Warrior Girls—sounds pretty intense huh? Well, don’t judge a book by its title; this book is not about girls who are literally warriors or fighters. However, they do fight their own type of battles. Warrior Girls is a book about protecting girls against the injury epidemic in sports. Written by Michael Sokolove, Warrior Girls addresses a story that every girl who is involved in sports and their parents should be told. In this book Sokolove addresses the injury epidemic that has managed to skyrocket over the past years. The numbers have been drastically increasing since the 1970s when Title 9...

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This week's bestsellers are an interesting combination. There's some fiction, a lot of business books and a comedy book about philosophical musings. The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest (Stieg Larsson) The third and last book of the millennium trilogy from Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest kicks off with Lisbeth Salander in the intensive care unit of a Swedish hospital, fighting for her life. But the battle's not over after she gets well. She'll have to stand up in court and face trial for three murder charges. Together with her journalist-friend, Mikael Blomkvist, she'll have to prove...

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The Five People You Meet In Heaven was such an amazing read. It has been on my "to read" list since the book was published back in 2003, but I did not get around to it until a month or so ago. I do not know why it took me so long to finally sit down and read it; once I started, I could not stop! When I wrote about how The Last Lecture was a fast read, this one was even faster. Both this book and The Last Lecture are extremely thought provoking books that make you think about your...

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In "My Dirty Literary Secret," the author mentions that the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy consists of five books that Douglas Adams himself wrote.  Did you know that there is a sixth book in the trilogy that is not written by Douglas Adams? And Another Thing by Eoin (pronounced as "Owen") Colfer is the 6th book in the Hitchhiker's series. Before he suffered a heart attack in 2001, Adams had told his wife that he planned on writing a 6th book, though he had been unsuccessful after several attempts. I bet I wasn't alone in thinking,...

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I know this site isn’t called ‘Bout Movies, but I’ve got to weigh in on the new Sherlock Holmes movie hitting theaters this week. Although you cannot judge a book by its cover, you often can judge a movie by its trailer. And based on the trailers that I’ve seen for Sherlock Holmes, all I can say is “Why?”. The Sherlock Holmes stories were written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The original Sherlock Holmes writings were mostly short stories. Holmes appeared in fifty-six short stories written by Doyle, but only four full-length novels....

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