So, I’m listening to David Duchovny’s book right now and laughing out loud at the antics of the talking animals. So, why not see if you can match the name of the animal with the book they narrated? If the character’s name is in the title there will be a blank space!!!
Leave your guesses in a comment. Good luck!
No Googling or looking at other commenter answers. Yes, we’re going by the honor system 🙂Play every week or just one time, you are always welcome 🙂 It only takes once to be eligible for a prize.
WHAT IS THE SPECIFIC CARBOHYDRATE DIET?
It is a strict grain-free, lactose-free, and sucrose-free meal plan.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
Of all dietary components, carbohydrates have the greatest influence on intestinal microbes (yeast and bacteria) which are believed to be involved in intestinal disorders. Most intestinal microbes require carbohydrates for energy. The Specific Carbohydrate Diet works by severely limiting the availability of carbohydrates to intestinal microbes.
When carbohydrates are not digested, they are not absorbed. They remain in the intestinal tract, thus encouraging microbes to multiply by providing food for them. This can lead to the formation of acids and toxins which can injure the small intestine.
Once bacteria multiply within the small intestine, they can destroy the enzymes on the intestinal cell surface, preventing carbohydrate digestion and absorption. At this point, production of excessive mucus may be triggered as the intestinal tract attempts to “lubricate” itself against the irritation caused by the toxins, acids, and the presence of incompletely digested and unabsorbed carbohydrates.
The diet is based on the principle that specifically selected carbohydrates, requiring minimal digestion, are well absorbed leaving virtually nothing for intestinal microbes to feed on. As the microbes decrease due to lack of food, their harmful by-products also diminish. No longer needing protection, the mucus producing cells stop producing excessive mucus and carbohydrate digestion is improved. The Specific Carbohydrate Diet corrects malabsorption, allowing nutrients to enter the bloodstream and be made available to the cells of the body, thereby strengthening the immune system’s ability to fight. Further debilitation is prevented, weight can return to normal, and ultimately there is a return to health. from Goodreads
I left the whole description in case you wanted a more detailed overview of some of the science behind the Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD). Now let me tell you what has led us here (by us I mean me and Gage). Gage stills has terrible reflux, even on Zantac, and it’s been going on since July. But even before that his stomach was a mess. He was on Zantac pretty much for 3 years before which I am positive led to his gut being in such bad shape now. He isn’t growing up or out much either. All of these things led me to this book, but there is one more important reason I know about this book. This is the foundation for many kids on the spectrum being recovered, ie. losing their diagnosis. I know people don’t like to believe things without a ‘study’ behind them, but all you have to do is talk to parents. I mentioned to Gage’s teacher yesterday that we would be starting this soon and she said her friend started the GAPS diet (similar to SCD and the other game changing diet for kids with autism) for her son on the spectrum and he lost all of the problems that gave him a diagnosis in the first place. I’ve resisted this diet to this point because I was hoping gluten/casein/soy free would be enough. I don’t think that anymore.
So, that’s how we got here and I’m so glad that we are finally taking this step, for our whole family. I’ll be starting the intro diet this week, chicken, chicken broth, and eggs and Gage will start next week. The first week or two might be a bit rough and make us sick as we kill off the bad guys but as we slowly add foods back in we should start to feel better. It works much like the elimination diet that I talked about from a book this summer only carbs will be gone for the duration of the diet. To cure things like colitis or Crohn’s disease it takes a year or two and then you can try adding forbidden foods back in. If your gut is properly healed you should be able to tolerate them better.
The science, studies, personal stories of success and details of the diet are included in the book. The updated version even includes a chapter on autism because it has become such a savior to many parents with kids with autism or related conditions. It’s not an easy diet and I’m nervous. I had to tell Gage he wouldn’t be able to eat chocolate for awhile and that did not go well. If you are interested in learning more you can visit the website. This book is a must read for those with gut diseases like Crohn’s, colitis, CF, and yes, I consider autism one of those that starts in the gut.
Mailbox Monday is the gathering place for readers to share the books that came in their mailbox during the last week.Warning: Mailbox Monday can lead to envy, toppling TBR piles and humongous wish lists.
