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The Vine: September 7, 2012
September 7, 2012 – 10:49 AM | 15 Comments
The Vine: September 7, 2012

Folks, believe it or nicht, I’ve begun to run low on Ask The Readers letters. The TN readership (Native American name “Red Cloudsource”) doesn’t just find books and movies, you know; we outfit hard-to-shop-for boyfriends for …

The Vine: August 24, 2012
August 24, 2012 – 10:45 AM | 6 Comments
The Vine: August 24, 2012

This is a movie-related Ask the Readers question, driving my husband and me nuts. But I have faith that someone out there in the Nation knows the answer. Here goes: I think the film was …

The Vine: August 15, 2012
August 15, 2012 – 4:47 PM | 11 Comments
The Vine: August 15, 2012

I’m hoping the readers can help me and my brother out. Growing up, my parents had an art print of an angel peeking through the keyhole in Hell’s door. This hung in every house we …

The Vine: August 10, 2012
August 10, 2012 – 11:26 AM | 45 Comments
The Vine: August 10, 2012

So, I am a book-loving gal who majored in English back when dinosaurs roamed the earth. I married a guy whose idea of in-depth reading is the back of the cereal box. This has never …

The Vine: July 20, 2012
July 20, 2012 – 9:23 AM | 8 Comments
The Vine: July 20, 2012

The Nation may be my last hope in tracking down this long-lost childhood book. Here’s what little I remember: 

The family might have been animals — elephants, maybe? 
The family lived in a house made of cake. 
The little girl …

The Vine: July 6, 2012
July 6, 2012 – 10:32 AM | 26 Comments
The Vine: July 6, 2012

Okay, Bunting, I’ve got a doozy for you here. When I was a kid (around the same time you were) Reader’s Digest put out two thick volumes of fairy tales. “The World’s Best Fairy Tales,” …

The Vine: June 22, 2012
June 22, 2012 – 8:15 AM | 7 Comments
The Vine: June 22, 2012

I am currently reading about anger and violence in history and, combined with the trial of Anders Breivik in Norway, it reminded me of a book that I heard about on the radio that I …

The Vine: June 1, 2012
June 1, 2012 – 9:05 AM | 17 Comments
The Vine: June 1, 2012

I’ve written this email and erased it a handful of times for reasons I can’t completely explain. Maybe I really don’t want to know the answer to the question, or that this show scarred me …

The Vine: May 25, 2012
May 25, 2012 – 9:32 AM | 15 Comments
The Vine: May 25, 2012

I’m hoping the Tomato Nation will be able to help me find a book that I read in high school. It was for an English class during my junior or senior year, 1991-1993. We had …

The Vine: April 6, 2012
April 6, 2012 – 11:51 AM | 26 Comments
The Vine: April 6, 2012

Do some good on Good Friday; head over to the Dewey Donation drive, and help kids in Thailand and/or Washington DC find their long-lost books! I gave a whole doorstop’s worth of Sandra Boynton this morning …