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When you buy a new computer, you start with a clean slate, which is great, but you don't have any of your documents or settings from your old computer. Luckily, it's very easy to transfer all your files and settings from your old computer to the new one—whether you're on Windows or a Mac.

If you're migrating from Windows to Windows or a Mac to a new Mac, you can use your operating system's built-in tools to migrate your data. If you're moving between platforms, you can still do it, you just won't be using any tools. In general, however, no matter what kind of computer you use, you'll probably need an external drive to pull this off, so if you don't have one, go pick one up. Once you're done migrating your data, it works great for backing it up in case anything happens.

Migrating from Windows to Windows with Windows Easy Transfer

Windows 7 has a great tool built-in called Windows Easy Transfer, that can grab your data from an old computer—even one running Windows XP—and transfer it to your new machine with an external drive. To set it up, plug in your external drive and hit the Start menu on your new machine. In the search box, type "Windows Easy Transfer" and click on the shortcut when it pops up.

If you're running Windows XP, you'll need to install the Windows Easy Transfer files to your external hard drive first. Hit Next at the first window, then hit "An External Hard Disk or USB Flash Drive". Then click "This Is My New Computer" and hit "No" at the next screen. Click "I Need to Install It Now" and pick your external hard disk when prompted. Windows will copy the necessary files, which should only take a minute.

When it's done, unplug it and plug it into your old computer. If you don't get an autorun prompt, head to My Computer and double-click on your external hard drive. From there, it'll ask you if you want to install Windows Easy Transfer on your Windows XP machine. After it does, it will scan your computer for data to transfer.

Select the users you want to copy over and hit Next. Save the data to your external drive or flash drive and wait for it to transfer (this might take awhile).

If your old computer is running Windows 7, you can skip all the above steps and just open Easy Transfer directly from the Start Menu's search box and picking "This Is My Old Computer". It will then perform the above steps and transfer your data to the external drive.

Once you've moved your user data from your old computer to the external drive, head back to your new computer and plug the external drive back in to your new computer. If you closed the Easy Transfer Window, open it back up and navigate through the steps again, this time picking "Yes" when it asks you if Windows Easy Transfer has already saved your files to an external drive.

Select your drive from the list and check the users you want to transfer over. Wait as it transfers all your data (again, this could take a few minutes). When it's done, your computer will restart, and you should see that all your files and settings are available on your new machine.

Note that this won't migrate any of your programs, just your settings and documents. It will, however, let you know what programs you had on your old computer so you can write down a quick list of the programs you'll want to reinstall.

Migrating from a Mac to a Mac with Migration Assistant

For this, you'll either need to hook up your two Macs with a FireWire cable, or transfer data from a Time Machine backup drive (if you have one). So start up your new Mac and plug in your old Mac or Time Machine drive, and open up Migration Assistant from /Applications/Utilities.

Hit continue at the first window, then pick "from another mac" or "from a time machine backup", depending on where you're grabbing your old data. It'll present you with a checklist of items, from which you can select what you want to migrate. In general, you'll want to select everything here—that'll make sure all your documents, settings, applications, even your wallpaper transfer to the new computer, and it'll be like you just started up your old Mac with shiny new hardware.

The only situation in which this won't work is if your new hard drive is actually smaller than your old one, like if your new computer has an SSD. In this case, unselect the less important things until it says you have enough room. You can always transfer other stuff later using the external drive method below.

Manually Migrating from Mac to Windows or Windows to Mac

If you're migrating to a new computer of a different type (that is, if you're moving from Mac to Windows or Windows to Mac), there isn't a simple migration utility that will move everything for you. In this case, you'll have to do it manually with an external hard drive. This is actually quite simple to do, and since you don't have any settings to move, you don't really need an extra utility—it's just a matter of drag-and-drop.

The first thing you'll have to do is format your drive to work with your old computer. If your old computer is a Windows machine, plug it in and right-click on its entry in Windows Explorer. Hit the "Format" button, and choose NTFS as the file system. A Quick Format is fine; we just need to make it compatible with this computer. Note that this will erase anything currently on the drive; so make sure it doesn't have anything on it you want to keep.

On a Mac, open up Disk Utility from /Applications/Utilities and find your external drive in the list on the left. Click on it, and then hit the "Erase" tab on the right. If you have any files over 4 GB (like movies), you'll need to format it as "Mac OS X Extended (Journaled)", otherwise you can choose FAT32. Hit Erase. Again, this will erase everything on the drive.

Next, open up the newly formatted drive in your file explorer (Windows Explorer on Windows, Finder on the Mac). Open up another window in your file explorer and head to your user folder. On Windows, your user folder is located at C:\Users\Username, and on a Mac you can access it by clicking on your username in the Finder sidebar. In both cases, you should see all your user folders—like Documents, Music, Movies, Photos, and Desktop.

If you formatted your drive as Mac OS X Extended, note that you won't be able to read it on the Windows machine. You'll need something like previously mentioned HFSExplorer to get those files off.

Drag all of the folders in which you've saved files—like your Documents, Photos, and Music folders—to your external drive. You don't need to drag every folder in there, just the ones you use—folders like AppData on Windows or Library on OS X don't need to be copied.

Once it finishes, unplug the drive and plug it into your new computer. From there, you can open up each folder individually and drag those files wherever you want. For example, you can open up the Documents folder on your external drive, and drag all those files to the Documents folder on your new computer. Once you're done, you should have quick access to all your old files, whether they be documents, music, or photos, and you won't need to use your old computer anymore.

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ToutApp's got an interesting year-end tool that scans your Gmail account and gives you a year-end inventory of stuff that's happened in your account. Among the useful things they provide are total emails sent/received, what percentage of your emails got replied to and what percentage do you reply to emails.

ToutApp also gives stats like your top 10 most contacted people, and arranges all your contacts into 3 different circles in order of closeness. It's free, so if you're at all curious about your email habits, give it a shot.

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Praise is one of those things you want to lavish on your children. After all, the world will be indifferent enough. Someone should be in their corner. In fact, praise is a wonderful thing. You just want to watch how you do it.

We've talked about praising process instead of the person before, and what works with adult feedback seems to bear out with children, too. Parenting Science points out that when you praise a child's abilities (intelligence, strength, and so on) it can cause them to focus on looking good rather than performing. This can make your praise backfire on you. For example, consistently praising a child for being smart can set up a desire in them to not disappoint you (and themselves) by failing a task. It becomes easier to not try or not challenge themselves in an effort to avoid that.

Kids praised for their efforts rather than their abilities tend to prefer tasks that are more challenging and are more interested in learning new ways to succeed. So, what's the most effective kind of praise? According to Parenting Science:

  • Praise your child for her strategies (e.g., "You found a really good way to do it")
  • Praise your child for specific work (e.g., "You did a great job with those math problems")
  • Praise your child for his persistence or effort (e.g., "I can see you've been practicing" and "Your hard work has really paid off")

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Sunday, October 5, 2014

I'm So Tired

We have had a super fun weekend, but I am spent. Done. So there's No way I can wrap it up tonight. But tomorrow I will!

Until then, I'm watching Once Upon a Time, because yes I got hooked on it (thank you Netflix) and I'm not too proud to say I love it. ;).   I like fairy tales. And Ginnifer Goodwin's hair.

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Saturday, October 01, 2005

Bare Minimum

I have decided to rename our homeschool. It will now be called "The Bare Minimum". I wonder how this will strike relatives, friends and the school board! I did not arrive at this name lightly.
Yesterday, I was reading an article about Christopher Paolini, one of my 12 year old's favorite authors. Homeschooled himself, Paolini began writing the book Eragon at age 15, and at 21, has just published the sequel, Eldest. The article states: "Now, Paolini doubts he'll ever attend college. "To be honest about it, I make my living right now writing down my daydreams, which is a wonderful job. As far as I'm concerned, it's the best job in the world," he said."

As I discussed with my dh my frustrations with getting the "bare minimum" of schooling done, because my daughters' passions for piano playing, horses, reading and writing were taking up so much of the day's time. Then, I thought of Paolini. At 21, he has a job he loves, income, fame, and a future. I wondered if he is good at Algebra? Does he know the difference betweeen eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells? Maybe, but no one really cares. They care only that he writes another book.

I remember discussing high school curricula with a mom who had two homeschooled college age girls, one of which now attends college. I asked her advice, seeing that she'd used both correspondence schools, text curricula, and junior college. She told me that were she to do over again, she'd give her daughters just the bare minimum of what was required for high school. Thus, our school name.

Many days, I reflect on what we are not accomplishing. These feelings I know stem from what other people expect of us. Worrying about the standards, I generate negative feelings of being "behind". Yet, I have a daughter that can play piano at a high school, maybe college level and is self-motivated to practice for hours. I have a daughter that writes for fun for hours and is really gifted. Both love to read enough that I have to confiscate and hide their books in order to get them to do their chores. Both ride horses very well. Both know their way around a computer. I want them to be grounded in the basics, but maybe the bare minimum is enough. Perhaps life should have more time in it for our passions.

