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(McLachlan, that is) makes me want to fall in love again.
Only I haven't yet found anyone to fall in love with.
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- Farrell
- St. Louis, Missouri, United States
- I’m a 30-something divorcée with a daughter, Sophie (born October 26, 2004). I have one Beagle-mix, Chloë, and a fat-ass gay cat named Mr. Penny. I write about motherhood, singledom, dating, not dating, and why I’m a freak. Welcome and enjoy.
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- Nurture Shock: New Thinking About Children by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman
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- The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle
- World Wide Rave by David Meerman Scott
- The Hour I First Believed: A Novel by Wally Lamb: A fictional couple dealing with the aftermath of true-life Columbine. I'm hooked.
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey: First time, if you can beleive it. Now I can't wait to watch the movie. Never seen!
- In the Woods by Tana French
- I Know this Much is True by Wally Lamb
- Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelou
- The Starter Wife
- The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
- Twilight by Stephanie Meyer - Yep, I'm jumping on the bandwagon.
- A Stranger in the Family: A True Story of Murder, Madness, and Unconditional Love : This story was so sickening but the mother's ever-ending denial over her son's actions gave me chills and also she reminded me of someone I know.
- Sex Lives of Cannibals by Maarten Troost
- If I am Missing or Dead by Janine Latus
- A Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs
- When You are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
- Getting Stoned with Savages by Maarten Troost
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- ComeBack: A Mother and Daughter's Journey Through Hell & Back by Claire & Mia Fontaine
- She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
- Shopoholic & Baby by Sophie Kinsella
- The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella
- The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult
- The Pact by Jodi Picoult
- In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner
- The Dilbert Principle by Scott Adams
- Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner
- Daughter's Keeper by Ayelet Waldman
- Miracle in the Andes by Nando Parrado
- Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Possible Side Effects by Augusten Burroughs
- While I Was Gone by Susan Miller
- Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs; Not as good as his other stuff, but still midly entertaining
- Crazy Time by Abigail Trafford; About surviving divorce. These people are even crazier than me, if you can believe that!
- Why Girls Are Weird by Pamela Ribon; About a girl who starts a blog...
- Blood Brother by Anne Bird; A lesson in denial
- He's Just Not That Into You; "The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
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- The Bitch in the House; Edited by Cathi Hanauer
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- Rules of the Wild by Francesca Marciano; "A Novel of Africa."
- The Pact by Jodi Picoult - About teen suicide and other stuff.
- Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult; Hooked from page 1. Amazing.
- The Broker by John Grisham; Easy summer reading.
- Mom, There's a Man in the Kitchen & He's Wearing Your Robe: The Single Mother's Guide to Dating Well without Parenting Poorly; by Ellie Slott Fisher
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- "Get busy living, or get busy dying." - Andy Dufresne, Shawshank Redemption
- “Don’t spend your precious time asking ‘Why isn’t the world a better place?’ It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is ‘How can I make it better?’ To that there is an answer.” - Leo F. Buscaglia
- "Home is everywhere that you are" - Jewel
- "I want to photograph you with my mind" - Jewel
- "It's just an inch from me to you, depending on what map you use" - Jewel
- "I'd rather be working for a paycheck than waiting to win the lottery" - Bright Eyes
- "If you don’t know them [the 7 deadly sins], how can you enjoy yourself?" - Frank McCourt
- "You don’t have to be poor and Catholic and Irish to be miserable, but it gives you something to write about and an excuse for drinking." - Frank McCourt
- "It's like a spoon when all you need is a knife" - Alanis Morissette
- "There's a devil in that angel face" - Dixie Chicks
- "What was normal in the evening, by the morning seems insane" - Bright Eyes
- "You wake up to realize somehow your life got stuck on SURVIVE" - Jewel
- "You're my favorite damned disease" - Nickelback
- "Your love is better than ice cream" - Sarah McLachlan
- "Get busy living, or get busy dying." - Andy Dufresne, Shawshank Redemption
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