tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49571510579238340142024-03-18T22:06:29.130-07:00The Adventures of Pippi LongstockingAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15352067741066090363noreply@blogger.comBlogger298125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4957151057923834014.post-9954569637137978782014-04-07T11:06:00.001-07:002014-04-07T11:06:35.137-07:00Thanks a lotDear Elderly Woman at the Grocery Store,<br />
Thank you. Seriously, I mean that from the bottom of my heart.<br />
I had one child screaming his lungs out wanting Oreos while I tried to soothe a fussy baby. I had a cart full of groceries that I was trying to maneuver to the front of the store through the crowded aisles. I was frustrated, I was on the verge of tears myself, and I was ready to lose it with my kids. All you did was smile at me, pat my babies' hands, and tell me how blessed I am to have such beautiful and healthy boys.<br />
You didn't tell me to treasure these moments. You didn't tell me that these are the best days of my life. You didn't even tell me that the hard times would pass. You didn't ask me their names, or how old they are, or why they were crying. All you did is remind me how blessed I am.<br />
And you know what? I am blessed. I have two beautiful boys. They are both healthy, happy, and strong. Are they perfect? Not by a long shot. But guess what, neither am I. They are mine and that is all I need to know.<br />
So, sweet lady, thank you for reminding me of that. Thank you for reminding me just how blessed I truly am.<br />
Sincerely,<br />
A young-ish mother<br />
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Once upon a time we were all really, really tired of being cooped up inside. But, go figure, it was March in Utah and it was raining. Again. And you can only splash in so many puddles before you need a new activity. Anyway, T-Bone is BUSY. Like, only stops moving for Daniel Tiger busy. "Hm," thought Mommy, "does this kid ever sit still? Probably not, but CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!" So, Mommy got busy thinking of ways to keep T-Bone busy, and then she remembered that science is really cool and really fun. Plus, it's messy, and what little boy doesn't love making messes? Seriously, though, we had so much fun with this activity and it's super easy. Also, you probably already have everything you need on hand. </div>
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First, put a hefty layer of baking soda in a baking sheet. I'm kind of a baking soda junkie, so we had plenty of this.</div>
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Next, fill some bowls with plain old white vinegar. I put food coloring in ours, just to add a little spice to life.</div>
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Next, use a medicine dropper to make mini-volcanoes all over the baking sheet. </div>
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Sometimes, you need to get your hands all up in it, too. </div>
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Not only does it teach about acid/base reactions, you can practice mixing colors and see what happens.</div>
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And then, if you really want to get crazy, put the bowls of vinegar right on top of the baking soda and go to town.</div>
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T-Bone loved dropping the "powder" in the "water" and making them bubble over. </div>
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And you know what happened? He was quiet, and happy, and entertained... for a whole hour! I even heard giggling and squeals of glee instead of "No!" and whining. Amazing!</div>
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/38245568@N02/4341495976/" title="signature by selkiepunk, on Flickr"><img alt="signature" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4028/4341495976_5db4a2f3ca_o.png" height="96" width="192" /></a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15352067741066090363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4957151057923834014.post-74619174315832216462014-01-24T09:50:00.000-08:002014-01-30T09:51:21.202-08:003 Years Old!My Dearest T-Bone,<br />
When you were born I never could have imagined how you would be at three years old. You make me feel a range of emotions that I never thought possible on a daily basis.<br />
You are an independent little man and love to try new things, especially if they're dangerous enough to make your mom and dad crazy. You love your little brother... sometimes a little too much. We are always telling you that you need to be softer with him, which usually just makes you hug him harder.<br />
You love to build with Legos, and are pretty much obsessed with all things transportation related. You love trains, fire trucks, police cars, dump trucks, garbage trucks, and especially helicopters. You tell me all the time that when you grow up you want to drive a fire truck, and ambulance, and a helicopter. This is pretty much in keeping with your penchant for high-adrenaline, dangerous activities.<br />
You like movies and tv, especially Justin Time, Toy Story, Nemo, and Cars. You still like Mickey Mouse, but not nearly as much as Woody and Buzz these days. You still like to go play in nursery and at Shellie's house. You like other kids and love to play with your friends.<br />
You have been going to swimming lessons for quite awhile now. Some days you like it, but most of the time you cry. I think it's the stubborn in you. You want to do things your way and don't like it when your teacher, Kami, tells you to do it a different way. You are very good at doing scoops, kicks, and floating on your back. You don't like to put your face in the water or dive in.<br />
We have been working on potty training, and you have more good days than bad ones. Right now you are working on earning a Lego Pirate Ship, but have to have a certain number of days with no accidents to get it. It might take us awhile, but you are enjoying putting stickers on your chart everyday.<br />
Your favorite foods are chicken nuggets, meatballs, and especially rice and beans. You also like corn, broccoli, tortillas, yogurt, and ham and cheese.<br />
My sweet little man, Mommy and Daddy love you! You bring us more joy than we could have possibly imagined. Keep growing and learning everyday!<br />
Love,<br />
Mom<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/38245568@N02/4341495976/" title="signature by selkiepunk, on Flickr"><img alt="signature" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4028/4341495976_5db4a2f3ca_o.png" height="96" width="192" /></a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15352067741066090363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4957151057923834014.post-86483473034158378202014-01-22T09:41:00.000-08:002014-01-30T09:42:29.340-08:005 MonthsMy Sweetest Squish,<br />
5 whole months! What a joy you have been to our family. Everyday you make me smile with your sweet ways.<br />
You are a very patient boys when it comes to pretty much everything... except your food. You like to eat, and you like to eat on time. Period. You definitely start to fuss if you feel like we're late with your bottle. We've started to put rice cereal in your bottle at bedtime every night, just so you'll sleep through. You manage it most of the time, but sometimes we still have to come give you your binky back in the middle of the night.<br />
You started swimming lessons this week and seem to really love it. It always surprises you when we dunk you under, but you seem to recover your smile pretty quickly. You love to watch your brother and try to be a part of whatever he's doing.<br />
You're getting really good at rolling from your tummy to your back, but haven't quite figured out how to go the other way, yet. I think it'll be coming soon, though. I'm kind of afraid for that day, because I think not long after that you'll be on the move. You pretty much just want to keep up with T-Bone.<br />
Your head has rounded out quite nicely, and it's looking more and more like you're not going to end up wearing a helmet after all. Even with your lumpy head, though, I still think you're the cutest baby I know.<br />
