Delish PicksThis book is soooooooooooo funny! The story behind it is that the book author Justin Halpern had a 2 year long distance relationship with his girlfriend; he lived and worked in LA and she lived in San Diego and wanted to move in with her so he found a job that will allow him to [...]
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So remember when I told you that Armageddon hit the 7aki household and everything turned into hell? One of the things that happened was that the washing machine broke down and to continue a tradition of eggsplosion 1 and eggsplosion 2 baba 7aki decided to branch out a little into: Rugsplosion. It was one beautiful [...]
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The non fiction book “What the Dog Saw” by Malcolm Gladwell is a fun book to read. The book contains 19 essays that Malcolm wrote in the New Yorker spanning over 8 years I think which makes it an easy read for people with a short attention span or people who don’t have hte time [...]
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I like everything Malcolm Gladwell writes . I have read The Tipping Point and Blink and enjoyed them immensely so when I saw this book with my buddy Bob I grabbed it right away. The book talks about how people become successful and how much effort a person needs to put into something to become [...]
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What shocked me the most about the book “The Glass Castle” is the fact that it is a memoir. I kept saying to myself, there is NO WAY there are people in the United States who lived/live like this! This is the story of the author Jeannette Walls, her Mom, Dad and her three siblings. The [...]
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… to wish myself a happy birthday on my blog!!! SO: Happy birthday to me Happy birthday to me Happy birthday to 7akiiiiiiii Happy birthday to meeeeeeee So baba 7aki got me wicked and I mean WICKED presentSSSSSSS ( stress on the s, hahahaha) And my birthday was yesterday. I am 33 years old. YIKES! [...]
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I stole this meme from “Life: The Ongoing Education“ I am: Super excited about having the baby but at the same time terrified of how busy it will be, the pain of breastfeeding, not sleeping and not having enough time for my little 7aki and baba 7aki or most importantly myself. I think: I will [...]
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I just finished reading Sophie’s World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder. This book is sooooo insightful and so amazing it will blow your mind away. It’s like Philosophy for dummies, gives you the ideas behind each school of thought and explains it quite well. It’s starts with the Garden of [...]
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How do I begin with this one? Today I just finished reading Three cups of tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin and it was the most inspiring REAL story I have ever read about a man educating the girls and boys of Pakistan and Afghanistan one village at a time. Greg Mortenson dreamt [...]
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I stole this from Dave who stole it from Roba I am super bored and have nothing to do so how better to entertain myself than to talk about myself. 1. How old will you be in five years? 37 Holy crap I am old. 2. Who did you spend at least two hours with [...]
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I have a family that is crazy I tell ya! But nothing prepared me for what was about to happen. Even the monkey slap was better. Here’s how it happened: Once upon a time 7aki aka me was little. Mama 7aki left “little 7aki senior” at a park. The end. I will never forget that [...]
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Prepare to piss your pants laughing. This book is sooooo funny I was chuckling on the train and people thought I was loco. In I am America (And so can you) Stephen Colbert tackles all the taboo and un-taboo(is that a word?) subjects. Here’s a sampling of his insightful opinions: On raising a family: Childrearing is arguably the most [...]
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I just finished reading the book Culture Jam: How to reverse Americas suicidal consumer binge – and why we must by Kalle Lasn. This book starts with the promise that we can change the world. What a a great eye opener, makes you really re-assess a lot of things in your life, re-assess your habits of just [...]
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I recently finished reading the book In Search of Fatima by Ghada karmi . I was not exiled from Palestine so I can’t begin to imagine how life would have been if I was but this book made me experience it , feel it and relate to it on many different levels and kind of appreciate what my [...]
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I just finished reading the book Infidel By Ayan Hirsi Ali This book chronicles Ayans life and gives you a glimpse in the life of some African Muslim women in Somalia, Ethiopia , Kenya and some immigrants in Holland, an eye opener to how Islam is learnt and practiced in some countries. I don’t know what [...]
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