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This is not about running.

FYI, I'm making lots of changes to my book blog. I'm now an amazon associate, which means that I will make a tiny bit of money if you get to amazon through me and then buy something. So if you're addicted to amazon like me, stop at my book blog first. Thanks!

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Books

I just read a couple of books. I do that every once in a while. I wrote about them over here. You can see what they are by scrolling down and looking to the left at my new um, widget thing (on vox). I'm not sure what it's called. But it's cool. And took me all day of surfing to find. If you're interested in my shocking opinions on Breaking Dawn, click away.

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Books that changed my life

These are not reviews--if you want reviews you can visit my book blog (although one can argue that I haven't been reviewing very well over there as of late...) and they are all parenting related.

Secrets of the Baby Whisperer: How to Calm, Connect, and Communicate with Your Baby

Back when I was on maternity leave with SkyWalker a storytime mom e-mailed me and recommended this book. I read it and it totally changed how I did things with him. Very shortly after I started the EASY plan SkyWalker was sleeping though the night and having nice predictable days. Until he went to daycare. I started EASY with the Princess much sooner and she started sleeping though the night much sooner... No coincidence. It helped me so much that I went out and bought the "sequel"...

The Baby Whisperer Solves All Your Problems: Sleeping, Feeding, and Behavior--Beyond the Basics from

I can't tell you how often I look through this book when I have an issue and wind up saying "Duh... of course!". When the Princess was refusing to nap in her crib I checked this book and went through the suggestions and sure enough she started sleeping in her crib. The only area I have veered from it is in breastfeeding. I think it pushes solids a little bit too much. It does advocate waiting until the 6 month mark (I tried! I really tried!) but then after that breastfeeding takes a back seat. But the AAP recommends keeping breastfeeding the main source for the first year. And my boobs also advocate this. Other than that this book has been indispensable. So much so that I bought my sister and my sister-in-law copies of both of these books for Christmas.

Taking Charge of Your Fertility, 10th Anniversary Edition: The Definitive Guide to Natural Birth Con

You'd think that after getting pregnant the first time I wouldn't have any problems doing it again. Nope. I was starting to think I was one of those infertile the second time around women when readingjag (to whom I will always be indebted!) recommended this book. I checked it out from the library, read it, started tracking my temps and all the other stuff and within 3 months I was pregnant with the Princess! I recently bought it for myself so I'd always have it. I've begun tracking my temps again for the exact OPPOSITE reason as the first time, but I should have a nice pattern so that when we do start trying for #3 maybe it won't take as long.

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Sigh

There is a series of books that I love--Keys to the Kingdom by Garth Nix. I just posted a review of the 5th one on my books blog. In my review of the 4th one last year I mentioned that I thought the trustee characters were all afflicted with one of the seven deadly sins. And in this review I repeated that, but I wasn't entirely clear on which of the sins Lady Friday or Sir Thursday fit into. Anyway, my point: there is an entire wikipedia article about this. Not about my reviews, about the series and the 7 deadly sins. On the one hand I'm like, alright I'm reading the series correctly. On the other hand I'm thinking 'did I totally miss something in the first book? Is this common knowledge and it's just taken me that long to figure it out??' I am slightly embarassed. Particularly since I e-mailed the author today to confess my love, I mean to ask him which of the sins he would attribute to the aforementioned characters.

Sigh.

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