I love you, my little Squishy. Keep up the good growing work!<br />
Love,<br />
Mama<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/38245568@N02/4341495976/" title="signature by selkiepunk, on Flickr"><img alt="signature" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4028/4341495976_5db4a2f3ca_o.png" height="96" width="192" /></a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15352067741066090363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4957151057923834014.post-42559933465848503822013-12-22T20:18:00.000-08:002013-12-23T20:18:56.924-08:004 MonthsMy Sweetest Little Squish-a-Dish,<br />
Time sure flies when you're having fun. I know I say this every month, but I honestly can't believe that you're already 4 months old.<br />
You have changed so much in the last month. You're starting to find your little personality and I love every second of it. You are still incredibly mellow and content to just hang out and watch what's happening around you. You are super smiley and I often catch you grinning at nothing in particular.<br />
Your neck is getting a lot stronger, too. You're able to hold your head up with a whole lot less wobbling now. It's also rounding out quite nicely, and you may not end up in a helmet after all. About a week ago you learned how to roll over from your tummy to your back and that has made tummy-time all but impossible. I put you down on your belly, you crack a big grin, and immediately roll right to your back.<br />
You are a chow hound and definitely don't like to miss any meals. If we are late on a feeding you are quick to let us know. You sleep through the night most of the time, and that has been lovely.<br />
We are so happy to watch you grow and learn everyday. Keep up the good work, little man!<br />
Love,<br />
Mama<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/38245568@N02/4341495976/" title="signature by selkiepunk, on Flickr"><img alt="signature" height="96" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4028/4341495976_5db4a2f3ca_o.png" width="192" /></a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15352067741066090363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4957151057923834014.post-31561644727277155802013-12-21T20:28:00.000-08:002013-12-21T20:28:48.670-08:00Top 10 Christmas Songs of 2013For some reason, I've really been loving Christmas music this year. So, I thought I'd share with you my Top 10 Faves of this year (in no particular order):<br />
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Take a few minutes and enjoy some songs of the season!<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/38245568@N02/4341495976/" title="signature by selkiepunk, on Flickr"><img alt="signature" height="96" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4028/4341495976_5db4a2f3ca_o.png" width="192" /></a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15352067741066090363noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4957151057923834014.post-33885208921049862482013-11-22T07:28:00.000-08:002013-11-25T07:30:12.148-08:003My sweetest Squishy,<br />
Oh my goodness, you are growing so fast! I can't believe you're 3 months old already.<br />
You are such a sweet and easygoing baby. You pretty much just go with the flow of whatever is going on around you. You like to be where you can see and hear people, though.<br />
You love to sit in your bouncy seat and make the lights and music go. You think it's hilarious when we change your clothes or your diaper. Getting dressed or undressed makes you smile like crazy.<br />
You discovered your voice this month and love to talk and coo. You especially love it when we sing. You'll sing right along with me. You also discovered your hands this month. You spend hours on end playing with your fingers, sucking on your hands, and figuring out what they do.<br />
You're not a fan of being strapped into the car seat, and if you're awake you tend to make a fuss about it. You also don't like to be left alone. You want to be around other people. I went back to work this week, so you've been going to the sitter and to Nanny's house. I don't worry about it, though, because I know you'll be a good boy no matter where you are.<br />
You are a boy that likes to eat, and heaven help us if we're late on a feeding. You are growing so big so fast! I had to start putting you in size 6 month clothes.<br />
You love your brother and like to smile at him and watch what he is doing around you. He's finally gotten used to having you around and doesn't beat up on you quite as much anymore.<br />
We are so happy to have you as a part of your family and to watch you learn and grow everyday!<br />
Love,<br />
Mommy<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/38245568@N02/4341495976/" title="signature by selkiepunk, on Flickr"><img alt="signature" height="96" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4028/4341495976_5db4a2f3ca_o.png" width="192" /></a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15352067741066090363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4957151057923834014.post-7690130140293830692013-11-18T15:23:00.001-08:002013-11-18T15:23:53.838-08:00Giving thanks, but not ThanksgivingAs this is the month of Thanksgiving, I've been pondering the giving of thanks (deep, right?). I'm terrible about sending thank you notes. I always have been, and I probably always will be. In fact, I think I've got some still laying around from when I got married 5 years ago.<br />
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Anyway, the point:<br />
I've decided to blog a giant thank you note to everyone that has helped me out in the past little while. So, here goes.<br />
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Thank you for listening.<br />
Thank you for being a friend.<br />
Thank you for the meals.<br />
Thank you for not judging me.<br />
Thank you for making me smile.<br />
Thank you for watching my boys so I could have some time away.<br />
Thank you for the words of encouragement.<br />
Thank you for crying with me.<br />
Thank you for the hugs.<br />
Thank you for the advice.<br />
Thank you for the naps.<br />
Thank you for smiling at me.<br />
Thank you for telling me it'll get better.<br />
Thank you for reminding me to enjoy today.<br />
Thank you for your patience.<br />
Thank you for enduring my never-ending stream of pictures and stories.<br />
Thank you for letting me talk about nothing but my children.<br />
Thank you for not staring when we're all collectively losing it in the grocery store.<br />
Thank you for holding my hand on hard days.<br />
Thank you for telling me how beautiful my kids are.<br />
Thank you for telling me how beautiful I am.<br />
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Thank you, thank you, thank you, and thank you again. Words cannot express my gratitude at being blessed by the wonderful people in my life.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15352067741066090363noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4957151057923834014.post-45613568927192235462013-11-16T10:20:00.001-08:002013-11-16T11:22:09.722-08:00The one about hairBuckle up, kids, there's gonna be a crapload of pictures in this post. So, I've had a few people asking lately about how long it took to grow my hair our, tips and tricks, and a line up of pics. First, we'll do pictures (ignore the growing pregnant belly, tracking my hair growth while documenting my belly seemed like the easiest way to remember to take a monthly picture), and then I'll do tips and tricks at the end. Ready, set, go!<br />
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October 2012, my last pixie cut</div>
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November 2012, 1 month in</div>
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January 2013, 3 months in</div>
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February 2013, 4 months</div>
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March 2013, 5 months</div>
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April 2013, 6 months</div>
