All I have time for is pregnancy and baby stuffThe Pregnancy Book by Dr. Sears and The Baby Book by Dr. Sears... I am also re-reading for the gazillionth time "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" out loud to my daughter.
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Those are great books!!!Originally Posted by buggy
All I have time for is pregnancy and baby stuff
I'd also recommend Ina May's guide to childbirth. AMAZING birth stories and invaluable information in the second half of the book.
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Thanks, Sparkly Mary. I will have to add it to my hope I can get to list... which includes a few software books for work. Hopefully it is less 'hippy' more practical than Birthing from Within :-o
"I don't think drugs are bad. I used to be a hippie. I think drugs are fun. Now I'm a conservative. I think fun is bad." -- P.J. O'Rourke
Just finished The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
Bleak and sad. I loved his poetic approach to describing the post-apocalyptic landscape. I despised his method for displaying dialogue.
We need to follow this road
Always carry the pistol
What if I don't want to
You have to
Okay
Okay
"There is a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we may. If, in the next life, we are permitted an insight into the events of this life and their causes we shall be surprised to see how much providence...and how little human agency have to do with all truly great achievements and how little credit is due to those who pass as great among us."
-- Alexander Stewart
General, CSA
Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
House of God - Samuel Shem
A Dark Matter - Peter Straub
i finished it solar by ian mcewen. good book. it's only the 3rd one of Ian McEwen's i've read (and atonement was not one of them)
maybe it's ironic that the day i read part 1 involved me being on a plane travelling from amsterdam to dublin [neither is amsterdam one of the ian mcewen novels i read]
on the weight issue in him, from my reading and i could be wrong. he was slightly overweight in part 1, more over weight in part 2 and in part 3, he walked with a waddle. this i believe to be a metaphor. i think the metaphor is to do with funding for climate change scientists. in 2001, there was not a whole lot of money, some but not alot. in 2005, there be more and it became more lucrative and in 2009, it's a trough where being overfed [i should put it that i don't share this view on the climate change scientists but that's my own political bias. I'm a Green party supporter] but i do think that this is a argument put forward by the sceptics in climate change about how it's a money pit for scientists to enrich them.
Mr. McEwen put forward a characther without a redeeming quality. Indeed, in his narrative in the book, he uses "Beard" and thus refers to him by his surname.
overall i liked the book and Beard will be added to the list on the general forum of good books with unlikeable main characthers
e. e. cummings is my hero.
Atonement sucked.i finished it solar by ian mcewen. good book. it's only the 3rd one of Ian McEwen's i've read (and atonement was not one of them)
maybe it's ironic that the day i read part 1 involved me being on a plane travelling from amsterdam to dublin [neither is amsterdam one of the ian mcewen novels i read
on the weight issue in him, from my reading and i could be wrong. he was slightly overweight in part 1, more over weight in part 2 and in part 3, he walked with a waddle. this i believe to be a metaphor. i think the metaphor is to do with funding for climate change scientists. in 2001, there was not a whole lot of money, some but not alot. in 2005, there be more and it became more lucrative and in 2009, it's a trough where being overfed [i should put it that i don't share this view on the climate change scientists but that's my own political bias. I'm a Green party supporter] but i do think that this is a argument put forward by the sceptics in climate change about how it's a money pit for scientists to enrich them.
Mr. McEwen put forward a characther without a redeeming quality. Indeed, in his narrative in the book, he uses "Beard" and thus refers to him by his surname.
overall i liked the book and Beard will be added to the list on the general forum of good books with unlikeable main characthers
Right now I'm reading Log of the S. S. Mrs Uguentine. It's pretty awesome thus far.
"Soon will I rouse you to yet wilder dancing and pipe a note of terror in your ear."
The Surrogate by Tania Carver
I think I "get" the above. If so, I quote partial lyrics to a song:
You moaned the blues,
For me and for you,
Hank Williams,
You wrote my life...
I shall not read another of his works unless I see inside of it first. His lack of punctuation and the most basic sentence structure just killed that book. He sure will not notice or care if I read him not, I sure shall not be irritated by skipping him, so I win.
Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy, by Jane Leavy. It encompasses his career but the centerpiece is his perfect game vs. the Cubs on Sept. 9, 1965. He struck out the last 6-staight foes.
Robert Kennedy: His Life, by Evan Thomas. Well-documented and also "a good read."
Just finished reading Barrow's boys by Fergus Flemming.
It's about the attempts in the 19th century to sail the supposed NW passage through the Arctic, the 'discovery' of Antarctica and the search for Timbuctoo and the source of the Niger River.
The tagline is 'A stirring story of daring, fortitude and outright lunacy' which pretty much sums it up.
Mark
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"Every generation that holds the Earth Hostage to nuclear weapons holds a gun to the head of it's children" Jonathan Schell - The Fate of the Earth
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Giffin's "Something Borrowed" and "Something Blue"
On Hitler's Mountain
By Irmgard A. Hunt
1-5
Doomsday Key by James Rollins.
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"If you liberals keep gettin' your way - we're all gonna hear one big loud flush. The sound of the U.S. of A. goin' straight down the toilet." -- Archie Bunker
"I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally." - W.C. Fields
Why the Towers Fell
Callisto by a guy called Torsten Krol
Introduction to Psychology
Gateways to Mind and Behavior
By Denis Coon
天薄我以福，吾厚吾德以迓之；
天勞我以形，吾逸吾心以補之；
天厄我以遇，吾亨吾道以通之。
天且奈我何哉？
Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte
1-5
Mary, Called Magaldene by Margaret George.
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway's finest, imho.
Foundation and Empire, Isaac Asimov's 2nd of the Foundation series. Again. Then onto the next one. I've read them all but the first 3 are his best, imho.
The Reproductive System, by John Sladek, one of the most underappreciated and hilarious authors I "discovered" long after everyone else on the planet "discovered" it.
I Capture the Castle
Dodie Smith
1-5
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