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*soothes Julie P.*
Come on now pumpkin.
Lots of authors do Sophomore Slump.
Maybe if the book didn't suck.
(Plus your commentary is putting lots of "S"s in 'passssive-agressssive'.)
And getting reviewed at Double X?
Um, bb, you're kinda digging that hole ...
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Method should fire their agency.
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Best: About 5 months before Christmas I was looking at one of my dad's programming books and it had a cute penguin on it, I wanted to cut it out but he said no. Lo and behold on Christmas I got the stuffed Linux penguin. My dad is kind of a distant father who never bought the gifts so the fact that he remembered I liked it and went the the effort to find and buy it meant the world to me. It is still a symbol to me of the fact that even though my dad has a hard time expressing it, he does love me.
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Let me just say that I've received many thoughtful gifts in my life time so I couldn't choose just one.
But! My grandmother has given me many truly awful ones, as much as I love her.
- Sesame Street book plates when I was TEN.
-A button patterned homemade playsuit when I was TWELVE.
- But she really outdid herself with a vintage, and I assume used, electric razor she found at a thrift shop. I have no idea where that idea even came from.
The poor dear! When she still could she made up for it with her mad baking skills.
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Best: This year I'm getting a Dyson. I'm already excited. I'm a loser.
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It came from my younger male cousin. He was 11 (I was 15) and he had been in some trouble recently, skipping school etc. He had worked all summer and fall mowing lawns to save up money to buy himself a bike.
Instead he used the money and bought me a DVD player. The card said "Thanks for loving me even when I mess up". I no longer have the DVD player, but the feeling of his love and sacrifice will never go away.
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That's usually the sign of a good book review. Reviews are supposed to discuss the response a book evokes in the reader, which can't be done with a bloodless, scientific dissection of the prose.
Powell wrote a very graphic, deliberately provocative memoir--did she expect no one to have an emotional or visceral reaction to it?
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Best: The scarab from the Cairo marketplace - 3000 years old, on a gold chain - that the same grandma gave me the year I was born.
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Worst: money
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Best: The year my grandma got me maternity pj's. I wasn't pregnant, never have been but I thought it was the damn cutest thing ever because she had NO CLUE :-)