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Welcome to Lil' Country Librarian

Welcome! Lil' Country Librarian is a blog devoted to assisting elementary teacher-librarians and early childhood teachers/parents in finding resources quickly and inexpensively. You will find lesson plans, classroom tips, resource links and printables that will make teaching library easier and more meaningful for your students. I hope you enjoy your visit. Please come back soon!

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

My laptop must be a teenager because it's rebelling against me!

I'm not proud to admit this, but my normally patient self has turned into a horrible-thought-sending-meanie-with-a-touch-of-evil-glare kind of person every time I've turned the computer on this past week and it would immediately shut itself off. Even worse, sometimes it would decide to come up with a screen that was eerily similar to the "blue screen of death".

So, my sweet husband took a hint and lugged the sickly thing to the computer ER today. I hope they get it fixed STAT! Apparently, I'm super attached to my computer and all it's cutesy fonts and clip art and fabulous family pictures that not all other computers have on them. :)

While my computer is away, I'm praying that all of my pictures & files will be okay because I am the world's worst at backing everything up. :( Silly me! I totally regret not doing it in times like this!

I promise you a freebie as soon as I get back up and running! Thanks for sticking with me!

  1. Oh no! I'm feeling your pain! I'm horrible at backing up too! Crossing my fingers and praying for a Christmas Computer Miracle!

  2. @Michelle Rist Aww, thank you, Michelle! That makes me feel better. :)

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  3. Sorry you are having computer problems. Thanks for following my blog. I am your newest follower too!

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  4. Ouch! We cannot really avoid situations like that, my friend. Did you already ask for the help of a technician? He could really help a lot in fixing your computer. Maybe, he could also recover your lost files. They can perform a lot of magic when it comes to computers, you know. Haha. Anyway, next time, try creating a backup copy of your important files so that when you laptop crashes (again), you will still have a copy of those files, allowing you to continue working despite the technical issues.

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New public art pieces to land on Beacon’s Bluff

The proposed sculpture by East Sider Philip Blackburn, titled “the Pendulum Beacon,” could end up on public land at Beacon Bluff next spring. (submitted photo)

When brainstorming for a new art installation at the Beacon Bluff site, East Side artist Philip Blackburn’s first question was: “Where’s the beacon?”

And indeed it’s true, there is no beacon to speak of at the former 3M manufacturing site, which is now owned by the St. Paul Port Authority.

But Blackburn’s project should change that. He plans to install what he calls “a next generation beacon” along the public path at the St. Paul Port Authority’s development zone.

Funded by the Port Authority and the East Side Arts Council, Blackburn is hoping to install his 30-foot-tall teepee-shaped artwork, titled “the Pendulum Beacon” next spring.

He’s already drawn out rough plans for the thing, but recently received a $5,000 grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council to take a look at the piece from an engineering standpoint.

“Blackburn received funding ... to collaborate with specialized experts as well as a significant period of model building, prototyping, durability and safety testing,” a statement from the MRAC reads.

So what exactly is it?

“The Pendulum Beacon” will be made of utility poles forming a teepee shape. Within that shape there will be a number of swinging pendulums. The pendulums will swing via solar power and will be made to look like wild grass blowing in the wind.

Since they’ll all be set at different fulcrums, they’ll swing at different lengths and “go in and out of phase,” Blackburn said, forming geometrical patterns.

The rods will be “moving back and forth like a perpetual motion machine,” he said.

Crowning the teepee structure will be a reflective cone-shaped prism, which will represent a beacon. “Instead of being a beacon that gives off light, it gives off the light of the environment,” Blackburn explained.

Blackburn hopes the project will provide a visually appealing respite for anyone traveling through the public path, which connects East Seventh Street with the Bruce Vento Regional Trail.

East Seventh Street, Minnehaha Avenue and Duluth Street border the Beacon Bluff development site. One business, the new East Side Family Clinic, opened up shop in April on one of the lots there.

A long-time East Sider

This is not Blackburn’s first public art endeavor.

He’s done numerous projects, including the marimba benches at the Payne-Phalen Poetry Park, but most of the others have been temporary.

The grant Blackburn received from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council will help him make sure that his plan is structurally sound to be a permanent piece, by consulting with an engineer.

This application of an MRAC grant is unique in that it’s a sophisticated project requiring engineering input, said Greg Nielsen, a program director at MRAC.

Blackburn has “a long connection with the East Side of St. Paul, not just as a resident but as someone involved with the community,” Nielsen added. Blackburn has been involved with the East Side Arts Council for years.

Sarah Fehr, executive director at ESAC, said her organization is excited about the project and the prospect of bringing new art into the neighborhood.

She said the St. Paul Port Authority’s Monte Hilleman sought out her organization’s input from the get-go to make sure the Beacon Bluff development has public art. Hilleman is in charge of the Port Authority project.

Fehr said there will be a second piece of art done nearby, representing rainfall as part of a storm water collection demonstration. There will be meetings to seek community input about the art projects in the fall, she added.

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Das Langweilige ist interessant geworden, weil das Interessante angefangen hat langweilig zu werden. – Thomas Mann

"Never for money/always for love" - The Talking Heads

Monday, September 27, 2004

LI has been trying, and failing, to say something with some reach, some truly novelistic depth, about the symbiotic relationship between the fantasies of Bush’s supporters and the essential falsity of Bush’s vision of Iraq – a falsity that can be summed up as the large, enduring and apparently insurmountable incongruity between means and ends in Iraq.

We thought we were on to something by thinking about alibis. We thought about how alibis, used by defendants in court, have to be contoured not only to assume the shape of truth, but to assume that shape of truth that one presumes the jury would find truthful. Hence, the overlapping of sometimes contradictory or incompatible accounts. So we rummaged through a bunch of Greek texts from Lysias to Antiphon, looking at defense speeches.

Finally, though, we couldn’t make this post cohere.

So we dropped it. And wheeling about on the web, we came face to face with Perry Anderson’s second article about French intellectual culture, in the LRB. So we thought, as Francophiles, that here was a natural sighting for our put upon readers.

Anderson’s casts the usual saturnine Marxist glance, but there is something a bit too kneejerk about that disenchantment and its garage sale metaphors. He does present us with a nice problem. How is it that France, in the aftermath of 68, tended not to the left, but to the vaguely right? How is it that Francois Furet’s drumming for the French tradition of liberalism, of all things, climbed to play a dominant role in French intellectual politics of the Mitterand era and after?

We don’t care much for Anderson’s hurried dismissal of the 19th century’s liberal thinkers as a group of villainous intellectual pygmies, Constant, Guizot and Tocqueville. It would be nice to see Tocqueville treated without the breathless and inane admiration that he receives from American writers, who overestimate him and never place him in the context of his life’s work. But Anderson’s drive-by knock, that Tocqueville is the hangman of the Roman Republic, is too trifling for words. Similarly, his complaint that Constant colluded to elevate Napoleon to the leadership. He did, but he also put up a pretty gutsy howl against the wars of conquest Napoleon proceeded on – with a better sense of the injury that such militarism does to culture than Marx, who coming a generation later, sighed that Napoleon didn’t occupy Germany long enough.

That remark has had untold pernicious consequences.

We did like Anderson pointing to a fact that is routinely ignored by establishment media like the NYT and the Economist. France has, for the last thirty years, found itself saddled with a governing class who, whether socialist or conservative, ends up trying to institute the neo-liberal project. And for thirty years, the population has refused. Every government that has tried it has been voted out of office, or fallen due to some strike.

That’s rather admirable. Surely if the people of France hadn’t taken the power into their own hands, the French medical system would have become the mess it is in other places in the world – like the U.S. and the U.K. Ditto with the great shift towards privatizing retirement.

So – a nice combination of gossip and a little soupcon of mental nourishment. Check out the article.

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Das Langweilige ist interessant geworden, weil das Interessante angefangen hat langweilig zu werden. – Thomas Mann

"Never for money/always for love" - The Talking Heads

Thursday, September 08, 2005

That debbil GOP

Scratchings linked to our post about Lieberman the other day. I was interested to read one of his commentators accuse me of being a Republican.

I have been accused of many things, but this is a new one for me. Yet, in one way, it is a very just accusation. Lately, from my point of view (that of an extinct beast, much like the mastodon), I have been trying to sort out the relationship between the sense that this decade has seen the great American failure and the sense that the two party system here is broken. That sorting out begins with the premise that the parties are secondary to the real political life of the Republic. This premise is a hypothesis – I’m not going to defend it as the ultimate truth of the matter, but I think there’s a strong case to be made for constructing an analysis from it.

That analysis would trespass on the current verities of political analysis on my side, the liberal side. Given my premise, the question I want to put is: why did liberalism become so attached to one of the parties? I think there are good reasons for thinking that that attachment was devoutly wished by academic political scientists in the fifties and sixties, who felt that American political parties weren’t following the more rational European pattern – a pattern that sorted out the conservatives into a Conservative party, the Socialists into a Socialist party, etc. Rather, the American pattern was rather a jigsaw puzzle, in which populists would pop up as Republicans and segregationists would pop up as Democrats, etc. The rationalization of politics, according to the school prevailing in the fifties and sixties, would create parties as monopolists of ideologies.

This idea so sank into the framework of official political discourse that it is now presupposed. So when, for instance, a “radical” analysis of politics appears – for instance, Thomas Franks “what’s the matter with Kansas” – the problem goes something like: why don’t Kansans vote for their economic self interest, i.e. Democrats?

