The kindle app on my computer is always deadly when I am proctoring exams. It LOOKS like I am working...but really I am not. :D

I go totally little girl scream whenever an author I like retweets or comments on my blog :D

I finished a non-romance book this week! En av oss by Ã…sne Seierstad. It was a tough read and I needed a break before reading about the trial. It was well worth reading but I won't be re-reading it. I've also made real progress in The Girls of Atomic City, yay four day weekend! I am now only 5 books from my goal of 52 books. :lol: Only four weeks left of term...I think I can, I think I can, I think I can May 20th is my birthday too

Hugs Nan

Hugs Nan

VC congratulations to your daughter I love hearing of people being engrossed in Eddings. One of my cousins credits my brother and Eddings with getting her middle son to be a book lover. Before my brother staid with them J never read. M introduced him to Eddings and voila he is as a voracious reader as the rest of us. I've been away at a conference for three days so I haven't read much but now I am off for four days so I am planing on some reading. My favourite books as a child obviously changed as I grew older but some highlights are Sagan om den lilla lilla gumman (The story of the little little lady) by Elsa Beskow, Kajsa Kavat and then Madicken and Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren, and finally The Little House on the Prairie books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Sagan om den lilla lilla gumman was a story I knew by heart at age two. I still made my parents read it over and over and over again. 32 years later and I STILL know it by heart :lol: . My mom wasn't the only woman who read to me growing up, both my grandmothers, and my two aunts, as well as countless cousins influenced my reading as a child (and still do as we recommend books to each other).

I know that the LAST books my mom read to me were David Eddings' The Belgariad. She stopped reading to me at bedtime sometime during book 3 because I would stay up way to late reading ahead *ahem*. I also know that the FIRST book she read to me was Arthur C. Clark's 2001: A Space Odyssey. I was less than 24 hours old :lol: In between those books she read me tonnes of other books. And I love her for it. I'll update my read so far this year list once I am on the other side of end of term madness.

:grouphug: :grouphug: For everyone for whom today is difficult.

I read Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose a few years ago and enjoyed it but not sure if that is what you are looking for

Kareni your holiday sounds fantastic! I really need to get out further west than Chicago in the US (I tend to hug the Eastern seaboard and go no further south than NC but I need to branch out). The neurologist put me on beta blockers and told me to call him in the morning...or actually in August. And to check my pulse so it doesn't go below 50 bpm so I've downloaded an app. We shall see. Cautious optimism. I am continuing my "essays by day, romance by night" reading habit but I plan on reading some Girls of Atomic City once I get off the computer because today I haven't actually read essays, I've tallied results, and despite having pretty much lost my voice*, I have talked, and talked, and talked and then talked some more. Oh and I practically told my boss where she could put it. So you know...a good day. *I sound like I belong in a 1920's speakeasy with a long cigarette in one hand, a tumbler of whiskey in the other and lounging on a piano. Trés sexy.

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Thank you for the idea about checking on my meds Robin, I tend to have weird reactions to meds so I'll ask. Although the CAT scan was inconclusive they did see something and it could be causing the head aches. My copy of Pioneer Girl arrived today. That is going to take a while to get through. The book that was released today was The Friend Zone by Kristen Callihan. I'm about half way through by reading during breakfast, lunch and in between parent teacher conferences.

Hugs to all those going through rough times I didn't get much reading done this weekend as the headache reared its ugly head again. I have a phone appointment with the neurologist on Wednesday so hopefully they will have some idea of what is going on, the cat-scan was inconclusive. There is at least one new book out in a series I read tomorrow so I will probably read that, plus continue with The Girls of Atomic City. I won't be reading any Dante, it just doesn't work with this month (as a teacher I don't have to take any tests on my birthday, but I have to proctor them so I feel for your daughter mumto2)

I ended up getting The Girls of Atomic City for my non-fiction read. It ended up so far being an interesting choice for totally different reasons than what I thought. The first girl we meet is from Shenandoah PA. She is of an age that makes me pretty sure she went to school with my grandmother. I wish my grandmother was still alive so I could ask

I'm not sure what I want, that's the problem. I am flittering from book to book. I want something that will engage my brain but not something where I have to look up every third word. My brain is rotting from all the appalling student essays but the steady diet of romance novels are beginning to bore me. In the past I've liked A Walk in the Woods, To Call a Midwife, Mystics Maverics and Merry Makers and Quiet just to give a few examples. I'm quite eclectic in my taste. I'll check out your suggestions.

Can someone please recommend a good non-fiction book to me. I would love something sociology type. It needs to be available on kindle

It is the same here but mostly they are dark colours. The local company has a white minivan taxi though if that counts. And in Edinburgh they were the black cab shape but many had other colours than black.

I finished The Mistake by Elle Kennedy and am now reading Hold Me by Susan Mallery. The Mistake was good, sweet and very funny. Hold Me is actually failing to hold me.

Congratulations! And I will keep you and your family in the light

Be careful with Excedrine migraine. I had a really really bad reaction to it. Scalp and neck massages as well as trigger point massage on hands and elbows are good too in addition to what everyone else has said.

My poem in a pocket is "Ja visst gör det ont" by Karin Boye Ja visst gör det ontJa visst gör det ont när knoppar brister. Varför skulle annars våren tveka? Varför skulle all vår heta längtan bindas i det frusna bitterbleka? Höljet var ju knoppen hela vintern. Vad är det för nytt, som tär och spränger? Ja visst gör det ont när knoppar brister, ont för det som växer och det som stänger. Ja nog är det svårt när droppar faller. Skälvande av ängslan tungt de hänger, klamrar sig vid kvisten, sväller, glider - tyngden drar dem neråt, hur de klänger. Svårt att vara oviss, rädd och delad, svårt att känna djupet dra och kalla, ändå sitta kvar och bara darra - svårt att vilja stanna och vilja falla. Då, när det är värst och inget hjälper, Brister som i jubel trädets knoppar. Då, när ingen rädsla längre håller, faller i ett glitter kvistens droppar glömmer att de skrämdes av det nya glömmer att de ängslades för färden - känner en sekund sin största trygghet, vilar i den tillit som skapar världen. Translated into English by David McDuff and Jenny Nunn

Butter I recognize the Kindle "pile" problem. Although I will say that I have had my kindle since Christmas 2006 and this was the first year I had to figure out how to archive things on it. I have been dipping this week. I've read favourite passages of several different books but not been able to settle down to one book. However, I think I have two books arriving on my Kindle tomorrow (I wish there was a way to see just your pre-orders on Amazon). Other than that I read essays, and I will be reading essays. with 6 weeks left for Seniors to hand in assignments, 7 weeks for juniors and sophmores and national tests I am DROWNING in essays. At least the seniors are CAE prep essays and they are only 200-300 words so it should be quick, on the other hand, I need to hand them back to them by next week. I should NOT have left this for last minute. Please please please let me not have English 7 when the staffing for next year comes out later today.

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The Wild Duck was the first play I saw at The Royal Dramatic Theater in Stockholm in high school. I really should go back and read it again, I seem to recall that it really affected me. You had me until the rat thing. I have a recurring nightmare about rats. The climb on walls and ceilings and fall down on me in bed *shudders* I'm not much for the historical romances actually (unless they are set during the world wars for some reason). I really should read The Rebbe's Army, it has been on my TBR pile since I read Mystics, Maverics and Merrymakers

I'm actually worse day 2. The first day after not sleeping well I can usually "power through" but if I only get my normal sleep the next night and don't "catch up" I wouldn't drive unless I really could not get out of it.