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about me
- mimi
- True to my Libra nature, it's all about balance. At any given time I'm swinging somewhere between inner-city high school teacher/ writer, devoted wife and mother/ independent woman, clutterbomb/ perfectionist organizer, healthy eater/ chocolate fiend. Pick your dichotomy. Generally, though, I love my family (even when they leave a trail of dirty socks through the house), my job (even when I despair that my students aren't listening to a word I say), my state (even when it's overrun with clueless tourists who can't drive), and my life (even when I can't figure it out). Plus, I have a husband with great taste and two terrific kids. Who's complaining?
current projects
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writer friends and faves
contract in 12 partners
books read this year
- Miracles on Maple Hill
- Going Topless
- Swept Away
- Hostile Makeover
- Designer Knockoff
- Killer Hair
- Sooner or Later
- ...And Now, Miguel
- Secret of the Andes
- Labor Day
- A Duke of Her Own
- The Sorceress
- Ginger Pye
- Amos Fortune, Free Man
- Suddenly One Summer
- Dogs and Goddesses
- The Door in the Wall
- How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
- Deep Dish
- A Bad Day for Sorry
- Bleachers
- The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
- Invisible Man
- Everything Bad Is Good for You
- La Línea
- Dark Angel
- Secrets of a Proper Lady
- First Light
- Too Good to Be True
- King of the Wind
- Miss Hickory
- Not Another Bad Date
- Duke Most Wanted
- Going Too Far
- Strawberry Girl
- Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers
- Rabbit Hill
- Glitter Baby
- Careless in Red
- Keep Your Mouth Shut and Wear Beige
- Ready & Willing
- Duchess by Night
- An Affair Before Christmas
- The Lost Duke of Wyndham
- Tangled Up in You
- Mr. Cavendish, I Presume
- Giving Up the "V"
- Love in Bloom
- Desperate Duchesses
- The Book Thief
- Stardust
- Johnny Tremain
- Adam of the Road
- The Wishing Tree
- Daniel Boone
- Enthusiasm
- The Matchlock Gun
- Suite Scarlett
- A Whole New Mind
- Thimble Summer
- The Mists of Avalon
- The White Stag
- Roller Skates
- Keeping the Moon
- Caddie Woodlawn
- The Moretti Arrangement
- Someone Like You
- Invincible Louisa
- The Last Olympian
- The Battle of the Labyrinth
- Fool
- Avalon High
- Dobry
- Miracle's Boys
- If You Come Softly
- What's in a Name?
- The Writing Class
- Coraline
- The Royal Treatment
- The Debutante Divorcée
- Waterless Mountain
- Bergdorf Blondes
- Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
- Lady Macbeth
- Their Eyes Were Watching God
- The Elegant Gathering of White Snows
- Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
- The Moretti Seduction
- The Moretti Heir
- Watchmen
- The Trumpeter of Krakow
- My Sister's Keeper
- Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon
- Heat
- Smoky, The Cow Horse
- The Willoughbys
- Shen of the Sea
- The Ladies' Lunch
- The Dark Frigate
- Tales from Silver Lands
- The Mysterious Benedict Society
- The Organized Student
- The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
- Still Life With Husband
- The Fire
- Outliers
- Big Stone Gap
- The Story of Mankind
- Silks
- The Magician
- The Lost Recipe for Happiness
- Does This Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat?
books read in 2008
- Dead Heat
- Field of Thirteen
- Inkheart
- Decider
- Comeback
- Into the Wild
- The Edge
- The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen
- The Tale of Despereaux
- Missing Mom
- Flight Lessons
- Younger
- Accidental Princess
- The Space Between Before and After
- The Alchemyst
- These Three Remain
- Duty and Desire
- An Assembly Such as This
- Mother on Fire: A True Motherf%#$@ Story About Parenting!
- The Flirt
- A Little Bit Wicked
- Bikini Season
- Dark Needs at Night's Edge
- Return to Summerhouse
- What Matters Most
- Tara Road
- Skinny Dipping
- Boundaries
- The World Is Flat
- The Spanish Aristocrat's Woman
- The Greek Tycoon's Secret Heir
- Enemy Women
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
- Mercy
- One for the Money
- Proof
- Sugar Daddy
- Flirting With Forty
- Sick Puppy
- Mr. Darcy's Daughters
- The Color of Water
- Nature Girl
- How Clean Is Your House?
- Twilight
- Freakonomics
- She Walks These Hills
- Going Gray: What I Learned About Beauty, Sex, Work, Motherhood, Authenticity, and Everything Else That Really Matters
- Banker
- Falling Angels
- Fast & Loose
- You've Got Male
- The Man Who Loved Jane Austen
- The Songcatcher
- Twice Shy
- Then We Came to the End
- Trial Run
- Risk
- In the Frame
- A Salty Piece of Land
- French Women Don't Get Fat
- Target
- Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
- Evil Genius
- Moo
- High Stakes
- Killer Summer
- The Wealthy Frenchman's Proposition
- The Unfortunate Miss Fortunes
- Rise and Shine
- On Beauty
- False Impression
- Slayride
- Smokescreen
- Flying Changes
- Open House
- The You I Never Knew
- No Place Like Home
- Snowfall on Willow Lake
- Someone to Love
- In Plain Sight
- Good Omens
- Fantastic Mr. Fox
- Bonecrack
- The Westing Game
- Rat Race
- Enquiry
- Blood Sport
- Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog
- Fall On Your Knees
- Something Rotten
books re-read in 2008
- Under Orders
- Shattered
- Second Wind
- 10 lb. Penalty
- To the Hilt
- Come to Grief
- Wild Horses
- Driving Force
- Longshot
- Straight
- The Phantom Tollbooth
- No Plot? No Problem!
- Hot Money
- Bolt
- Bird by Bird
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- On Writing
- The Outsider
- The First Days of School
- A Place to Call Home
- Outlander
- Break In
- Farmer Boy
- Mansfield Park
- The Danger
- Reflex
- Whip Hand
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Silverhill
- Horse Heaven
- Knockdown
- Othello
- Forfeit
- Flying Finish
- Odds Against
- Dead Cert
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