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Sunday, November 1, 2009

Suzanne Coldwell--a friend of mine from high school--and her family have an alpaca farm! How cool is that??

Check out their new website and blog.

My favorites: music (classical)

My favorites: books (non-fiction)

40 Days and 40 Nights: Darwin, Intelligent Design, God, OxyContin(R), and Other Oddities on Trial in Pennsylvania (Matthew Chapman)
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson)
All Creatures Great and Small (James Herriot)
Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood (Taras Grescoe)
How to Dunk a Doughnut: The Science of Everyday Life (Len Fisher)
Julie & Julia (Julie Powell)
Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul (Kenneth R. Miller)
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Mary Roach)
Sweets: A History of Candy (Tim Richardson)
Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door (Lynne Truss)
Tell Me Where It Hurts: A Day of Humor, Healing, and Hope in My Life as an Animal Surgeon (Nick Trout)
Tested: One American School Struggles to Make the Grade (Linda Perlstein)
The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image (Leonard Shlain)
The Barmaid's Brain: And Other Strange Tales from Science (Jay Ingram)
The Elements of Murder: A History of Poison (John Emsley)
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Bill Bryson)
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Michael Pollan)
The Physics of Star Trek (Lawrence M. Krauss)
Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Neil Shubin)

Galley Proofs