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Shelf Discovery is a dizzyingly crowded, joyful hodgepodge of book reports, 65 of them written by Skurnick, eight contributed by other writers. There are loving - and less reverent - remembrances of books by Judy Blume, Lois Duncan, Madeleine L'Engle, Laura Ingalls Wilder and Katherine Paterson, among many others, all illustrated with the original (or era-correct) cover art. This is potent nostalgia for girlhoods past; the strawberry scent of Bonne Bell Lip Smackers practically wafts off the pages. (Read "Why Girls Have BFFs and Boys Hang Out in Packs...
That's the way it was in the U.K., at least. In the U.S. - which always had a wilder, frontier relationship with its horses and merely borrowed the sport from the Brits anyway - the rules were looser. American jockeys of the time began wondering what would happen if they did a little work on their own, standing up in the stirrups, bending forward and surfing the motion of the horse as it galloped. What happened was, they went faster - 5% to 7% faster between 1890 and 1900, as more and more riders adopted the idea. That's a huge bump...
...reasons, mainly economic ones. And, he adds, the restraints of the G.D.R. may have helped push the Mob's creativity. "We were so crazy because we felt hemmed in," Wilms says. "I wouldn't even get the idea to dress that way today. A tiger in a cage is wilder than in the wild...
...Song of The Year”, chats with FM about college, love songs, and bird poop. 1. Fifteen Minutes: Rumor has it you’re also performing at MIT’s Spring Concert. Who do you think will have the crazier, wilder crowd? It’s OK, you can be honest. Sara B. Bareilles: They’re both pretty smart campuses, so I hope they’re smart enough not to be too rowdy. I think you guys are gonna be pretty rowdy in a good way, that’s what...
These are some of the less graphic/explicit passages in the story. Let's just say things get wilder when sex swings and an apparatus like the one above make their appearance...