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NORMAN — The infamous giant turkey leg may have some competition this year at Norman’s annual Medieval Fair.

Amid the more common corn dog, gyros and funnel cake trucks, an Airstream trailer with hot pink wheels and purple and pink flowers painted on the sides stood out from the crowd Friday during opening day of the 36th annual fair at Norman’s Reaves Park.

Inside the trailer, Norman foodie Caryn Ross and her husband, Jack, nervously fussed with their gourmet doughnut machine as the line of people waiting to sample the hot mini melt-in-your mouth treats quickly grew.

Ross shares cooking tips and recipes regularly via her Fat and Sassy Mama blog and cooking segments on a local television station, but the new food truck was throwing her for a loop.

“This is my virgin maiden voyage,” Caryn Ross said. “This

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Reese Witherspoon is reportedly pregnant with her third child.

The actress has been the subject of several baby rumors dating back to 2010 and each one has subsequently turned out to be false.

But magazine is reporting the actress and her husband Jim Toth are now expecting their first child. Quoting “multiple sources”, editors at the publication suggest Witherspoon is 12 weeks pregnant.

The couple wed at Witherspoon’s ranch in Ojai, California in March 2011, just a year after they started dating.

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Because life is far too short to keep plugging away at a book that just isnt working for you isnt it? Id say yes, of course it is! As much as I try to finish everything I read its not going to happen all the time, law of averages and all that. Some books are just plain atrocious (and there are a few of them covered here in this blog) and others have the misfortune to be the wrong book at the wrong time. Other books are out down for other reasons entirely, books like Benedict Jackas Fated for instance. Here, have some blurb Camden, North London. A tangled, mangled junction of train lines, roads and the canal. Read more…

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Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition. Karen Blumenthal. 2011. Roaring Brook Press. 155 pages.

Sometime after 10 A.M. on this shivery cold and windy Chicago morning, seven men gathered in a nondescript garage warehouse on Clark Street.

I’ll never be able to do this book justice. I don’t think I can adequately convey just how fascinating and engaging and completely interesting this nonfiction book is! Would you believe me when I say that the narrative is just that good that you lose yourself?

I knew this book was for me from the start.

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California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks will host two author appearances this week:

“An Evening with Author Nina Revoyr” will begin at 7 p.m. Monday in the Lundring Events Center. Revoyr, winner of an Indie Booksellers’ Choice Award for “Wingshooters,” draws upon her own biracial, bicultural heritage as an inspiration for her novels.

At 7 p.m. Thursday, also in the Lundring Events Center, ethnographers Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler will discuss “Self-Injury: The Silent Epidemic.” The authors of the new book “The Tender Cut: Inside the Hidden World of Self-Injury,” the Adlers have conducted research on self-injurers around the world for the past 10 years.

Both events are free and open to the public.

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