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shakatany ([personal profile] shakatany) wrote2007-01-21 02:18 pm
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Reading

It seems that  [personal profile] riani1and I will be attempting to list the books we've finished this year (not necessarily like  [profile] 52booksprojector [profile] book_it_2007) but just as we happen to finish them.

I've now finished:

The Addams Chronicles by Stephen Cox about the television series "The Addams Family". Did you know that Carolyn Jones (Morticia) was part Comanche?

Jewels by Victoria Finlay which is about...jewels. Did you know that most of the bad luck attributed to the Hope Diamond was made up except for the bad things that happened to its last owner Evalyn Walsh McLean?

Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know About by Kevin Trudeau. Though it reads like a giant ad for his website www.naturalcures.com it also makes you want to consume nothing but distilled water and food you grow yourself (really helpful in the big city *sarcasm*). He points out the close relationship between big pharmaceutical and big food companies and the FDA and the FTC which is very scary but not surprising as I've not had much trust in our government for the past 7 years *sigh*

[identity profile] stretfordditto.livejournal.com 2007-01-22 12:07 pm (UTC)(link)
They definitely got the food pyramid all wrong. In our newspaper this week there's half page giving info on how bad transfats are for you....Dr Atkins has been telling us this since 1992 and before! Better late than never I suppose. They're all getting on the bandwagon now...

What happened to Evalyn Walsh McLean then? I have a lovely book on the Royal Family jewels. Have you read that one?

Re Carolyn Jones...she looks part Comanche. Very beautiful.

[identity profile] shakatany.livejournal.com 2007-01-22 06:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Evalyn Walsh McLean (http://www.answers.com/topic/evalyn-walsh-mclean) was a socialite who lost her 9 year old son in a traffic accident. She was also a morphine addict and had man troubles. All in all the "curse" of the Hope Diamond was a lot of hype *g*

Shakatany