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Books, sometimes from bookclub, sometimes not.

Thank You

To the anonym­ous reader of my blog who bought books on Amazon using my asso­ci­ates link, thank you! Not so much for the few cents it brought me but for the fact that it means you thought enough of what I wrote to check out the books and spend your own money to get a […]

2007 06 26 General Comments (0)

Stumbling on Happiness

Daniel Gilbert’s Stum­bling on Hap­pi­ness is rightly pop­u­lar (I had to wait some time before it became avail­able at the local lib­rary). Des­pite the title, it’s not one of these “seven steps to real hap­pi­ness” books. It’s more a book that tells you why people’s expect­a­tions of what will or should make them happy are […]

2007 05 22 Comments (0)

Sleeping Babies

We’ve had prob­lems with get­ting the baby (now 10 months) to sleep prop­erly dur­ing the day, and when she also star­ted wak­ing more often dur­ing the night I decided I had to fig­ure out an answer. Our first child slept read­ily, took sched­ule vari­ations in his stride, and so it was a big shock when […]

2007 04 21 Family Comments (1)

Leap of Faith

The book club I belong to decided to read Queen Noor’s “Leap of Faith: Mem­oirs of an Unex­pec­ted Life”, her auto­bi­o­graphy, and this is a sum­mary of our review. Part of the reason we chose this book was in the hopes that it would be a more access­ible way of learn­ing more about that part […]

2006 12 01 Comments (1)

Books on Raising Children

There seem to be as many philo­sophies about how to bring up chil­dren suc­cess­fully as there are par­ents, which fact you tend not to dis­cover until you are a par­ent your­self. And then you have to hope that your philo­sophy is reas­on­ably con­gru­ent with that of the other par­ent and/or care­givers in your child’s life. […]

2006 10 14 Family Comments (6)

“Maps for Lost Lovers”

A review of Nadeem Aslam’s “Maps for Lost Lovers”.

2006 05 21 Comments (2)