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May 2013, 7 months (flat iron waves)</div>
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June 2013, 8 months (Almost looks like I cut it this length on purpose)</div>
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July 2013, 9 months (long enough to tuck)</div>
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August 2013, 10 months (Able to do my natural curls) </div>
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Still August 2013, I just had to show how miserable I looked being hugely pregnant at the end of The. Hottest. Summer. EVER.</div>
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October 2013, A full year of growth</div>
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November 2013, I actually took length off with my last cut. </div>
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It's amazing what a difference a year can make! My hair isn't long, by any means, but it feels long to me. I can feel it brushing the back of my neck and it still takes me by surprise occasionally. </div>
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Now, how did I do it? Patience. Lots of it. Seriously, though, it was a combination of a couple of things. I have a fantastic stylist that held my hand through the whole process. She made me come in and get regular mullet trims, because for whatever reason the back grows about a gazillion times faster than the front. She worked with me to get me through the 4 months of awkwardness that happened in the middle there. </div>
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Secondly, I only wash twice, maybe three times, a week. My hair is naturally very dry, so the extra oil from less frequent washings kept it nice and strong. If you feel like you're getting too oily, invest in some dry shampoo. Washing with shampoo every day is really pretty bad for your hair. It strips the natural oils and causes breakage. </div>
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I also recommend deep conditioning. I just use plain old coconut oil and do it about twice a month. You just slather it all over your hair, throw on a shower cap, and let it soak in for 30 minutes or so. Then you carry on with washing and styling like normal. Speaking of styling, heat style as little as you can get away with. For me, this meant drying my hair straight twice a week. Once it's like that I can leave it for several days without having to do anything at all to it.<br />
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So, there you have it, my (totally not a professional) opinion on how to grow out a pixie cut. Seriously the best tool in your arsenal is going to be patience. </div>
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This is all what is considered "thinspiration." The "nothing tastes" quote is actually available embroidered on pillows, printed on t-shirts, and even as a HUGE vinyl decal to put on the front of your fridge.</div>
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I consider it a part of an even bigger, over all, problem. Something known as "body shaming."</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.453125px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue;">"Body shaming is defined as inappropriate negative statements and attitudes toward another person's weight or size. It can also reach into the discrimination against individuals who may be overweight. In particular, there are negative attitudes in the media and elsewhere about celebrities who are "too fat" or who have not gotten rid of "baby weight" in an appropriate amount of time. A backlash against body shaming has resulted in the coining of the term itself and attempts to bring a more positive attitude toward diverse body sizes and styles."</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.453125px; text-align: left;"> (From </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.453125px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://bodyshaming.org/" target="_blank">this</a> site) </span></div>
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This morning I read a post from a female body builder. She mentioned that there are people who have attacked her for her shape, size, and choice to be a body builder. I looked through a few of her Facebook photos and for every positive comment there was a negative one to match. This woman was beautiful, and yet she was getting called ugly over and over again. </div>
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Why? Why is our culture so obsessed with how we, and other people look? Was this woman hurting anyone with the way she looks? </div>
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We all do it, and I'm no exception. I'll look at people in the grocery store and think, "Really? That was her best choice for what to wear today? She does know that shirt is meant for someone half her size, right?" But it's wrong, and it's mean, and it doesn't help anyone.And yet, how can we expect to accept anyone else for the way they look when we can't even accept ourselves.</div>
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I'm a big girl, anyone who looks at me can see that right away. I don't consider myself fat or ugly, but according to society's standards of acceptable beauty, I am both of those things. I fall into the obese range on the BMI scale (don't even get me started on that can of worms!). My nose is too long. I have carried and birthed two babies, both over 9 pounds, so I have some serious loose skin and stretch marks. I have enormous feet. My hips are wider than my ribcage. I most definitely don't have a thigh gap, visible hip bones, a flat stomach, or toned arms. And all of that is okay! I have a beautiful spirit and the body that contains it reflects that. This body is mine. No, it isn't perfect, but it is beautiful. </div>
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So, today, I am sending out a plea to women everywhere. Stop it! Stop the shame, the hate, and the anger. Love your body, because it is yours! Take care of it to be healthy, not because you are ashamed of how you look. Look another woman in the eyes and tell her how beautiful she is (and mean it!). And ladies, when someone tells you how beautiful you are, just say thank you. Don't brush off the compliment. Don't immediately put yourself down. Because, you want to know a secret? You are beautiful! Tall, short, thin, fat, muscular, blonde, brunette, freckled, disproportionate, it doesn't matter. Join the "Love Your Body" revolution. </div>
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/38245568@N02/4341495976/" title="signature by selkiepunk, on Flickr"><img alt="signature" height="96" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4028/4341495976_5db4a2f3ca_o.png" width="192" /></a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15352067741066090363noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4957151057923834014.post-54244379473057508852013-10-22T01:00:00.000-07:002013-10-23T20:35:07.188-07:002 MonthsMy Sweet Little Squish,<br />
Oh my goodness! I can't believe it's been 2 months already. It has gone so quickly, and I'm having so much fun with you. You are a happy and smiley little man. You love to coo and laugh at us.<br />
You are so very content and love to just sit and watch what's going on around you. You like to be around people and get fussy when you're left alone. You love music and singing. You like to be around noise and get so calm when I vacuum.<br />
You are getting stronger everyday. Your neck is still a little weak and wobbly, and your head is still a bit lopsided. We see the pediatrician in a few days and we will see if you end up wearing a helmet or not. Otherwise you're healthy, and for the most part, happy boy. You don't cry often, but when you do you really get going. You've got a wail and a shriek that can make someone's hair stand on end.<br />
You are a pretty decent sleeper. We've got you down to just one feeding at night, but you still wake up and need to be re-binkied every now and then. We're getting ready to move you into T-Bone's room fairly soon, but we want to make sure that you are both sleeping pretty well and won't wake each other up.<br />
