BOOKS

[|Dictionary of American Regional English reaches final volume]

[|The Power of Habit--How the history of toothpaste explains why you can’t lose weight.]

[|How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body]

[|What we eat is bumming us out, new book says]--'The Happiness Diet' explores the link between food and mood

[|Why women need fat]--Evolution shows that women's dieting beliefs aren't just unrealistic -- they're unnatural. An expert explains

NYT: [|The Hoarder in You--It’s Time to Say Goodbye to All That Stuff]

[|“The Lord of the Rings,” “Twilight,” and Young-Adult Fantasy Books]

NYT: [|100 Notable Books of 2011]

[|Does Absence Actually Make the Heart Grow Fonder?] A new book suggests that getting away from each other for prolonged periods of time is good for the health of your marriage.

[|Puns, Puzzles, and Easter eggs in Margaret Atwood’s //The Handmaid’s Tale//] [|For the Love of Science Fiction--Margaret Atwood’s]//[|In Other Worlds]: SF and the Human Imagination//.

[|Books that deserve to be banned] : Some interesting discussion about books that should or should not be on a high school reading list

[|A Guide To Navigating NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books] [|A New "Recommendation Engine" for Science Fiction Books]

NYT Op-Ed: [|No More Adventures in Wonderland]

[|Great Character Descriptions from Science Fiction and Fantasy Books]

[|Sophie’s Choice and Other Choice Choices]

[|The Rosslyn code]: A 500-year-old message in stone. The real mystery lurking in the chapel where Dan Brown set //The Da Vinci Code//.