I went to the best local bookstore yesterday, loganberry Books in Cleveland Heights and they were on the middle of a 100,000 book inventory. I loved the store so much I wanted to make sure I spent some money there. That was the only reason I came home with six new books. Really 😉
This is Your Life, Harriet Chance by Jonathan Evison (arrived in the mail from the generous Diane)
With her husband Bernard two years in the grave, seventy-nine-year-old Harriet Chance sets sail on an ill-conceived Alaskan cruise only to discover through a series of revelations that she’s been living the past sixty years of her life under entirely false pretenses. There, amid the buffets and lounge singers, between the imagined appearance of her late husband and the very real arrival of her estranged daughter midway through the cruise, Harriet is forced to take a long look back, confronting the truth about pivotal events that changed the course of her life.
How to Relax by Thich Nhat Hanh (bought from Loganberry Books, a local bookstore)
Thich Nhat Hanh says that when we relax, we “become calm water, and we will reflect reality as it is. If we’re not calm, the image we reflect will be distorted. When the image is distorted by our minds, it’s not the reality, and it causes lots of suffering.” With sections on healing, relief from nonstop thinking, transforming unpleasant sounds, solitude, being peace, and more, How to Relax includes meditations you can do to help you achieve the benefits of relaxation no matter where you are.
Rosa Parks:Mother of the Civil Rights Movement by Wil Mara (bought from Loganberry Books, a local bookstore)
Rosa Parks was born in the South at a time when African Americans were treated like second-class citizens. By refusing to accept the status quo, Parks sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott and went on to become known as the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement. The well-organized chapters help students identify key details while the photographs, timelines and other text features encourage students to make connections between historical events and enable students to better understand the text.
Last Night’s Reading:Illustrated Encounters With Extraordinary Authors by Kate Gavino (bought from Loganberry Books, a local bookstore)
Why do we go to book readings? For a chance to see the authors we love come to life off the page, answering our questions and proving to be the brilliant, witty people we catch glimpses of through their work. Illustrator Kate Gavino captures the wonder of this experience firsthand. At every reading she attends, Kate hand-letters the event’s most memorable quote alongside a charming portrait of the author. In Last Night’s Reading, Kate takes us on her journey through the literary world, sharing illustrated insight from more than one hundred of today’s greatest writers—including Zadie Smith, Junot Diaz, Lev Grossman, Elizabeth Gilbert, and many more—on topics ranging from friendship and humor to creativity and identity. A celebration of authors, reading, and bookstores, this delightful collection is an advice book like no other and a love letter to the joy of seeing your favorite author up close and personal.
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion (bought from Loganberry Books, a local bookstore)
Don Tillman, professor of genetics, has never been on a second date. He is a man who can count all his friends on the fingers of one hand, whose lifelong difficulty with social rituals has convinced him that he is simply not wired for romance. So when an acquaintance informs him that he would make a “wonderful” husband, his first reaction is shock. Yet he must concede to the statistical probability that there is someone for everyone, and he embarks upon The Wife Project. In the orderly, evidence-based manner with which he approaches all things, Don sets out to find the perfect partner. She will be punctual and logical—most definitely not a barmaid, a smoker, a drinker, or a late-arriver.
Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver (bought from Loganberry Books, a local bookstore)
Continuing the story begun in The Bean Trees, this novel features the characters Taylor and Turtle as they witness an event whose repercussions will change their lives forever.
One Plus One by Jojo Moyes (bought from Loganberry Books, a local bookstore)
Suppose your life sucks. A lot. Your husband has done a vanishing act, your teenage stepson is being bullied and your math whiz daughter has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that you can’t afford to pay for. That’s Jess’s life in a nutshell—until an unexpected knight-in-shining-armor offers to rescue them. Only Jess’s knight turns out to be Geeky Ed, the obnoxious tech millionaire whose vacation home she happens to clean. But Ed has big problems of his own, and driving the dysfunctional family to the Math Olympiad feels like his first unselfish act in ages… maybe ever.
It’s time for another update on my music project. Two summers ago I started using this book as a guide to explore music with my son. Gage has been a party to some of the journey, but not all. I try to play at least parts from every album for him, except the explicit ones, and some he likes and some he covers his ears. He is probably more discerning than I am. This post is more for me than you because I know that these lists can get boring, but feel free to comment if I’ve listened to a favorite of yours (whether I liked them or not :)). Happy listening.
This go round I’ve decided to list them in the order I liked them best.
Thriller by Michael Jackson– first and only album I begged my dad for money to buy. I remember him counting out change from our change bucket.
Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits – love, love, love
Pearl by Janis Joplin – So talented and such a shame she died so young.
