Love Reading Books

Taking a skills survey for work recently, I came to one question that gave me pause. I was to rank how this statement fit me, on a scale from 1 to 10: “I am constantly reading self-help books, learning from high achievers, and working at increasing my professionalism and appearance.” I immediately felt exhausted. Maybe [...]

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Trumpeter Nicholas Payton may have begun his journey as part of the traditionalists in the early-1990s Young Lions movement, but he couldn’t have emerged any further afield. in fact, Payton’s upcoming R&B-infused project Bitches is only just now seeing the light of day, in a completely remixed format, after being rejected last fall by the [...]

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As talk that The Playboy Club may be one of the season’s first casualties grows, it’s time we make peace with the fact that we may never know if John Bianchi figures out what Maureen and Nick did to his father, or why everyone thinks Maureen must know what happened to Bruno Bianchi just because she [...]

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Sarah Wendell undoubtedly knows exactly what you’re thinking when you hear the title of her new book, Everything I know About Love I Learned From Romance Novels. She’s been working at the web site Smart Bitches, Trashy Books for years now, and she’s heard everything you care to say about what kind of a woman [...]

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October 03, 2011 RUSH: I’m gonna tell you, this is really disappointing to me. Herman Cain. I liked Herman Cain — like Herman Cain. The Washington Post has it as a Macaca story about Rick Perry. Apparently back when Rick Perry was a Democrat… There’s this woman at the Washington Post who’s written a story [...]

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I was in Central Square today for Free Speech Fridays, and while I was there I noticed that the gazebo is starting to look battered, the grass is patchy, and a serious mud hole, that may even present a safety risk to pedestrians, is to be found around the water fountain. because of these problems, [...]

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When it comes to love, I can’t call myself ‘experienced’. I envy () those people who have had been in long-term relationships; though they have loved and lost, at least they recognize what real love is. I don’t have a clue. I think all I’ve ever had was a long list of crushes, something that [...]

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