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"Tis The Season": An Opinionated Mom's Perspective on "classic" HOLIDAY STORIES

'Tis the season to be jolly...falalalala lala la la!  In the spirit of massive excess that marks our American Christmas celebrations, our Book Review MAMA offers a montage of "classic" Christmas stories this month.  Her candid and hilarious recommendations every month are a great read in themselves...so, this month we wanted to make sure you didn't miss all the holiday hoopla!

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I thought I’d try to be a little bit seasonal—thematic if you will, for this month, this oh, so joyous month of glad tidings and joy to the...

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Book MAMA's Review of: Righteous Indignation (Excuse Me While I Save The World) by Andrew Breitbart

In Memory of Andrew…1969-2012

I met Andrew in the early 90’s.  We were both recent college graduates trying to find our way in the world with the vague idea that we wanted to work in the  movie industry.  I guess we were both satisfied with starting at the very bottom because we found...

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Book MAMA's Review of: Memoirs Of A Goldfish by Devin Scillia

The first movie I ever took my older daughter to was Finding Nemo.  Taking a toddler to the movie theatre is one of those stupid things you do with your first born in a desperate attempt to pretend your life is still normal and fun.  A toddler is just a big baby.  Period.

It was raining—I hadn’t slept in months—I was a lactating,...

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Book MAMA's Review of: NURTURE SHOCK by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman

Up until 2 days ago, I was going to recommend a completely different book (Ali in Wonderland by Ali Wentworth—the very funny and adorable actress who is married to the also adorable and smart George Stephanopoulos—read that one, too—it’s interesting and hilarious).

But, I just finished another book and it was TOO amazing...

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Book MAMA's Review of: I'M NOT, by Pam Smallcomb

When my kids were babies and then toddlers, I needed babysitters so badly but I was too damned scared to get one and leave my kids.  Now that they are older; they want us to leave them alone and leave them be and I kind of want to just hang out at home!  Is that ironic or does it just suck?

Okay, hold that thought.  A little background...

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Book MAMAs review of: ALWAYS WEAR CLEAN UNDERWEAR AND OTHER WAYS PARENTS SAY ‘I LOVE YOU’, by Marc Gellman; Illustrated by Debbie Tilley

I hate to do this to you again, but in my library work wanderings doing inventory, I found this gem of a book, but I don’t think it’s going to be an easy one to track down!  Because of that, I’ve semi-summarized it below so even if you can’t find the book,...

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