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One reader's thoughts as she steps from book to book.
Books I've Finished
- "A Christmas Memory"
- by Truman Capote 12/8/12
- "Child's Christmas in Wales"
- by Dylan Thomas 12/7/12
- "One Christmas"
- by Truman Capote 11/29/12
- "The Thanksgiving Visitor"
- by Truman Capote 11/29/12
- Inside Mrs. B's Classroom
- by Leslie Baldacci 11/28/12
- The Bee Eater
- by Richard Whitmire 11/15/12
- There Are No Shortcuts
- by Rafe Esquith 10/28/12
- I'd Like to Apologize to
- Every Teacher I Ever Had
- by Tony Danza 10/21/12
- Corked
- by Kathryn Borel 10/15/12
- Year of Learning Dangerously
- by Quinn Cummings 9/30/12
- A Hologram for the King
- by Dave Eggers 8/23/12
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- by Harper Lee 7/18/12
About Me
- Christine
- I often have a few books with bookmarks in them at once. I enjoy classics more than contemporary works of fiction, often read historical fiction, and love to get glimpses into other people's lives by reading memoirs and biographies.
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I am currently reading, "Why Zebras Don't get Ulcers," by Robert Sapolsky. I really like it. It's about how stress affects your body and how to better cope with stress so that it doesn't do long term damage to you body. Anyway, it's has an important message, but it also is very funny and well written.
I am planning to run a half-marathon (13.1 miles @ 6.5 mph) by next spring. I used to run a lot in college (it was the 80s), but probably haven't run faster than 4 mph or farther than 5 miles in about 25 years, so this is as big goal for me.
To this end, I picked up a book called 4 Months to a 4-Hour Marathon (Kuehls) thinking that I could just scale back a bit. It starts the endurance training with a 7-mile long run. Yikes! That's half way to my goal! It's got a lot of other useful information about diet, gear, pitfalls and cross-training that are helpful, so it wasn't a complete loss. Using Kuehls' book, friends' advice and my own past experiences, I think I can easily reach my goal.
On Netflix, we watched our second movie, Moon. We didn't care for it. We have a Harrison Ford movie on its way for next week.
Thanks, cgb, for writing. Not long after you posted, Blogger went down with technical difficulties. I know at least one person tried to post, and it never showed up. Hopefully, we are back up and running now.
I'm still reading the Laura Ingalls Wilder book. . .more later.
Hey, there's Mary's post!
Today I am reading, "Cemeteries of Northeast Ohio." It is completely fascinating. Some graves are listed of people from the Gypsy clan and escaped slaves. The history is wonderfully interesting and it is helping me carve out a day trip to see some of these precious pieces of history.
Wow, Mary--that's an impressive goal! Best of luck! Let us know how it goes.
Sorry you didn't like Moon; I really liked it. I think it actually made me cry in at least one spot.
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