Potty Train Your Child in Just One Day
The World Atlas of Wine
(talk about two different spectrums )

Let me know how you like that Potty training book... We're just starting in on my son.

Lentini,

I will, and how old is your son, mine is 20 months but getting close I think and hope!!

I just finished The Golden Compass.
I'll be splitting time in the labor and delivery room between A Thousand Splendid Suns and The Fatherhood Almanac.

Mine was 2 yrs on Oct 30th, so he's a bit behind. He's gotten a bug from daycare about 4 times since his birthday, so we're kind of going easy on him. He's upstairs in bed (per his request) right now at dinner time. He's feeling pretty rotten. As soon as he's healthy, we're cracking the whip... Getting rid of those binkies, too.

I've got one week left of break so it's all fun reading for me:

-In the Heart of the Sea - Nathaniel Philbrick
-Hollow Earth - David Standish

Yeah day care is a breeding ground for "bugs" thats for sure. The binky will be our challenge as well, he still uses it at night. My wife is reading Tracy Hoggs, Secrets of the Baby Whisperer for Toddlers and states it is really good, also has some helpful hints on pottty training. She read the one for babies and it gave us some good advice on a few things. Hope your little guy feels better, its certainly a drag on everyone.

Fun reading for me too, I've been on a Hemingway kick for a little while, just finished "The Old Man and The Sea" and "The Sun Also Rises" again, now onto "Garden of Eden".

Ditch the Hemingway and look to Steinbeck for great American fiction.

Steinbeck will certainly have more American settings (and is certainly excellent as well)... but, like with my wines, I prefer the European and overseas inspiration of Hemingway.

Plus you can read about six Hemingway novels before you get through Grapes of Wrath. Not that long novels are a bad thing. Hemingway stories always end prematurely in my mind.


I think I just won the "least cerebral comparison of Steinbeck and Hemingway ever" award.

I'm a fan of both Hemingway and Steinbeck, but did not enjoy Old Man and the Sea at all.

I much prefer Steinbeck's style to Hemingway's. I did not like Old Man and the Sea and, at one point, was able to spontaneously spoof the short story Hills Like White Elephants. I'm just not a fan, I guess.

Not too sure whom I prefer. Before starting to read Hemingway again, I finished several Steinbeck novels as well, I am both a Hemingway and Steinbeck fan. Each novel has its own merits, I certainly do enjoy The Sun Also Rises for many reasons, not just the writing style and unlike others I really like The Old Man and The Sea, but to each their own.

Winemaker's Dance - Jonathan Swinchatt and David Howell

The Match

If you like golf, this is fantastic. If you don't like golf, it is simply a fun read.....

Currently reading Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg.

I don't think one could go wrong with Hemingway or Steinbeck, but if I had to choose one, I'd choose Hemingway. I doubt we'll see another like him.

Been reading the autobiography of Malcolm X. Decent.

Heydrich - Mario Dederichs

What is the What - Dave Eggers
The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng

Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs and Selected Letters

Three Roads to Quantum Gravity - Lee Smolin

About to tackle John Richardson Picasso, The Triumphant Years 1917 - 1932, a little 600 page read.

book #2("independence day") of the frank bascombe trilogy. the first one("the sportwriter") was good.

1984 - George Orwell

A true classic!

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The World Atlas of Wine

I just bought that a couple of weeks ago. What an awesome reference!