Milk and Cookies
with Kristen
I'm a mother of five, a bargain hunter, a recreational comparison shopper, and always trying to make more time - for me and for you, too. On this blog I'm sharing my favorite tools and finds to help make your work-life juggle a bit easier.
You can find my personal blog at Swistle.blogspot.com.
Some of these books are not yet published; some have been published but they’re on my wish list so I have to wait until my birthday; some are books I’m waiting for from the library; some are “Other; please explain.” But these are the books I’m looking forward to:
Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel (photo from Amazon.com). I loved her book Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
This is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike by Augusten Burroughs. I always find his books distressing, and there are parts I have to skip when I re-read (the mouse in the bathtub, the crazy maid)—but they’re so FUNNY and so SMART, and there are other parts I have to read several times and then read aloud to Paul (like the part with the Baby Jesus’s pet cow) and sometimes take to heart permanently.
Million Little Mistakes by Heather McElhatton (photo from Amazon.com). I read Pretty Little Mistakes until I had methodically read every single possible choose-your-own-adventure plotline. My parents gave me Million Little Mistakes for Christmas, and I find I’m frozen: I don’t to be done reading it, so I don’t want to start.
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (photo from Amazon.com). Princess Nebraska recommended it to me, and it looks like a book I’m really going to like. I’m waiting for someone else to return it to the library and then it’s MINE ALL MINE (for two weeks).
The Male Brain by Louann Brizendine (photo from Amazon.com). A commenter on my post Wan (in which I wrote about feeling overwhelmed by my adolescent son’s behavior) recommended this book as being very helpful for understanding such things. I’m not looking forward to it as I would a fiction book, but I’m looking forward to having already read it.
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Do you have anything you’re looking forward to reading?
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Alison Bechdel has a book coming out ten days before my birthday? I think I know what I’m getting.
StephLove | February 22nd, 2012 at 1:33 pm
I’m currently reading a book called “Heft” at the recommendation of an author I like (Jennifer Weiner) and it has been very good. Definitely enjoying it and will be a little sad when it is over.
I’m on the wait list for Jennifer Weiner;s new book at the library and also am awaiting Jodi Picoult’s new book, Lone Wolf, as well.
A really, really good read? The Unlikely Disciple. It’s a book about a student at Brown University who goes for a semester undercover at Liberty University. Very well written, fun to read.
Leeann | February 22nd, 2012 at 2:09 pm
Ooh. That last one, I think I need to read. The growing male brain in my household is alternately driving me crazy and filling me with fondness. Which is a little how I feel about the already-grown male brain in my household.
Melospiza | February 24th, 2012 at 4:40 pm
I like Ali Smith, and I’m looking forward to There But For The. Also the other fifty books in my To Read stack!
Frondly | February 27th, 2012 at 7:18 pm
I always take the “male brain” versus “female brain” analyses with a heavy dose of salt. We all know for example that men are “taller” than women, right? Yeah, but we don’t go around assigning bathrooms by height because we’d be wrong laughably often. Nor should we be assigning classrooms by gender. We all know that men are better at math/CS than women, right? (well, no but… ) There’s a pretty cool short slideshow that breaks that one down: http://www.slideshare.net/terriko/how-does-biology-explain-the-low-numbers-of-women-in-cs-hint-it-doesnt?player=js
Karen L | February 28th, 2012 at 4:28 am
Anne Lamott has a new book coming out about her son’s son. (She’s the one that wrote that brilliant book Operating Instructions about her son’s first year.) I love ALL of her writing, but I especially love her nonfiction stuff, so I CAN’T WAIT.
Marie Green | February 29th, 2012 at 3:15 pm
Insurgent-Veronica Roth: this is the follow-up to Divergent, which was an awesome book.
The Wind Through the Keyhole-Stephen King: A new novel about the characters from the Dark Tower series. Could be stupid and suck (like the sequel to The Talisman), or could be good. His last book, 11/22/63, was actually the best he’s written in a long time, so I have hope.
The next installments from Rick Riordan in the Kane Chronicles and Lost Heroes of Olympus series.
The Third Gate-Lincoln Child. I love all the Preston & Child books, and I love some of their separate offerings. Child’s solo books tend to be better than Preston’s.
GoingLoopy | March 2nd, 2012 at 2:03 am