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...parents took Erin to a psychiatrist just before her fifth birthday. "He saw us for 45 minutes," Charlene says. "He read the teacher's report. He saw Erin for 15 minutes. He said, 'Your daughter is ADHD, and here's a prescription for Ritalin.' I sobbed." Charlene had a lot of friends who did not believe in ADHD and thought maybe she and Tim were just being hard on Erin. "I thought, 'Maybe there is something else we can do,'" Charlene says. "I knew that medicine can mask things. So I tore up the prescription." Tim thought that...
Following The Birthday Boys, a story about Robert Falcon Scott's deadly trek to the South Pole, and Every Man for Himself, about the sinking of the Titanic, Master Georgie completes an ambitious trilogy of novels that dissect great examples of human folly. But to say that Bainbridge--who is perhaps one of the best living novelists Americans don't know much about, and whose work, including this latest novel, has been shortlisted five times for the prestigious Booker Prize--writes historical fiction is like saying that Jane Austen wrote domestic comedies. These three novels, each around a mere...
After The Birthday Boys, no reader will ever experience the cold in the same way, while Bainbridge's Titanic novel says more about hubris and class distinctions than any gazillion-dollar epic by James Cameron ever could. And Master Georgie reminds one, again, that war correspondents do not always get it right. As Bainbridge's group slogs across the Crimean peninsula, men and animals dropping from cholera and in battle all around them, the scene becomes surreal. At one point a soldier shows up with his ear blown off. "He kept shaking our hands in turn and saying how happy...
Indeed, the night's attendees all act like family members, calling each other by names and hugging hello. A half-hour break in the evening of dances features announcements for storytelling groups in dancer's homes, backrubs accompanied by freestyle poetry, and a birthday cake in honor of any Scorpio's in the audience...
...just turned 50, has yet to get a real job, is supported by his parents, has a failed marriage, and his mother apparently doesn't like his current girlfriend. If ever a man had cause for a mid-life crisis, it's PRINCE CHARLES. Even his birthday parties were fraught. On Friday, the Queen threw her boy a gala to which she invited 800 people, but not Camilla Parker Bowles. On Saturday, Parker Bowles had a party from which the Queen was conspicuously absent. Never mind. To prove, perhaps, he was a real nifty 50, Charles last week launched...