Myself, I think the process of this rationalization has been a disaster. The real question, to me, is: why have Kansas Republicans deviated from the old Progressive Republican norm? I think the answer is: the monopolization of ideologies by the parties has destroyed the machinery that made progressive politics possible in this country.

Take, for instance, Texas, where I live at the moment. The next Senatorial election here is going to be utterly predictable. The Republican candidate will be a rightwinger from hell. The liberal element in the state will concentrate exclusively on finding a Democrat of acceptable views to lose to him or her. The liberal element will devote an incredible amount of creativity and passion in a project that, intellectually, they know is doomed to failure. The Democrat they pick will, in the campaign, veer farther to the right than any New York State Republican. And that will be that.

Lefties will proceed to bitch and moan about the rightwing Dem, and propose that we all rush into the Green party. The right, which will have no competition whatsoever within the Republican party, will use its leverage to make its reactionary candidate even more reactionary – while at the same time guaranteeing that the freerider politics of borrowing and siphoning money disproportionately from the Federal government to Red states continues. This money will, in truth, be less than the money siphoned from the primary products extracted in the Red states which profit the investors living in New York City and the surrounding wealthy states.

Now, a fair question for a liberal to ask is: what is the weak link in this chain? To me, the obvious answer is: continuing to support the Democratic party unilaterally. By refusing to contact the Republican party, liberalism loses any of the leverage it used to have. Period. Instead of searching for Republican Yarboroughs, the liberal element will continue to stick with promoting losers at the statewide level. Instead of seeing that the Republican base is avid to exploit the government, as rational economic agents, the liberals will continue to affirm that the Republicans stand for small government – under the cover of which delusion Republicans will continue to maintain an expanded government. The reality is that this is a non-issue – in the Keynesian world system, the GDP taken up by a modern industrial state will probably range about the same percentage, regardless of the party in power. The last thirty years should have taught us that much, at least.

Alain said...

LI, I like your argument except for the conclusion: Why don't liberals approach the Republican party? There are clearly "moderate voices" in the party - Christine Whitman, Swartzenegger, etc... but they are "moderate" only in a relative sense. Can one imagine a group of "liberals" having any influence at all, even at the grass roots level, when the party is dominated by not only "free market fundamentalists," but also religious fundamentalists. Would an open secularist be aloud in? Perhaps I am missing the point?

roger said...

Alain, different circumstances, different strategies. You don't have to settle for Schwarzenegger in California, but he'd be a leaping light year ahead of Perry in Texas.

The deal is: by giving up one party entirely to its worst characters, you increase the chances that those worst characters exert undue power. Partly this is because parties are adept at playing multiple games. So my point is: as a liberal, one needs to analyze what the real chances are, vis a vis the political situation, for advancing by means of one party or the other. Just as Clintons and Carters could emerge from a fundamentally conservative Democratic party in the South because they could play both to the right (as, for instance, Carter's days as governor of Georgia, which included him declaring a day for Lt. Calley -- remember that mass murdering son of a bitch?) and to the left, in terms of state support for the social net and other bits and pieces of the old New Deal deal.

roger said...

ps -- I should say that I think it is foolish to JOIN any party -- support, here, is merely a tactic having to do with elections and trying to select the least unpalatable candidates to elevate to office. There are, of course, multiple other ways to press the governing class.


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Main :: StageScape M20d Mixer Community Support

Phantompower setting is off when setup is loaded
by Ruben40 on 2012-09-17 11:02:47.6370

Can you confirm, that the phantom power is not stored in the setup.

That means: Everytime when I switch on the M20d, I have to adjust the phantom power from off to on.

Please change it in future firmware !!! Or make it visible in the main setup menu in the s20d.

It costs me 30 minutes before a live gig. One condensor microphones was without a signal.

Re: Phantompower setting is off when setup is loaded
by ArneLine6 on 2012-09-17 11:20:59.9380

Hello Ruben,

We have a bug here. It concerns only the second row of inputs. Inputs 7-12 do not load the phantom power status correctly. Inputs 1-6 do.

If possible, you could use inputs 1-6 for your condenser microphones and re-assign the stage icons by having the icon selected and assigning the input in the patch window.

We are very sorry for your inconvenience and this is definitely fixed in the next update.

The information above may not be current, and you should direct questions to the current forum or review the manual.


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Journal of Neurology

, Volume 254, Supplement 2, pp II80–II83

Long-term neuropsychological deficits after central nervous system infections despite adequate therapy

DOI: 10.1007/s00415-007-2019-0

Cite this article as:
Nau, R. & Schmidt, H. J Neurol (2007) 254(Suppl 2): II80. doi:10.1007/s00415-007-2019-0

Neuropsychological deficits are common consequences of central nervous system infections despite adequate treatment. The frequency and severity depends on the causative pathogen and the site(s) of injured brain parenchyma. The severity ranges from mild cognitive abnormalities not interfering with everyday life performance to fully developed Wernicke-Korsakow syndrome with complete inability to incorporate new information into long-term memory and to persistent vegetative state. In several conditions, rapid initiation of adequate therapy is crucial to minimise neuropsychological impairment.

Key words

meningitis encephalitis cognitive impairment AIDS neuroborreliosis

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  1. 1.Dept. of NeurologyGeorg-August-UniversityGöttingenGermany


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The token-bucket scheduler principle is pretty well explained here: http://www.linux-vserver.org/index.php?page=Linux-VServer-Paper-06

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vsched takes the following arguments:

       The number of tokens that will be placed in the bucket.

       How often (the above specified) number of tokens will be placed.
       This is in jiffies.

note: The important factor is the ratio:

   --------- * 100   =   % CPU allocation

Note that that this is the proportion of a *single* CPU in the system. So, if you have four CPUs and you want one context to get an average of one whole CPU to itself, then you'd set fill-rate to 1 and interval to 4. It is advantageous to smooth operation of the algorithm to make the interval as small as possible (or much smaller than the bucket size). You can in most cases simplify the fraction, such as changing --fill-rate=30 and interval=100 to fill-rate=3 and --interval=10.

For simple cases, like evenly distributing cpu time between vservers, you probably just want to set the ratio to somewhere between 1/N (where N is the number of servers) and 1/P (where P is the maximum expected peak load per CPU), and not bother with hard scheduling. Process count ulimits will put an upper bound on possible abuse by a context.

       The bucket starts out with this many tokens. Tokens_max takes
       precedence here, so it cannot be higher than tokens_max.

       When a bucket is empty, the context is on hold _until_ at least
       this many tokens are in the bucket.

       The size of the bucket. When tokens aren't being used, the bucket
       will be getting fuller and fuller, but up to this value. So in effect
       this is your CPU burst parameter.

       This is obsolete, but I've found the current vsched is a little
       picky and will segfault if you omit parameters, so I always
       specified 0 here.

According to the VServer paper, "At each timer tick, a running process consumes exactly one token from the bucket". Here running means actually needing the CPU as opposed to "running" as in "existing". Most processes are not running most of the time, e.g. an httpd waiting on a socket isn't running, even though ps would list it.

To put it another way, processes can have various states:

  • R (runnable),
  • S (sleeping)
  • T,Z,D ... (see man ps(1))

and processes in 'R' state can be scheduled (running) or not scheduled (waiting to be run) those which are scheduled (i.e. running on a cpu) will consume one token for every tick ...

A token is quite a bit of CPU time - the ticks (or jiffies for now) are generated at a (usually) constant intervall called HZ which was 100 for 2.4 and typically is 1000 for 2.6 so you can assume to get a tick every 1ms (or 1000 ticks each second)

Here are some guidelines. All this is very much unscientific and without a lot of testing and theory behind, so if someone has better guidelines, please pitch in. [(again, not sure if this is CPU speed dependent - tests were on a 2.8GHz Xeon). Typing "python" on the command line (which is a huge operation IMHO) consumes 17 tokens in my tests. Having 100000 tokens in your bucket is probably sufficient for a medium size compile job.] When trying to come up with a good setting in my environment (basically hosting), I was looking for values that would not cripple the snappiness of the server, but prevent people from being stupid (e.g. cat /dev/zero | bzip2 | bzip2 | bzip2 > /dev/null).

To achieve this, it is important that contexts that are being CPU hogs are penalised fairly quickly... As the tokens in the bucket deplete, the "nice" value of the contexts is adjusted - they lose their vavavoom. As this happens, the processes get shorter and shorter timeslices. Other, more deserving processes will get longer timeslices and hence more CPU time.

Additionally, bear in mind that individual processes also get a minor nice boost or penalty, depending on whether those processes have been CPU hogs recently or not. This is diminished in vserver kernels compared to standard kernels, but should still have sufficient effect to counter extreme conditions.

The fill interval should be short enough to not be noticeable, so something like 100 jiffies. The fill rate should be relatively small, something like 30 tokens. Tokens_min seems like it should simply equal to the fill rate. The tokens_max should be generous so that people can do short cpu-intensive things when the need them, so something like 10000 tokens.

