Let's Babble Our Way to Post #4,000,000 And Win Prizes Too!

Well, I'm off to bed everyone. I hope you all have a wonderful night and lots of sweet dreams. I look forward to catching up with the babbling in the morning. Good night.

LTS3 said:

 
Came across these low carb (7g) vegan / paleo / gluten free cookies: http://www.thekitchn.com/recipe-the...ppen-to-be-paleo-vegan-and-gluten-free-230608 It has just 4 ingredients, including almond flour.

So exhausted

I was at work from just after 6am until 4pm. I'm starting my transition to a new position in a different department this week.  I spent an hour moving my desk stuff to my new desk. Supposedly that was to have been arranged for me but packing boxes never showed up

It took two trips to cart my stuff up. Then I had to cram everything into my one little cabinet. Old desk had a little cabinet plus a roomy overhead cabinet. Then it was a rush to get the morning stuff done so we could go to a training. The afternoon wasn't too bad.  I still have to clean out my locker but since I'm still working in my old position a few days next week, I'll clean it out then.

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That looks very good!  I could use what little flour I have left to make these!  Thanks!  I also found a recipe on youtube for cream cheese pancakes.  They look wonderful!!! I think it has just 3 ingredients.  

Just got home from work. Today was a very looooooooooooooooong day. I don't know why Thursdays always seem to feel that way. Just one more day and the weekend is here. I am so excited!

Did anyone here get legally married before their actual wedding?

Margret said:

 
Pull won't do it.  Connie Willis has won more major awards, in every category, than any other S.F. author in history, yet when the first edition of Doomsday Book came out the cover picture showed Kivrin (the heroine) in a full, lightweight blue Disney princess type dress, apparently made of silk.  This was a book about time travel to a small village.  Kivrin was supposed to be a peasant, and was wearing blue homespun, not silk.  (She also had trouble in the book because her dress was too blue, but that's a separate issue).  It looked like the cover for a romance novel, not a novel about the black death.  Connie complained to the publisher, who simply didn't get her point.  After all, the artist got the color right, didn't he?

The only author I can think of with that much pull is J.K. Rowling, because she counts as a money machine for her publisher, and if she gets mad she can go to any publisher she wants and they'll be overjoyed to have her.  Then again, there's some question whether the Harry Potter books are intended for adults or children.

Margret

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Personally, I think the Harry Potter books grow with Harry: the first one is written at the age group he was when it started, and he grew during the course of the book. Since his character didn't "reset" (I've read a lot of authors that use that mechanism to keep a book within a certain genre), he grew as the books got further along. I think you're right, the later books are more intended for adults than children, because he's more of an adult in them. However, I'd like to point to Robert Asprin, whose Myth-adventure  series, which is printed with perfect cover art--because the author was in collusion in the cover artist. 

Tallyollyopia said:

 
Personally, I think the Harry Potter books grow with Harry: the first one is written at the age group he was when it started, and he grew during the course of the book. Since his character didn't "reset" (I've read a lot of authors that use that mechanism to keep a book within a certain genre), he grew as the books got further along. I think you're right, the later books are more intended for adults than children, because he's more of an adult in them. However, I'd like to point to Robert Asprin, whose Myth-adventure  series, which is printed with perfect cover art--because the author was in collusion in the cover artist. 

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Agreed on this. I feel that people reading Harry Potter books now that they are all out should read them slowly. children especially should stick to reading just one a year from when they are around 9 or 10 on. 

NewYork1303 said:

 
Agreed on this. I feel that people reading Harry Potter books now that they are all out should read them slowly. children especially should stick to reading just one a year from when they are around 9 or 10 on. 

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Oh, yes. However, it is a difficult feat for an author to do. At least it's not like that one so-called "children's" books series that wasn't: A Series of Unfortunate Events. That whole series is sick, twisted, and should never  have been where children could read it. Sorry--ranting. Some of those books do that to me.

On a much (I hope) happier note, what was one of your favorite books as a child?

