Housekeeping

Things may look a little funky around here for a day or three.  I’m going to be implementing a new theme, and it’s going to take me some time to get my sidebars the way they want them.  I think I’ve got the content portion figured out, so that shouldn’t be a problem. As always, comments are welcome!

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2009: Mailbox Monday – Monday #14

Lots of books last week.  I recently renewed my Box-of-Books subscription on PaperBackSwap, and it must have bumped me up to the top of the new users list, because I have received a mess of B-o-B requests lately.  I think I sent out 4 boxes last week alone.  This isn’t helping my goal of sending more out than I have coming in! Anyhoo, here’s what

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2009: #48 – Bonk (Mary Roach)

The study of sexual physiology—what happens, and why, and how to make it happen better—has been going on for centuries, behind the closed doors of laboratories, brothels, Alfred Kinsey’s attic, and, more recently, MRI centers, pig farms, and sex-toy R&D labs. I spent two years wheedling and conniving my way behind those doors to bring you the answers to the questions Dr. Ruth never asked. Is your penis three inches longer than you think? Is vaginal orgasm a myth? Can a dead man get an erection? Why doesn’t Viagra help women—or, for that matter, pandas?

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2009: #47 – Afraid (Jack Kilborn)

Welcome to Safe Haven, Wisconsin. Miles from everything, with one road in and out, this peaceful town has never needed a full-time police force. Until now . . .

A helicopter has crashed near Safe Haven and unleashed something horrifying. Now this merciless force is about to do what it does best. Isolate. Terrorize. Annihilate. As residents begin dying in a storm of gory violence, Safe Haven’s only chance for survival will rest with an aging county sheriff, a firefighter, and a single mom. And each will have this harrowing thought: Maybe death hasn’t come to their town by accident . . .

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