{"id":8574,"date":"2012-01-24T09:32:21","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T15:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=8574"},"modified":"2012-01-24T09:32:21","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T15:32:21","slug":"nightstand-january-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2012\/20120124-8574.htm","title":{"rendered":"Nightstand (January 2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sigh. Here I go again, almost missing a Nightstand. But I suppose this time it&#8217;s justified since state left my facility last night and I got 3 hours of sleep on an office floor the night before. Apparently I needed sleep more than making sure my Nightstand post was ready to go. <\/p>\n<p><b>What I read as of the 15th<\/b> (when I last updated this post):<\/p>\n<h3>Adult Fiction<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Dana&#8217;s Valley<\/em> by Janette Oke and Laurel Oke Logan<\/strong><br \/>\nIt took me a bit to get into this book about a young girl whose sister is battling an unknown disease (well, unknown at the beginning.) Once I got into it, I was hooked and I cried and cried. This book marks the close of my reading of Janette Oke at Eiseley library (except, of course, for books co-written with others and cataloged under their names.)<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Lady in Waiting<\/em> by Susan Meissner<\/strong><br \/>\nI put this on my TBR list after reading <a href=\"http:\/\/barbarah.wordpress.com\/2011\/05\/24\/book-review-lady-in-waiting\/\" target=\"_blank\">Barbara&#8217;s review<\/a>&#8211;but had forgotten what it was about by the time I got it out of the library. I wasn&#8217;t disappointed though&#8211;this was a lovely tale of two women, Lady Jane Grey and a modern day Jane, dealing with very different life circumstances, but coming to similar conclusions. A great pick for lovers of historical and\/or Christian fiction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Adult Non-fiction<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>The Dangerous Book for Dogs<\/em> by Rex and Sparky<\/strong><br \/>\nA hilarious parody of <i>The Dangerous Book for Boys<\/i> (which is, by the way, a great book), <i>The Dangerous Book for Dogs<\/i> includes everything a young dog needs to know to be a REAL dog&#8211;including how to break up a dinner party, the meaning of the most common chase dreams, and a record of the experiments Alexei and Sergei (two Russian scientific dogs) performed on Ivan Pavlov. (<a href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2012\/20120108-8578.htm\">More extensive review here<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Freakonomics<\/em> by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner<\/strong><br \/>\nA fascinating look at everyday life through the lens of economics. Except that economics seems a weird way to describe it. (Sort of like using the term &#8220;home economics&#8221; to refer to cooking class or sewing.) Actually, this is more about analyzing (sometimes disparate) data in unique ways. The authors ask sometimes bizzare, sometimes straightforward questions like &#8220;What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common?&#8221; (exploring incentives and cheating), &#8220;Where have all the criminal gone?&#8221; (actually, they&#8217;re dead), and &#8220;Would a Roshanda by any other name smell as sweet?&#8221; (how names make their way through society&#8211;and reflect ones&#8217; social stratum).<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>It Looked Different on the Model<\/em> by Laurie Notaro<\/strong><br \/>\nVery funny. Clothes you try on but can&#8217;t get off, awkward neighborhood parties, feeling like a child when you go back to your parents&#8217; house. Everywoman&#8217;s story, except to the nth degree. (<a href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2012\/20120108-8578.htm\">More extensive review here<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!<\/em> by Scott Adams<\/strong><br \/>\nYeah, I pretty much wish the author had taken the helpful advice he ignored (the title of the book.) I just didn&#8217;t think it was that funny. (<a href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2012\/20120108-8578.htm\">More extensive review here<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Juvenile Fiction<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Behind the Curtain<\/em> by Peter Abrahams<\/strong><br \/>\nSecond of the Echo Falls Mysteries (I&#8217;d already read one and two.) Generally good, not too suspenseful, but enough. A good transition, I think, from the Nancy Drew-type mysteries to adult mysteries or psychological thrillers.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Carnival Prize<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Paper Covers Rock<\/em> by Jenny Hubbard<\/strong><br \/>\nA Cybils nominee (in YA fiction) that didn&#8217;t make it to finalist. Boy at boarding school borrows from <i>Moby Dick<\/i> while journaling his story. He watched his best friend die. He ran. He might have been responsible. He certainly <i>feels<\/i> responsible. But then another friend makes a plan and the (female) teacher he has a crush on pays him special attention (because she knows he&#8217;s not telling something about how his friend died? because she likes him back? he doesn&#8217;t know.) It&#8217;s a pretty good story, but has a lot of YA-y material (homosexuality, masturbation, and sexual fantasies are all addressed\/included at length.)<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>The Secret of Pirates&#8217; Hill<\/em> by Franklin W. Dixon<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Young Cam Jansen and the Dinosaur Game<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Young Cam Jansen and the Double Beach Mystery<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>9 Children&#8217;s picture books<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Juvenile Non-Fiction<\/h3>\n<ul><strong><em>Brave Deeds: How One Family Saved Many from the Nazis<\/em> by Ann Alma<\/strong><br \/>\nA wonderful story of a family in the Dutch Resistance preserved many from the Nazis. Though the story is told by a fictional nameless young narrator, all events (and names) except those directly pertaining to her &#8220;back story&#8221; are historically accurate. This is a fantastic story told well.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Rescuers defying the Nazis<\/em> by Toby Axelrod<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>1 book about math<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget to drop by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.5minutesforbooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">5 Minutes 4 Books<\/a> to see what others are reading this month!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.5minutesforbooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"What's on Your Nightstand?\" src=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/images\/buttons\/nightstand.jpg\" title=\"What's on Your Nightstand?\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sigh. Here I go again, almost missing a Nightstand. But I suppose this time it&#8217;s justified since state left my facility last night and I got 3 hours of sleep on an office floor the night before. Apparently I needed sleep more than making sure my Nightstand post was ready to go. What I read &#8230; <a title=\"Nightstand (January 2012)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2012\/20120124-8574.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nightstand (January 2012)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8574"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}