This just cracked me up:
“There’s a saying in the food industry that the two cheapest ingredients you can add to food are water and air.” Mindless Eating by [...]
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I know this is probably too long for most of you… but I think it’s hilarious. The book is called, “But Not the Hippopotamus.” We love Sandra Boynton books – my mom got this one for Monica. At the end it says, “But not [...] Booker T. Washington on why he didn’t go into politics: Even then I had a strong feeling that what our people most needed was to get a foundation in education, industry, and property, and for this I felt that they could better afford to strive than for political preferment. As for my individual self, it appeared to [...] He remembered now. It had been such a humiliation being kicked out of the scouts. It was like being excommunicated from the Catholic Church, where a candle was ceremoniously snuffed out to signify the exclusion. In Angus Lordie’s case, the scout master had taken his woggle from him. Such humiliation. Dewoggled. (The Unbearable Lightness of Scones, [...] It is a fact, anyhow, that Tol never hurried. He was not by nature an anxious or a fearful man. But I suspect that he was unhurried also by principle. Tol loved his little farm, and he loved farming. It would have seemed to him a kind of sacrilege to rush through his work without getting [...] Written by a woman who had been captured by Indians and seen her youngest child (6 years old) die a slow lingering death from a gunshot wound and spent several months nearly starving in captivity until she and her remaining 2 children were redeemed: The Lord hath showed me the vanity of these outward things. That they [...] Seriously, if you haven’t read any of the 8 or so noves by Jasper Fforde, then you’re missing out. I have never seen an imagination so bizarre, and yet oddly educated and strangely enthralling. I’m sure it’s not for everybody, but I think that if you love to read novels, you should give these a try! I [...] No, not Harry Potter, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susannah Clark. My friend Amanda recommended it and I got it out of the library. If you’re looking for something to read, you might add this to your list. It’s not a gripping page-turner (a good thing for my family since it’s over 700 pages long), [...] I feel like I’m in school again. Currently I am reading not one, not two, but three “big” books of the harder, good-for-you variety. For my book group here in Oregon I am reading The Book of Margery Kempe an autobiography by a medieval mystic. Here’s an example: Then it was our Lady’s turn to speak with me, [...] I haven’t had much luck yet with having my kids listen to tapes in lieu of read-alouds. They just seem to tune them out. I’ve gotten Redwall, Little House in the Big Woods and others out of the library on cassette tapes (yes, we still own a couple of old-fashioned tape players – Thanks Mom!) and [...] I just got Peter Reinhart’s Whole Grain Breads out of the library last week. Being a slight “bread head” myself, I have been studiously reading through the introductory chapters which explain Reinhart’s bread journey and the successes and failures and discoveries he’s made along the way. What I love about the author is that he seems [...] I just finished a book titled Cotillion, by Georgette Heyer. My sister-in-law Rosanne recommended and lent it to me as being very funny. And it was truly engaging – a very fun read! Just the sort of thing to read if you’re looking for a romance and are not desirous of heavy mental activity or a [...] I finished reading Anna Karenina.\’c3\’82\’c2\~Of all of the books we’ve read in our book group so far (only 8 or so “classic” novels), it’s the one where I have most often thought “I know exactly what he/she is talking/thinking about and have felt similarly before myself.” Maybe it’s because of the multiple characters at various different [...] Not trying to make racial slurs. But I just read Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky, and it falls right in with all of the other literature I’ve ever read about or by Russians. Not that there is a large amount of that, mind you. I’ve read Russka by Edward Rutherford, listened to Anna Karenina on tape, [...] For the last two years I’ve been in a book group. Our goal is to improve our minds by reading good literature and our guide is the book “The Well-Educated Mind.” Because we wanted to have the difficult job of choosing what exactly is “good literature” we just use the list provided by the auther, Susan [...] |
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