Category Archives: Books

Books

Items on My Night Stand

  1.  lamp
  2. bottle of water
  3. Carmex
  4. 2 Prescriptions
  5. allergy medicine
  6. 5 different bracelets
  7. a ceramic box holding mismatched earrings
  8. 3 empty bowls
  9. 1 empty plate
  10. half a dozen napkins
  11. my college degree
  12. a bag of cough drops
  13. 3 AA batteries
  14. a thermometer
  15. paperwork for the website I write for
  16. a phone list from work
  17. anklet that says “Maui”
  18. prescription eye drops I haven’t used in 6 months
  19. 2 Tootsie roll wrappers
  20. blue plastic maracas from the Silvis Moonlight Parade last August
  21. coupons Caleb made for me when he was a kid
  22. 2 hair ties
  23. another box of allergy meds (different kind)
  24. cell phone bill
Books, Favorites, Holidays, Quotes

In Recognition of the Ides of March, Some of My Favorite Shakespeare Quotes

  1. “Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look.  He thinks too much.  Such men are dangerous.”
  2. “This above all: to thine own self be true.”
  3. “I am not bound to please thee with my answer.”
  4. “With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”
  5. “Cowards die many times before their deaths.”
  6. “Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.”
  7. “Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.”
Books

Books I’d Like to Read (Because I Bought Them and They Are Sitting On My Shelf)

  1. Revision & Self-Editing ~ Bell
  2. Her Fearful Symmetry ~ Audrey Neffenegger
  3. Emotionally Weird ~ Kate Atkinson
  4. Musicophilia ~ Oliver Sacks
  5. Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You ~ Gosling                 (Started more than a year ago)
  6. The Professor, The Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the richest poker game of all time ~ Michael Craig
  7. The Woman Who Can’t Forget ~ Jill Price
  8. The Science of Sexy ~ Bradley Bayou
  9. Your Call is (not that) Important to Us ~ Emily Yelin
  10. Microtrends ~ Mark J Penn
  11. Covert Persuasion: Psychological tactics and tricks to win the game ~ Speakman
  12. Fire and Ice ~ Dana Stabenow
  13. Stolen Innocence ~ Elissa Wall
  14. Brave New World ~ Alduous Huxley
  15. The Wonder Spot ~ Melissa Bank
  16. All is Vanity ~ Christina Schwarz
  17. Sleeping with Strangers  ~ Eric Jerome Dickey
  18. Switch ~ Megan Hart
  19. Selfish is the Heart ~ Megan Hart
  20. Smart Girls do Dumbbells  ~ Judith Sherman-Wolin