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11 of Our Best Weekend Reads - The New York Times

posted onDecember 10, 2017
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Article snippet: Welcome to the weekend. Keep your PJ’s on a little longer. Put on some holiday music, sink into a comfortable chair and give yourself the gift of reading because we have some great stories for you! Bela Raphael Simons was among the first in a wave of European immigrants to come to America, escaping the aftermath of World War II, the greatest refugee crisis in the last century. At the time, more than two-thirds of Americans objected to allowing Jews and other Europeans into the United States. Cameras greeted her entry to America; here’s the rest of her story. Metropolitan _____ The Fingerling is a motorized plastic monkey that grips your finger, falls asleep in your hand, um, passes gas, and is the hot toy of the holiday season. Why? Marketing, pricing and scarcity. Sunday Business _____ Horror films grossed more than a billion dollars in 2017. They probably don’t need the world to be horrifying to be good. But when things are bad, the genre has a way of telling you they could be worse. Check out Nicole Kidman, Andy Serkis, Saoirse Ronan, Tiffany Haddish, Jake Gyllenhaal and others in Great Performers horror short films. Magazine _____ Sensuality circles! High teas! Expensive vape pens! Who says there’s no intellectual life in this great city? Not me! Sunday Styles _____ The two met on the Words With Friends app, and photos of their in-person get-together delighted thousands of people on social media. Express Team _____ Peter Kujawinski, who was a diplomat in Hait... Link to the full article to read more

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