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Archived October 2005 |
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Upcoming EventsMelissa will be hosting October's event on Sunday, the 23rd at 7pm. We'll be reading and discussing One for the Money by Janet Evanovich Stephanie Plum is an out-of-work lingerie buyer in need of a job, any job. Her car has been repossessed, she can't make rent and she's forced to move back home with her parents. What could be worse? In desperation, she convinces her cousin Vinnie to hire her as a bounty hunter in his bail bond business. Never mind that she doesn't know what a bounty hunter does, and when she finds out it involves carrying a gun, sitting on stake outs and chasing dangerous people down dark Trenton, New Jersey alleyways, she realizes the lingerie business definitely didn't prepare her for this. more... "When I was a kid I spent a lot of time in LaLa Land. La la Land is like an out-of-body experience --while your mouth is eating lunch your mind is conversing with Captain Kirk. Sometimes I'd pretend to sing opera. My mother would send me to the grocery store down the street, and off I'd go, caterwauling at the top of my lungs. Before the opera thing I went through a horse stage where I galloped everywhere and made holes in my Aunt Lena's lawn with my hooves. Aunt Lena was a good egg. She understood that the realities of daily existence were lost in the murky shadows of my slightly looney imagination." more... |
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page updated: December 4, 2005 |
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