Nielsen Ratings January 25-31, 2010
Jan 31st, 2010 | By Allan GivenSource: The Nielsen Company
Archive for January 2010
Week 4: THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE by Louise Erdrich
Jan 30th, 2010 | By Lara H. Smith
Harper Perennial | 2009 | 400 pages | List price: $14.99 | Get it for less at Amazon This week’s entry was picked for me as my February Book Club’s selection. Admittedly, it actually took me two weeks to read it, but finishing it up this week, I am counting it now. For those who
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THE BOYS ARE BACK: A bittersweet story in which everyone tries to figure out how to grow up
Jan 26th, 2010 | By Kathleen Richter
Miramax Films | 2010 (DVD); 2009 (Film) | Rated PG-13 | 104 minutes | List Price $29.99 | Get it for less at Amazon In THE BOYS ARE BACK, Joe Warr (Clive Owen) is part of a decently happy family—until his wife dies of cancer, and he is left the sole caretaker of his six-year-old
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Week 3: BALLISTICS: POEMS by Billy Collins
Jan 23rd, 2010 | By Lara H. Smith
Random House | 2010 | 128 pages | List price: $15.00 | Get it for less at Amazon I have often shied away from poetry. In all my love of literature, it has always seemed like the better educated sibling with whom I really couldn’t converse. While poetry would expound upon themes and metaphors, illusions
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SMOKIN’ ACES 2: The Shiny Explosions Are Hiding a Weak Plot
Jan 19th, 2010 | By Kathleen Richter
Universal Studios | 2010 (DVD) | Rated R; Unrated versions included | 174 minutes | List Price $19.98 | Get it for less at Amazon A mysterious contract is taken out on a seemingly unimportant FBI agent, so high-security measures are taken to ensure his safety. The price on his head—3 million dollars—and the tight
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Week 2: TENDER AT THE BONE: GROWING UP AT THE TABLE by Ruth Reichl
Jan 16th, 2010 | By Lara H. Smith
Broadway | 1999 | 304 pages | List price: $15.95 | Get it for less at Amazon TENDER AT THE BONE: GROWING UP AT THE TABLE has been in my library for a number of years now. So many that I have lost count. I have obviously wanted to read it, or I wouldn’t have
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Week 1: YOU REMIND ME OF ME by Dan Chaon
Jan 9th, 2010 | By Lara H. Smith
Ballantine Books | 2005 | 366 pages | List price: $13.95 | Get it for less at Amazon My January book club’s selection of Dan Chaon’s YOU REMIND ME OF ME is my first read of the first week of the year. It also happens to be my hosting month and this was one of
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