books & baby names
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fleaRe-reads:
Connie Willis, To Say Nothing of the Dog
Jennifer Crusie, Anyone But You
New to me:
Patricia Gaffney, Mad Dash, 2007. (ARC from work). Gaffney is a romance writer who is switching into women's fiction. This was well done but ultimately kind of a downer (it is about a couple who have separated, and while they ultimately reconcile, most of the book is during their separation) and I wonder how it will play with her old fans, the HEA romance crowd.
Marion Nestle, What To Eat, 2005. This is an aisle by aisle take on the supermarket, examining nutrition in the food available. It is written at a very accessible level, and would be a good education for people who don't know much about nutrition. I suppose there are a lot of people out there who fit the target audience, but I wasn't much surprised by any of the main lessons of the book: food companies are out to make money, not to provide healthy food; the best diet includes foods in as close to their natural state as possible and few heavily processed foods; sugar (in multiple forms) is added to a ridiculous number of processed foods. That sort of thing, which I follow fairly well myself. However, for some reason, every time I worked on the book I seemed to be eating candy. Perhaps it was a subconscious rebellion.
Names of children in Dillo's new class at school: Asher, Isaac, Sebastian, Sophie, 2 Lilys one of whom is about to move up. All aged about 15 months - 2 years. There are 10 kids in the class; I haven't got them all sorted yet.
Connie Willis, To Say Nothing of the Dog
Jennifer Crusie, Anyone But You
New to me:
Patricia Gaffney, Mad Dash, 2007. (ARC from work). Gaffney is a romance writer who is switching into women's fiction. This was well done but ultimately kind of a downer (it is about a couple who have separated, and while they ultimately reconcile, most of the book is during their separation) and I wonder how it will play with her old fans, the HEA romance crowd.
Marion Nestle, What To Eat, 2005. This is an aisle by aisle take on the supermarket, examining nutrition in the food available. It is written at a very accessible level, and would be a good education for people who don't know much about nutrition. I suppose there are a lot of people out there who fit the target audience, but I wasn't much surprised by any of the main lessons of the book: food companies are out to make money, not to provide healthy food; the best diet includes foods in as close to their natural state as possible and few heavily processed foods; sugar (in multiple forms) is added to a ridiculous number of processed foods. That sort of thing, which I follow fairly well myself. However, for some reason, every time I worked on the book I seemed to be eating candy. Perhaps it was a subconscious rebellion.
Names of children in Dillo's new class at school: Asher, Isaac, Sebastian, Sophie, 2 Lilys one of whom is about to move up. All aged about 15 months - 2 years. There are 10 kids in the class; I haven't got them all sorted yet.