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saveleighhb.com

Did you ever hear about SaveKaryn.com ? I remember when I discovered the website -- I think it was in the early 2000's -- and learned about this posh New Yorker named Karyn who was determined to get out of around 20k in credit card debt. She was selling tons of her prized designer handbags and outfits, and she also requested that readers send a dollar her way to help her out. Now, Karyn Bosnak is out of debt and is also a published author -- she wrote a book about her internet panhandling, and her second book 20 TIMES A LADY is being flick-ified. Awesomespice. I wish I could get my followers to mail me a dollar each. That would add up to $158.00 It wouldn't get me out of debt, but I would be able to make an extra credit card payment or something. I wish I'd thought of it first. Karyn Bosnak is so freakin' lucky. You can read her blog  here. And if you want to mail me a dollar, you can't. I don't have a PO BOX, and it's creepyspice to announ...

Jodi Picoult: What's all the fuss?

I'm about to find out. I bought THE PACT today, because it was the cheapest of her reads available at Half-Price books. I love that store. When I pulled into the parking lot, there were half a dozen people carrying in boxes of books to sell. I thought for half a second that I might get a box together and do the same. But, it's hard to part with books. I think I would end up buying them back. My favorite books on my shelves: The Virgin Suicides A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius The Poisonwood Bible The Good Mother A Spot of Bother While I was Gone I am Charlotte Simmons Shopgirl Hamlet Othello The Glass Menagerie night, mother The Hour I First Believed Lucky The Lovely Bones I could go on. What are your favorite books on your shelves?