TBC
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Monday, May 21, 2012
Get Me Out
Oh my gosh!!! It is AMAZING that any of us LIVED!!! I can NOT believe what women lived threw while giving birth, even only 20 years ago!!! It is crazy that any one did it again, and again! (it must be because they had NO birth control...) This book is crazy, or maybe history is crazy, I am SO glad I am having my kids in the days of hospitals, and educated DR.s!
The first chapter had me out of my seat, saying that Eve had the WORST birth EVER!!! because it was the first, and because it was punishment for her 'SIN'.
Would I recommend it? um... um... it was interesting, I really did learn A LOT, and it made me so thankful that my OB went to school... So if you are in to the history of well of all man kind then I guess sure. (but make sure that you are reading another book at the same time...)
Making and having babies ”what it takes to get pregnant, stay pregnant, and deliver ”has mystified women and men for the whole of human history. The birth gurus of ancient times told newlyweds that simultaneous orgasms were necessary for conception and that during pregnancy a woman should drink red wine but not too much and have sex but not too frequently. Over the last one hundred years, depending on the latest prevailing advice, women have taken morphine, practiced Lamaze, relied on ultrasound images, sampled fertility drugs, and shopped at sperm banks.
In Get Me Out, the insatiably curious Randi Hutter Epstein journeys through history, fads, and fables, and to the fringe of science, where audacious researchers have gone to extreme measures to get healthy babies out of mothers. Here is an entertaining must-read ”and an enlightening celebration of human life.
Lone Wolf
I loved this book!!! I love most of Jodi's books... (a LONG time ago I read The Pact... Oh my goodness!!! I still think about it!!!! I read it in 1998!) This book was TOTAL family drama!!! (I love drama... in books, not so much in real life...) I found myself not being able to wait for the next page!
Would I recommend it? YES! ESP. if you have Drama in your life, or want to escape in someone else's for a while!
In the wild, when a wolf knows its time is over, when it knows it is of no more use to its pack, it may sometimes choose to slip away. Dying apart from its family, it stays proud and true to its nature. Humans aren't so lucky.
Luke Warren has spent his life researching wolves. He has written about them, studied their habits intensively, and even lived with them for extended periods of time. In many ways, Luke understands wolf dynamics better than those of his own family. His wife, Georgie, has left him, finally giving up on their lonely marriage. His son, Edward, twenty-four, fled six years ago, leaving behind a shattered relationship with his father. Edward understands that some things cannot be fixed, though memories of his domineering father still inflict pain. Then comes a frantic phone call: Luke has been gravely injured in a car accident with Edward's younger sister, Cara.
Suddenly everything changes: Edward must return home to face the father he walked out on at age eighteen. He and Cara have to decide their father's fate together. Though there's no easy answer, questions abound: What secrets have Edward and his sister kept from each other? What hidden motives inform their need to let their father die... or to try to keep him alive? What would Luke himself want? How can any family member make such a decision in the face of guilt, pain, or both? And most importantly, to what extent have they all forgotten what a wolf never forgets: that each member of a pack needs the others, and that sometimes survival means sacrifice?
Another tour de force by Picoult, Lone Wolf brilliantly describes the nature of a family: the love, protection, and strength it can offer - and the price we might have to pay for those gifts. What happens when the hope that should sustain a family is the very thing tearing it apart?
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