I am so excited to watch you keep learning and growing. Everyday you seem to amaze me with some little aspect of your personality. I love you so much, little Squishy!<br />
Love,<br />
Momma<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/38245568@N02/4341495976/" title="signature by selkiepunk, on Flickr"><img alt="signature" height="96" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4028/4341495976_5db4a2f3ca_o.png" width="192" /></a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15352067741066090363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4957151057923834014.post-84942889762297732882013-09-22T05:57:00.000-07:002013-10-23T20:35:44.714-07:00O's 1 MonthMy Sweet Squishy Little O,<br />
I can't believe you've been a part of my life for a month already. You are such a sweet boy. You love to just hang out with the family and watch what's going on around you. You also love to snuggle. You are very much a cuddlebug.<br />
You are a very mellow baby and don't cry often at all. However, your days and nights have been a bit mixed up, so your daddy and I have been spending a lot of quality time with you in the middle of the night.<br />
One thing I should probably mention is that you've got a little bit of what's called torticullis. Because you were such a big baby (almost 10 pounds!), you were a bit squished when you were inside me. Unfortunately this means that your neck and head were scrunched at a strange angle. So, you have a tendency to look to the right, and your head is cocked that way a little bit. We've been doing some stretching exercises and working on strengthening your neck. Your head is still a little bit lopsided, but it's adorable (and will round out).<br />
Your brother loves you a lot, sometimes a little bit too much. We're working with him on being soft and gentle with you. He doesn't quite understand that you are still pretty fragile. He wants to play with you, and has a hard time realizing that all you want to do is sleep, eat, and poop.<br />
I love you so much, my little Squish. Keep growing and learning.<br />
Love,<br />
Momma<br />
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I have heard this question more often than any other in the last few weeks. Everyone seems to ask how it's going. I wonder how many of them want an honest answer.<br />
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I know what people want to hear from a new mom (whether for the first time or somewhere further down the line). They want to hear about how fabulous it is. How your baby is an angel baby that sleeps through the night, eats like a champ, and has a sweet disposition. They want to hear that you've never felt better. That you're so star-struck with your new little one that you just want to look into his or her eyes all day. They want to hear about how much your older child loves the baby. That he's a good helper who is always gentle and kind to the baby. People want sunshine and roses and sappy-happiness.<br />
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But here's the truth:<br />
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It kind of sucks. In fact, some days it sucks a lot. <br />
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I really do have an angel baby. He is mellow, happy, and content to just hang out. He loves to snuggle. He is a great sleeper... during the day. He eats like a champ, but he also spits up a lot.<br />
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The truth is that most of the time, I don't remember the last time I showered. I've worn nothing but yoga pants and old race t-shirts for almost a month now. And sleep? Forget about it. Between middle of the night feedings, a 2-year-old that only naps sometimes, and a newborn that is possibly the noisiest sleeper EVER, I'm awake a lot. There are days that I wake up with a nervous pit in my stomach wondering how I'm going to survive the day until Greasemonkey gets home from work. And some days I'm hanging onto the sanity cliff by one little finger by the time he does get home. The truth is that I cry. A lot. Some days we go run fake errands, just so the boys will both be strapped into their car seats and I don't have to entertain for a little while. <br />
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The truth is that T-Bone is angry. He hasn't asked me to send the baby back, but there have definitely been some hard feelings surface since we brought Little O home. He's been aggressive, defiant, and argumentative. The truth is that we spend a lot of time talking about good choices and bad choices, about how it's not ok to hit/kick/bite/slap/lay on/ or abuse people. We spend a lot of time talking about how it's ok to be angry and sad sometimes.<br />
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I don't want to give the wrong impression. I love my boys. I love them more than anything else in the whole world. But being a mom is hard. It will test every limit you can think of. It is tiring emotionally, physically, and mentally. And sometimes it sucks. Sometimes it sucks a lot.<br />
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So, if you ask me how it's going I'll probably paste on a smile, lie, and tell you how I've never been happier. Just know that sometimes what I'm really saying with my eyes is, "This sucks, and I could really use a chocolate donut."<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/38245568@N02/4341495976/" title="signature by selkiepunk, on Flickr"><img alt="signature" height="96" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4028/4341495976_5db4a2f3ca_o.png" width="192" /></a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15352067741066090363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4957151057923834014.post-88090553938518484882013-06-13T13:21:00.003-07:002013-10-23T20:36:46.956-07:00Dear 21 year old SelfLinking up today at Jack and Sally!<br />
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Dear 21-Year-Old Pippi,<br />
Calm down, take a deep breath. Seriously. Breathe. You have so many great things ahead of you, but you are forgetting the most important thing of all: to live RIGHT NOW.<br />
I get it, you've pushed yourself hard and you've come a long way. Nursing school is kicking your butt, but you've only got a year left. Enjoy it. Play a little bit. Make some friends. Really, you're going to miss these days at some point.<br />
Don't let some of the people around you drag you down. They will try. Oh, and that one roommate? She's a bad idea. She'll spill red kool-aid all over the carpet and never clean it up. She'll disappear for weeks at a time, and she'll never fully pay her share of the rent or utilities. You'll spend a great deal of time cleaning up after her.<br />
I know, you really want to get married. Wait. Don't be so worried about it. Just have some fun, play, make friends. You're so focused on what the future holds for you that you aren't living right now. And you look desperate. Really, you do. Delete all of your online dating profiles. The guys you're meeting are sleazy. And, again, none of them are right for you. There is someone out there for you, and you will meet him soon. I promise.<br />
Anyway, you know how you've been tossing around the idea of travel nursing? You should look into it more seriously. Don't be in such a hurry to be an adult. Enjoy your life a little bit. You'll have plenty of responsibilities soon enough. Trust me, in just over a year you will buy a condo, meet the love of your life, and begin a whirlwind of adventure. <br />
But back to travel nursing: do it. Someday, when you're staring 30 in the face, pregnant with your second child, and have worked for the same company for 9 years you'll wish you'd taken more adventures. Plus, how great will it look on your resume?<br />
Also, a few more words of advice:<br />
~Don't eat so much garbage. Cooking at home is cheaper than eating out, and the 50 (yes 50) pounds you put on during college show. Don't fool yourself into thinking otherwise.<br />
