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More Books that Are Good
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Bolo! by David Weber
The Blue Nowhere, Jeffrey Deaver
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
The Mummy by Ann Rice
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Poems by Charles Bukowski
The Damned series by Alan Dean Foster
The Belgariad series by ( Read more... ) -
More Books
Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
Bolo! by David Weber
The Blue Nowhere, Jeffrey Deaver
Charlotte's Web, E.B. White
A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle
The Mummy, Ann Rice
The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Poems by Charles Bukowski
The Damned series by Alan Dean Foster
The Belgariad series by David Eddings
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My (Great) Books List
It occurred to me that I haven't posted in a long time. I've been busy after returning from the month-long trip when we didn't have lots of time on the internet. Actually that trip was good for me, having discovered what an internet junkie I really am. Now I know I can survive without it, even as I've learned to do without TV and some other things ( Read more... ) -
The 4th of July -- Independence Day -- and 20 Years
Ah, what a wonderful day. On July 4th, 2007, Richard and I celebrated 20 years of marriage. And we had a great day. Nothing special -- he gave me some very nice and touching cards, and I (after hunting and hunting for the cards I'd bought for him quite a while ago and put away somewhere safe, where I could no longer locate them) printed him some ( Read more... ) -
Pickleball!
Richard and I have been getting back into pickleball after a long time away. On Saturday, I played in a new teams tournament, or actually the precursor for it, figuring out how it all would work, and I can't say my play was stellar. However, it was evidently good practice, because today I was back to the ladder play again and I got a 45 -- perfect ( Read more... ) -
Quail and Rabbits
We have a family of quail (11 babies!) who live in our bushes out front. Each day now, we see mom and dad emerge and make sure the coast is clear, and then the chicks come scurrying out, eager to explore and discover things to eat. They are fast! and with 11 of them, it's tough for mom to keep her eye on all of them. Today, I had the windows open ( Read more... ) -
More on Family, Genealogy, and Dreams
So what I was getting to and couldn't finish yesterday was that I realized, for the first time, that lots of these people weren't just like their photos (or their imagined photos, since we don't know what most of them looked like). And they were human, and had their bad days and good days, and headaches, and they suffered from arthritis and had ( Read more... ) -
Family, Genealogy, and Dreams
I have been reading Barack Obama's book, Dreams from My Father, and enjoying it very much on the whole, although at times it is very difficult to have his extraordinarily good writing probe deeply into my fiber and make me think so much about things over which I seem to have no control, therefore no ability to change, for better or worse. It ( Read more... ) -
Happiness
We were driving a couple of days ago and happened to catch part of Dennis Prager's happiness hour. This is a show we used to hear often on Fridays as we were going to tMorro Bay for "happy hour" at the yacht club, and now we catch it sometimes when we head out somewhere before lunch. This hour Dennis devotes to happiness. He says, "Happy people ( Read more... ) -
I've been writing again
I've been busy and productive lately. I started work on the second (new) pickleball book, and it's going well so far. I need to arrange interviews with numerous players, but first I need to establish what it is I'm trying to do with this book and the questions that need answers before interviews will be fruitful ( Read more... )