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...novel begins, Hannah is 14 and bearing silent witness to the demolition of her parents' marriage while cautiously exploring the notion of romance herself. From this vivid little home movie, the book spins forward, light-footed, catching Hannah on a disastrous college road trip, falling for her trampy cousin's boyfriend, having her first kiss at the advanced age of 21. Where Prep was about love and social class, Man of My Dreams is very much a book about love, love, love, but Sittenfeld shows us that there is still something fresh to say about the oldest subject...
Manga is the comic book's richly illustrated Japanese cousin, alive with adolescent strife and romance, often written with a dose of the supernatural. A $180 million market in 2005, U.S. manga is quickly getting comfortable tucked under the arms of young readers, and major publishing houses are rushing into the category. "Books are not a growth business," says Milton Griepp, CEO of ICv2.com a pop-culture news site. "But the manga category has tripled in the last three years. That gets their attention...
...what's the key to success in bull riding? "Have fun," says Duggan-and he's not joking. His cousin Anthony Everingham, 27, who did ride a bull tonight, agrees: "You've got to be switched on, get your mind thinking right, forget about the pain and the danger, and relax." If you can do that, "the rush is amazing," says Duggan, who, like Everingham, lives near Rocky and started riding poddy calves at 13. "The more you do it, the more you want to come back and back." It's as much a mental game as a physical...
...this show because I don't have enough pain in my life." There was a time when we'd watch the Olympics and were happy to see a skier like Bode Miller ski down the hill. Now we have to know everything about his second cousin's flirt with gingivitis...
...bombs falling on us," says Noor Hashem, 13, a niece of Abbas Hashem, speaking from a bed in the government-run hospital in Tyre, six miles northwest of Qana. Noor, who wears a brown headscarf, says she had been sleeping beside her older sister Zeinab and a cousin. They fled the shattered building and ran to her aunt's house nearby where they waited six hours before the rescue services could reach them. Her mother went to look for her three brothers - Mahdi, 7, Jaafar, 12, and Abbas, nine months - and Noor says she has not seen them since...