Parachutes by Coldplay – loved it
Dare by the Human League – fun 80’s album with a favorite
In Our Heads by Hot Chip – a great new discovery
Make Yourself by Incubus – nu-metal? surprisingly, I liked it!
Boatman’s Call by Nick Cave – Love this dark and moody album.
Aqualung by Jethro Tull – Liked the whole album.
Murder Ballads by Nick Cave – the dark murder ballads (something I’d never heard) was really cool.
Off the Wall by Michael Jackson – Can’t go wrong with Michael.
Bad by Michael Jackson – a much more polished Michael.
Come Away With Me by Norah Jones – easy listening
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John – I don’t think you can ever go wrong with Elton John.
Rhythm Nation by Janet Jackson – It’ll make you want to dance!
Songs of Love & Hate by Leonard Cohen – Like him better than Dylan.
British Steel by Judas Priest – Not a hard rock girl but I liked this one.
Surrealistic Pillow by Jefferson Airplane
A Rush of Blood to the Head by Coldplay – didn’t love as much as the first
Songs of Leonard Cohen by Leonard Cohen – Not my favorite of his.
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by Iron Butterfly – It was ok, a little dopey.
Morrison Hotel by The Doors– My third Doors album that I just thought was okay.
Tusk by Fleetwood Mac – Didn’t like as much as Rumours.
Abattoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – My least favorite of the three.
Safe As Milk by Captain Beefheart – Hippy dippy, but the best name ever!
Are We Not Men? We are Devo! by Devo – Too frenetic for me.
Be by Common – not for me.
Cross by Justice – Let’s dance!
Chicago by Chicago Transit Authority – Easy, a little boring.
A Love Supreme by John Coltrane – I like jazz, but really only in person.
What People Say I Am That’s What I’m Not by Arctic Monkeys – eh, nothing special here
Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart – Eek! A double album of music I didn’t like!
Never Mind the Bollocks by the Sex Pistols – Couldn’t really understand them.
Maggot Brain by Funkadelic – Took me a few tries to get this one but it is fun to move to.
Blueprint by Jay-Z – This didn’t elevate rap for me.
Sweetheart of the Rodeo by the Byrds – Too much country for me.
Gris Gris by Dr. John – This is an album? Not much here.
Now I Got Worry by Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – too much screaming
The Score by The Fugees – Loved one song. A lot.
Foo Fighters by Foo Fighters – Grunge or grunge-like has never been my thing.
I saw Christmas decorations last weekend and I wasn’t happy about it. I love Thanksgiving, the quieter holiday that’s all about being thankful for what I have instead of the later, flashier holiday that’s all about what I want. So, at the library yesterday and picked up books from the New section that had something on the cover that I was thankful for. So, they’re all relatively new, taken from both fiction and nonfiction. Give me the title and author if you can. You’ll also get an extra point if you can tell me what it is on the cover that I’m thankful for 🙂
Leave your guesses in a comment. Good luck! I noticed after I downloaded the picture that I have two 9’s and no 10. Go figure!
No Googling or looking at other commenter answers. Yes, we’re going by the honor system 🙂Play every week or just one time, you are always welcome 🙂 It only takes once to be eligible for a prize.
Why Grow Up by Susan Neiman – balloons/parties 2.The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George – mail! 3.The Darling Dahlias & the Eleven O’clock Lady by Susan Wittig Albert – my home 4.A Window Opens by Elisabeth Egan – reading/books 5.Never Kill A Friend by Martin Hill – stained glass/church 6.Come Hell or Highball by Maia Chance – a pretty adult beverage 7.An Improbable Friendship by Anthony David – trees 8.Re Jane by Patricia Park – trains, because they make my son happy 9.Who Do You Love by Jennifer Weiner – the loves of my life 9.Death Wears a Mask by Ashley Weaver – a chance to get dressed up and go out.
