{"id":23,"date":"2009-08-25T16:56:48","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T20:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=23"},"modified":"2009-08-25T16:56:48","modified_gmt":"2009-08-25T20:56:48","slug":"whats-on-your-nightstand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2009\/20090825-23.htm","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s on Your Nightstand?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.5minutesforbooks.com\/1741\/whats-on-your-nightstand-august\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"images\/nightstand.jpg\" alt=\"What's on your nightstand? Logo\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.5minutesforbooks.com\" target=\"_blank\">5 Minutes for Books<\/a> hosts a monthly &#8220;What&#8217;s on your nightstand?&#8221; carnival on the fourth Tuesday of each month.  The idea is that you let everybody know what you&#8217;ve been reading or are planning on reading this month.<\/p>\n<p>It suits me to a T since the books I&#8217;m reading are literally on my nightstand.  Here&#8217;s today&#8217;s photo.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"images\/20090825-1.jpg\" alt=\"Books on my nightstand (August)\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Fiction<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Fellowship of the Ring<\/em> by J.R.R. Tolkien (I&#8217;ve been re-reading this one.  Check out my notes on Chapter <a href=\"books\/tolkien_j-fellowship1.htm\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"books\/tolkien_j-fellowship2.htm\">2<\/a>, <a href=\"books\/tolkien_j-fellowship3.htm\">3a<\/a>, and <a href=\"books\/tolkien_j-fellowship4.htm\">3b<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li><em>Dangerous Sanctuary<\/em> by Lois Richer (A recommendation from my little sister that I haven&#8217;t started yet.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Nonfiction<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><em>How Do Astronauts Scratch an Itch<\/em> by David Feldman. (Halfway through&#8211;just finished reading about why ceiling fans get dusty.)<\/li>\n<li><em>Your Two-Year-Old<\/em> by Loise Ames.  (Still trying to finish up that 649.122 Section at the library.)<\/li>\n<li><em>Secret&#8217;s of the Baby Whisperer for Toddlers<\/em> by Tracy Hogg. (Ditto above.  Only about a dozen books to go in the section&#8211;can&#8217;t let them multiply too fast on me.)<\/li>\n<li><em>Bicycling Magazine&#8217;s Complete book of Road Cycling Skills<\/em> (Now that I&#8217;m commuting by bike and training for my big ride next year, I&#8217;d like to develop some skills.)<\/li>\n<li><em>How to Expand and Upgrade PCs.<\/em> (Got my new hard drive installed, now I just need to clone my current hard drive over and get everything arranged right.)<\/li>\n<li><em>Do it Yourself PC Upgrade Projects.<\/em> (Do you mean to tell me that you do not routinely check out at least two books on any given subject before attempting to accomplish a task?)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Perfect Apron<\/em> by Rob Merrett.  (Felt the need for some cute new aprons for while I&#8217;m teaching my cooking-I mean-Scientific Principles of Food Preparation-lab.  And these aprons are HARD-CORE cute.  I made the bias cut one and wore it to lab today.)<\/li>\n<li><em>Get out of that pit<\/em> by Beth Moore. (My church&#8217;s ladies retreat this fall is based on this book.  A friend and I decided to read it and discuss it together prior to the retreat.  So far, so good.)<\/li>\n<li><em>Opposing Viewpoints: Medicine<\/em>.  (With the current Health Care debate raging, it helps to be informed!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Childrens\/Young Adult<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Leonardo, the Terrible Monster<\/em> by Mo Willems.  (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.readingtoknow.com\" target=\"_blank\">Carrie at Reading to Know<\/a> recommended Mo Willems&#8211;and I&#8217;ve fallen in love with his cute illustrations and story lines&#8211;in that order.  I haven&#8217;t read this one yet though.)<\/li>\n<li><em>Breathing Underwater<\/em> by Alex Flynn.  (I read Alex Flynn&#8217;s <em>Beastly<\/em> and loved the modern-day retelling of Beauty and the Beast from the Beast&#8217;s perspective.  This one looks to be pretty different, but I&#8217;m eager to read it regardless.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>School<\/h2>\n<p>It&#8217;s too depressing to enumerate these.  Suffice to say that I&#8217;ve got a biochemistry text and a couple of library biochem primers, a book of lab tests (to study for the RD Exam), a text for my program planning class, and a half dozen texts for my counseling class.<\/p>\n<h2>Just finished<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Farmer Boy Days<\/em> (A very abridged version of Laura Ingalls Wilder&#8217;s <em>Farmer Boy<\/em> for new readers.  Unless your child is seriously intimidated by the bulk of the Little House books, I&#8217;d encourage them to read the &#8220;real thing&#8221;.  I was reading the Little House books by 2nd grade&#8211;and I don&#8217;t see why others shouldn&#8217;t be able to as well.)<\/li>\n<li><em>Nurse Matilda: Collected Tales<\/em> by Christiana Brand.  (I loved <em>Nanny McPhee<\/em>, so when I saw this book at the library, I snatched it right up.  I enjoyed the first novel, but found the second two to be a bit too repetitive.)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Contented Soul<\/em> by Lisa Graham McMinn. (This wasn&#8217;t a bad book, but it wasn&#8217;t great either.  It had nice thoughts of contentment, but seemed a lot more &#8220;worldly wisdom&#8221; than &#8220;wisdom from above&#8221;.  I can get enough worldly wisdom from worldly books.  I don&#8217;t want to have to read it in &#8220;Christian&#8221; books too.)<\/li>\n<li><em>Rose Daughter<\/em> by Robin McKinley. (I LOVED <em>Beauty<\/em>, McKinley&#8217;s first retelling of Beauty and the Beast.  In <em>Rose Daughter<\/em>, McKinley tells the story again&#8211;with a completely different twist.  I love both.  These are books you definitely don&#8217;t want to miss.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 Minutes for Books hosts a monthly &#8220;What&#8217;s on your nightstand?&#8221; carnival on the fourth Tuesday of each month. The idea is that you let everybody know what you&#8217;ve been reading or are planning on reading this month. It suits me to a T since the books I&#8217;m reading are literally on my nightstand. 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