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Why Johnny Can't Concentrate: Coping With Attention Deficit Problems by Robert Moss

Hardy Boys Book 182: The Secret of the Soldier's Gold by Franklin W. Dixon

Hardy Boys Book 9: The Great Airport Mystery by Franklin W. Dixon

We Were There, Too!: Young People in U.S. History by Phillip Hoose

Macbeth (Signet Classics) by William Shakespeare

The Divide by Elizabeth Kay

A Different Woman by Jane Howard

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About meI live in a small town in southeastern New Hampshire with my two sons (14 & 16 years old) and two cats. We live in a house built around 1775 that's been in my family since 1864 when my great-great-grandparents came over from the village of Riseley in Bedfordshire, England.

I've recently completed a BS Biology/Environmental Studies...it's been a long time coming! I'm working now on an MEd Heritage Studies at Plymouth State University in NH. My boys and I enjoy spending time outdoors and wandering around New England. I'm on the local Conservation Commission and have worked on various projects involving natural history and land protection.

About my libraryMy library is in stacks and boxes at the moment. I'm slowly working my way through them and hope to get things a bit more organized as I go.

Books read this year are listed at my 75 Books discussion thread.

Books read during 2008 - subject to revision, 'cause I didn't write them down as I went...

1. Sylvia's farm: the journal of an improbable shepherd, Sylvia Jorrin
2. Running for the hills: growing up on my mother's sheep farm in Wales, Horatio Clare
3. Information ecologies: using technology with heart, Bonnie Nardi and Vicki O'Day
4. Geeks : how two lost boys rode the Internet out of Idaho, Jon Katz
5. A perfect mess : the hidden benefits of disorder, Eric Abrahamson & David Freedman
6. The 250 job interview questions you'll most likely be asked, Peter Veruki
7. Arcadia : a play in two acts, Tom Stoppard
8. When generations collide, Lynne Lancaster & David Stillman
9. Environment : the science behind the stories, Jay Withgott & Scott Brennan
10. Office 2003 : advanced concepts and techniques, Shelly, Cashman & Vermaat
11. Drift House Chronicles : Drift House, the first voyage, Dale Peck
12. Got Sun? Go Solar, Rex Ewing & Doug Pratt
13. The Art of possibility : transforming professional and personal life, Rosamund Stone Zander & Benjamin Zander
14. Train your mind, change your brain, Sharon Begley
15. Connect, Edward Hallowell, M. D.
16. The power of full engagement, Jim Loehr & Tony Schwartz
17. The disorganized mind: coaching your ADHD brain to take control of your time, tasks, and talents, Nancy Ratey
18. Do what you are: discover the perfect career for you through the secrets of personality type, Paul Tieger
19. Finding the heart of the child: essays on children, families, and schools, Edward Hallowell and Michael Thompson
20. Horses never lie: the art of passive leadership, Mark Rashid
21. Punished by rewards: the trouble with gold stars, incentive plans, A’s, praise and other bribes, Alfie Kohn
22. Letters to a Young Mathematician, Ian Stewart

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2005 Standard Catalog of World Coins: 1901-Present by Chester L. Krause

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Canned fruit, preserves and jellies: Household methods of preparation by Maria Parloa

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Ball Blue Book of Canning and Preserving Recipes

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Practical Cookery A Compilation Of Principles of Cookery and Recipes And The Etiquette And Service of the Table by Department of Food Economics and Nutrition Kansas State Agricultural

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How to use corn meal, oat meal, barley, buckwheat, potatoes, rice, etc., and save wheat flour: Best war time recipes by Ruth Watson

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The Mosaic Idea Book by Natascha Dean

Hello Marilyn! I just posted brief message on the thread, though I am still short of time now since it turns out we have to move house within the next couple of weeks. Looks like we're both busy!