Nurse Fluffy is cleaning the sticky skin and tried to take a band aid off for me.

Tallyollyopia said:

 
Oh, yes. However, it is a difficult feat for an author to do. At least it's not like that one so-called "children's" books series that wasn't: A Series of Unfortunate Events. That whole series is sick, twisted, and should never  have been where children could read it. Sorry--ranting. Some of those books do that to me.

On a much (I hope) happier note, what was one of your favorite books as a child?

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Actually, I loved the Series of Unfortunate Events. Though reading it now, I do realize that it is not really a kids book. My favorite kids book is the Velveteen Rabbit. I also love The Lorax.

Oh yes, I need company in the bathroom... [emoji]128576[/emoji]

Margret said:

Walkingrock said:

 
This is kinda fun! Just got back from being away from my boys for a week, they have been on my lap like glue!! Guess they missed me!!

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Yep, that's the way it works.  You get back and either they refuse to let you go to the bathroom on your own or they give you the stink eye and cold shoulder for having "deserted" them that way.  Then they decide you can't go to the bathroom by yourself.  It's a cat thing.
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Margret

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Walkingrock said:

Oh yes, I need company in the bathroom... [emoji]128576[/emoji]

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My cats sit outside the bathroom door whenever I shower. They meow at the door like they're worrying about me. 

I loved the Danny Dunn and Freddy the Pig series.  I think Danny Dunn was the first science fiction I ever read, though I didn't identify it as such at the time.  And anything by Sam Campbell.  He came to our school every year and narrated a slide show of his and Ginny's adventures the previous summer, and every year we bought his new book.  Oh, yes, and the People books, by Zenna Henderson.  Some people think the stories of The People are too "sentimental," but I found them comforting when I felt "different" at school.  And, of course, Dr. Doolittle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Dunn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddy_the_Pig

http://samcampbell.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Campbell_(writer)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenna_Henderson

Oh, yeah.  And my dad subscribed us to the Reader's Digest series of classics for young readers, where I encountered The Prisoner of Zenda, The Scarlet Pimpernel, and The Three Musketeers, all of which I have since discovered were immensely improved by the rather extensive editing that Reader's Digest did.

Books that I didn't discover until I was an adult, but would have adored had I encountered them as a child include The Gammage Cup and The Whisper of Glocken, both by Carol Kendall, Once on a Time, by A. A. Milne, and The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame.

And I see that while I've been writing this two new posts have been added to the thread.  I guess I don't need to worry about whether I've made it over 15 words, do I?

Margret

Lately, I have been listening to audiobooks. I listened to Les Miserables and also Phantom of the Opera. I really love this! 

My cats are cuddling in between me and my fiance. They love being under the covers. Weirdos.

My favorite book as a child was the Hobbit.  My brother read me that and the Lord of the Rings trilogy before I learned to read for myself.  

I am exhausted from work today.  And I came home to find something has been nibbling (gnawing) on the strawberries I am growing for Daisy in containers.  Queen Daisy will not be pleased.

NewYork1303 said:

 
Actually, I loved the Series of Unfortunate Events. Though reading it now, I do realize that it is not really a kids book. My favorite kids book is the Velveteen Rabbit. I also love The Lorax.

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I was in high school when they first came out, and I wouldn't have known about them at all if it hadn't been for my Early Childhood Education homework: we had read one children's book a week and write a report on the story of the book, the quality of the artistry of the book, and if we would recommend it to a classroom along with why or why not we'd recommend it. A Series of Unfortunate Events  was on the list--and from a high schooler's perspective I was horrified. The only other place I've seen themes like that in fiction is in the twisted stuff of V.C. Andrews (and at least those  are marketed for adults!). Part of my problem with the series now is that I could, quite literally, get no one  to understand how awful the books were and the kinds of ideas they could foster in children. Even my teacher  refused to read the book, saying that I was overreacting (I tried to get it banned in the elementary schools of my scholastic district--not all schools (the books were well written); just elementary schools. I really, really  did not believe children should read them.)