From the experimentation I did, I'd say 10,000 tokens is quite large - 10 seconds of real CPU time. Compare this with the default value of 500. If you've given a context 30% of the CPU as described above, then that actually means about 10-15 wall clock seconds of CPU hogging before the context gets appreciably penalised. For the algorithm to work best, I think you would want to reduce this to about 1-2 seconds' worth of jiffies. You are right in saying that tokens_max is the "burst" CPU rate, so setting it to a large value like 10000, while setting the interval to a large value like 100, would indicate that you are optimising your system for batch scheduling (long time slices, higher overall throughput), not interactive use (short time slices, reduced throughput). My guess is that min_tokens (not in my original implementation) is a batch optimisation as well, but perhaps small values (~10) are useful to avoid excessive context switching.

But then, I didn't really experiment with the hard scheduling side of things, so maybe if you are hard scheduling it is more important to make sure that the buckets don't normally run out.

Of course just because I wrote the original algorithm does not by any means lend much extra weight to my opinion on how to use it, and I invite others to respond with their experience.

You can see current token stats by looking at /proc/virtual/<xid>/sched on the mother server.

[edit] vscheduling an application inside a vserver

You can also use vsched to pace any cpu intensive command, e.g.:

vcontext --create --     \
 vsched --fill-rate 30  \
        --interval 100  \
        --tokens 100    \
        --tokens_min 30 \
        --tokens_max 200 \
         --cpu_mask 0   -- /bin/my_cpu_hog

however, this is dependent upon the hard scheduler actually being enabled. If either the minimum is not reached yet, or the context is paused (a special flag) then the process will enter the new 'H' (on hold) state which doesn't allow it to do anything until the minfill has been reached again ...

While playing with this stuff I've run into situations where a context has no tokens left, at which point you cannot even kill the processes in it. Don't panic - you can always reenter the context and call vsched with new parameters.

So the pacing example should really be:

vcontext --create --       \
  vsched --fill-rate 30    \
         --interval 100    \
         --tokens 100      \
         --tokens_min 30   \
         --tokens_max 200  \
          --cpu_mask 0 --  \
     vattribute --flag sched_hard -- /bin/my_cpu_hog

A load of 30 is not a real problem (in terms of CPU, anyway), if those processes have such a low priority that everything else on the system is pretty much real time. What you are seeing is probably just due to the context not getting enough penalisation by the time the load hits 30, or some secondary effect like disk load or memory exhaustion. Try it with a smaller bucket size.

When a context goes on hold with runnable processes, those processes might not contribute to the visible load factor, but they could be said to still be runnable. So all you're doing is hiding the problem and underutilising your CPUs.

Having said that, because the cpu scheduler tries to avoid process starvation (where a process gets no CPU at all), then if a context has a *lot* of processes then it will `exploit' the anti-starvation code into getting more CPU than allocated, without hard scheduling. To give you an indication, this is around the number of minimum time slices (MIN_TIMESLICE, 5ms) than fit into the starvation limit (MAX_SLEEP_AVG, 2.5s) - ie, a per-second CPU load of 500.

Turning on the hard scheduling means letting processes starve. If you're happy to let processes starve then you can make the scheduler perform better in other ways - that is a classic trade-off in CPU scheduling.

Heh. I don't know if this is current behaviour or not, but I think the signals should really queue and the context will close as soon as the processes wake up and receive enough cycles to process them and exit. Sending -KILL signals would clean it up pretty quickly (as soon as enough tokens are allocated for the processes to run), as chances are they won't consume any tokens to receive a KILL signal. Though, it would be nice if they didn't need tokens allocated to be stopped via KILL.

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Coolpix S01 is Easy to Carry and Easy to Afford.

You know any camera can make THIS face look good.  But the Nikon Coolpix S01 can give you cute pics like that AND fit in the tiny pocket of your jeans.  No, really, I didn't believe it would, so I checked...
and it really did fit.  It's so tiny and light you can take it anywhere.

We took it to see Santa...

And we were surprised to find a few other friends while we were out too...

It was super dark in Kringle's Kingdom and with so much to see it was super hard to get anyone to sit still for even a second.  But we had a great time and I thought this lil camera was pretty impressive when put the challenge of my kids!

There aren't a ton of setting options and unless I'm missing something it seems to revert back to default setting each time it goes to sleep so you'll want to keep an eye on that (especially with flash).  But I did play with it some with my Christmas tree which isn't all to interesting this year for the safety of our furballs (and my sanity).  But in a more controlled environment I was actually impressed with the quality of the photos.

Other things to note, I'm not used to a touch screen capture.  This means if you tap the screen it will take a photo.  You can turn it off but it wasn't hurting anything so I have left it on but I DO have a lot of photos of the floor, ceiling and my hands.
Also this camera features only built in memory, great in that I can't show up to an event and realize I have a camera and no memory card.  But you'll want to be sure to monitor how much room you have left.  With 7+G you're good for awhile but is just something to note if its different than what you're used to.  It also charges via USB.  A plus weight wise that you don't have a bulky battery but it doesn't give you the option to have back up batteries.  I have gotten used to just plugging it in regularly like I would my cell phone and haven't had it die on me yet.  (Being out for about an hour with pretty constant shooting, it barely shows battery draining.)

Final thoughts, I think this is great camera and at it's current sale price ($99) it is a STEAL.  I would highly recommend it for anyone looking for a new point and shoot this holiday!

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Orlando/ALA Bound? Make Sure You Do the Exhibits

I've always been a bit of an exhibit snob, poo-pooing the exhibit hall as a bit of unneccesary fluff that, frankly, I didn't have time for. At Midwinter, however, I learned that it's exhibitors who make conference (relatively) affordable for attendees. Were it not for exhibitors, registration fees would be several hundred dollars. Apparently, exhibit hall traffic at Midwinter was so low, that members of the Exhibits Round Table (ERT) threatened to pull out if ALA didn't institute a no-conflicts time that would give members an open period during which they could visit with vendors, scoop up free pens and get their picture taken with Elvis. ALA heard and responded to the concerns. Here's an editorial from Library Journal with more details. See you in Orlando where I'll be putting in time at both the Public Programs Office and U of Illinois booths in the exhibit hall!

PW caves to Dershowitz who would have thought.
I have read some of his work, although not this particular one. I do tend to think that he, and frankly most lawyers who write for the popular press, are big bags of wind. I can't disagree with the self-aggrandizing comment in the original review as I find that he is. I feel the same way about Andrew Greeley.

I guess I have to go out and read this now. The review at amazon now is pablum. It reads like a book report from a sixth grader. ' Each case is only six pages, the more recent cases are more frequent.'

OK my previous post has nothing to do with ALA in Orlando (Unless Dershowitz will be there).

Too many browsers active with too many windows open. I hate sites that require MSIE when I prefer Opera.

However, I will be at ALA next month. I'll be at the FSU booth. If you see me there don't tell my old professors I can't keep my browsers straight.
I'll be easy to spot, I'm the crabby guy with the Bush bumper stickers :)

As of this writing, it could be Dershowitz....they still don't have a keynote speaker lined up. I'd do it for a cushy hotel room and drinks. I can decry the lack of diversity and point out that I've only seen one crabby guy with Bush bumper stickers and what are we gonna do about that, huh? Maybe you could start a Round Table, md.

I thought it was going to be Clarke.

There is going to be a meeting of conservative librarians. I have reserved a broom closet.

I really don't go for the speakers but more for the exhibits. When I worked full time as an RN I used to go to the ER nurse meetings for the vendors rather than the presentations. The vendors all had great free stuff and the presentations were almost always about things everybody already knew. They had to give away prizes to get us to go the the educational presentations, (or CEU's). Of course nurses are always up for a cocktail party. I hope librarians are too.

Yep...they snuck Clarke in there while I wasn't looking. Cocktail party? You bet. I think that we should have an LISNews Conservative/Liberal Rumble, fueled by shots of tequila and sticking-out-of-tongues. My favorite librarian quote:

"You honor your reservations; you go to your meetings so we can clean the rooms; you're relatively quiet; and you drink more than the American Legion."
Anonymous hotel official, on why he liked the ALA annual conference
(Quoted by Patricia Wilson Berger in Chicago Tribune article,
29 June 1990, Tempo section, p. 1)

Is there really going to be a meeting for conservatives or was that a joke?

I don't think there will be enough conservative librarians to get a meeting together. However I'm willing to find someplace to have it if anyone wants to go.

Unfortunetly I won't be there. I do plan on going to the January conference here in Boston. I was just excited at the prospect of 2 or 3 (maybe 4?) conservative librarians meeting at the conference surrounded by the thousands of librarians who will be there.

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Recipes | Healthy Wholegrain and Lentil Crepes with quick Spreads – Memories which root us in a time and place

15 September 2014 6 Comments

healthy wholegrain crepes, egg free and vegan

Growing up, we used to visit our granny every holiday. Reaching late at her house and being treated with warm and comforting Bajra khichda (millet porridge) was the best part of our trip.

She would welcome us with a sweet smile and rush to her kitchen to cook a quick meal. The wooden hearth would be hurriedly filled with charcoal to light the fire. She would then open the large round aluminum box placed neatly on wooden shelf and take out handful of wholegrain and lentil grits from it.