In her graphic memoirs, New York Times-best selling cartoonist Lucy Knisley paints a warts-and-all portrait of contemporary, twentysomething womanhood, like writer Lena Dunham (Girls). In the next installment of her graphic travelogue series, Displacement, Knisley volunteers to watch over her ailing grandparents on a cruise. (The book s watercolors evoke the ocean that surrounds them.) In a book that is part graphic memoir, part travelogue, and part family history, Knisley not only tries to connect with her grandparents, but to reconcile their younger and older selves. She is aided in her quest by her grandfather s WWII memoir, which is excerpted. Readers will identify with Knisley s frustration, her fears, her compassion, and her attempts to come to terms with mortality, as she copes with the stress of travel complicated by her grandparents frailty. from Goodreads
I wasn’t sure I wanted to read another Knisley book since I wasn’t a fan of her highly lauded French Milk, but when I started to see some of the reviews I decided to give her another shot. I’m so glad I did because this was a great graphic memoir of Knisley, 27, volunteering to go with her grandparents, 91 & 93, on a Caribbean cruise. What could have been all fluff and jokes turned out to be a very real and mature look at aging and what we do for the people we love when they reach this point in their lives.
The grands, married 67 years, signed up for a cruise through their community home and their children were worried because they needed so much help. Knisley decided to volunteer herself as their aide and in return received a lot of admiration and a free cruise. She took along her Grandfather’s war memoir and we were able to experience, along with Knisley, her grandfather as a young soldier at the same time as we were seeing him as an elderly man who can’t control much of what goes on. Knisley signs on without realizing how difficult and exhausting it would be to take care and keep track of them but she does her best and she does it with love. I’m a sucker for grandparents and seeing her love for her grandparents shine through the pages gave me new insight into the author.
Growingold is no joke and much of the book was sad and sometimes difficult to read, but Knisley’s great illustrations and light touch with the storytelling made this one hard to put down. I pretty much loved everything about it. Even with the heavy reality of aging it managed to convey the love of family and this made it a very satisfying read.
Halloween is upon us and maybe you need a scary movie recommendation. Let’s see if you can identify these movies…
Leave your guesses in a comment. Good luck!
No Googling or looking at other commenter answers. Yes, we’re going by the honor system 🙂Play every week or just one time, you are always welcome 🙂 It only takes once to be eligible for a prize.
First, there were ten – a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a private island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an eccentric millionaire unknown to all of them, is nowhere to be found. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they’re unwilling to reveal – and a secret that will seal their fate. For each has been marked for murder. One by one they fall prey. Before the weekend is out, there will be none. And only the dead are above suspicion. from Goodreads
“Ten little Indian boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were nine.
Nine little Indian boys sat up very late; One overslept himself and then there were eight.
Eight little Indian boys travelling in Devon; One said he’d stay there and then there were seven.
Seven little Indian boys chopping up sticks; One chopped himself in halves and then there were six.
Six little Indian boys playing with a hive; A bumblebee stung one and then there were five.
Five little Indian boys going in for law; One got in Chancery and then there were four.
Four little Indian boys going out to sea; A red herring swallowed one and then there were three.
Three little Indian boys walking in the Zoo; A big bear hugged one and then there were two.
Two little Indian boys sitting in the sun; One got frizzled up and then there was one.
One little Indian boy left all alone; He went and hanged himself and then there were none.”
Eight strangers and a married couple on a deserted, cut-off island don’t even have time to get to know each other before they start to die one by one in creative ways similar to the rhyme. It’s a slight book so at first ten seems like a lot of characters to tell apart, but since the numbers start to dwindle early on it isn’t much of problem to know who’s who. Just when you have a suspect in mind, it becomes an impossibility due to death or alibi and that’s what makes this a fabulous read. There is a reason that this is the bestselling mystery of all time and not to be missed. I don’t want to reveal too much because I do think that it’s best to go in with only that information so you can see how it all sorts itself out.
I think any lover of mysteries, Christie or the board game Clue should read this if they haven’t already.
Mailbox Monday is the gathering place for readers to share the books that came in their mailbox during the last week.Warning: Mailbox Monday can lead to envy, toppling TBR piles and humongous wish lists.
It’s been a month? since I posted he books that came into my house. Ugh! Since Gage started school it seems I have had less time for blogging but I’m hoping that turns around. October, our month of celebrations, is winding down and I’m thankful. I’m also thankful for all of these goodies that arrived.
Dr. Caroline Graham is happy with her nomadic lifestyle fulfilling short-term medical contracts. No emotional commitments, no disappointments. She’s always the one to walk away, never the one left behind.
Travis Montgomery has one dream left—to build the ranch he and his wife planned before he lost her to cancer. There’s just one thing standing between him and the last bit of acreage he needs—a last living heir who has one traveling foot out the door…and an unusual request that challenges his determination to never again place his heart at risk. Warning: This book contains a tortured widower who doesn’t want a wife and an independent doctor who doesn’t want a husband. Hot stuff between the sheets and failed efforts to avoid emotional involvements.
