Moxie: Lost talk, belated

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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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Lost talk, belated

I know something enormous ad huge happened, so talk about it if it's not too late.

February 27, 2009 | Permalink

Comments

Initially I was kinda underwhelmed by this episode, not that it was filler but after last week's, it didn't feel as substantial. After thinking about it some more, I realize that it was actually pretty awesome.

Glad to see Walt, if even for a few minutes. Kid is still a bit creepy - I hope we see more of him since he's also "special".

Ben! How could you? Oh yeah, that's right: you're an evil, murdering bastard. Was he only there for information - is that why as soon as he heard about Eloise Hawking (and how does Ben know her?) he jumped into action?

What's NotSayid's story?? He seems capable and a bit too take-charge. Military? Mercenary? And Ilana! And where did Lapidus go and with whom? Must be Sun, right? But why wouldn't she have whited-out like the rest of the O6? Maybe because she was pregnant when she left the island and she's not now and there was no proxy for her??

Charles Widmore. Evil? I don't know! He came across as more sympathetic, but let's face it: he's been an arrogant ass at the least up til now.

Next week's ep looks promising too. Angst!

Posted by: Ladre | February 27, 2009 at 06:17 AM

Glad to see Walt, if even for a few minutes. Kid is still a bit creepy - I hope we see more of him since he's also "special".

Charles Widmore. Evil? I don't know! He came across as more sympathetic, but let's face it: he's been an arrogant ass at the least up til now.

Next week's ep looks promising too. Angst!

Posted by: Ladre | February 27, 2009 at 06:17 AM

I cannot wait for next week.

ANd I can't decide whether Ben knew about Eloise Hawking or was just pumping Locke for information.

ANd Sayid and the Peace Corps? I had no idea. I was confused because I wasn't paying close attention. I didn't realize he left Ben's service during his time.

Posted by: SarcastiCarrie | February 27, 2009 at 11:41 AM