1. The Full Cupboard of Life, Alexander McCall Smith
   
2. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, Mindy Kaling
   
3. The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
   
4. REAMDE, Neal Stephenson
   
5. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, Isabel Wilkerson
   
6. Blue Shoes and Happiness, Alexander McCall Smith
   
7. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
   

1. Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman, Robert K. Massie
   
2. The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood, James Gleick
   

1. Moneyball
   

1. As many of you have heard on other social media platforms, I'm pregnant! 12 weeks along (due in early November). The queasiness has been manageable (hooray for ginger ale and crackers); the fatigue has not.
   
2. Three of my cousins are pregnant right now, too, with due dates in June, August, and September. The family reunion in 2013 is going to be so much fun.
   
3. We are going to find out the sex, if only to make it easier to explain to S. But neither E nor I has a preference, and I was kind of delighted that E said it was "trivial". The values we want to instill in our kids are independent of gender. (Also, we are both of the opinion that birth order factors into personality more than gender does.)
   
4. I started reading the Norse mythology in Bulfinch's, as preparation for our trip to Norway. My brother had warned me that it was depressing. I'm not sure I'd call it depressing, just . . . does Thor do anything other than go around and bash giants on the head with his hammer? Eh, I'll read some more on the next rainy night.
   
5. On a political note, I am delighted that a ballot initiative to overturn the death penalty in California has made it onto the November 2012 ballot. (As California enacted the death penalty by ballot initiative, it can only be overturned by ballot initiative.) But I don't want to get my hopes up and be disappointed if it fails. Sigh.
   
6. And back on a happier note, S remains hilarious and delightful. His current obsession is "yardwork", which he defines as hitting plants with a stick. And when he pretends that we're all in a car, he insists that we all put our seatbelts on. Aw!
   

1. The Golden Gate, Vikram Seth
   
2. The White Queen, Philippa Gregory
   
3. Half a Crown, Jo Walton
   
4. The Red Queen, Philippa Gregory
   
5. The Last of the Tribe: the Epic Quest to Save a Lone Man in the Amazon, Monte Reel
   
6. Bossypants, Tina Fey
   
7. At Home, Bill Bryson
   
8. The Secret Lives of Dresses, Erin McKean
   
9. Packing for Mars, Mary Roach
   
10. The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs
    
11. Spoiled, Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan
    

1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J. K. Rowling
   

1. Rapture Ready: Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture, Daniel Radosh
   

1. Inception
   
2. Richard III
   
3. Toy Story 3
   
4. Amadeus
   
5. The Adjustment Bureau
   
6. The Other Boleyn Girl
   
7. Hot Tub Time Machine
   
8. The Right Stuff
   
9. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2
   
10. Exit Through the Gift Shop
    
11. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
    
12. Bridesmaids
    
13. Helvetica
    
14. The Muppets
    
15. Bill Cunningham New York
    
16. Midnight in Paris
    

Any advice for getting a ten-month-old to stop grinding his teeth (8 total)? Or should I just start saving up for the inevitable TMJ treatment?