Step Talk

It's my sweet escape into someone else's drama.

"For every ailment under the sun....There is a remedy, or there is none;
If there be one, try to find it; If there be none, never mind it." ~ W.W. Bartley

I just finished the first book of the Twilight Series. My niece intriged me with her enthusiasm.

Just finished an older book by Jodi Piccoult called "Harvesting the Heart" that was very good. Also just finished a Jennifer Weiner one..."Goodnight Nobody"...light and funny.

Parenting With Love and Logic is something I should keep by my beside I refer to it so much!

Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care about Has Borderline Personality Disorder

And it is GOOOOOOOOOD. I highly recommend it for anyone dealing with a BP or BPD BM. It really helps for you to understand why they are doing what they are doing. Plus, if anyone starts to see the same behavior in your SK's, then you are prepared and can react in ways that promote positive behavior from them.

"Om Tare Tutare Ture Mama Ayurpunye Jnana Putin Kuru Svaha"
~Sita Tara Mantra

i can sooo relate...seems shallow, i know but the stories are an easy read and very funny! nice break from the everyday world...Sophie Kinsella is hilarious!

rite now im reading "Windows on the World: A Complete Wine Course"

i really want to read that book A Single Girl's Guide to Marrying a Man w Kids...

guess i should be reading books to help me cope w all this blended family stuff but hey, thats what StepTalk is for!

"Given the right reasons and the right two people, marriage is a wonderful way of experiencing your life."
~the late great George Carlin

how to make ur ex and his new wife miserable in 10 easy steps AND ruin your children in the process...????

"Given the right reasons and the right two people, marriage is a wonderful way of experiencing your life."
~the late great George Carlin

Bellacita,

The Single Girl's Guide is by far the most helpful and entertaining step-parenting book I read (and I have read TONS of them). I strongly encourage you to read it before you get married in a month! It's a quick read. Plus, there are lots of laughs in it to help take out a drop of the anxiety you will feel as you read some of it.

I just finished reading Anne Boleyn's biography, The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn, because I wanted to see how accurate were The Other Boleyn Girl and The Boleyn Inheritance, both of which I read before that. (They were both great and very accurate factually... the fictional part was mostly just characterisations and supposed conversations, etc.) I'm currently reading Mademoiselle Boleyn, which includes Anne Boleyn's early life, before she entered Henry VIII's court. After that, I have in queue I, Elizabeth, which is about Queen Elizabeth, daughter of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII.

Before I got started reading about this time period, I read Mary by Janis Cooke Newman which was FABULOUS! It was about a supposed secret diary left by Mary Todd Lincoln, widow of President Lincoln. I highly recommend that one, as well, if you like historical fiction.
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ANNE 8102 ♥ GEORGIA

Sue Grafton, N is for Noose.

Gone With The Wind. I have been reading this to DH every night since we gave up our cable, as he cannot focus his bifocals enough to read very well lately. I grew up on this and love it, but it is a little foreign to him as he is not from here but I think he likes it so far. We both like the 'time capsule' of how they did things but I think he is waiting for the war stuff too. I skip over some of the words, but I still love the story.

"A lie told often enough becomes the truth." - Vladimir Lenin

I like kids' books, kind of a hobby; I just finished Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. These books are destined to be classics, they are SO GOOD!!!! I have met so many pre-teen boys who "don't like to read" but who can't put these books down!

I also just finished Princess Academy by Shannon Hale and love love loved it --don't be fooled by the name, it's not a fluffy pink girlie tale by any means. I have just discovered Hale and can't wait to read another title that gets high praise, called The Goose Girl.

On the grown-up side, I recently started Hale's Austenland, a silly contemporary twist on Pride & Prejudice (I'm a geek for Austen knock-offs). I'm also reading The Age of Innocence and Oliver Twist, books which I've always meant to read. I like Age of Innocence but feel like clocking the protagonist over the head (he is supposed to marry one woman but is developing an obsession for another -- men!). Dickens makes me laugh, although I'm slow to pick up OT when I put it down for a while. I think I liked the last Dickens I read better than OT. But I like the wry humor.

A friend recommended Finn so I may try that next. I'm supposed to be reading Atonement so I can talk to a friend about it, but haven't been able to get into yet. This friend made me read the nonfiction Three Cups of Tea a few months ago (a true and continuing story about a former mountain climber's bid to build schools for girls in Pakistan and Afghanistan), and many light bulbs went off. Read it, read it! I gave it to my MIL and she read it in four days and wrote me the loveliest note about how it changed her life. Read it!

Gone With The Wind is one of my all-time favorites, Most Evil! I too like reading with my hub and kids -- we just read A Wrinkle In Time together and now we are reading The Princess and the Goblin. Last year we all read Where The Red Fern Grows and I sobbed my heart out in the last chapter, could barely finish it. My skids cried too and still talk about our family cry-fest at the end