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TINYFACTS: Types Of Friendships

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:06:39 -0400

Types Of Friendships

Friends are wonderful additions to our lives that help to make us who we are. While no two friendships are ever the same, they fall into common themes. Here are some of the main types of friendships that we have in our lives:

· Common…

yanilavigne: (Quotes here)

Mon, 20 May 2013 06:37:40 -0400

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digbicks: Grace Adams Geography I Geography II

Fri, 17 May 2013 07:31:43 -0400

digbicks:

Grace Adams

Geography I

Geography II

picadorbookroom: Our new book by Anna Stothard, The Pink Hotel,...

Wed, 08 May 2013 12:56:10 -0400

picadorbookroom:

Our new book by Anna Stothard, The Pink Hotel, reminds us that we have another book to add to our stellar Bad Mommies Mother’s Day collection. Issues with your mother got you down? Shopping for a Mother’s Day gift filling you with dread? Think you got it bad? Check out these moms and remember, yours is probably wonderful!

1. The Pink Hotel by Anna Stothard: Our nameless narrator has just walked off with a suitcase of her mother’s belongings. Abandoned by Lily years ago, the narrator has come a long way to learn about her mom, and the stolen suitcase—stuffed with clothes, letters, and photographs—contains not only a history of her mother’s love life, but perhaps also the key to her own identity. As she tracks down her mother’s former husbands, boyfriends, and acquaintances, a risky reenactment of her life begins to unfold.

2. Girlchild by Tupelo Hassman: When Hassman gives us this line: “My name is Rory Dawn Hendrix, feebleminded daughter of a feebleminded daughter, herself the product of feebleminded stock,” only five pages into the book, it’s a subtle clue that this will not be a tale of a heartwarming mother-daughter relationship. Calling Rory Dawn’s mother absent would be a kind way to put it, as her alcoholism takes control of both her own life and Rory’s.

3. The Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St. Aubyn: The best thing that you can say about the mother in St. Aubyn’s series is that at least she isn’t as bad as the father.

4. Every Day is Mother’s Day by Hilary Mantel: We’ll assume you’ve read Wolf Hall and that Bring Up The Bodies is currently on your nightstand but for something completely different from one of your favorite writers, may we suggest Mantel’s first novel, a dark domestic comedy about a half-wit daughter barricaded with her mother in their once-respectable home. Described as “Stephen King meets Muriel Spark,” this book is a great read, though it may be a demonstration of the worst mother/daughter relationship imaginable.

5. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen: This National Book Award Winner is a darkly comic study of a “typical” American family. Matriarch Enid watches her family fall apart: her husband is losing his sanity to Parkinson’s; her eldest son is crushed by clinical depression; her daughter has destroyed her marriage; and her youngest son has lost his seemingly secure job and moved to Eastern Europe. Desperate for a sliver of joy, Enid sets out to bring the family together for Christmas, a seemingly futile endeavor. Hopefully your mom has slightly less dysfunctional family holidays to look forward to.

6. Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs: At a young age, Burroughs was given over by his mother to be raised by her unorthodox therapist, resulting in a less-than-normal childhood. In a home where the friendly neighborhood pedophile lived in a shed behind the house and electroshock therapy was a gripping form of entertainment, this book might be appropriate for Mother’s Day accompanied with a note reading, “Thank you for not doing this to me.”

7. Smut by Alan Bennett: While the mother in Bennett’s second novella, The Shielding of Mrs. Forbes, may not be quite on the level of some of Picador’s other Bad Moms, it cannot be denied that her relationship with son Graham is not ideal. We don’t want to give too much away, but we’ll just say that it’s never a good thing when you and your mother have the same love interest.

Feather extensions! Thanks Tess!!

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:31:41 -0400

Feather extensions! Thanks Tess!!

Self celebratory lunch: wilted mushroom and spinach and miso...

Mon, 06 May 2013 01:30:06 -0400

Self celebratory lunch: wilted mushroom and spinach and miso glazed salmon #foodporn #lunch

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Sun, 05 May 2013 11:46:00 -0400

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Sat, 04 May 2013 09:39:58 -0400

sensifyayo: Tumblr on We Heart It -...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 12:30:41 -0400

sensifyayo:

Tumblr on We Heart It - http://m.weheartit.com/entry/36942874/via/sensifyayo

Hearted from: http://godrite.com/post/31192979485/source-follow-facebook-twitter-more

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Sat, 06 Apr 2013 04:44:31 -0400

backspaceforward: Raphaelle Dupire

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 23:30:07 -0400

backspaceforward:

Raphaelle Dupire

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Tue, 26 Mar 2013 23:29:14 -0400

TINYFACTS: How To Let Someone Down Gently

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 23:27:53 -0400

TINYFACTS: How To Let Someone Down Gently:

psych-quotes:

When someone asks you out and you’re just not interested, it’s hard to say no in a way that doesn’t leave him or her feeling rejected and you feeling guilty. Here are the Dos and Don’ts for letting someone down gently:

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· Keep it simple. Say no, offer one…

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Tue, 26 Mar 2013 23:26:47 -0400

"What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story."

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 05:00:47 -0400

“What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon (via thgirlonfire)

And the moral of the story is...: The progression of bad day

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 10:32:16 -0400

And the moral of the story is...: The progression of bad day:

drivelikesimone:

Wake up late and missed my first class

Spent next few hours working on annoying assignment

Get ready to print less annoying assignment, forget I lost my wallet with my printing card, debit card, some cash and all identification

Look for the only cash I had ($5) realise I lost that too

Dropped…

My life last week

infinite-paradox: “Be grateful, be smart, be clean, be true, be...

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 09:31:44 -0400

infinite-paradox:

“Be grateful, be smart, be clean, be true, be humble, be prayerful.”
— Gordon B. Hinckley

mechinism: i saw this and the first thing i thought was ASIAN...

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:57:11 -0400

mechinism:

i saw this and the first thing i thought was ASIAN TONY STARK????

…..actually that’s….that could totally work om g

laniblitz: He’s so adorable. Reminds me of a bunny here. Omg...

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:55:59 -0400

laniblitz:

He’s so adorable. Reminds me of a bunny here.

Omg is that really you?!?

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Sun, 17 Mar 2013 05:51:31 -0400