Highly Recommended
Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi: The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke
Reading this book explained a whole lot of things about why so many families I know are struggling financially, even though we don't spend extravagantly. Simultaneously enlightening and nauseating.Elizabeth Warren: All Your Worth : The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan
If other personal finance books have frustrated you because they assume you have money to invest and you don't even have enough money to buy a large coffee, this is the personal finance book for you. Reading this book showed me that it's not that I waste money on stupid things--it's that our basic expenses are too high to begin with. Reading this book is the end of financial guilt and the beginning of getting out of the hole.Adele Faber: Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too
Lots of great ideas to think about and put into practice about not assigning your kids roles and how to approach fights. Also goes over some of the stuff from the How to Talk So Kids Will Listen book about making kids feel understood. Because, really, that's all anyone wants--to be understood. And kids are people, too.Anne Lamott: Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
Just perfect. A beautiful, funny, sad, accurate account of what the first days, weeks, and months with a baby are like. This is exactly what your journal would be, if you could write as well as she does.Adrian Nicole LeBlanc: Random Family : Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
LeBlanc's writing and pacing makes you want to keep reading despite the tragic story. Think you have an informed opinion about welfare reform and how to strengthen families in this country? Not until you've read this book.John Taylor Gatto: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
This is the red pill. Don't read it if you want to stay comfortable with the American school system. Gatto goes into why government-owned schools were created and the things they actually teach us.Ellis Avery: The Smoke Week: September 11-21, 2001
If you have any curiosity about what it was like for New Yorkers during the World Trade Center attacks, this is the book to read. A brilliant, crystalline, spot-on memoir of the week or so after the attacks, this book is an ode to New Yorkers. Realistic, clean, and completely un-maudlin, it's just the story of what it was like for us. This is what should go into a time capsule to represent September 2001.
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I, for one, can't wait 'til next thursday. Anyone else think Walt will be in the Orchid to help Locke move the island?
Posted by: jenL | May 23, 2008 at 02:08 PM
I know. I'm always sad at the end of the season, because they usually leave with a huge cliff hanger, but I'm raring to go for 3 hours on Thursday. I don't think Walt will be there, but that's a good guess. I'm so curious to find out how all the Oceanic 6 get back together and get off the island! CAN'T WAIT!! Thanks for bringing back lost talk.
Posted by: Alice | May 24, 2008 at 12:34 PM
A friend and I were talking about how we've really been enjoying lost these days, and we think it's because the storyline has been somewhat accelerated due to the writer's strike. Things are happening - amazing!
Posted by: Ally | May 24, 2008 at 07:05 PM
I missed the first 5 or 10 minutes of the last episode. WHAT HAPPENED TO CLAIRE???
Posted by: Christine | May 26, 2008 at 08:33 AM
Claire was sleeping in the woods and then just wandered off.
Locke saw her later in Jacob's cabin with Christian.
When the Oceanic Six were taken to the hanger to meet the press, they did address the Kate being Aaron's mom thing but just evaded it totally. No one addressed how he was being fed.
Posted by: SarcastiCarrie | May 27, 2008 at 10:28 AM