Bitter is the New Black

by Jen Lancaster  (2006-03-07)
average customer review:    (459)

Jen Lancaster was living the sweet life-until real life kicked her to the curb. This is the smart-mouthed, soul-searching story of a woman trying to figure out what happens next when she's gone from six figures to unemployment checks and she stops to reconsider some of the less-than-rosy attitudes and values she thought she'd never have to answer for when times were good.

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Posted: Saturday, December 11, 2010 at 11:28 pm by Sylvhania
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Voluntary Madness: Lost and Found in the Mental Healthcare System

by Norah Vincent  ()
average customer review:    (55)

Struggling with the “psycho-emotional” conflicts of being a woman living as a man for her last book, Self-Made Man (2006), Vincent checked herself into the psychiatric ward of a hospital. While there, she found inspiration for her next immersion-journalism experience.

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Posted: Thursday, December 9, 2010 at 5:03 pm by Sylvhania
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Twinkie, Deconstructed

by Steve Ettlinger  (2008-02-26)
average customer review:    (58)

Twinkies: what exactly are their ingredients and how did they come from places like Minnesota and Madagascar to be made into "the uber-iconic food product, the archetype of all processed foods."

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Posted: Sunday, December 5, 2010 at 7:15 pm by Sylvhania
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The Five Wishes

by Gay Hendricks  (2012-05-16)
average customer review:    (56)

You never know when it is going to happen when you will experience a moment that dramatically transforms your life. When you look back, often years later, you may see how a brief conversation or an insight you read in a book changed the entire course of your life. Gay Hendricks had an extraordinary, lifealtering experience during a conversation at a party.

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Posted: Sunday, December 5, 2010 at 7:12 pm by Sylvhania
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Arcadia

by Tom Stoppard  ()
average customer review:    (59)

Arcadia is a brilliantly inventive play that moves back and forth between centuries, populated by a varied and vastly entertaining cast of characters who discuss such topics as the nature of truth and time, the difference between the classical and the romantic temperament, and the disruptive influence of sex on our orbits in life-according to the author, "the attraction which Newton left out."

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Posted: Saturday, December 4, 2010 at 7:08 pm by Sylvhania
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Inception

by Christopher Nolan  (2010-12-07)
Warner Home Video  (148 minutes)
average customer review:    (987)

In a world where technology exists to enter the human mind through dream invasion, a highly skilled thief is given a final chance at redemption which involves executing his toughest job till date, Inception, planting an idea in the mind of another.

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Posted: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 at 7:02 pm by Sylvhania
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Nevada Smith

by Henry Hathaway  (2003-04-22)
Paramount  (128 minutes)
average customer review:    (57)

A naive half-Indian, half-white man evolves into a hardened killer as he tracks down his parents' murderers.

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Posted: Monday, November 22, 2010 at 6:55 pm by Sylvhania
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Despicable Me

by Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud  (2010-12-14)
Universal Studios  (95 minutes)
average customer review:    (610)

When a criminal mastermind uses a trio of orphan girls as pawns for a grand scheme, he finds himself profoundly changed by the growing love between them.

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Posted: Sunday, November 14, 2010 at 11:30 pm by Sylvhania
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Miss Staff Sergeant

On AsianMediaWiki. Not on IMDb or Amazon yet. Watched on Asiana Airlines flight to Cambodia.

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Posted: Saturday, November 13, 2010 at 7:08 pm by Sylvhania
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The Hangover

by Todd Phillips  (2009-12-15)
Warner Home Video  (100 minutes)
average customer review:    (560)

A Las Vegas-set comedy centered around three groomsmen who lose their about-to-be-wed buddy during their drunken misadventures, then must retrace their steps in order to find him.

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Posted: Friday, November 12, 2010 at 9:23 pm by Sylvhania
Filed under: Film, Watched