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Animals In Translation
by Temple Grandin
Amazing, even more so to read it for the second time. This book is full of scientifically researched and backed information and studies about pets and animals. The author highlights the importance of care and training of animals on a level of complete truth in sound research. Being autistic herself, this genius in her own right, can understand animals at a deep level animals. Of how animals think and behave and the author transcribes this level of understanding into words we understand. At least most of us understand because some of us see in pictures as Grandin does and animals seem to. Her commitment is to assist humans in understanding animals and to care for them with humanity, respect and correct attention.
The Horse Boy
by Rupert Isaacson
Favorite quote when his son told him he loved him on his own; "rare like a jewel." The extreme difficulties of a family's quest to the realization of the gift a child gives with autism. Explores the travels to Mongolia for the healing of shamans and 'wild' horses. Too drawn out for me, but I loved the sensitivity of the father, author as he shares his daily journey.
Stone Cold
by David Baldacci
Always entertaining in the thriller escapades of the Camel Club which comprises former agents as they conquer the war against the U.S. Very popular author that I have explored because of its fame on the book lists. Simple vocabulary and love story but well written enough for me to keep track of all the characters.
The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger I had a really hard time getting into it, I thought it was silly. I also did not like the idea that this man being older was meeting this young girl in a private meadow and waiting for her to turn 18 to have intimacies. It felt bad and I did not want to read anymore at this point. But it had been promised by the media to be a good story and subsequently had become a best seller, so I plunged on in hopes that I would soon become captivating. As well it certainly did. The back forth time traveler led to thoughts of some interesting concepts of life. What if we already did time traveling and is this what is means to be in sync with certain friends and lovers as well as perhaps because these friends and lovers were from another time of ours? Perhaps our memories were just out of sync or in. Niffenegger certainly is a fine writer; creative, provocative, easy to read and I loved her language of words. Especially the words that came out of the mouth of Henry, the main time traveler. I loved his memories, they were melodies of musical lyrics. Now I shall look forward to enjoying the movie soon.
What Was She Thinking, Notes of a Scandal
by Zoe HellerBla bla bla, it took me two thirds of the book to get into it. It was written in the protagonist's view of her own feelings and that of the younger woman friend's affair with a 15 year old student. The younger woman being about 40 years old and a school teacher with a daughter of 18 years old. I could have done fine with out reading this book, nothing special, but the protagonist's feelings were a little interesting. It did remind me of a movie I think I saw, perhaps it was of this story.
The Lost Symbol
by Dan BrownAs like his other book The Di Vinci Code, it was a captivating thriller with a great deal of educational and thought provoking information about spirituality and religion. An interesting explanation of Noetic science. How thoughts create reality. Wow, what a great reminder, so glad I like to fantasize.
Julie & Julia
by Julie PowellJulie was a fun writer. She has a dry sense of humor and an obsessive passion to her commitments. It is certainly not just a food novel of eating. It is her whole life for a year; her trials and tribulations with her goal to finish cooking and baking all those recipes. I do not know how she did it, but she was never bored. I enjoyed her contagious enthusiasm and appreciated the anxiety she had with her disappointments. It made me feel normal in my complex emotional roller coaster in relating with her, in these complex lives we live.
True Compass
by Edward M. KennedyI really enjoyed this book. It was an interesting history lesson of our country for the last 80 years from a first hand view account of a participate. From his father to this Kennedy, he was deeply involved it an important aspect of our government's history for over 50 of those years. I liked his love stories and his personal revealings, and I believed him. He did not skate over any of his own personal life. In Edward "Ted" Kennedy's personal and professional views of all the presidents in his life time, I felt the same. It was an affirmation for me of my own perspective. What he said about Reagan was the most enlightening and sad. Sad that we in our country keep voting in 'men' who are just pain jokes. Weird, I just misspelled plain by typing palin. I think Kennedy took over my keyboard. There is no wonder why our country has suffered so and it is not to just blame the banks or stock market C.E.O. - it is all of us.
Food, Inc.OMG I am so mad at the way we Americans eat. Although it is not just Americans anymore that eat so poorly. I am so mad at the people who just blindly eat poor quality food and support corporations that do not care about animals or their people.
This well organized explicit educational documentary movie was amazing and rings completely true to fact. Try to contact a major corporation to find their customer service and one will find that they don't listen. So is this a mystery as to how they care. Corporations are not bad entirely, we need to vote with our eating habits and help save this planet and it's people. We need to eat more consciously.
The definition of toleranceˈtäl(ə)rəns|
a noun
• the capacity to endure continued subjection to something, esp. a drug, transplant, antigen, or environmental conditions, without adverse reaction : the desert camel shows the greatest tolerance to dehydration | species were grouped according to pollution tolerance | various species of diatoms display different tolerances to acid.
So lately I have been irritated by other people who were not being tolerate to each other. I think every one should be more amicable and nicer to each other and more so during these days of trauma to our country. But in a period of much sadness yesterday, a wise friend told me that maybe people are just too tired of being tolerant, maybe they are just full up.
That was a very interesting point; I realized that I was not being tolerant to other people who were not being tolerant to me.
- Amazing theory, amazing grace.