When a beautiful, aspiring writer strides into the East Village bookstore where Joe Goldberg works, he does what anyone would do: he Googles the name on her credit card.
There is only one Guinevere Beck in New York City. She has a public Facebook account and Tweets incessantly, telling Joe everything he needs to know: she is simply Beck to her friends, she went to Brown University, she lives on Bank Street, and she’ll be at a bar in Brooklyn tonight—the perfect place for a “chance” meeting.
Winesburg, Ohio (1919) is Sherwood Anderson’s masterpiece, a cycle of short stories concerning life in a small town at the end of the nineteenth century. At the center is George Willard, a young reporter who becomes the confidant of the town’s solitary figures. Anderson’s stories influenced countless American writers including Hemingway, Faulkner, Updike, Oates and Carver. This new edition corrects errors made in earlier editions and takes into account major criticism and textual scholarship of the last several decades.
Welcome to Monsterland – the scariest place on Earth. All guests can interact with real vampires in Vampire Village, be chased by an actual werewolf on the River Run, and walk among the dead in Zombieville.
Wyatt Baldwin, a high school student and life-long movie buff is staring bleakly at a future of flipping burgers. Due to a fortuitous circumstance, Wyatt and his friends are invited to the star-studded opening of Monsterland. In a theme park full of real vampires, werewolves and zombies, what could possibly go wrong?
The underground mine fires ravaging Pennsylvania coal country have forced Brigid Howley and her family to seek refuge with her estranged grandparents, the formidable Gram and the Black Lung stricken Gramp. Tragedy is no stranger to the Howleys, a proud Irish-American clan who takes strange pleasure in the “curse” laid upon them generations earlier by a priest who ran afoul of the Molly Maguires. The weight of this legacy rests heavily on a new generation, when Brigid, already struggling to keep her family together, makes a grisly discovery in a long-abandoned bootleg mine shaft. In the aftermath, decades’ old secrets threaten to prove just as dangerous to the Howleys as the burning, hollow ground beneath their feet. Inspired by real-life events in now-infamous Centralia and the equally devastated town of Carbondale, The Hollow Ground is an extraordinary debut with an atmospheric, voice-driven narrative and an indelible sense of place.
Diane Keaton has spent a lifetime coloring outside the lines of the conventional notion of beauty. In Let’s Just Say It Wasn’t Pretty, she shares the wisdom she’s accumulated through the years as a mother, daughter, actress, artist, and international style icon. This is a book only Diane Keaton could write—a smart and funny chronicle of the ups and downs of living and working in a world obsessed with beauty. In her one-of-a-kind voice, Keaton offers up a message of empowerment for anyone who’s ever dreamed of kicking back against the “should”s and “supposed to”s that undermine our pursuit of beauty in all its forms. From a mortifying encounter with a makeup artist who tells her she needs to get her eyes fixed to an awkward excursion to Victoria’s Secret with her teenage daughter, Keaton shares funny and not-so-funny moments from her life in and out of the public eye.
Meet Razzi and Sammi These two siblings came home yesterday, not even 3 months old yet or 3 pounds. I’ve already had to take Razzi off my lap and the keyboard twice just as I’ve been typing! In honor of the newest members of our household We’re going to have a cat quiz. Don’t feel bad if you only remember a few since I’m not giving you options this week.
Leave your guesses in a comment. Good luck!
No Googling or looking at other commenter answers. Yes, we’re going by the honor system 🙂Play every week or just one time, you are always welcome 🙂 It only takes once to be eligible for a prize.
I belonged to Hermione Granger. Crookshanks
I love lasagna and hate Mondays. Garfield
I lived with Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Cat
You might remember my sexy self from the Shrek movies, but I also had movies of my own. Puss in Boots
I have a love-hate relationship with that mouse Jerry. Tom
I caused some trouble in the movie Meet the Parents. Jinx
I was the cat in The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe. Pluto
Dr. Suess gave me a really cool striped hat. Cat in the Hat
I was killed by a truck in Pet Sematary, for a while. Church
So, I’m listening to David Duchovny’s book right now and laughing out loud at the antics of the talking animals. So, why not see if you can match the name of the animal with the book they narrated? If the character’s name is in the title there will be a blank space!!!
Stacy's Books 