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My Books

On my bookshelf sit the following books, some of which are dusty from not having been opened in the last two months because I've been too busy or too tired to read:

The Wrinkle in Time Quintet by Madeleine L'Engle (5 books; I'm on #2: A Wind in the Door)

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult

Am-Bitch-ous by Debra Condren

Furies of Calderon by Jim Butcher

January edition of Real Simple magazine

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Ben's Books

On Ben's bookshelf sit the following books, each of which I have seen him reading within the last month:

A Few Bloody Noses: The Realities and Mythologies of the American Revolution by Robert Harvey

The Illustrated A Brief History of Time and The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking (2 books in one)

Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States by Pete Jordan

Generation Debt: How Our Future Was Sold Out for Student Loans, Credit Cards, Bad Jobs, No Benefits, and Tax Cuts for Rich Geezers--and How to Fight Back by Anya Kamenetz

Castles: Their Construction and History by Sidney Toy

Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith

Great Works of H.G. Wells, Complete and Unbridged (6 books in one)

Power, Faith and Fantasy: America in the Middle East 1776 to the Present by Michael B. Oren

"The Quad": The Book of Mormon, The Bible, The Doctrine and Covenants, and The Pearl of Great Price

The Wheel Weaves as the Wheel Wills

When Ben and I decided to have children, we made a deal that if we had boys, I would get to name them, but if we had girls, he would get to name them. I must've had a crazy moment. We had two girls, of course. Luckily, Ben and I had both been reading and loving a wonderful fantasy fiction series at the time, and Ben found a couple of unique names from the depths of the Wheel of Time series, by Robert Jordan.

Well, the author of the series passed away recently: http://www.dragonmount.com/RobertJordan/

It was a huge blow to the fans, not only because we lost a great author, but because he hadn't finished the 12-book series. There are now a lot of rumors flying around the internet and office water coolers about what the publishers are going to have happen next, from transcribing notes and piecing the story ending together to having his son finish writing it to having hot authors like Margaret Weissman finish the writing. This could be interesting.