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Litany said:
How about Chiquita? Or Del Monte if it's a boy.
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Are you related? When we were trying to think of something nice to go with our first dd's name, which is Anna...my dear darling husband came up with "Rexia" for a middle name:rolleyes: I barely managed to get him talked into Anna Beth..

oh, and he also kinda liked "partridge in a pear tree" but I gave him the evil eye:p
 
Stewart said:
I would have went for Bolicsteroids. Oakley would have been fine too.
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But if you really want to make her mad, call her Annie...or Ann...I don't get it. The sole reason we named her Anna was because we liked the nickname Annie and never called her that from day one. Oh well, she's not too crazy about Anna Banana either:D
 
[Laugh] Your suggestions will definitely be on my mind, but I'm pretty sure I won't go with seelee (that's mine), or anna banana (nice, but he's a he).

Del monte makes me hungry...

Thanks for the congrats!

ds
 
Congratulations DS

I have just bought Exodus by Leon Uris, Baudilino by Umberto Eco, The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka, and the Hound of the Baskerville by Arthur Conan Doyle.
 
Just bought The Defense and The Eye by Vladimir Nabokov from amazon, can't wait for them to arrive.:)
 
Vally of the dolls by Jacequline Susann

Brain Droppings by George Carlin

Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen

How the Garcia Girls lost their accents by Julia Alvarez

The honurable schoolboy by John Lecarre

Sick Puppy by Carl Hiaasen

Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King

Insomnia by Stephen King

The Legend of Luke by Brian Jacques

The Beach House by Mary Alice Monroe

The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood

I don't know why I constantly buy books since I've been reading one now for the past month that I still haven't finished (and it's only 306 pages!). I have no time for them anymore, yet each time I go into a second hand book store I end up spending so much money. But this, plus my sisters ten books only added up to $40.10 so it was woth it I guess.
 
Got a few books at a second bookstore.

The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster
The Navigator of New York by Wayne Johnston
The Corrections by Jonathon Franzen
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

All in great shape for $30.
 
Just back from the library where I picked up The Bridge of Europe, a collections of essays about the bridge that links France, Germany, Strasbourg and Kehl. The reason I requested it is because it contains the only translated piece by Andorran writer Michele Gazier that I could find.
The book looks interesting, with poems as well as essays from many writers from all over Europe, including the work in their own language alongside the English translation.
 
The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol translated and Annotated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. ISBN: 0375706151
 
Well, after saying this afternoon that I was through with buying books, I've just went and bought four more. :(

A Capote Reader, Truman Capote
Having just read his recently discovered novel, Summer Crossing, I decided I want to read more Capote and this book, with the exception of In Cold Blood, which I already own, contains all his novellas, short stories, essays, travelogues, and whatever else he scribbled. Essential, and complete's my Capote collection.

A Good School, Richard Yates
Final Yates novel, I think, to be released by Methuen, and completes my set of Yates novels.

Collected Stories, Richard Yates
I've had a collection of short stories by Yates called Eleven Kinds Of Loneliness but this book contains that collection, another called Liars In Love, in addition to further uncollected - until now - shorts. This now completes my Yates collection.

Bareback, Kit Whitfield
Known as Benighted in the US. This just keeps staring at me in shops. I used to read horror novels in my teens but as my tastes developed I found that the majority of horror published today is mundane hackery and low grade ramblings; at least in the UK market. This novel, at surface level, is about werewolves (yes!) but the novelist has come through the East Anglia Creative Writing course (which also gave us award winning writers such as Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro, Tracy Chevalier, and Tash Aw) so, given the pedigree, I think there may be something beyond the werewolves to make it an entertaining read.
 
My latest Amazon order...

Dancing Dinos (Step-Into-Reading, Step 1)
and
Dancing Dinos Go To School (Step Into Reading)
By: Sally Lucas (Author), Margeaux Lucas (Illustrator)

Supertwins Level 2: The Dangerous Dino-Robots
and
Supertwins #2
By: Brian James (Author), Chris Demarest (Illustrator)

Learn Science! (Grades K-2)
By: Carol Vorderman

Me Too, Woody! (Step-Into-Reading, Step 1)




Now, don't be jealous...;)
 
are you a homeschooler, too? (me and ABC are - fun to find others in the community to chat with about homeschooling if you are. so feel free to email me).
 
No - I am not a homeschooler - my eldest son just started kindergarten and I am trying to help him learn to read - since he doesn't like sitting down for more than 8 seconds, I am trying to find books about things that interest him (like dinosaurs). Also, my husband is a science geek and my son has picked up the same trait, hence, the science workbook (something for them to do together on a rainy day).

Any suggestions on teaching reading to a (very) active 5 year old boy would be appreciated.
 
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