A Life In Books, Matt Taibbi (author, The Great Derangement)
My Five Most Important Books
1. Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol.
2. Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
3. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
4. The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
5. Papillon, Henri Charriere
A book to which you always return: Candide
Perspective (Quotes)
"Don't think about dying. Think about living." Former White House press secretary Tony Snow's message to cancer patients, delivered in an April 2007 interview with The New York Times, during his very public battle with the disease that took his life at the age of 53.
"Maybe that's a way of killing 'em." John McCain, responding to news that a tenfold rise in US exports to Iran was largely due to cigarette sales.
"The best way to put itis... cutting off his, uh, you-know-what." CNN anchor Don Lemon, discussing comments made by the Rev. Jesse Jackson about Barack Obama's anatomy without directing repeating them.
Lively: 3-d virtual world where users can create cartoon versions of themselves and chat with other users
Books of Ember, Jeanne DuPrau. An underground city that's home to the 100 or so people who survived what's ominously but vaguely called The Disaster. For kids aged 9-12.
Grow It Alone
-Garden Writers Assocation: gardenwriters.org
-National Gardening Association: garden.org
-seedsofchange.com: organic seeds
-johnnysseeds.com: organic seeds
BabyCenter: social-networking site for parents (community.babycenter.com), lets you share photos, blog, keep up with prenatal yoga buddies and meet new families with common interested.
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