~Call your sister. She only lives 40 minutes away, you should really spend more time with her.<br />
~When you graduate next year apply right away for the BSN program. You can still move back to Salt Lake and finish, it's all done online.<br />
~The sarcasm? It's not funny, it's mean. It's off-putting. Just be yourself, if people don't like you for who you are that's their loss. You are pretty awesome.<br />
That about sums it up for now. Just trust me on knowing that your life hasn't even started, and it's far from over. You have so much living left to do, so get out there and do it!!<br />
Love,<br />
28-Year-Old PippiAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15352067741066090363noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4957151057923834014.post-86049327883544755632013-05-03T08:44:00.001-07:002013-10-23T20:38:17.429-07:00To Sleep, or Not to Sleep? Definitely been not to sleep.Oh the joys of being a parent. I love my crazy little family, probably more than words can express. We have our battles (any parent of a 2-year-old does), but for the most part life is good. We giggle, we love Mickey Mouse, we play the tickle-bug game, we hold hands, we read stories, and we generally get along. <br />
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Make no mistake, however, life in the Gorgeous Borges house isn't all sunshine and roses. Let me tell you a little story about how our world has turned into a bit of a nightmare of late. This story is otherwise known as "The Time that Mommy was a Big Chicken and it Ended up Biting her in the Butt. Bigtime." Let me begin:<br />
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Once upon a time a young couple decided to have a baby. This baby decided that from the day he was born, he was going to love sucking on a binky. In fact, for much of the first year of his life, it was rare to see him without it. And let's be honest, shall we? Babies with binkies are cute (and quiet). Anyway, this sweet little round-cheeked lad had a mommy and a daddy that thought they knew it all. They just knew that after his first birthday that little binky was going away. And then that sweet little monkey-boy turned 1. There was a little party with much cake-smashing. It was adorable, trust me. But that sweet little monkey-boy's mommy was a big fat pushover, and his daddy was the ultimate softy. On the night of his first birthday, that little boy went to bed contentedly sucking away at his binky. So, the mommy and the daddy decided that for a little while he could keep it for awhile, but only when he was in his bed. <br />
After about six months the mommy and the daddy decided it was time to (finally) grow a pair and take the binky away. So, one night they put the monkey-boy down without it. And he screamed, and he cried, and he wept and wailed and gnashed his teeth. It was not a pretty sight. So the mommy gave in and gave it back. And life was good. Everyone was sleeping, everyone was quiet, everyone was happy. <br />
More time went on and the little boy turned 2. The mommy and the daddy decided it was time, once again, to try and take away the then-dubbed "bee-bee". It was a catastrophe. Mommy was a chicken and gave it back. And then finally, after much debate, it was decided that the bee-bee would go away forever in exchange for a Woody and Buzz doll. Everyone, including the monkey-boy, was agreeable to this plan... Until the dreadful day arrived. The bee-bee went away. The mommy cut it up so she wouldn't be tempted to give it back. She showed the cut-up bee-bee to the child and into the trash it went.<br />
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And here we are, kids, nearly a full month later. T-Bone is STILL crying himself to sleep pretty much every night. He's STILL waking up in the middle of the night and crying for Mommy and Daddy. He hasn't asked for the binky in 3 weeks, but he's still being a damned stubborn little man about the whole thing. So, if I seem a little off, it's from lack of sleep. And if I don't hear something you say it's because my ears are still ringing from all the screams. And if I seem a little reluctant to leave the monkey-boy with someone else while Greasemonkey and I go out of town, it's for the sake of the caregiver's sanity. <br />
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So, please, I beg of you... pray for the sleep of my child, because this mommy is slowly turning into a zombie.<br />
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Updated to add: After 1 month of this nightmare we finally figured out the trick. He just wanted to be tucked in under his dinosaur blankie. If only he'd shared that info with me a month ago...<br />
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Anyway, it's been an even longer while since I've shared a few of my favorite things. This is by no means a comprehensive list, because there are a lot of things I like, but it does scratch the surface a bit.<br />
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First up is coconut oil. Seriously, this is possibly the best thing I've ever found. Ever. I use it for cooking. I use it for making my own beauty products. I use it for my hair. I use it for cleaning. I even used it to condition the wood on my antique dining room table. This stuff is incredible.<br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Anyone who knows me knows that I don't particularly like scary movies/books/stories, and yet I couldn't put either of these down. These are modern day ghost stories set in the Great Lakes region. Not only were they ghost stories, but I loved the mystery aspect of it all. Very creepy, very Gothic, and totally addicting. Seriously, I stayed up late into the night multiple times in an attempt to finish them.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
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One of the things I love most about seeing the midwives is that I'm not tied to one practitioner. I just see whoever happens to be in office that particular day and time. This visit I saw DeeDee, a midwife who I hadn't met yet. We were having a rather frank conversation about my weight, gain to that point etc. Mainly, I hadn't gained any weight (not an ounce) since my last visit 4 weeks ago. In someone who weighs 110 pounds, that would have been a concern, but since I started out overweight it wasn't a huge deal for me (Just fyi, at 20 weeks my weight gain to this point has been just over 10 pounds). DeeDee started into her spiel about nutrition, proper eating to help Bean grow, etc, then stopped herself. "How much did your last baby weigh?" she asked.<br />
"Nine pounds nine ounces."<br />
"Oh, ok. So pretty much this baby is going to gain enough weight whether you want it to or not, eh? By the way, I see you had your last one vaginally. Has anyone given you props for that? Seriously, your first baby, he's over 9 pounds, you're pretty awesome."<br />
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Anyway, the rest of the appointment was pretty much business as usual. Then it was onto my ultrasound. They jellied up my belly and got to work. After taking measurements, checking out Beans general well-being, and making sure my placenta was in a good place, the tech asked if we wanted to know what we were having. I assured her that we definitely did, I don't do surprises. Well, go figure, the baby didn't want to cooperate. After some belly-shaking, and trying to get it to move to a better position she said, "And, there's his penis. It's a boy!" She finished up what she needed to do and sent the doctor in. He double-checked to make sure we knew what we were having before he slipped up and told us differently. I said, "We were told it's a boy."<br />
His response was, "You didn't see it? I'm pretty sure I was able to see that from the next room!"<br />
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So, there you have it: Baby Boy #2 will be joining the Borges family in late August/early September.<br />
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Cravings: Cadbury Mini-eggs, Tater tots, Cafe Rio pork</div>
