This was a mindfulness recommendation from gina227. My dad and I have already bonded over it.


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Elephants on Acid: And Other Bizarre Experiments
by Alex Boese


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I've seen my book and science nerd friends (well, that's all of you. Whatever.) mention it, and I posted that Golden Compass animal-character meme a while back, but I don't really know anything about the book or author. Until my mom tells me in an email,
Must read info about the Golden Compass--both the Movie and the Book. La Salle has ( Read more... )

Fall 2007 has been good to me! I got to combine my love of GNR and 80's metal with my fascination for memoirs about drugs and debauchery. Here, I review the tell-all stories from GNR's guitarist Slash and Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx.

Slash, by Slash and Anthony Bozza

Dual purposes: introspective memoir and the definitive insider GNR history ( Read more... )

I am reading up on kitty biology and medicine so I can fully realize my goals as a Crazy Cat Lady. Let's look at this passage about kitty copulation:
The coital scream or cry was once thought to be from pain caused by the penile spines, but this reaction can be elicited in queen in or out of estrus, intact or spayed, with any instrument that ( Read more... )

Billboard: In the book, you mention that you felt rock biographies were “inaccurate and full of s-.” How did you go about setting the tone to avoid this?Slash: I’ve been approached about doing a book for probably all the wrong reasons so many times, I couldn’t validate it in my own mind. For one, it seemed very self-indulgent, very self-centered ( Read more... )

How to Win Friends and Influence People was first published by author Dale Carnegie in 1936(!). A NY Times bestseller for a full decade, more than 15 million copies have been sold ( Read more... )

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