Their Knee

by Ben Mezrich  (2006-08-22)
average customer review:  3.5 out of 5 stars  (69)

Semyon Dukach was a legend at age twenty-one, the biggest high roller to appear in Sin City in decades, a mathematical genius with a system the casinos had never seen before and couldn't stop that has nothing to do with card counting, wasn't illegal, and was more powerful than anything that had been tried before.

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Posted: Monday, September 14, 2009 at 8:51 pm by Sylvhania
Filed under: Books, Listened to

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