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Milestones: Baby Bean is a mover and a shaker. I feel her/him rolling around in there all the time, especially if I've just eaten something sweet.</div>
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I'm looking forward to: feeling Bean kick from the outside, scheduling an ultrasound, being done with my early glucose test.</div>
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<i> I can't believe you are 2 already! It seems like just yesterday I was counting down the days until your arrival. </i><br />
<i> You are such a big boy and I am so proud of all the things you have accomplished in your short life thus far. You can count to ten, and love to count everything from floor tiles, to food on your plate, to toys. You skip the number 4 most of the time, but if I remind you, you'll go back and stick it in there. </i><br />
<i> You love Mickey Mouse so much. Not a day goes by that we don't watch a little bit of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse on tv. I don't mind, though, because it's teaching you good things. The other day I was talking to Daddy about one of your birthday presents, and I decided to spell it to him. I told him, "It's the M-I-C-K-E-Y one." You looked up from whatever had your attention and said to me, "Mickey Mouse!" </i><br />
<i> You are an independent little man and love to do things for yourself. In fact, the phrase I hear come from you more often than any other is, "Me-me." You like to help by turning light switches on and off. You also like to do your own zippers and velcro on jackets and shoes. </i><br />
<i> Your favorite food is meatballs with sauce, and you would eat it for every meal if we would let you. You also like hot dogs, chicken nuggets, grapes, apples, chips, cookies, and chocolate milk. You also like to try whatever we are eating, even if you don't always end up liking it. </i><br />
<i> You love to go to church and play with toys and your friends in nursery. You also like to see your Mema at church on Sundays. You love to play in the snow and build snowmen with your Uncle Mac.</i><br />
<i> You are all boy and love to drive trucks, stomp in puddles, and play with your tools. You are my little piano-man and love to play songs for me while I work in the kitchen. You love to help me when I sweep the floor, dust, or put away laundry. You sing me the clean-up song while you help. </i><br />
<i> You still love to read stories, and always ask me for one more after we finish for the night. Some of your favorites are: Pete the Cat, anything about trucks, your Sesame Street books, and Edwina the Emu. </i><br />
<i> The other day you came up to me and told me that you wanted to go to Mickey Mouse's house. You said that Mommy, Daddy, Nanny, Poppy, Maddie, Zach, and Mac would go with you. Someday we'll go to Mickey Mouse's house, just you wait.</i><br />
<i> There are very few things you don't like. One of the things you absolutely hate more than anything is getting your hair cut. In fact, we haven't cut your hair in several months because it's such a traumatic experience for you. You also don't like to have your hair washed in the bathtub. </i><br />
<i> Keep growing my sweet little man. I look forward to all of the milestones yet to come. Hugs and kisses.</i><br />
<i>Love,</i><br />
<i>Mommy</i><br />
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So, I'm going to read one book a month from the list until my 30th birthday. That will give me a solid 25 books from the list. My mom pointed out that I could read one for each letter of the alphabet, and I think that's just what I'll do (which will actually give me 26 books, but what the hey). <br />
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**As an aside, I would like to address a certain commenter on my last post: I realize that not everyone's reading tastes are the same. That doesn't make you, or me, bad. Yes, I know that the themes from Frankenstein have made their way into many parts of modern-day consciousness. Does this mean that we don't need to read a classic? My feeling is that the themes continue to present themselves because there is something to be found in the original work. It has made a profound enough effect on our current society that it might be worth the read. As for books by Hillary Clinton, why not read them? Just because I don't particularly agree with her politics doesn't mean that her books aren't worth a read. If I never explored viewpoints other than my own how would I grow in my knowledge? I'm not necessarily saying I'll read them as part of this list, but that's not to say I won't read them at some point.**<br />
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Anna Karenina (and then I'll go see the movie)<br />
The Bell Jar<br />
A Clockwork Orange<br />
Deenie<br />
Emma<br />
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas<br />
The Graduate<br />
High Fidelity<br />
I'm With the Band<br />
The Jumping Frog<br />
The Kitchen Boy<br />
Leaves of Grass<br />
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter<br />
Notes of a Dirty Old Man<br />
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest<br />
Pygmalion<br />
A Quiet Storm<br />
A Room of One's Own<br />
Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers<br />
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn<br />
Unless<br />
Vanity Fair<br />
Waiting for Godot<br />
X- There are no X books, so I will read Of Mice and Men<br />
The Year of Magical Thinking<br />
Z-Again, no Z books, so I will read The Virgin Suicides<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><strike>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain</strike></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><strike>Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Archidamian War by Donald Kagan</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Art of Fiction by Henry James</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Art of War by Sun Tzu</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Atonement by Ian McEwan</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Awakening by Kate Chopin</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Babe by Dick King-Smith</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Bel Canto by Ann Patchett</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Bell Jar by Sylvia Pla<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">th</span></span><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Beloved by Toni Morrison</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Bhagava Gita</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Brave New World by Aldous Huxley</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Brick Lane by Monica Ali</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Candide by V<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">oltaire</span></span><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Carrie by Stephen King</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Catch-22 by Joseph Heller</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strike>The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strike>Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Christine by Stephen King</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Collected Short Stories by Eudora Welty</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Complete Novels by Dawn Powell</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas père</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Cousin Bette by Honor’e de Balzac</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><strike>Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strike>The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber</strike> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><strike>The Crucible by Arthur Miller</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Cujo by Stephen King</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strike>The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Hadd</strike><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strike>on</strike> </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Daisy