Those birding spots you mention are amongst the most wonderful places in the world! I'm sure your boys would love Costa Rica, even though slugs aren't a conspicuous part of the fauna. They would surely get enthused by the frogs, insects, mammals and snakes though! There are so many great lodges accessible by hire car. Every year I go I say I will take our own boys the next time, and one year it may just come true. Another good place for wee tropical naturalist-explorers is Belize.

Good luck with your work and thanks again for your input to the thread! Chris

posted by chrisharpe at 9:29 pm (EST) on Jul 23, 2009

Hello Marilyn!! You're done a sterling job on the thread while I've been away - I'm sure everyone appreciates it. Your environmental work sounds very interesting indeed. Indigo Bunting is a fabulous bird to have at your feeders! Still, I can't complain as I have some pretty nice birds in my garden. Costa Rica's where I've been - I leading a trip there every July. There's never much access to the Internet, but I hope to get in a comment or two now that I'm back. All the best, Chris

posted by chrisharpe at 4:38 pm (EST) on Jul 22, 2009

Hi there! I've definitely had some conversations about ADD parenting so it may well have been me. Thanks v much for the recommendation - will go and check it out...

Best,
Rachael/FlossieT

posted by FlossieT at 2:32 pm (EST) on Jul 22, 2009

Hello Marilyn! I've been too busy to keep up-to-date with LT too. Many thanks for your comments! They really help flesh out the thread. I will try to post a little more information and some further suggestions today and then I must regretfully bow out and prepare for my next trip. Keep up the good work and enjoy the reading (if you are participating)! Best wishes, Chris

posted by chrisharpe at 2:56 pm (EST) on Jun 26, 2009

Hey - just thought I would finally get back and send you a note. Your home looks and sounds amazing! I can't wait to check out what other books you find in your boxes and stacks. I am in that kind of a stage too - I have just finished boxing all of my books into boxes alpabetically by author so that I can find things until I get all the shelves built in my library. I have a son and a daughter. My son is 14 and my daughter is 19. I am just beginning the process of enrolling in a media services program - I am a licensed elementary teacher, but work as a para in a high school media center. I have fallen for encouraging older kids to keep reading and so am going to go get another degree. My son is obsessed with xbox 360 live - how about yours?

posted by DragonLibrary8 at 12:18 am (EST) on Apr 17, 2009

Hi muddy - just to say I'll be sure to pass on the Runescape message when I see them next :) Doesn't happen quite so often as we now go to different churches, but once in a while we go back. Sure they'll be pleased to hear some positive feedback!

posted by FlossieT at 3:54 pm (EST) on Feb 1, 2009

Nice kitty!

posted by suslyn at 11:33 am (EST) on Jan 10, 2009

Hello...sorry I haven't gotten back to you sooner, we had an unexpected trip back to DC/VA due to my last uncle dying unexpectedly...Anyway, you asked if we fly or dry. we usually drive although we sometimes fly (particularly if just one of us is going). We have never gone out to Monhegan (it's on our list of things to do), but did take our granddaughter for a ride on the Laura B to see the Puffins out on Egg Island. It was loads of fun, and she was in awe. A Port Clyde LT meeting sounds fun! I can always do the ice-cream.

posted by tututhefirst at 11:20 pm (EST) on Jan 9, 2009

Aren't you a doll?! Thanks for taking a peek and leaving me a comment :)

posted by suslyn at 8:23 pm (EST) on Jan 9, 2009

Hi,
Nice to hear from you,and thanks for the mention of the 'Journal of a Disappointed Man' quotation on your excellent blog.
The book about the tying of ties is an interesting one and is fun at the same time,so could well be useful to your son.
Ah,yes, on the subject of Cats. We don't have a cat because our dearly loved,black and white cat Dexter disappeared a couple of years ago and we were so upset about it,that we vowed ,rightly or wrongly,not to have one again.In fact he was our third cat. However I still love cats and everything about them,thus the fairly large sections,both in fiction and in non-fiction in the book collection.
Regards

posted by devenish at 1:13 pm (EST) on Jan 9, 2009

Hello muddy21,
Thanks for adding me to your 'Interesting Libraries' list. Glad that you find it worthy.
I am fascinated to hear about your connections with Riseley in Bedfordshire as it is almost equidistant between Northampton,where I live and the county Town of Bedford. What a great story and how fantastic to live in a house that old.
I will have to have a good look through your Library within a few days.
If you don't mind me asking- any particular reasons for the interesting name ?. Also what a magnificent cat if I might say so.
With very best wishes from the UK.

