Literary Mama : Columns

June 13, 2009

Although I've been a book lover as long as I can remember, I have never been consumed by the desire to visit authors' homes, to walk their haunts, to explore their settings. I've always been satisfied to inhabit the imaginary...
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Aug 10 2008	Secrecy and Surveillance
Jun 15 2008	Bunnies for Babies
May 18 2008	The Arrival and The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Apr 20 2008	Home-Away-Home
Mar 23 2008	Vampire Love
Feb 23 2008	And the Winner Is...
Jan 26 2008	"Boy" Books and "Girl" Books
Dec 09 2007	My Christmas Books
Oct 14 2007	Should We Burn Babar? Political correctness and children's literature
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Jun 17 2007	Writer Dads
Apr 22 2007	Outside Reading
Feb 25 2007	Sad Stories and Why We Read Them
Dec 20 2006	New Year's Reading Resolution
Nov 05 2006	Young Adult Fairy Tales
Sep 10 2006	Good, Evil, and Harry Potter
Jul 08 2006	Killing Nemo's Mom: Independence and Overprotection in Children's Entertainment
May 21 2006	Satan's Spawn: Or, Getting Along with Siblings in Books
Mar 02 2006	The Reading-Aloud Years
Jan 11 2006	Why Not Cinderella?
Oct 16 2005	Time To Eat
Jul 19 2005	Story Time
May 12 2005	Marmee's Anger
Mar 13 2005	Wondering About Alice
Jan 02 2005	Mother Love in Children's Literature
Oct 24 2004	Identifying with the Bad Guy
Aug 30 2004	Looking for Enjoli
Jul 03 2004	Independence Day
May 08 2004	On Not Learning to Clean
Mar 15 2004	Independence Day
Jan 24 2004	Help Me Hell
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