I curse you, Starbucks!

Normally, we buy House Blend. Lots of it. Because coffee is pretty much my beverage of choice. After all, a study out this summer showed that drinking five cups of coffee a day could reverse memory problems seen in Alzheimer's disease. Okay, so the study subjects were mice. But I can use all the memory I can get. And my dad had Alzheimer's. But the last time I was at the store I decided to...

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Laini Taylor is still a winner in our hearts

If you haven’t read Lips Touch: Three Times , you should. It’s a wonderful book, playful, inventive, moving. The Oregonian featured a great story about its author and illustrator, National Book Award finalist Laini Taylor and her husband Jim. It begins, “She writes, he draws. Her hair is pink, and her laugh is infectious. His hair is red, and he laughs a lot, too. They live and work ...

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Perfect Shot

About the book In Perfect Shot (Simon Romantic Comedies) , high school athlete London Abrams is more likely to spike a volleyball than wear spike heels. Yet in one crush-tastic moment, she signs up for a modeling contest as an excuse to meet the photo intern Brent St. John. But instead of getting a call back from Brent, London gets a call back from contest judges! Now she’s in a fierce ...

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Love in Translation

About the book Love in Translation: A Novel is for anyone who’s ever dreamt of finding love and family in an unexpected place... After receiving a puzzling phone call and a box full of mysterious family heirlooms, 33-year-old fledgling singer Celeste Duncan is off to Japan to search for a long, lost relative who could hold the key to the identity of the father she never knew. Once there...

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Author of Geek Love takes a lickin', but keeps on tickin'

Katherine Dunn is my hero First, she wrote Geek Love: A Novel . Second, at Wordstock, I got to meet her and she said she was an admirer of my work! I seriously thought I could die happy right then. And here’s a third reason to like Katherine Dunn - she’s a fighter. Literally. And I’m not talking about the essays she has written on boxing. On Tuesday, she was walking home from Trader Joes ...

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Another auction to help the beautiful Bridget

This is Bridget. Three things happened to Bridget in February: 1. She got an agent for her young adult novel. 2. She got married. 3. She found out she has Stage Four colon cancer. I met Bridget a year ago at an Oregon SWCBI event. She had just moved to Portland from Wisconsin, where she was a teen librarian. She is a beautiful person, inside and out. When she found out she had an agent, she ...

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Some days, you gotta wear the turkey hat

I have so much to be thankful for this year. Professionally, things have started to take off. I'm healthy, and so are my husband and Teen. We're close. I would wish everyone the same for the coming year.

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“Going down the steps with a gun in his hands”-My great-grandfather, the murderer

My grandmother didn’t marry until she was 32, in 1920. I just figured she was a late bloomer. This weekend, when I should have been working on my editor’s revision letter, I goofed off by Googling my grandmother’s name. “Effie Satterwhite.” Google has obviously been scanning more books since the last time I looked, including one published in 1907 that listed the opinions of the Arkansas Supreme...

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Beautiful Nabokov covers

Artistis and authors such as Dave Eggers have redesigned covers for Nabokov's back-listed works to mark the publication of his final posthumous novel, "The Original of Laura." Click here to look at the Wall Street Journal slide show - especially the cover for The Enchanter, which I can't find to post here, but which is gorgeous .

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A widow lets her paintbrush do the talking for health care reform

Her husband's ordeal: The famous painting of Marat she used as inspiration: NPR had a moving story about a woman who dealt first hand with the craziness of our so-called health care “system” when her husband got kidney cancer. “Fred was being transferred to a new hospital and Regina needed records of Fred's many tests and treatments from the old hospital. "I had gone down to medical ...

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