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Gatorman wrote: "I just saw some reviews for Neverland which indicated that it's not his best work and more of a YA novel, directed primarily at teens. Not sure about that."No problem. It's been on my to read shelf for awhile so it was the first one to come to mind.
I added The Keep, Jason. If I can get two more titles I'll go ahead and create the poll.
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I read Elementals last year so I am leaning towards Neverland or The Keep
I'd love to re-read Elementals. It's been decades since I last read it. Erica, I know the feeling. As much as I loved Dweller, I didn't re-read it for the discussion so really didn't get to join in too often because I forgot a lot of the action.
Would we have enough time to read Swan Song?
I would read Swan Song. Its been about ten years since I read it last.
Along with Erica, I would read it also :)
Bandit, Amanda et al, I think I've read about 15 some really good, some fair, I really like You Come When I Call You and his ss collection The Machinary of Night.I'm all for Neverland, haven't read it.
I'll create the poll tonight, when my insomnia kicks in. :-) So keep adding your books until then. The poll will be up for a shorter amount of time since I dropped the ball. So vote ASAP.
Jason, usually from 1-5:30. That lack of beauty sleep explains a lot, huh?
My god! I could not survive off so little sleep for more than a week! I get insomnia, too. Sometimes pretty bad. But never that bad. Or, at least when it does get that bad, it doesn't last for a long period of time.
I'm up! Can't sleep...deciding what to read next. Surfing the threads.
To be honest, I don't always get so little sleep. Just goes in cycles. Sometimes I'm so sleepy I drop out around 9:00 and sleep through the night. My mind has been wired lately with some stuff going on in my life. I'm about to go finish my exercises. Maybe it'll make me sleep better.
I sleep about four or five hours a night too. But I'm not really a fan of sleep, so that might explain it. I enjoyed Dweller last month, and this month's read looks like it will be another good one.
Exercise is great for sleep, sometimes. I am a big fan of sleep. I like it a little too much during the winter months...
Canadian Jason, I'm like a fat, little hibernating bear in the winter.It screams "'80s," American Jason.
Paul wrote: "Bandit, Amanda et al, I think I've read about 15 some really good, some fair, I really like You Come When I Call You and his ss collection The Machinary of Night.i>I've never even come across The Machinery of Night, I have another short story collection by Clegg, but I haven't read it yet.
I've been plagued with insomnia for years. I blame the three years I spent enduring an aggressive on-call schedule, and getting paged frequently in the middle of the night.As you can imagine I tried everything, a snack in the evening, what to eat, what not to eat, don't eat in the evening, homeopathy, magnesium/calcium, give up coffee, etc, etc.
My main issue was frequent waking. I could rarely sleep for longer than 3 hours.
No matter what I tried and thought worked, it seemed the results were totally random...my good nights and bad nights didn't correspond to anything.
Months ago I had an appointment with a sleep clinic. When I met the doctor, he recommended I read this: No More Sleepless Nights. I've read about half of it, and it totally changed my attitude on my sleep. I began to realize that, despite my change in sleep patterns, I was actually getting enough sleep.
But, the frequent waking was still happening, and it was bothering me that there had to be some reason for it, so I kept the overnight appointment at the sleep clinic. I was suspecting mild apnea.
So, that was a few weeks ago. Not surprisingly, with all the monitoring gear it was not my best night. I thought I had only dropped off a couple of times. But, when I went back to go over the results, he showed me that I actually had dropped off 4 times, and did reach the 5 stages of sleep each time. And, most importantly, nothing physical was waking me up.
So, he recommended a bunch of sleep hygiene things to keep aware of, most of them were things I was already doing. But the last and most important thing he told me was this:
Get rid of the clock or turn it towards the wall. He said I should not be able to tell him what time I was waking up through the night, and that by looking at the clock, it was likely that I was conditioning myself to keep waking at that time.
That was few weeks ago, and the results have been fantastic. Combining that with my attitude of believing that I am getting enough sleep, and getting out of bed if I can't fall back to sleep after 20 minutes (also very important. I go downstairs and read until I'm sleepy), I am sleeping much better now.