Miller by Henry James</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">David Copperfield by Charles Dickens</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strike>The Da Vinci -Code by Dan Brown</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strike>Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Deenie by Judy Blume</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Divine Comedy by Dante</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Don Quijote by Cervantes</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Eloise by Kay Thompson</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Emily the Strange by Roger Reger</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Emma by Jane Austen </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Empire Falls by Richard Russo</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><strike>Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><strike>Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Ethics by Spinoza</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Europe through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Eva Luna by Isabel Allende</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Extravagance by Gary Krist</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Fellowship of the Ring: Book 1 of The Lord of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien (TBR) </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strike>The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom</strike> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Fletch by Gregory McDonald</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Frankenstein by Mary Shelley</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Gender Trouble by Judith Butler</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Gidget by Fredrick Kohner</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><strike>Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Gospel According to Judy Bloom</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Graduate by Charles Webb</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><strike>The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strike>The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Great Expectations by Charles Dickens</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Group by Mary McCarthy</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><strike>Hamlet by William Shakespeare</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strike>Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling</strike><br /><strike>Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling</strike> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><strike>A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><strike>Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad </strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Henry V by William Shakespeare</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">High Fidelity by Nick Hornby</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><strike>Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III (Lpr)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><strike>How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">How the Light Gets in by M. J. Hyland</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Howl by Allen Gingsburg</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Iliad by Homer</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">I’m with the Band by Pamela des Barres</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><strike>In Cold Blood by Truman Capote</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">It Takes a Village by Hillary Clinton</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><strike>The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Jungle by Upton Sinclair</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strike>The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini</strike> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Lady Chatterleys’ Lover by D. H. Lawrence</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><strike>Life of Pi by Yann Martel</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strike>The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><strike>The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strike>Little Women by Louisa May Alcott</strike> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><strike>Lord of the Flies by William Golding</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><strike>The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strike>The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Love Story by Erich Segal</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Macbeth by William Shakespeare </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Manticore by Robertson Davies</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Marathon Man by William Goldman</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><strike>Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Mencken’s Chrestomathy by H. R. Mencken</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><strike>Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Miracle Worker by William Gibson</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><strike>Moby Dick by Herman Melville</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It’s Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">My Life as Author and Editor by H. R. Mencken</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strike>My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult</strike> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><strike>The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><strike>New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><strike>Night by Elie Wiesel</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Old School by Tobias Wolff</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">On the Road by Jack Kerouac</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch by Alexander Solzhenitsyn</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><strike>One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Oracle Night by Paul Auster</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strike>Othello by Shakespeare</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Out of Africa by Isac Dineson</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">A Passage to India by E.M. Forster</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><strike>The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Peyton Place by Grace Metalious</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hornby</span></span><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill by Ron Suskind</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Property by Valerie Martin</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Quattrocento by James Mckean</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><strike>The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Red Tent by Anita Diamant</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Return of the King: The Lord of the Rings Book 3 by J. R. R. Tolkien </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Rita Hayworth by Stephen King</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Roman Fever by Edith Wharton</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><strike>Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Room with a View by E. M. Forster</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Sanctuary by William Faulkner</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strike>The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne</strike> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><strike>Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strike>The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd</strike> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><strike>A Separate Peace by John Knowles</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Several