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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 would like to publicly make a request for Peter Gabriel and John Legend to do a collaboration. A soundtrack would be acceptable, as would an opera or basically anything they decided they want to do. They just have the most awesome blended sound, as evidenced by John Legend singing Peter Gabriel's song last night on the Oscars, and I want more more more.

I have so much going on this week I'm not convinced I'm really going to make it through! The beacon at the end of today is tonight's Bachelor. It's "The Women Tell All" tonight (talk about making you feel *really* dirty, Kate).

February 23, 2009 | Permalink

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But it's not germane to the "plot," right? So I could skip it?

Are you telling me I shouldn't skip it?

Posted by: Kate | February 23, 2009 at 02:24 PM

Ok, I was not paying 100% attention, but here are my questions:

1. overnight tent date...first base? Really? Then why did she go home in his clothes--just to stir up trouble? If so, this makes me like Molly even less.

2. Vapid girl dumped in Vegas. Edited to be that horrific or actually that awful?

3. Oh Jillian, why'd you have to go say you'd be the Bachelorette? Go home to Canada, date some guys, kiss frogs, find your real prince. You can do it!

Posted by: Kate | February 24, 2009 at 08:52 AM

@Kate - Amen to not believing for a second that "first base" was the only thing that went down (ahem....) in that tent. I'm all for not kissing and telling, especially when Mommy & Daddy are so up in her business, but if you're going to lie about it could you at least try to be a little less obvious?!

Was anyone else icked out by Jason's repeated euphemistic use of the word "passion"?

Poor Jillian - basically she was treated to the knowledge that their "passion" the night in the hot tub and hotel suite was not enough for him to view her as a sexual being to be reckoned with. That's got to hurt the ol' self-esteem!

I dunno... this episode was just kind of boring.

Posted by: hush | February 24, 2009 at 11:14 AM

I have been squicked out by Jason's use of "amazing" and everyone calling them girls. My four year old daughter is a girl. My sister, who is 25 and therefore old enough to be on this show, apparently, is a woman.

Posted by: Kate | February 24, 2009 at 12:20 PM

i would just like to second the john legend/peter gabriel collaboration. john legend is starting to grow on me in a way that i usually reserve for my man ll cool j. is all i'm sayin.

we don't watch the bachelor but i do enjoy reading your reactions to it. and kate, i think it's even funnier when my baby boomer uncles/aunts refer to women in their peer group as "girls" ("she's a very nice girl")- i know it's the delusion of not being willing to admit that they are aging as a group, but, still. eww.

Posted by: pnuts mama | February 24, 2009 at 05:02 PM

Is first base the same thing now as it was back in my day?

Posted by: SarcastiCarrie | February 24, 2009 at 05:17 PM

Yeah, I still think 1st base means French kissing, 2nd = up the shirt, 3rd = down the pants...

Posted by: hush | February 25, 2009 at 12:54 PM

Well, good to see that some things stay the same (and let's not forget the "inside the park home run"!).

Now, let's talk about Lost. What was the deal with Ben killing Locke after stopping him from killing himself? Was he just trying to get Eloise's name from Locke or did he really know that name beforehand?

Posted by: SarcastiCarrie | February 26, 2009 at 04:40 PM

I wonder if there's some sort of strange "island rule" about suicide vs. other causes of death like murder. As in suicides can't get reincarnated back on the isalnd?? That, or Ben is a homicidal maniac (perhaps both!).

What was that office area the new survivors and injured people (including Ben!) were hanging out in on the island? What year is it on the island if those paddle boats are on the shore?

It was neat to see Walt growing up - and to hear his prediction that the people on the island will try to kill Locke. Which makes sense should they eventually figure out he's not on the passenger list, and should scary island stuff like the smoke monster start happening - he could be a scapegoat.

Did anyone else think Helen's tombstone was probably planted there and she's probably still alive? I kept associating Abbadon (Lance Reddick) with his character on "The Wire."

Here's my wild guess about the upcoming "war" that Charles Widmore alluded to - it will be those 3-toed aliens coming back to claim their island! ;)

Posted by: hush | February 26, 2009 at 05:39 PM