What book/s are you reading now?

This may not be directly related to pregnancy but for me, it is
I have precious few months to read all books I can find because once I
have two kids at home, there goes the time for books. So I want to
know what everyone is reading that is NOT related to pregnancy or
babies. Please list any book you recommend even if you are done
reading it a while ago.

Thanks.

: This may not be directly related to pregnancy but for me, it is
: I have precious few months to read all books I can find because once I
: have two kids at home, there goes the time for books. So I want to
: know what everyone is reading that is NOT related to pregnancy or
: babies. Please list any book you recommend even if you are done
: reading it a while ago.
:
: Thanks.

Recent Recommendations:

~Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
~When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Harold S. Kushner (3rd time
reading)

Currently Reading:

~Kate Remembered by A. Scott Berg

Plan on Reading:

~Trump: How to Get Rich (I've read The Art of the Deal)

ted wrote:
This may not be directly related to pregnancy but for me, it is
I have precious few months to read all books I can find because once I
have two kids at home, there goes the time for books. So I want to
know what everyone is reading that is NOT related to pregnancy or
babies. Please list any book you recommend even if you are done
reading it a while ago.


I'm reading Mel Levine's 'A Mind at a Time' I can't say I'm finding it a
really enjoyable read for some reason but it has great information in it so
I still recommend it. I just checked out 'The Discipline Book' by Sears.
I've read the first two chapters. For some reason I don't click with his
books even though I like the theory and the ideas so I don't know if I'll
finish that one. Basically I feel like a loser when I read them. I don't
need the punishment, lol. I read 'Siblings without Rivalry' by Faber and
Mazlish when I was pg with Luke. I liked that one. I'll keep an eye on the
thread hoping to get some good tips :-)

Oh, I wish I would have read the 'No Cry Sleep Solution' by Pantley when I
was pg with Luke. I don't think it was out then. I've heard good things
about it.

--
Nikki
Mama to Hunter (4) and Luke (2)

ted wrote:

This may not be directly related to pregnancy but for me, it is
I have precious few months to read all books I can find because once I
have two kids at home, there goes the time for books. So I want to
know what everyone is reading that is NOT related to pregnancy or
babies. Please list any book you recommend even if you are done
reading it a while ago.


Why would having two kids remove time for reading?
I'll admit that my reading took a bit of a hit with kids,
but then again, I used to go through more than a novel a
week, not to mention more serious reading ;-) I still go
through books at a pretty good clip. I'm about to finish
Lackey & Flint's _Shadow of the Lion_. I'll probably start
Hobb's _Fool's Fate_ next. I'm also reading Levine's
_The Myth of Laziness_. I recently scarfed down Kurtz's
latest (umm..._In the King's Service_, I guess), Brust's
_The Lord of Castle Black_, Ivins' _Bushwhacked_,
Lindskold's _The Dragon of Despair_, and some others
I'm not thinking of right now. If you're looking for
fluff, I have a weakness for Georgette Heyer romances ;-)

Best wishes,
Ericka

ted wrote:

This may not be directly related to pregnancy but for me, it is
I have precious few months to read all books I can find because once I
have two kids at home, there goes the time for books. So I want to
know what everyone is reading that is NOT related to pregnancy or
babies. Please list any book you recommend even if you are done
reading it a while ago.

Thanks.

Hi Ted,

I recently read and really enjoyed _The Girl with the Pearl Earring_.
It's one of those novels with a beautiful sense of place -- you
get to take a vacation to Holland, basically!

Kind of related to babies, when I was pg with DS, I really enjoyed
reading _The Red Tent_, a historical novel set in biblical times
about a midwife. Lots of births

--
Emily
mom to Toby 5/1/02
#2 EDD 7/19/04

"Nikki" wrote in message
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I just checked out 'The Discipline Book' by Sears.
I've read the first two chapters. For some reason I don't click with his
books even though I like the theory and the ideas so I don't know if I'll
finish that one. Basically I feel like a loser when I read them. I don't
need the punishment, lol.


Oh, I just cannot STAND Sears!!!! Neither he, nor his sanctimonious wife.
I always feel like they are so impractical with what they suggest - I mean,
I apparently don't live in the same world they do.

I was reading the breastfeeding book ( I think that was it) in the middle of
the endless night that was the early days of my daughter's life, when she
was eating about every hour around the clock, and I was nearly psychotic
with sleep deprivation, and I came across freaking MARTHA talking about how
the greatest satisfaction of her life was nursing her son in the middle of
the night, because it was calm, and she could stare into his inky freaking
black eyes, and feel so enamored with pure love (or some sanctimonius crap
like that. I'm paraphrasing.). At 3:30 in the morning, after 7 weeks of
catnapping, I was, to put it mildly, NOT ON THAT WAVELENGTH. IIRC, I hurled
the book across the living room and burst into tears.

I hate them. Seriously. I don't know what planet they parent on, but it
isn't mine.

Donna

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 07:23:42 -0800, ted wrote:

Here's my most recent:
The Nanny diaries (forgot the author): listed as comic, but I found it
heartbreaking. It is an interesting experiment of decadence in US
society, for which a four year-old is paying.
The disposessed (Ursula Le Guin): cold-war fantasy novel with an extreme
but objective view on capitalism versus socialism, very interesting from
many perspectives (for me especially, since I'm an astronomer and the
main character is a physicist)
To kill a mockingbird (Harper Lee): a classic, but I'm just now reading it
for the first time and it's quite excellent.

And my all time favorite:
Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden): the life and love of an early 20th
century girl who becomes geisha. Just a wonderful story.

--
-- I
mommy to DS (19m)
mommy to two tiny angels (28 Oct 2003 & 17 Feb 2004)
guardian of DH (33)

"ted" wrote in message
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This may not be directly related to pregnancy but for me, it is
I have precious few months to read all books I can find because once I
have two kids at home, there goes the time for books. So I want to
know what everyone is reading that is NOT related to pregnancy or
babies. Please list any book you recommend even if you are done
reading it a while ago.

Let's see... I read a lot right now, mostly in the mornings before DD wakes,
and at night after she goes to bed. I'm doing a lot of re-reading, because
I haven't been to the library in a while. I'm re-reading the Spenser novels
by Robert B. Parker, and I just re-read a novel that someone else has
already mentioned - Diary of a Geisha, by Golden. I also just finished the
new Steven King.

At this precise instant, I'm reading Marian Keyes' Rachel's Holiday. I have
read everything she's written, and I just love her. If you are looking for
a well-written "beach book" (even though it's mid-winter in this hemisphere)
pick up anything by her. My favorite so far is Rachel's Holiday, but
Watermelon is wonderful, too.

Donna

Ilse Witch wrote:
And my all time favorite:
Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden): the life and love of an early 20th
century girl who becomes geisha. Just a wonderful story.


I loved this one too.

.... and many of my all-time favorites are books by Barbara
Kingsolve: _The Bean Trees_, _The Poisonwood Bible_, ...

--
Emily
mom to Toby 5/1/02
#2 EDD 7/19/04

The Da Vinci Code
Wuthering Heights
A Tale of Two Cities
Shakespeare Sonnets (always have those around)
Five fingered anthology for the Intermediate pianist and finally
The Trombonists guide to Instrument Repair


This may not be directly related to pregnancy but for me, it is
I have precious few months to read all books I can find because once I
have two kids at home, there goes the time for books. So I want to
know what everyone is reading that is NOT related to pregnancy or
babies. Please list any book you recommend even if you are done
reading it a while ago.

Thanks.