Archive for June, 2005
Friday, June 24th, 2005
Belly Laughs
How can you resist a pregnancy book written by an infamously funny Playboy Playmate?
Belly Laughs is a short, readable, fun, "danger-Will-Robinson-danger" book about the more unsavory aspects of being pregnant and giving birth — and some savory aspects that don’t get much attention in the softly lit, floral-themed traditional pregnancy books.
For example, it should come […]
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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005
Strange Hormonally Induced Dreams
I have been having the most peculiar dreams the last few weeks. They say that’s normal, just one of the bonuses of having my body saturated with hormones.
Still, I don’t like it. The first really odd dream was about one of the most emotionally draining relationships I’ve ever been in, although the chemistry level […]
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Tuesday, June 21st, 2005
Which Goddess Are You?
I’ve never heard of any of the Goddesses that come up on this quiz, and I suspect the quiz author made them all up herself.
I also think her "for girls!" restriction is silly, and I will give big props to any of my silly internet quiz loving male friends who take the quiz and […]
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Monday, June 20th, 2005
Ghost Country
This is the last of the books I picked up at the Stone Mountain library sale on Saturday. I loved it!
Ghost Country is a radical departure from Paretzky’s V.I. Warshawski novels, although it stays with the gritty Chicago, urban/suburban tension that colors those works.
First of all, although Ghost Country is mysterious and strange, it […]
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Monday, June 20th, 2005
Work Interest Quiz - Amusingly Inaccurate
Brian included a link to his results on this quiz in a recent email.
Since I loved the image of Brian as a wedding consultant, one of the recommended careers I never would have thought of for him, but which he could certainly do (though I doubt happily), I thought I’d see what silly answers […]
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Sunday, June 19th, 2005
First and Long: A Black School, a White School, and Their Season of Dreams (WARNING: Spoiler)
Jill saw me reading First and Long yesterday morning, and suggested that it was time for a bookstore trip. Of course, I am not normally a football-book reader.
But this is not an ordinary football book, and I’ve been meaning to read it since the last time we were in Milwaukee, when I bought it. […]
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Sunday, June 19th, 2005
Monstrous Regiment - includes spoilers
This was another of my Stone Mountain Library Sale purchases.
I’ve read maybe half a dozen Terry Pratchett novels, and I find him reliably funny, and one of the better male authors writing about feminist topics.
It’s nearly impossible to write about Monstrous Regiment without including any spoilers. The heroine of the book joins the […]