The spice-mixed grits were added to the earthen pot of boiling water on the hearth. In between her cooking, she would look at us admiringly from the side of her glasses and continue stirring the pot vigorously with a wooden ladle pouring ghee at regular intervals.

The food she cooked was plain and simple but it has created many enduring memories. These  memories are so special that they root us in a time & place making us happy every time that we cook the same food at home.

My mom follows the same and her kitchen shelves are always stacked with jars filled with various combinations of spices, lentils, millet and other cereal grits.

At home I do follow the same. These time-saving, versatile wholegrain & lentil mixes are really handy when you need a quick meal or are lazy to spend hours in your kitchen. There are many other ways these grits could be used to make a nourishing meal. I whip up a savory porridge, a healthy vegetable Khichdi, breakfast pancakes or Bisi-Bhele Bhat with these mixes.

Here is what I did with one of my red rice and lentil mix the other day, I made delicious crepes or Dosas or Chilla as called in India. Call it an Indian Pesarattu, Adai, Cheela or any other name, these crepes make a filling and healthy breakfast treat.

I have used a mix of brown rice and a popular Indian variety of Kerala rice called ‘Matta‘ rice in this recipe, you can use any other rice you wish.

1. Red rice lentil crepes

Recipes | Healthy Wholegrain Crepes

(makes 10-12 crepes)

  • 1 cup red rice
  • 1/4 cup split green gram
  • 1/4 cup pigeon pea
  • 1 onion
  • 1 tbsp black peppercorns
  • 1 tsp. cumin seeds
  • Coriander leaves
  • 1/2 tsp. salt
  • Oil
  • Water

Recipes | Healthy Wholegrain Crepes

Wash red rice, green gram (moong dal) and pigeon pea (toovar dal) with water and dry in sunlight for a day.

Coarsely grind red rice, both the lentils, with black peppercorns (kali mirch) and cumin seeds (jeera).

Store the above mix in an air-tight container. It stays good for many days.

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For making the crepes, take one cup of above grain and lentil mix and soak in water for an hour.

Grind the soaked rice-lentil mix into fine paste using a cup of water.

Add salt, finely chopped onion and coriander leaves to the batter and keep it aside for an hour.

Heat a griddle and pour a ladleful of batter on it. Spread the batter with the back of ladle into a thin circle.

Drizzle a few drops of oil and cook it for a minute.

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Flip to other side and cook for another minute till the crepe becomes crisp.

Serve with green chutney or tomato sauce.

2. Foxtail Millet lentil crepes

Recipes | Healthy Wholegrain Crepes

(makes 10-12 crepes)

  • 1 cup Foxtail millet
  • 1/2 cup Bengal gram
  • 1/2 cup Black gram
  • 2 dry red chilies
  • 1 tsp. cumin seeds
  • 1 onion
  • 1 tsp. grated ginger
  • Coriander leaves
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • Oil
  • water

Recipes | Healthy Wholegrain Crepes

Method; Wash and soak Foxtail millet, Bengal gram (chana dal), and black gram (urad dal) in water for an hour.

Grind the soaked millet and lentil with cumin seeds and red chilies using one cup of water into fine batter.

Recipes | Healthy Wholegrain Crepes

Finely chop onion, ginger and coriander leaves and add it to the batter. Add salt to the batter and let it rest for an hour.

Heat a griddle and pour a ladleful of batter on it. Spread the batter to make a pancake or crepe.  Drizzle a little oil and cook on both the sides till it s crisp. Serve with chutney or a dollop of fresh butter.

Read on wiki about Foxtail millet . Here are the recipes of the two quick spreads served with these crepes above;

1. Coriander yogurt chutney

  • 1 cup chopped coriander leaves
  • 1/4 cup chopped mint leaves
  • 2 tbsp. yogurt
  • 1 onion
  • 3 green chilies
  • 2 garlic cloves
  • 1 tsp. lemon juice
  • 1/2 tsp. roasted cumin powder
  • 1/2 tsp. salt

Method; Grind coriander leaves and mint leaves with green chilies, garlic cloves and salt into fine paste.

Take it out in a bowl and add rest of the ingredients and store in refrigerator.

2. Peanut-tomato chutney

  • 3 medium tomatoes
  • 1/2 cup roasted and shelled peanuts
  • 1 tsp. tamarind paste
  • 2 tsp. red chilly powder
  • 1 tbsp. oil
  • 1/4 tsp. turmeric powder
  • 1/2 tsp. mustard seeds
  • 1/2 tsp. salt
  • A pinch of asafetida powder

Method;  Grind roasted and shelled peanuts into coarse powder.

Heat oil in a pan and add crackle mustard seeds in it. Add chopped tomatoes, , turmeric powder, red chilly powder, tamarind paste, salt and cook for 4-5 minutes on medium heat.

Add coarsely ground peanut powder, asafetida powder and take it off from flame. Store the chutney in refrigerator. The chutney stays good for a week.

  1. Use buttermilk to grind the batter for Foxtail millet crepes.
  2. Use the grits to make a quick healthy Khichdi‘ or porridge.
  3. You can even powder the grits and store for making instant crepes.
  4. Replace Foxtail millet with any other millet of your choice to make these crepes.
  5. Keep the batter slightly liquid or runny to get thin crepes. You may find it slightly difficult to spread the thin batter initially.
  6. These crepes does not require any fermentation.
  7. Prepare the batter a day before and refrigerate to make quick healthy breakfast crepes in morning.

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  • Giorgia said:

    It is so fascinating reading about your childhood habits and your life, so different from mine…
    And it is a great pleasure discovering real Indian food through your posts, even if it is so different for me reproducing some recipes, due to the lack of ingredients I can find here in Italy…
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  • The Steaming Pot said:

    Thanks for the recipes, especially the crepe with foxtail millet – it’s not an ingredient I’ve cooked often with. I got a bag of it recently and have been looking for interesting ways of using it. This is exactly the kind of recipe I was looking for!

  • easyfoodsmith said:

    Wonderful memories!
    That is a delicious and satiating meal. I would be happy to lap it up anytime of the day.
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  • Destination Infinity said:

    Excellent pics. One suggestion is, for the main items, try to include the Tamil/Hindi names also (if any). Anyway, it was nice meeting you at the CBC meet yesterday. I remember commenting in this blog in your ‘I am following my passion by becoming a Food designer’ blog post. Please keep in touch 🙂

    Destination Infinity

  • anamika said:

    Lovely recipes! Can I do all the soaking the night before for the red rice dosa?

  • sanjeeta kk (author) said:

    @Anamika, if you are using the whole red rice, soaking overnight is best.

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Thursday, October 15, 2015

New Child's Play Books!

I love seeing Child's Play's big brown box of books show up on my porch every few months. The kids and I get to test drive new titles and see what we think. Child's Play is an independent publisher, specializing in whole child development, learning through play, life skills, and values. Their stuff is so pretty and fun. The latest additions to their collections got a thumbs up from us! Check it out.

The What's That board book series encourages guessing, prediction, and memory skills. Four titles in the series include CHOO! CHOO!, SNAP! SNAP!, TAP! TAP!, and TOOT! TOOT!What's that noise? Lift the flap and find out! Lift the flap books are my go-to's with little ones. Always a hit! Familiar themes and vibrant illustrations will mean many, repeated, and fun-filled readings.

The Seasons board book series has a separate charm all its own (Titles include Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter). Each season has something special about it, and in these books you get to explore each one. You will follow these whimsically illustrated  children as they spend time discovering the joys of indoor and outdoor play. And the durability of these board books means you can tote them around with you in each season and read them indoors or out!

We also read a couple new Child's Play picture books and they were adorable! Crunch! by Carolyn Rabei features the cutest little guinea pig named Crunch. He loves to eat and is shocked when a mouse named Cheddar asks to share his food. Trade for a hug? Nope. But Crunch ends up regretting his decision and sets out to find the hungry little mouse.

The last book was Ailsa Burrow's The Jar of Happiness. In this sweet book, Meg shares her "jar of happiness" with friends when they are down and need a little lift. Then one day the jar goes missing. Can she ever be happy again? But Meg's friends help her find new ways to be happy. We loved the super-cute cat in this story; he made us smile and giggle!

All books that are definitely worth your time and great additions to your library!

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Book Review: Bee Ridgway’s The River of No Return

May 5, 2013 5 out of 5, excellence, review 7 ★★★★★

Book Review: Bee Ridgway’s The River of No ReturnTitle: The River of No Return
Author: Bee Ridgway
Genre: Historical Fiction
My Rating: five-stars
My Copy: ARC courtesy of Dutton Adult
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Synopsis: “You are now a member of the Guild. There is no return.” Two hundred years after he was about to die on a Napoleonic battlefield, Nick Falcott, soldier and aristocrat, wakes up in a hospital bed in modern London. The Guild, an entity that controls time travel, showers him with life's advantages. But Nick yearns for home and for one brown-eyed girl, lost now down the centuries. Then the Guild asks him to break its own rule. It needs Nick to go back to 1815 to fight the Guild’s enemies and to find something called the Talisman.