That's so interesting, Bill, never heard of the alarm thing, might have to try it sometimeI've slept badly for years, but mostly because of loud neighbors and street noise, since last july I've been living in a nice quiet apartment and it made a huge positive difference
I live in a suburban area but the street that my bedroom faces has become busier...so I use this godsend:http://www.amazon.com/Marpac-SleepMat...
Insomnia is bloody awful. I read a book last year about a woman who barely sleeps at all, and has been that way all her life. I'm a light sleeper but when I lived alone, I could just lie in bed in the dark and let the quiet get me back to sleep. Now with a snoring husband I have to wear ear plugs or sleep in the guest bedroom. He's having surgery in June to have his tonsils and adenoids taken out, and to have his sinus passages scraped. Maybe we can both sleep better.
If I can get 5-6 hours, I'm fine. I don't drag during the day even if I have less. I'm wondering if it's because I don't get enough sun. I take a melatonin almost every night if I can feel that I'm going to have trouble.
I usually wake up at 2 and 4. That's a good idea about the clock. And it's also hard to get back to sleep if you keep staring at the clock.
Tressa wrote: "Jason, usually from 1-5:30. That lack of beauty sleep explains a lot, huh?"That sounds like Gator hours! About all I get, too.
And yet we start the day as beautiful and refreshed as ever.
Tressa wrote: "http://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/47...There's the link for the poll. It closes in two days."
Love the Wham photo! LOL
"Wake Me Up Before You Go Go" is the gaggiest video ever, though. I do love George Michael's "Father Figure."
Someone mentioned Ghost House on another thread. 1979.Looks interesting.
Tressa wrote: ""Wake Me Up Before You Go Go" is the gaggiest video ever, though. I do love George Michael's "Father Figure.""I'm more a fan of "Careless Whisper"
I also prefer Careless Whisper as far as cheesy 80s songs go
Oh boy Tressa you'd hate some of Todd's favs which include Richard Marx and Michael Bolton O_o Oh okay so "Hazard" is good but mostly bleck!
Richard Marx, yes. Michael Bolton, no.
Bolton's head always looked like it was going to explode when he reached the high notes.OK. Back in the '80s when I was amidst cheese as fashion, I still hated cheesy guys with cheesy hair who sang cheesy songs. Richard Marx and Rick Astley fits this description.
I did love Joe Jackson's "Stepping Out." And The Cars' "Drive."
Tressa wrote: ""Wake Me Up Before You Go Go" is the gaggiest video ever, though. I do love George Michael's "Father Figure.""Not a big fan of his, but on TV I saw a Queen concert for Freddie Mercury and George Michael absolutely nailed Somebody to Love.
Tressa wrote: "Bolton's head always looked like it was going to explode when he reached the high notes.OK. Back in the '80s when I was amidst cheese as fashion, I still hated cheesy guys with cheesy hair who sa..."
Please don't group Richard Marx with Rick Astley. Marx actually put out a couple of really good pop/rock albums before turning to cheesy soft pop. Astley sucked, plain and simple, with that godawful "Never Gonna Give You Up" piece of crap song he put out.
I agree Marx stands a hair above Astley, but I always thought Marx was cheesy and didn't like any of his ballads. I actually detest most ballads, especially from the '80s. Did they even have ballads in the '70s? I don't remember.Agree with me or I'll make you do the Safety Dance and you WILL look like a tool doing it.
His ballads were not his strong point, I'll give you that, but his more rockin songs were really good.I like The Safety Dance but couldn't name another Men Without Hats song if I tried. And I will NOT look like a tool doing it. You've obviously never seen me dance.
I love 80s music, but more of the darker toned pop stuff. Which there was a lot of, surprisingly.
How could anyone not look like a tool doing the Safety Dance? That midget in the video scared the bejeesus out of me. I think this is my favorite song of the '80s. Still love it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9gKyR...
Yep, good song...they're Australian, mate.
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Same here, other than the change to fantasy driven stuff recently there really hasn't been any changes to his style.