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12/01/05, 09:34 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: CHINA
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Reading Material for Winter
The big brown truck just delivered some much needed reading material....
My titles....
The Living....Annie Dilliard
Woodswoman....Anne LaBastille
Extreme Simplicity...Christopher and Delores Lynn Nygerges
Coming Out of the Woods...Wallace Kaufman
Medicine for the Outdoors...Paul S. Auerbauch,M.D.
There were many other books for my kids for Christmas...shhhhh
I purchased all thru bookcloseouts.com.....Highly recommend!
I also have a few more coming from Amazon....shhhh  I kind of spent grocery money on books and Christmas toys....plenty of meat in the freezer as well as canned and frozen vegies and EGGS! I think I bought to many hens...  Never too many books though
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12/01/05, 11:35 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2002
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This winter I'm reading:
Blue Like Jazz - Donald Miller
Enjoy Where you Are on the Way to Where You're Going - Joyce Meyer
The De-Moralization of Society - Gertrude Himmelfarb
Beating the Winter Blues - Claudia Arb
The Woman's Book of Healing Herbs
The Bible in the Light of our Redemption - E.W. Kenyon
...plus whatever magazines happen to come my way.
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12/01/05, 12:41 PM
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Join Date: May 2003
Location: Western WA
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I just read One Mans Wilderness again. Waiting in line are The Family Herbal by Barbara and Peter Theiss, This Organic Life by Joan Dye Gussow and A Schoolteacher in Old Alaska , The Story of Hannah Breece by Jane Jacobs. I'm also getting the Doomsday Book for Christmas from DH, I know, I ordered it.
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12/01/05, 03:22 PM
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The Village Baker: Classic Regional Breads, from Europe and America, by Joe Ortiz
Home Comforts: The art and science of keeping house, by Cheryl Mendelson
I'm just starting to get into baking our own breads, so the first book was just like gold for me. The second one is just chock full of useful stuff about everything in a house. I rented these from the library, but if I ever find them for cheap I will buy them.
Other books... The Hobbit (Tolkien), The Little Country (Charles de Lint), and The Complete Science Fiction Treasury of H.G. Wells.
The Hobbit is making me want to live in a little hobbit hole under the grass, just like in LOTR. How neat would that be?
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12/01/05, 03:53 PM
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Location: Between Crosslake and Emily Minnesota
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This is my suggested reading list for people who feel that they need a winter reading list:
Get Off Your Lazy Butt this Winter and Learn to Ice Skate (by Hamilton and Yamaguchi)
Put the Book Down, Move Away from the Fireplace, and Take a Thrilling Snowmobile Ride (by Polaris and Cat)
How to Enjoy Cold and Snow (by Byrd, Peary and Amundsen )
Learn to Ski and Have Fun this Winter. (by Picaboo)
Got a Dog? Try Skijoring! (by Rex and Fido)
Experience a Winter Wonderland While Dog Sledding (by Iditarod)
Ice-Fishing for Idiots (by Matthau and Lemmon)
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12/01/05, 04:16 PM
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I am reading Lincoln .. The Team of Rivals by Doris K Goodwin
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12/01/05, 04:17 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Maine
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Seed catalogs.
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12/01/05, 05:51 PM
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Join Date: May 2002
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Originally Posted by Cabin Fever
This is my suggested reading list for people who feel that they need a winter reading list:
Get Off Your Lazy Butt this Winter and Learn to Ice Skate (by Hamilton and Yamaguchi)
Put the Book Down, Move Away from the Fireplace, and Take a Thrilling Snowmobile Ride (by Polaris and Cat)
How to Enjoy Cold and Snow (by Byrd, Peary and Amundsen )
Learn to Ski and Have Fun this Winter. (by Picaboo)
Got a Dog? Try Skijoring! (by Rex and Fido)
Experience a Winter Wonderland While Dog Sledding (by Iditarod)
Ice-Fishing for Idiots (by Matthau and Lemmon)
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CF- You forgot "How to Shovel Snow Without Killing Your Back" (by The American Chiropractors's Assoc)
I just went to the library today for their monthly book sale. I usually spend about $10 each month and pick up everything from cookbooks, autobios, bios, How-to, health & medicine, fiction, and hot steamy smutty romance novels. Prices are dirt cheap. Today I spent $7.25 and came home with 13 books total. Our tastes vary quite a bit here, so whatever strikes my fancy when I'm at the sale, gets thrown in my bag.
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12/01/05, 06:46 PM
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I am reading a history of the Crusades right now. Trying to get some historical point of view about that part of the world. Just finished Janet Evonovich's latest Stephanie Plum book and her new one about Metro Girl. All things stop when her books arrive.
No plans yet for winter reading. I might just watch TV.
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12/01/05, 07:01 PM
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The New Testament, free and widely available.
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12/01/05, 07:09 PM
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plains of Colorado
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: plains of Colorado
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books
I just finished the whole series of Elm Creek Quilts...trying to decide if I should get the quilt books that go with the series.
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12/01/05, 07:21 PM
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I'm always reading the Bible. Right now, I'm going through the Bible in a year, following the guidelines on http://www.oneyearbibleonline.com/
Just picked up a couple books at the library:
The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History byThomas J. Woods, Jr.;
A Barnyard in Your Backyard edited by Gail Damerow ;
Reclaiming Our Children by Peter R. Breggin.
And I still have to keep up with business, so I'm also reading
Changing With Families by Bandler, Grinder, and Satir.
AND I'm doing a training for premarital and marital counseling.
I'd rather be reading National Lampoon...
Pony!
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12/01/05, 07:41 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2005
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Since I anticipate being laid up for 6 weeks starting sometime in January, reading materials are high on my list. I plan to re-read all the Diana Gabaldon books (am hoping to get the newest one "A Breath of Snow and Ashes" for Christmas), all the Earth's Children books by Jean Auel, listen to the Harry Potter books on tape, anything that comes in on my holds list at the library, and any of the gardening/homesteading/animal husbandry books that strike my fancy from my own home library. I'll probably add to this list considerably when I start getting bored. 
Oh, and seed catalogs...lots and lots of seed catalogs!!!
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12/01/05, 08:52 PM
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living at 6800 feet
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Cheyenne, Wyoming
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Leave it to CabinFever to to make us laugh!
Anyway---my list is all over the place
Our Vanishing Values by Jimmy Carter
The Truth by Al Frankin
The Purpose Driven Life-can't remember the author
Need suggested titles for the following reading....
Some kind of book on wood stove cookery
Some kind of book on rasing chickens
Always on the look out for ......
Any mystery I can get my hands on that includes genealogy
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12/01/05, 09:08 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: washington state
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reading material for winter
charleen, you're a woman right after my own heart! i came home from my library with 36 paperbacks yesterday (25 cents a piece). the ones i like i pass on to friends, the others i take back to the library so they can be re-sold. really awful ones i use to start the fire in the morning!
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12/02/05, 10:46 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2003
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12/02/05, 12:15 PM
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Location: WV
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For when I need a deep winter read I have set aside two books:
Annals of the Former World by John McPhee
The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins
But now I have to get back to cleaning up the house and making festive.
Oh, and calling that septic guy back......
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