In 1815, Julia Percy mourns the death of her beloved grandfather, an earl who could play with time. On his deathbed he whispers in her ear: “Pretend!” Pretend what? When Nick returns home as if from the dead, older than he should be and battle scarred, Julia begins to suspect that her very life depends upon the secrets Grandfather never told her. Soon enough Julia and Nick are caught up in an adventure that stretches up and down the river of time. As their knowledge of the Guild and their feelings for each other grow, the fate of the future itself is hanging in the balance.

The River of No Return is Bee Ridgway’s debut novel and what a spectacular book it is! It’s a mixture of time travel with historical elements. Fans of early 19th century England will be in for a real treat as Ridgway does a superb job with the research and it’s easy to immerse yourself in the era. Readers will be left questioning time and how it coincides with our own emotions. I have no doubt that by the end of the book you’ll be looking at time a little differently.

Ten years ago, Lord Nicholas Falcott, Marquess of Blackdown was fighting in one of the bloodiest sieges of the Napoleonic Wars, Badajoz. Facing death at the hands of a Frenchman, Nick suddenly finds himself waking up in a hospital room in 2003 instead of 1812. He’s told about the Guild, a mysterious entity that controls time and he’s informed there’s no going back to one’s time period. Nick is set up to live in the modern world and he quietly accepts his fate despite longing for his era. Reluctantly Nick answers the Guild’s summons where he’s notified they need him to return to 1815 to find the Talisman. He’s confused since he would be breaking a sacred Guild rule: there’s no return. Meanwhile in 1815, Julia Percy is living with the monster of her cousin Eamon, who is now the Earl of Darchester. She harbors a secret, her grandfather could manipulate time and Eamon is looking for the Talisman because he believes it would help advance his nefarious plans. Julia is held prisoner against her will and when Nick comes face to face with Julia, he’s shocked that the girl who helped carry him through war is at arm’s length. Will Nick be able to fulfill the job he needs for the Guild or will he abandon the mission to be with the woman he’s never forgotten and loves?

As for characterization, a few secondary characters will capture your interest. Arkady, the time traveling Russian will leave you intrigued and no doubt will become a favorite character. He’s still morning the loss of his child and it’s easy to sympathize with him and his hatred for the Ofan. I can’t wait to read his reaction to the news of who Julia really is and at yet at the same time, I worry for those who know of her true identity. Don’t want to be in caught in Arkady’s wrath! Then there’s the mysterious Mr. Mibbs. I have an idea of who he really is, but I don’t want to make any assumptions before I read the rest in the series. You’ll be left with questions regarding Jem Jemison and I believe there’s more to him than meets the eye. Finally, there’s Alva, an Ofan, who talks to Nick about the Guild and is eager to tell him the truth; however, we have to ask, do we trust what she says? More importantly can Nick? A few times I was frustrated for Nick. I can’t imagine being put in the situation he’s in and not told the entire truth regarding both the Guild and the Ofan. The moment when he meets with the Alderman of the 19th century, I felt he was Keanu Reeves in the Matrix when Morpheus shows Neo the pills and asks him to pick the red or blue. It’s a power struggle as to who to believe. I’m heartbroken for Nick because he’s not given the information he needs, but at the same time I realize the Guild’s insistence on keeping things secret. I’m curious to know dear reader, which team you’ll be on: Team Guild or Team Ofan.

The writing is beautiful and Ridgway does a terrific job using 19th century language alongside modern language. One of my pet peeves with historical fiction is language that sounds too modern and yet Ridgway gives a balance of the two. When Nick calls his sister, Clare, “kid,” she asks what that is and he’s quick to cover his use and invents a reason as to why he chose the word. One of my favorite scenes is Nick prepping for his return to the 19th century with Arkady and both are sitting in modern London. Nick complains that he doesn’t need lessons on how to be a gentleman and yet when he’s confronted with Clare for the first time, he realizes he isn’t the man he was. Ridgway also incorporates humor throughout. I adored the scene with Arkady asking Clare if she knows French because it keeps Russian wolves away.

What I really enjoyed about The River of No Return is that it’s thought provoking. Here we have a river of time that is fed by our emotions. Nick comes to our modern world when he’s a 19th century gentleman. I can’t imagine the shock at learning about technological advances and how social customs have changed. You would think it would be easy to fall back into familiar ways especially when you’re in the era you belong, but the way Ridgway handles Nick’s transformation is exceptional. Nick believes he can fall into his old self easily, but he struggles especially when he is confronted with his sister’s plans for Falcott House. Here he becomes the Marquess he was he born to be and yet he realizes that everything would be easier if women had a voice and fought for it. There are a few times he makes note about women having to free themselves and for the time period, it’s an outrageous comment. Nick is not only confronted with social change, but political too. He knows he can’t change history. For example, you can’t travel to kill Hitler or change the course of the Second World War. And yet Ridgway brings up an interesting point regarding Hitler. Arkady brings it up by saying, “Why when we talk about time travel do we always have to kill Hitler or not kill Hitler! It is to make Hitler a commonplace.” Knowing the political climate, Nick enters a turbulent time in England. The Napoleonic Wars ended a year before in 1814 and England is about to introduce the Importation Act 1815 (also known as the Corn Laws). He’s aware of the implications of the law, but he knows this from a modern study of history. When he’s forced to address the House of Lords and give his speech in support of the law, it weighs heavily on him. No doubt 19th century Nick, had he not time traveled, would have voted a particular way. There’s a difference between the man he was and the man he’s become. High-five to Ridgway for addressing these issues.

A note on the romance, I know there are some readers who are disappointed at the romance between Nick and Julia. Some feel cheated that Ridgway included it, but this is Nick and Julia’s story. You’ll come to realize what Julia means to Nick prior to him leaving for war and even during war she was an important fixture. In many ways, their fate is tied together. I won’t say exactly what it is, but it’s a beautiful love story. Once you find out Julia’s role, you’ll see how everything comes together.

Memorable quotes:

“What am I suppose to do? Lie back and think of England?”

“We are cowards, really, we time travelers. We cheat death over and over. Jumping away from one story into another. Always pursuing the hope of another day.”

It’s been a long time since a book made me want to peek at the upcoming chapters and The River of No Return had me spellbound. I had to restrain myself and forced myself to read a few chapters a day, otherwise I would have read it one sitting. It’s rare for me for to want to reread a book so quickly, but I can’t let go of Nick. I adore him and I can’t wait to read the next in the series. The only complaint I have is waiting for the second book.

7 Responses to “Book Review: Bee Ridgway’s The River of No Return”

  1. Tiffany

    Oh I like your review much more than mine. I tended to keep mine so general and based on my own emotions, trying not to give away a darn thing. I think it made for a lukewarm review; yours is exactly what I would aim for instead! I loved this book! 🙂

    • Jessica

      Don’t feel that way Tiffany! I’ve been sitting on this review for 3 weeks now and I had to edit a lot. I kept asking friends if my review sounded like an essay. I still feel it sounds that way. This book evokes so much emotion. I LOVED it and I can’t wait to reread it.

  2. Lark @ The Bookwyrm's Hoard

    Wonderful review! I loved this book, and can’t wait for the second. You mention Team Guild and Team Ofan; one of the things I thought Ridgway did really well was to paint the Ofan negatively at first, and then slowly reveal things which made me question whether my first assumptions about both Guild and Ofan were correct. Another is how she plays with concepts of identity; you talked about it in terms of Nick, and how he has both changed and not changed by going forward time and then back again, but I think the question of identity comes into play with a lot of characters, from Julia to Alva to the cheese inspector. I’m also pretty sure you’re right; there’s more to Jemison than we yet know (and that, too, plays into identity.) And I’m curious who you think Mibbs is; I’ve had one or two ideas, but I’m not wedded to any of them yet.

    You assumed, as I have, that there is a second book coming, but have you heard anything definite about when, and whether there will be more after that?
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    • Jessica

      You make a great point with regards to the issue of identity. Right now everything is up in the air as to who to believe. Jemison was a bit shady to me. He didn’t question Nick when he saw him again and every time he wanted to explain, he was sort of like “no that’s ok.” There’s more to him. As for Mibbs-he and Julia can both invade someone’s mind and read their thoughts. He’s looking for a baby and I remember Arkady (at least I think it’s him) saying he’s never met anyone who can do what Mibbs can. So if Julia can…then my thoughts go to Julia being related to Mibbs. Then again, what if there’s another group besides the Ofan and Guild? Ah, this book made me think way too much.

      She’s working on the second book as we speak and there will be a third. The second book, will feature a different couple, but Julia and Nick will be present. I did an interview with her here.

      • Lark @ The Bookwyrm's Hoard

        Yes, I think Mibbs may be related to Julia too, although he could just be aware of her abilities/significance, and be trying to either control or eliminate her. And your reasons for thinking there’s more to Jemison are the same as mine.

        I’m delighted to hear there’s a second book coming, but I will miss having Nick and Julia be the focus. I’m headed off to check out your interview!
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Monday, August 30, 2010

"Book Cover Challenge".......

Amy, artist extraordinaire, from has issued a book cover challenge and here is my entry. Sorry my pics are all over the place and totally not in the order I uploaded them, but either Blogger doesn't like me, or I'm a dunce!
The cover of this old book has such an appealing charm to me so of course I left it as is. I decided to make a little notebook out of it.
I added some vintage elements, such as glassine bags and little envelopes. Then I filled them with tags made from old Logomachy cards (not the originals but photocopies)
I covered the back with some tea stained fabric that I thought  echoed the flowers on the girls hat on the front cover.

