[LAX, December 29. Image via Bauer-Griffin]

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Welcome back to 'Fine Lines', the Friday feature in which we give a sentimental, sometimes-critical, far more wrinkled look at the children's and YA books we loved in our youth. This week, writer/reviewer/blogger Lizzie Skurnick re-reads Sydney Taylor's 1951 classic about a family of five Jewish girls living on NYC's…

[Los Angeles, December 26. Image via Bauer-Griffin]

The January Vogue is on stands now and boooooyyyy are there some goodies within its emaciated 190-pages! (For starters: "The New Safari", lots of rich people, and Kate Hudson, all of which Moe and I will blog about on Monday). But what initially caught our eye was a strange, six-page, front-of-book ad campaign for…

Jessica to Anna on the extremely frustrating lack of good material today: "Can't we just post pictures of puppies for the rest of the day?"

Was holiday travel a bitch for you this year? It was for me. In fact, the only thing (besides a stiff drink) that helped me endure my joke of a JetBlue flight out of JFK was the on-board entertainment system. Specifically: Animal Planet. I bring this up for two reasons. The first: 2 hours into my six-hour marathon…

[St. Barth, French West Indies; December 27. Image via x17]

[Brentwood, California; December 27. Image via Flynet]

Now up on Cosmopolitan's website: "Have you ever been embarrassed by your breasts?" Love that Cosmo! Always so adept at creating insecurities women didn't know they were supposed to have! [Cosmopolitan]

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[LAX, December 26. Image via Bauer-Griffin]

Sara Underwood (left), 2007 Playmate of the Year, made her first investment "2 Weeks Ago!" In mutual funds! But she's "still learning, and playing it safe." Speaking of "learning", Underwood's interviewer, RealMoney.com managing editor Kristin "The Talented Blonde" Bentz, could learn a thing or two about on-camera…

Late December, 2007: On one side of the world, a female Siberian tiger somehow escapes her zoo enclosure and attacks three young men, killing one. Some 6,000 miles away on the other, a female Siberian tiger being held in a Beijing zoo is found skinned, beheaded, and de-limbed, most likely by poachers looking to sell…

[Los Angeles, December 26. Image via Flynet]

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Dozens of books and a dozing baby feline? In a video? As Edward Gorey once wrote: "Books. Cats. Life Is Good." [MediaBistro, via Cute Overload]