Biographies of Winston Churchill</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Sexus by Henry Miller</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Shane by Jack Shaefer</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Shining by Stephen King</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Small Island by Andrea Levy </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strike>Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers</strike> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Songbook by Nick Hornby</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><strike>The Sonnets by William Shakespeare</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Sonnets from the Portuegese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Sophie’s Choice by William Styron</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><strike>The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><strike>The Story of My Life by Helen Keller</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">A Streetcar Named Desiree by Tennessee Williams</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><strike>Stuart Little by E. B. White</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Term of Endearment by Larry McMurtry</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Time and Again by Jack Finney</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strike>The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger</strike> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strike>To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee</strike> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Trial by Franz Kafka</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strike>Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom</strike> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><strike>Ulysses by James Joyce</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strike>Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe</strike> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Unless by Carol Shields</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Walden by Henry David Thoreau</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Walt Disney’s Bambi by Felix Salten</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">We Owe You Nothing – Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><strike>What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">What Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Who Moved My Cheese? Spencer Johnson</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strike>Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire</strike> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strike>The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cabin, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole</span><br />
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Anyway, I haven't really been where I need to be spiritually, lately. For whatever reason it's the simple things like scripture reading, prayer, etc, that seem to fall by the wayside when life picks up speed. <br />
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However, this week has reminded me of this scripture. I love the if/then pattern of it's set up:<br />
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If I do the following things:<br />
~Press forward with a steadfastness in Christ<br />
~Have a perfect brightness of hope<br />
~Have a love of God<br />
~Have a love of all men<br />
~Feast upon the word of Christ<br />
~Endure to the end<br />
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Then I will have eternal life. <br />
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Seems easy enough, right? You would think so... <br />
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Another scripture that I love is Psalms 46:10 (Also found in Doctrine and Covenants 101:16).</div>
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Life is a crazy 3-ring-circus juggling act. Often, I feel like I have so many balls to keep in the air that I don't know how I can carry on a moment more. It's times like these that I need to remember that it's ok to let them drop. It's ok to just take some time to be still. It is in the still and quiet moments that I can truly come to know my Heavenly Father. </div>
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I need to learn to seize the still moments when they present themselves, for they don't come often. <br />
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In the midst of the political, work, emotional, personal, and day-to-day turmoil it is nice to know that I have an anchor in my Heavenly Father. Even if the winds and the waves toss me about, he can calm the storm of my troubled heart. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15352067741066090363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4957151057923834014.post-87112893707944564202012-10-10T22:52:00.001-07:002013-10-23T20:42:48.183-07:00T-Bone UpdateThere are a few T-Bone things (stories, etc) that I need to write down before I lose them, so please be patient with me... and feel free to read, if you'd like. <br />
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1. He now recognizes, associates, and knows the sounds for A, B, C, D, E, F, J, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, and Z.<br />
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2. He can do all of the actions for Itsy Bitsy Spider, Wise Man/Foolish Man, Popcorn Popping, and Book of Mormon Stories.<br />
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3. He is proficient at going up AND down the stairs. He also prefers running to walking, but has a funny Frankenstein run that trips him up.<br />
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4. He loves the words pumpkin and Halloween.<br />
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5. Speaking of Halloween, my mom, sister, and I took him to a little spook alley this weekend. While there we met a little cat that belonged to the nursery putting on the spook alley. He LOVED that freakin' cat. He was more interested in following it around and petting it than in anything else. While there we also encountered a life-size, singing, dancing Elvis skeleton. It is pretty safe to say that he is obsessed. It's been almost a week and he still keeps signing to me about the dancing skeleton. He also keeps signing about the scary witches. <br />
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6. On the subject of signs, he now knows at least 35 signs (that I can think of off the top of my head). <br />
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7. After attending the spook alley on Saturday we took him out to dinner with us. While waiting for our table a man walked into the restaurant. He was probably in his 50's, about 6'2" or 6'3", and solidly built. He was wearing cowboy boots, wranglers, a HUGE belt buckle, a western-style shirt, and a cowboy hat. T-Bone took one look at him and immediately started making his horse noises. Luckily for us, the man was as amused as we were. That could have been embarrassing. <br />
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8. I bought him a giraffe costume to wear for Halloween. He hates it. Every time I get it out he starts to whine and says, "Nananananana, Fffff." (Translation: No, no, no, no, no, no, giraffe) Needless to say, we've moved to plan B. He's going to be a pumpkin for Halloween, because he loves them. <br />
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9. He LOVES Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and Little Einsteins. He calls Mickey Mouse "Mow", but he won't say it out loud, he whispers it. Little Einsteins is "ship", and he keeps telling me about the "Mmmmmbop" (translation: Robot) that we saw on the show last week. <br />
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10. He is in the midst of his first ever ear infection. Poor little bubby. <br />
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And that is enough for now. :)<br />
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