Sweet little metal rimmed tag with a bird stamp on it, just for fun.
Inside the front cover I added a library pocket and a fabric stitched bookmark.
This is the front of the bookmark......
Many thanks to Amy for putting this challenge together, it was really lots of fun! I can't wait to check out some of your altered book covers!

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

My newest project.....wish me luck!

So I bought this gorgeous french jewelry/vanity box from a lovely seller on's pretty, right?
Until you open it! Then it's like a house of horrors! Oh my goodness, what have I gotten myself into?
Now in fairness to the lovely seller, I did request some good photos of the inside before purchasing....
Because I know these boxes can be in various states of disrepair, and rarely are they perfect.
Some of these trims I already owned, the velvet I bought today at the thrift...wish me luck with this particular makeover...please! It will be that fine line to make it look truly "old" and vintage when I'm finished with it. I'll be sure to post pics when I'm done.
What projects are you working on right now?

Saturday, August 21, 2010

FINALLY listing some new Etsy goodies.......

Vintage floral hatboxes...
Sweet vintage crochet cap.....
Prettiest pin cushion ever!
Gorgeous vintage napkin or hanky holder.....

I truly love Etsy, it's so much fun "owning" my own store and having total control over my time spent on it.....highly recommend to everyone :).
Hope you're all having a productive, or restful weekend...and in a perfect world, a little of both!

Friday, August 20, 2010

Do you have a weakness for......

vintage children's books? I must admit to being a "junkie" for years! Nothing can beat the colors or the sweetness of the stories
Little Bitty Raindrop is my fave! It's hard to explain how cute this story is...the travels of a baby raindrop...
I love the endpapers in these little books, they're just adorable!
Look at the beautiful face on this raindrop, what a fabulous artist who drew this.
This little book also has charming artwork inside....
Lucky getting in trouble :(
What's your favorite vintage children's book?

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Ahhhh, sweet success at last!!!!!

So here are some last, of my new bottle collection. They were all purchased at the same yard sale from the nicest man named Willie.....I had 4 bottles in my hands originally, got too hot and irritable, so couldn't decide what to buy. Please tell me you've done that before....., well, bet you haven't now that I think about it!  Willie saw me put them back and said, "I'd love to give you a bottle, choose anyone you like." Huh? Really, how sweet is that? I said, "Oh, you don't have to do that" and his response was, "But I want to, I'm a firm believer that you get what you give in this life."
Well, needless to say I scrambled and found several that I liked, then went back a few hours later for more! He gave me a great deal on them so who could resist? Not me!

I like the old tobacco tins to use for altered art, and the old folding ruler, well, it's beat up just enough...I'm off to bed, I've been futzing with my blog for 1 1/2 hours now trying to change the background....ran into some issues....(shocking I know)!

It's an "instant" collection.....

Well, I want to post some pictures, really I do! What's up with you blogger? I can't very well post my "instant" collection without any pictures now, can I? Huh, huh, are you listening to me blogger?
Oh well, maybe tomorrow......stay tuned.....:(

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

A couple beach finds........

So my lovely MIL, Mary Ellen, gave me a generous gift certificate to my favorite antique store on the coast, Yankee Trader. I had so much fun shopping, even though the store wasn't open very much while I was there because the owner was helping her dd with the Fair that was going on, so she had to close her shop quite a few days while we were there.
The locker baskets were a must-have, who can't use those for storage. The file box was an interesting find. I've seen them before in thrift stores but this one felt heavy. Upon further investigation, I saw the file dividers inside, which make me think this must have once belonged in a sheriff's/police office one day.Just look at some of these interesting file dividers...."explosives", "glass broken"..huh?"Family Troubles", "Dogs Vicious",

and my personal favorite, wait for it......."Bum Checks"! Admittedly, I'm weird enough to think this is kinda funny!
The copper bin on the bottom is something we've wanted for a long time, to put ice in and serve drinks, or wood in the all of these things!
Thanks Mary Ellen for the lovely gifts!!

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

If money were no object......this would be my next "project"....

So we just got home from our beach vacation on Sunday, and had a great time! The weather was cloudy every day, but no my husband is fond of saying, "It's a trip to the beach!"
Well said.......

I was really loving Astoria (as usual), I just have such a crush on this little old town! And as we were driving around, look what we saw...isn't this house amazing? I so wanted to get inside it, but all we could think about is what a great halloween house this must be, or could be.
If $$$ were no object I'd buy it and fix it's sitting up high on a hill (most houses in Astoria are) and has a fantastic view of the harbor.
I can't even fathom how much work needs to be done on this old house, but it's kinda creepy because it looks like someone is inhabiting it right spooky, I'm sure you'll be seeing this in something I make......... closer to halloween!

Be sure to click on the photo to make it larger....notice the vegetation growing out of the chimney? That amazed my 9 yo dd!


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Thursday, January 5, 2012

Free ebook: 5 Simple Ways at Southern Savers

Free ebook: 5 Simple ways

Head on over to Southern Saver's site  to score a copy of Jenny Martin's new ebook co-authored with 9 other bloggers titled 5 Simple Ways.

This book is about frugal living. I just got my copy. Hurry on over to Southern Savers to get yours now. Enjoy!

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Foods Matter FreeFrom Food Awards 2009 shortlist

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freefrom food awardsLivwell, the largest supplier to the UK free-from food group are sponsoring this years FreeFrom Food Awards.

When I began my journey as a nutritional therapist, it was a challenge to help people remain on a balanced and enjoyable diet if they had to restrict or remove certain items.

Most ‘free from’ foods meant going without altogether or eating bland-tasting cardboard type products. Which, incidentally, you paid a lot of money for!

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Thankfully, things have now moved on and most large supermarkets have a ‘free from’ range; stocking all manner of foods such as those free from wheat, gluten, dairy products, eggs, yeast, soya, sugar, nuts etc.

This makes it easier for people to select the products that are safe for them and this year the nominees for the best free-from food product and best new food product are in!

Growing market

According to Mintel,  the market which was worth a mere £90 million in the UK in 2006 will have grown to £195 million by 2010 and £350 million by 2012.

The final judging for the awards will take place at the end of April and the awards will be presented on 12th May, during Allergy Week, by Antony Worrall-Thompson.

All short listed products are gluten, wheat or dairy (cow’s milk) free and many are free of all three.

Discover more

To find out more about allergies, sensitivities or food intolerances, check out the Foods Matter site.

What about you – Do you have a favourite free-from food? I’d love to hear all about it!

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This autumn, Luscious Cabaret is back with a monthly dose of glitter and glam at its new central home, The Albany.
Following its successful run in London Bridge & Battersea last year, Luscious Cabaret is ready to open its doors once again in October to cabaret connoisseurs and newbies alike. With a spectacular set of performers lined up for the following months, it’s set to be a bigger, sparklier, and more luscious event than ever before!

Descend into the dazzling, decadent world of Luscious Cabaret, where you will be enchanted by some of the finest burlesque and variety acts that London has to offer. Whether it’s magic, comedy, or fire tassel twirling, you can rest assured that there is something for everyone. Join us for an intimate soiree in Central London for an unforgettable evening of entertainment, hosted by the inimitable Michael Twaits. Don’t forget to share the secret and invite your friends along – we will make sure to have enough glitter to go around for everyone.

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10 quotes from abortion providers on abortion stigma

Many abortionists have spoken or written about the stigma of providing abortions, and how they are looked down on by the rest of the medical community and the public at large. Here is a collection of quotes from abortionists (and one clinic worker) about how they know they are perceived by others. More can be found here on ClinicQuotes.

    1. Dr. Don Sloan has been providing abortions for years, and has done over 20,000. He says the following in an essay defending legal abortion:

The term “abortionist” still carries with it a heavy weight. We’ve made it [abortion] legal, but we haven’t made it respectable – not quite. (1)

  • In his textbook Abortion Practice, which was written to train would-be abortionists, late term abortionist Dr. Warren Hern said  the following:

Abortion has been stigmatized in the medical profession. Until recently the public and large segments of the medical profession considered abortion to be an unethical medical act regardless of its legal status…Communities do not like to be reminded that abortions are occurring within their boundaries…Candor invites both criticism and harassment; very few abortion clinics or physicians providing abortion services include the word abortion in the title identifying the activity.(2)

Many abortion clinics, even today, are identified by euphemisms such “Women’s Clinic,” “Surgery Center” or “Women’s Hospital” rather than “Abortion Clinic.”

