sleep – Cannonball Read 17

D is not just for Dog any more.

D Is for Drool: My Monster Alphabet by Amanda Noll

January 3, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

D Is for Drool: My Monster Alphabet is from the I Need My Monster series. The lead singers are Amanda Noll and Shari Dash Greenspan with Howard McWilliam on illustrations. We the reader find out that T is for Tentacles, D is for Drool, C is for Claws, and each lyrical letter gets its own monster worded page. Or could share the page but gets its own spot as the parade of monsters walk by to help the young child of the book fall asleep. […]

“It’s not unlike filtration, a move that blatant, deliberate. “

Sleep Donation by Karen Russell

December 12, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos 4 Comments

In the near-future, we lucky Americans are eyeball-deep in a new terror: we can’t sleep. Every day, thousands more become unable to reach REM. They die after days of restlessness. The only thing that can help? Donations of sleep from “healthy” dreamers. Not unlike a blood drive, people like Trish Edgewater are cold-calling sleepers, begging them to give some of their life to the lifeless. Etiquette is a powerful programming, however, and easily exploitable. I sneeze. He sneezes back language at me, reflexive generosity: “Bless […]

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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Mathew Walker

December 30, 2020 by thewheelbarrow Leave a Comment

Why We Sleep is the most recent book I finished. Since I am fully cramming here at the last minute, I figured I would write what was freshest in my mind. In doing that, I am contradicting everything I just learned about in the outstanding book. I think that we all know that sleep is important but we don’t necessarily know WHY sleep is important. Sure, it makes us less cranky and healthier but Matthew Walker and his team have spent years conducting studies and […]

“but safe in sound you’ll go to sleep”

Nighttime Symphony by Timbaland

February 21, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I almost did not write a review for Nighttime Symphony by Timbaland, Christopher Myers and Kaa Illustration. As this picture book (out May 2019) is one of the books that make me think/say, “Book good. Read.” Of course, the Tarzan mentality only gets you so far. The review needs to talk about the story: The sounds of the city lull a baby to sleep. Of course, they are loud sounds, soft sounds, unique sounds to the city. The father is telling, in lyrical text, this […]

“Sleep that knits the ravell’d sleeve of care…” sustains memories and enhances learning.

December 27, 2017 by degregorius 1 Comment

“Sleep that knits the ravell’d sleeve of care…” as well as sustains memories and enhances learning. Perhaps you will make or have made resolutions for the new year. May I propose that you make a “continuing resolution? That is one that you can maintain for the rest of your life. Here it is: I will get seven to eight hours of sleep each night. Impossible? Not necessarily. Reading Matthew Walker’s book Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams, will help you […]

Get out of My Dreams and into My Kindle

March 20, 2016 by Halbs 1 Comment

I wanted to love this book. Dreaming is weird and interesting. I wanted to try and make sense of recurring or common dreams that I had, learn how to retain memory of more of my nightly dreams, and try lucid dreaming. This book had good reviews, so I gave it a go as a way to help me make my dream dreams come true. While this book does have some good information, it feels more like a “get rich quick by gaming Kindle Unlimited” book than a reliable […]

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