posted by devenish at 3:30 pm (EST) on Jan 4, 2009

It's a big jump for me, and I'm anxious, but it's a good anxious (like Christmas morning).
I'm interning for Diane Abbott (Labour). I'll keep you updated - I'm there a week from tomorrow.

posted by lbucci3 at 5:48 pm (EST) on Jan 3, 2009

Wishing you and yours a very Happy New Year :)

posted by TheBookImp at 3:19 pm (EST) on Dec 31, 2008

Hackney North and Stoke Newington. Is that a nice part of the city??

posted by lbucci3 at 1:13 pm (EST) on Dec 29, 2008

Exactly. Though it's the time between the two events that gives us chance to worry LOL. Ok I think I'm going to bed. It's been great chatting with you have a good evening.

posted by TheBookImp at 9:23 pm (EST) on Dec 28, 2008

I understand, second and even third guessing yourself kind of disrupts the sleep patterns. I'm sure things will work out, just maybe not the way we intend. My philosophy for what its worth :)

posted by TheBookImp at 9:09 pm (EST) on Dec 28, 2008

Yeah nearly 2am, I don't sleep too well on occasion especially when I'm anxious which I am at the moment. New Year is coming and I haven't decided where my life's going. All good profound stuff LOL!

posted by TheBookImp at 8:58 pm (EST) on Dec 28, 2008

Glad you took time to visit and that you enjoyed the challenge entries. I'm always happy to have visitors :) Maybe you could write one for the new picture of the cat I have a feeling you might like them somehow, can't think why :D

Thanks for the friend invite as you can see I accepted. Now I'm off to find out more about "Twice Told"

posted by TheBookImp at 8:47 pm (EST) on Dec 28, 2008

Hi Marilyn and thanks for adding me to your interesting libraries. I took a look at yours and instantly wished I had those books right here in front of me, to hold and to flip through, what a great library! Glad we have a few the same. One book did stick out though Eight Men and a Duck, that one I think I'll have to go look for. Was it as good as the amazon blurb says though?

posted by TheBookImp at 2:48 pm (EST) on Dec 27, 2008

Welcome to the 2009 75 Books Challenge group. Thanks for joining in!

posted by drneutron at 4:23 pm (EST) on Dec 21, 2008

Marilyn...your kitty is gorgeous! Is it a Maine coon? I saw your comment about joining the 75 challenge. I have enjoyed having some structure imposed on my reading since I joined LT and look forward to posting, giving a few quick comments (I don't consider them full reviews) and then choosing the next one up. Being in Maine, I sometimes face, like you, the prospect of no power, so battery powered audio books, and battery powered book lites to clip on are one of my 'storm box' staples. We were quite lucky last week--our little section of the coast only lost power for about an hour. We are right now down in Baltimore going to a family funeral tomorrow (my last uncle) so it looks like I'm missing the gorgeous blizzard you are getting today. Hope you are warm and safe and have a good TBR pile next to the wood pile (not for burning of course!!) I'd like to mark you as a friend (New Englanders have to stick together) and look forward to seeing your posts on the 75 for 2009 groups.

posted by tututhefirst at 12:31 pm (EST) on Dec 21, 2008

hi. i am so glad that u joined the group. now, can u please stay active in this group so? not that u have to or anything, but it is really nice to have people to talk to on the boards. thanks a heap.

posted by cornpuff12 at 4:44 pm (EST) on Dec 7, 2008

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