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Wednesday
Nov292006

Linkety Dinkety Doo: On (or around) my nightstand right now

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Slowly, slowly the post-partum spell is fading* and I am beginning to have enough focus to write more than a blog post, enough attention span to read more than a magazine article. Here are the books that are helping me (or will help me) make my way back to thinking beyond toilet training readiness quizzes:

The Glass Castle: A Memoir (Jeannette Walls) - For a book club I swear I'm going to go to prepared. Honest. I do have until January, people.

The Motherhood Manifesto: What American Moms Want and What To Do About It (Joan Blades & Krstin Rowe-Finkbeiner) - Not sure if this is going to rile me up and get me going or just totally piss me off at the current administration and misogynists. Stay tuned for a rant or rec.

On Becoming Fearless...in Love, Work and Life (Arianna Huffington) - A quick read, which is key (in my opinion) for any non-fiction book, post-partum or otherwise.

Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Julia Cameron) - This book has been in my library for eight months, shelved under "More attempts at Zen-like living and anxiety reduction."

...and the inevitable stack of parenting books and mags:

Between Parent and Child (Dr. Haim G. Ginott) - I keep coming back to this classic advice, even if I have to skim over the contrived scenes and hypothetical conversations with moms and kids named Tracy.

1-2-3 Magic (Thomas W. Phelan) - Some very good strategies laced with more cheesey examples of parent-child screaming fits.

Parents - This is required reading, right? Right?

Parenting - Is it me or is this mag actually becoming tolerable?

Wonder Time - This is a
sweet magazine with good interviews and lovely photos, and is less "ad
afer ad after special advertising article" than other (ah-American
Baby-em) magazines.

Cookie - The Hustler of the parenting genre: I sort of completely ignore the photo spreads of ungodly expensive Italian leather kiddie boots and skip right to the rich articles and sex advice column.

Share the love, my friends. I need your reading recs! 

* Who knew it lasts two years???

Photo credit:  Time for bed by Sanja Gjenero / www.sxc.hu

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Reader Comments (4)

Funny on the book club thing. Mine is tomorrow night and I bought the book YESTERDAY. But, it's great, so far. Eat, Pray, Love. I think you'd like it very much.I read a Thousand White Women on my way to BlogHer - that was wonderful, historical fiction. I'll try to think of some more and will email you. (or comment again)
November 29, 2006 | Unregistered Commenterfoodmomiac
I currently have an awesome magazine swamp with-in my extended family, I trade People, Shape, Parents, and Mens Journal for a whole slew of trashy, witty and unique magazines. Including, Star, US, Entertainment, Rolling Stone, Homesteader, AKC Journal, Real Simple and Horse Illustrated. Once we have all read and re-read to our hearts content I delivery them to the local nursing home.

I had vowed that I would limit the magazines and fiction until I finished my current class. I'm reading Building School and Community Partnerships through Parent Involvement....interested but it can only go so far.

I broke above stated rule and read my first Nora Roberts, actualy my first three. The new Key trilogy...fun, fast and brainless!!

My Christmas list is a little heavier, but I'm anxious to dig into them:Reviving Ophelia, Our Bodies, ourselves: new edition, Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mulilation

I just have to finish my darn class and then my evenings will be back to unchartered reading!!!
November 29, 2006 | Unregistered Commenter2Jmama
Ooh! Lots of good suggestions! And P.S., I love historical fiction.
November 29, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterGrrrlfriend Jess
Hmm...I think you might like Brain Child. Good, provocative writing about being a parent.

Cheers! (Found you through the Randomizer, BTW).
December 1, 2006 | Unregistered Commentermaggie

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