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Mary Schmich

Mary Schmich

88 years of gains, pains for women

August 27, 2008

There are women alive in the United States today who were born before women were allowed to vote.

Mary Schmich: A reading list to while away waning winter

Today, my not-quite-annual cabin fever book list. Some of the books are new, a couple are old, but all are ones I enjoyed in the past year.

Mary Schmich: Need a book for summer? Pick up these

Are you one of those people who spends half your summer reading time reading summer reading lists? Good. Here's another one. Not the newest books around, these are merely a few books I've enjoyed since my 2002 summer list, which can be found at www.chicagotribune.com/schmich. Click on "reading lists."

Mary Schmich: Summertime and reading is bold, breezy

If it's summer, it must be time for way too many summer reading lists. Here's mine. Some are new books, some are old. All are books I enjoyed discovering in the past year.

Mary Schmich: Summer no time to be listless or without a book

To: Eric "Beach Boy" Zorn

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