I loved the Velveteen Rabbit, but I think my favorite is The Holly and The Ivy. (Of course, to this day I can't read The Velveteen Rabbit  without crying. You know why.) 

                      

Another 'at least 15 words in the post' reminder!

And they need to be your words, not a quote from a previous post.

           

@NewYork1303    In answer to your wedding question:   I didn't (as I never married) but someone I know did.  They had a registrar's legal wedding which only a few relatives and close friends knew about and then several months later they had a big party with additional marriage vows and 'hand binding'.   

My favourite childhood book was The Wombles, closely followed by 5 Children and It.  I loved the illustrations as much as the stories.   I loved poetry too, esp silly stuff by Edward Lear (who wrote The Owl and The Pussycat).   

NewYork1303 said:

 
Lately, I have been listening to audiobooks. I listened to Les Miserables and also Phantom of the Opera. I really love this! 

My cats are cuddling in between me and my fiance. They love being under the covers. Weirdos.

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Check out https://librivox.org/.  It's a companion site to Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page), which is an attempt to put all public domain books into readily accessible electronic format.  Project Gutenberg has some audiobooks available, but Project LibriVox is all audiobooks.  It is, in fact, an attempt to make all Project Gutenberg books available as audiobooks.  They do this with varying amounts of success; there was one book I read by A. A. Milne, with each chapter read by a different person, that had one reader who invariably pronounced the author's last name as "Mill-knee," which was excessively annoying, but they almost always have more than one version.  The really good ones are done like radio dramas, with voice actors for all the characters.

Sweet Thing always used to get underneath the covers with me.  She'd sleep cuddled against my belly or in the curve of my knees (I'm a side sleeper) all night.  If I needed to roll over she'd just change sides.  I used to worry about whether she had enough oxygen, but apparently it wasn't a problem.

Margret

I have not picked up a book for a while. I do not know why. I guess I have been pretty busy or just not interested in reading. 

The summer is coming and I will be reading a lot more. I love to sit outside on the balcony, with some kind of cold drink, Artie with me, and read. It is nice and peaceful.

I run in spurt about reading. I devour books when I do.

I have so many on my kindle. I do keep it charged. Strange, I have not even downloaded any new books this year...in a reading rut.. I do love to read.

Reading takes me to different times, different and foreign places, learning about history, life and people along the way.

I really do love to read.

Problem is, if I read in bed, I get sleepy. That causes me to have a hard time comprehending what I am reading. If I am in the mood to understand, it gets me so wide awake, that I do not want to put the book down...

Artie does not care for me to read when he is sitting on my lap, in the recliner. He wants my undivided attention. He is also a big boy, so he cannot fit in the corner and leave room for my kindle. I find my hands get tired from holding onto it. Artie dislikes me leaning it on him..so it takes a lot of finagling to get it just so. As soon as it gets comfy ~~~ he jumps down. 

Same with phone calls. If Artie is on my lap, he jumps down.. he wants my undivided attention!! spoiled!

MServant said:

 
@NewYork1303    In answer to your wedding question:   I didn't (as I never married) but someone I know did.  They had a registrar's legal wedding which only a few relatives and close friends knew about and then several months later they had a big party with additional marriage vows and 'hand binding'.   

My favourite childhood book was The Wombles, closely followed by 5 Children and It.  I loved the illustrations as much as the stories.   I loved poetry too, esp silly stuff by Edward Lear (who wrote The Owl and The Pussycat).   

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This is what I'm thinking about doing. There would be so much paperwork and complication out of the way if I could get married before the wedding. Also the person were using to perform the ceremony is a friend who hasn't ever done something like this before, so I feel like it would be a good plan not to worry him with paperwork.

Another thing I loved reading as a kid was T. S. Elliot. 

I am not allowed to read with Salem. She sits on my kindle and stares at me. I need to wait until she falls asleep, move the kindle out from under her; and if she doesn't wake up I can read. Talk about undivided attention.