  • In the magazine Democrat and Chronicle, abortionist Morris Wortman said:

Abortion has failed to escape its back alley associations… [It is the] dark side of medicine…

Even when abortion became legal, it was still considered dirty. (3)

  • Joe Thompson, retired abortionist, was quoted saying:

In obstetrics and gynecology, the term abortionist is still a dirty word. (4)

  • Dr. Susan Robinson, who performs late-term abortions:

If you do abortions, it is very hard to get the privilege to work in a hospital, because they don’t like abortion providers….Being an abortion provider is very stigmatized. Other doctors look down on you and think of you as like the lowest of the low.’ (5)

  • One doctor comments on the stigma of abortion among medical professionals:

I was thinking of doing a study last year. I wanted to look at different gestational ages and then compare them to outcomes among different types of abortion. But then I started to think, Well, gosh, wait a minute, I don’t want to end up being known as the abortion person, do you know I mean? (6)

After you work at Planned Parenthood, you’re set apart. It’s a stigma. As a single parent it’s lonely… people look at you differently. The medical community does too. Planned Parenthood makes you feel like you’re stuck there because you’ve been involved with abortion…

  • An abortionist quoted in Women & Health said:

Who would want my life? … It’s low prestige, medically isolated… I have no doctor friends and have very little support from the medical community. (7)

  • Abortion doctor Tommy Tucker told the Atlanta Journal Constitution:

We’re perceived as being dirty, underhanded, the lowest echelon of the medical practice. (8)

Dr. Tucker was later punished by the medical board for botching abortions and causing the death of at least one woman. Read the heartbreaking first hand account of the woman’s death from one of the clinic workers who tried in vain to save her after Tucker left the clinic here.

  • From abortionist Bob Phillips:

Well, you know, every now and then you get labeled an “abortionist,” which is a term I don’t really enjoy… “Abortionist” carries a still unpleasant connotation. It carries the connotation of a sleaze. (9)

Perhaps such perceptions of abortionists occur so frequently because the work they do is indeed unpleasant and dirty – as it constantly involves taking the lives of innocent, helpless human beings.

  1. Don Sloan “Abortion Should Not Be Restricted,” Originally Published in “Basic Issues in the Abortion Debate” Political Affairs, July 1999. Reprinted in Mary E Williams. Abortion: Opposing Viewpoints (San Diego, California: Greenhaven Press, 2002)
  2. Warren Hern, M.D. Abortion Practice (J.B. Lippenott Company 1984)  317
  3. Democrat and Chronicle, July 5, 1992. Quoted in Life Dynamics Access: Key to  Pro-Life Victory
  4. South Bend Tribune, December 26, 1992 Quoted in Life Dynamics Access: Key to  Pro-Life Victory
  5. “After Tiller: Meet the only four doctors in the U.S. who still perform third-trimester abortions despite constant threats to their lives” Mail Online Jan 21, 2013
  6. Jack Hitt “Who Will Do Abortions Here?” New York Times Jan 18, 1998
  7. Delese Wear “From Pragmatism the Politics: a Qualitative Study of Abortion Providers” Women & Health, volume 36 (4), 2002
  8. Atlanta Journal Constitution, May 16, 1993Quoted in Life Dynamics Access: Key to  Pro-Life Victory
  9. Carole Joffe. Doctors of Conscience: the Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe Versus Wade (Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon press, 1995) 152-153
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Cecile Richards’ nonsense claim: Pro-lifers think women “are too hormonal” for abortion

If it’s a day ending in Y, it means that somewhere, pro-abortion propagandists are slandering pro-lifers.

Over at LifeNews, Kristan Hawkins calls attention to some truly outrageous remarks Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards made in a recent (fawning) Washington Post interview:

“There’s this thought that women are just too scattered, we’re too impulsive, we are too hormonal, we can’t make good decisions for ourselves,” Richards says, sitting in a sterile, glass-walled conference room at Planned Parenthood’s headquarters. She’s talking about what she thinks lies at the root of the bitter debate over abortion.

“Women are too hormonal to decide abortion for themselves,” said no pro-lifer ever.

Nevertheless, WaPo feature writer Caitlin Gibson apparently didn’t feel the need to challenge Richards on telling a lie that was equal parts malicious and nonsensical. It’s bad enough that Gibson wouldn’t point out to Richards any of the counter-arguments for informed consent requirements (which we’ll get into below), but to not even occur to point out that “killing babies is wrong” just might be a more common thought process behind opposition to abortion than “women are scatterbrained”? Pathetic.

She is, as always, immaculately put together, her tall frame draped in a merlot-colored sheath and matching cardigan, gold earrings twinkling beneath her short, white-blond hair. Her alto voice conveys the subtlest hint of a Texas twang, and more than a hint of sarcasm.

Ah yes, this is much more important than an interview subject butchering the truth of a contentious national issue in the piece you’re writing about her. Journalism!

“Therefore we need the state to tell us, we need the state to give us medical information, even if it’s incorrect,” she says. “We need the state to give us an ultrasound because we must not really realize that we’re pregnant; we have to go away for 24 hours and think it over.”

No, Cecile, we need informed consent standards (which, contrary to another lie Gibson let slide, do not contain incorrect information) because you run the biggest name in an industry that depends on feeding your customers falsehoods about every aspect of abortion that could possibly affect their decision: when human life begins, when preborn children can feel pain, what the risks of abortion are, which forms of birth control are abortifacient, what alternatives for pregnancy assistance and other health care are available to them, and even how doctors define pregnancy.

She leans forward slightly and raises her voice: “Can you imagine if these kinds of restrictions were put on any other kind of health care in America?”

Yes, because no other kind of health care in America is subject to informed consent standards, only abor—what’s that? Informed consent is a real, established medical concept pro-lifers didn’t just conjure out of thin air? So you mean to tell me other medical fields (or rather, real medical fields) don’t just assume layman patients already have an encyclopedic knowledge of the same medical treatments, options, and risks that doctors often spend well over a decade studying in order to become doctors?

Well, gee…when you put it that way, it’s almost as if Cecile Richards has become so emboldened by a lapdog media she knows will lap up anything she says that she doesn’t feel any need to even try to assemble slurs that make sense. She knows that really, her audience isn’t even listening for the words so much as tone—as long as a general anti-choicers hate women sentiment comes through, they’ll take it as brilliance. The logical connections used to convey it are nothing more than a formality.

Ultimately, however, while Cecile Richards may be speaking from her absolute confidence that she can play the media and her followers like a fiddle, her words betray a fundamental lack of confidence toward a different audience.

If she truly had confidence that her practice was noble and that the criticism of it was unfounded, she would simply talk about the criticism. She would have no fear of openly stating pro-lifers’ actual reasons for wanting to eradicate abortion, regulate the abortion industry, and defund Planned Parenthood, and straightforwardly explaining why she believed our reasons were wrong.

But she doesn’t. Instead, we get one straw-man caricature after another, endless shadow-boxing with imaginary pro-life motives that are childishly easy to dispatch—because deep down, Cecile Richards doesn’t have the courage of conviction that would normally steel someone’s resolve for a fair, candid fight.

Why might that be? If only papers like the Washington Post had an interviewer or two willing to ask.

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A Few of My Favorite Modern Nurseries

Although Kevin and I currently live in a two bedroom apartment, we have decided not to convert my current office/guest bedroom into a nursery. The plan is to have our baby girl sleep in a bassinet next to our bed for the first few months, after which we plan to move and create a nursery. I would very much like to be decorating a nursery now, as I think having a room prepared would make her arrival seem more “real”. For now I will have to stick to swooning over gorgeous modern nurseries on the internet. Below are a few of my current favorites!

#1: Gray and white nursery via Nursery Notations
#2: Sienna’s nursery via Green Wedding Shoes
#3: Baby elephant nursery via The Animal Print Shop
#4: Navy nursery via At Home At Home
#5: Red and pink nursery via Houzz
#6: Victor’s modern nursery via Houzz
#7: Chalkboard wall nursery via Houzz
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Read 52: books for babies and toddlers from Random House

A reading challenge from

We’re back from our annual reenactment jaunt with some catching up to do. Tigerboy has been very happy with two fabulous board books from random house, Baby it’s you, and Baby Let’s play. These are aimed at 0-6 and 6-12 months respectively and have lots of suggestions on how to use them with your baby. Being that little bit older Tigerboy is happy to explore them with me so I’d say there’s plenty of mileage outside the targeted age groups too.

Smallest has been happy with a couple of new picture books, Monster zoo, and You’re a rude pig Bertie. Of the two I prefer the zoo book for its rather fun rhyming, although I think Smallest rather liked the animals in Bertie’s story.

Edited to add – given that every night since she’s requested Monster Zoo, and she spends time commenting on the pictures, I think that’s a definite keeper. She’s picking up on lots of details – ticklish little monsters and sad expressions (even tears). I love books that grow with every reading, and this one is doing exactly that.

And me? I’m reading the 10pm question. Review to follow when I finish it.

If you’d like to buy any of the mentioned books and you don’t have a friendly local independent bookshop, I recommend exploring Hive via my affiliate link, you get to buy online but support independent bookshops. Best of both worlds eh? And don’t forget to enter my After Iris giveaway (see sidebar).

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The background: I’ve challenged Big to read 52 books this year. She will probably be mentioning them over here on her blog. I’m also going to have a crack at reading at least 52 books myself, and more importantly, I’m going to keep track of what books I’m reading to the little ones. I’m going to do all of that in a weekly post, and I’ve also set up a google plus community which you’re very welcome to join. (If you need an invitation, leave me a comment using relevant email address – which will stay hidden.)

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I'm the original user, Jax Blunt I've been blogging for ten years, give or take, and if you want to know me, read me :)

  1. Is there supposed to be a list of books in this post? x

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