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Books I'm talking about
- Peggy Orenstein: Waiting for Daisy: A Tale of Two Continents, Three Religions, Five Infertility Doctors, an Oscar, an Atomic Bomb, a Rom (****)
- Eric Abrahamson: A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder--How Crammed Closets, Cluttered Offices, and On-the-Fly Planning Make the World a Better Place (***)
- Barbara Ehrenreich: Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class (**)
- Barack Obama: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (***)
- Julie Phillips: James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon (*****)
- Michael Wex: Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All Its Moods (*****)
- Gene Luen Yang: American Born Chinese (***)
- Mollie Katzen: Pretend Soup and Other Real Recipes: A Cookbook for Preschoolers & Up (****)
- Katherine S. Newman: Chutes and Ladders: Navigating the Low-Wage Labor Market (Russell Sage Foundation Books) (****)
- Katherine S. Newman: No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City (****)
- Robert H. Frank: The Winner-Take-All Society: Why the Few at the Top Get So Much More Than the Rest of Us (****)
- Karen Quinn: The Ivy Chronicles (**)
- Alan Eisenstock: The Kindergarten Wars: The Battle to Get into America's Best Private Schools (***)
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Half of a Yellow Sun (*****)
- Jackie Spinner: Tell Them I Didn't Cry: A Young Journalist's Story of Joy, Loss, and Survival in Iraq (***)
Blogs mostly about the outside world
Blogs mostly about the author's life
- Bumblebee Sweet Potato
- esperanza: where hope springs maternal
- The Simple Dollar
- Brutal Women
- Crunchy Granola
- jo(e)'s page
- Toddler Planet
- Uppercase Woman
- I Have Things...
- Actual Unretouched Photo
- DotMoms
- Geeky Mom
- Kid Squared
- Kyra Anderson
- Milkbreath and Me
- Mimilou
- One Good Thing
- Other Mother
- Peter's Cross Station (formerly Waiting for Nat)
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