Hours Spent Reading: 14 (ok, a lot of this also involved general messing around online, and mini challenges...)
Mini Challenges Completed/Won: 11 (12?)/1
Books Read: 7
Pages Read: 1187
Girl, 15, Charming But Insane Sue Limb
Jess has a bit of a problem in the way that teens invent comedic drama where ever they go. Her best friend is a goddess. The hottest guy in school is paying attention to Jess, but doesn't seem to
like like her. And her bestest mate, Fred, isn't talking to her. What can be done?
Pretty funny. I especially loved Jess's Gran, who is obsessed with death and watches all the news programmes for news of the latest tragedy, which she reports a little too cheerily.
In other news, it stormed last night, so this morning is not too hot and not too humid. I went outside and read in my hammock, which was still wet from last night's storms. Now my butt is wet. *sigh*
Ok-- I have to squeeze out 3 more books in the next 4 hours... can I do it? Stay tuned!
Richard L. Revesz is co-author, with Michael A. Livermore, of Retaking Rationality: How Cost-Benefit Analysis Can Better Protect the Environment and Our Health, which makes clear that by embracing and reforming cost-benefit analysis, and by joining reason and compassion, progressive groups can help enact strong environmental and public health regulation. Revesz is the Dean of New York University School of Law. In the article below Revesz responds to an article in the N.Y. Times Magazine.
In the N.Y. Times Magazine, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner discuss three seemingly unrelated stories about a deaf woman in Los Angeles, a first-century Jewish sandal maker, and the red-cockaded woodpecker. The commonality in these stores, the essay argues, is that they were all the unintended victims of well-meaning regulation – the Americans with Disabilities Act, an ancient Jewish law forgiving debts every seventh year, and the Endangered Species Act, respectively. (more…)
Share This
It's too bad it was wet, but reading in a hammock=heaven!
We're in the home stretch!! *happy dance*
And good luck with those three books. :)
Gosh, it stormed here last night and I'm pretty sure it got more disgusting and *more* humid. There's nothing like reading outside - especially in a hammock! Though wet butts are definitely a drawback...
You're doing great, keep up the great reading!
Wow! You're doing awesome! Keep up the good work!