{"id":106,"date":"2006-11-27T19:08:49","date_gmt":"2006-11-28T00:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/?p=106"},"modified":"2006-11-27T19:13:36","modified_gmt":"2006-11-28T00:13:36","slug":"there-are-leaves-in-the-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/27\/there-are-leaves-in-the-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"there are leaves in the trees"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re in the home stretch now with this crazy NaBloPoMo<\/a> thing, woo hoo! Looks like I might even make it to the bitter end, despite the poorly-timed fact that I have two (2!) class projects due at the end of the week. Sleep is for the weak!<\/p>\n

Taking yet another page from the Book of Anne<\/a>, here’s what we’re reading right now:<\/p>\n

Absolutely, Positively Alexander<\/a>, by Judith Viorst (Gus)
\nWe’d been talking about the no good horrible very bad day book (Gus had read it at school), then they had this threefer when I went to check it out of the library. Quality stuff for the parents too, like carpooling in an old VW bug with a kid in the front seat! And a very good reason NOT to have gum at bedtime.<\/p>\n

Adverbs<\/a>, by Daniel Handler (Me)
\nYou know him better as Lemony Snicket, but he has a real name and writes for grown-ups too. This is his new novel, though the library stuck a “short stories” sticker on the spine. Each chapter name is an adverb. It’s funny, light, sweet, and a little chewy, just like the delicious coconut meringue cookies my mom makes at Xmas. Mmmmm, I’m hungry.<\/p>\n

Her Smoke Rose Up Forever<\/a>, by James Tiptree Jr. (Me)
\nI’ve only read the first of these short stories, but man, it was good. James Tiptree is the pen name of Alice Sheldon, and these are some really great scifi stories.<\/p>\n

Hold on to Your Kids<\/a>, Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Mate (Me)
\nI keep hearing good things about this parenting book so I finally requested it from the library. Though I guess I didn’t read the subtitle too closely (“Why Parents Matter More than Peers”) because it’s more about today’s tween problems than the tantrum my 5-in-less-than-a-week yr old threw last week on the B71. I may just return this to the library unread. <\/p>\n

A Little History of the World<\/a>, by E. H. Gombrich (Me)
\nI started this at the beach over the summer and shamefully have left it lying on the shelf since school started. But since it’s a story that I already kind of know, it’s not like I’m losing the thread of it. It’s so nicely written, everyone should read it!<\/p>\n

True Names by Vernor Vinge, and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier<\/a>, edited by James Frenkel (Jonathan)
\nI don’t know anything about this book, but Jonathan seems to like it. The Publishers Weekly blurb on Amazon says: “This remarkable anthology reprints Hugo winner Vinge’s (The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge) “True Names” (1981), the story that began SF’s cyberpunk revolution, with 11 essays showing its effect on science as well as fiction.”<\/p>\n

Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories<\/a>, by Dr. Seuss (Gus)
\nEveryone loves these three classic stories of bluster, bragging, and vanity. Gus has been particularly into people getting their comeuppance lately, so he is all over these.<\/p>\n

Also Jonathan says he’s reading “A Ruby book and another programming book,” but he didn’t tell me their names. Maybe it’s for a secret project! A secret project to raise my traffic numbers. He installed Google Analytics on our websites recently which revealed that his hearts server<\/a> is completely kicking my ass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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