February and March Books:

 Apparently I didn't make a list of the books I read last month, and so this is a 2 month post.  Also I al already over 50% to my reading goal and so will likely bump it up when I get to it.  

Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Robotica by: Bathroom Readers' Institute 

Non-fiction: History, Pop Culture, Science, Sci-fi, 256 pages

A bathroom reader that only deals with things related to robots in some way.

Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom by: Nelson Mandela

Non-fiction: Quotes, 192 pages

A collection of quotes from Nelson Mandela divided by subject and with info on when/where each quote is from.

Adoptable Dog: Teaching Your Adopted Pet to Obey, Trust, and Love You by: John Ross, Barbara McKinney

Non-fiction: Pets, 353 pages

A book on getting a dog with some additional information for issues that may happen in adopting a older dog instead of getting a puppy from a breeder.  

Michigan Haunts: Public Places, Eerie Spaces by: Jon Milan, Gail Offen

Non-fiction: Paranormal, History, 128 pages

A book on places in Michigan that are thought to be haunted.  The book is divided by the type of place it is and has notes about with places are not open to the public.

My Haunted Family: Engrossing Tales of One Family's Encounters with the Unknown by: Rose Pressey Betancourt

Non-fiction: Paranormal, Memoir, 156 pages

This book is a collection of real life ghost stories, but all are ones where the author either heard the story from the person themselves (most of whom were family) or at most was a story a parent told that happened to a grandparent (maybe a great uncle or aunt this was one of the books I read over amonth ago.)

Fathom: The Definitive Edition (Fathom Vol. 1 #0,½,1-13) by: Michael Layne Turner, Bill O'Neil, Geoff Johns

Fiction: Graphic Novel. Sci-fi, 496 pages 

This collection of graphic novels is the story of the Fathom universe.  There is the world above the water that we know, but also a world of humans who live under the oceans. (and also have tech that can go into space.)

 Stitch and the Samurai Volume 1, 2, & 3 by: Hiroto Wada

Fiction: Graphic Novel, Pop Culture, 176 pages, 176 pages & 224 pages

This series asked what would happen if instead of landing in modern Hawaii Stich landed in feudal Japan.   And instead of being found by a little girl who thought he was a dog, he was found by a warlord who thought he might be a raccoon. 

Medieval Women and Their Objects by: Jenny Adams, Nancy Mason Bradbury

Non-fiction: History, Essays, Classic Lit, E-book

This book goes over the late Medieval women of England and France in a series of essays dealing with there objects.  A whole lot of them deal with women in Chaucer.  Ones that don't deal with everything from personal books, churches, to their body itself. 

Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by: Colin Dickey

Non-fiction: History 320 pages

Turned out I already read this book years ago, but as I already was a couple chapters into it when I noticed, I just finished the book.

Gothic: An Illustrated History by: Roger Luckhurst

Non-fiction: History, Pop culture 288 pages

A book on the major themes, ideas, places, etc of the gothic story.

What the Hell Are You Doing?: The Essential David Shrigley by: David Shrigley

Non-fiction: Art, Comics, Humor, 352 pages

The art of David Shrigley.

How Dogs Work: A Head-To-Tail Guide to Your Canine by: Daniel Tatarsky, David Humphries (Illustrations)

Non-fiction: Science, Animals, 160 pages

This book looks like it should be for children, but the info is more a quick study of the most important things that a new dog owner might need to know with info that seams more for older kids or adults.

Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer by: Harold Schechter

Non-Fiction: History, True Crime, E-book

This is the story of the blowing up of the Bath MI School. It happened in the 1920's making it possibly the 1st time something like this was done in America. (As it was done on purpose and not an issue with a gas leak or other accidental cause.)

Good Advice From Bad People:

Good Advice From Bad People Selected Wisdom from Murderers, Stock Swindlers, and Lance Armstrong
Non-Fiction: Biography, 192 pages
Book Count: 66

After our last book of people that started out bad and turned good, we thought we would read this book of good advice that the creator of didn't follow.  This book is filled with a quote from some one and then a short 1-2 page biography of them that points out how they did the exact opposite of their advice.  It includes info on self help book writers that: went bankrupt, got divorced, ended up in jail or otherwise were the last person you would want to take advice from on a subject if they did what they said to do.  There are also entries on politicians,  sport stars, and televangelists. In short a who's who of people who said, "Do what I say, not what I do."

Famous Last Words #3

(Which might contain quotes from earlier Famous Last Words)

- Either that wallpaper goes, or I do. - Oscar Wilde

- I die hard but am not afraid to go. - George Washington

- I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have. - Leonardo da Vinci

- I feel here that this time they have succeeded. - Leon Trotsky

- I've had eighteen straight whiskies, I think that's the record . . . - Dylan Thomas

- I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room - and God damn it - died in a hotel room. - Eugene O'Neill

- Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers. -  Walter De La Mare, writer

- A King should die standing. -  Louis XVIII

- I see black light. - Victor Hugo

- I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark. - Thomas Hobbes

- Turn up the lights, I don't want to go home in the dark. -  O. Henry

- I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring. -  Richard Feynman, physicist

- I've never felt better.-  Douglas Fairbanks, Sr

- All my possessions for a moment of time. -  Elizabeth I

- No, I shall not give in. I shall go on. I shall work to the end.-  Edward VII

- The earth is suffocating . . . Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive. -  Frederic Chopin

- I am dying. I haven't drunk champagne for a long time. -  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

- I am still alive! -  Gaius Caligula

- I am about to -- or I am going to -- die: either expression is correct. - Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian

- I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis. -  Humphrey Bogart

This is Spinal Tap quotes:

“In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, an ancient race of people... the Druids. No one knows who they were or what they were doing...”
“I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem *may* have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being *crushed* by a *dwarf*. Alright? That tended to understate the hugeness of the object.”
“Dozens of people spontaneously combust each year. It's just not really widely reported.”
“It's like, how much more black could this be? and the answer is none. None more black.”
“You can't really dust for vomit.”
“We're very lucky in the band in that we have two visionaries, David and Nigel, they're like poets, like Shelley and Byron. They're two distinct types of visionaries, it's like fire and ice, basically. I feel my role in the band is to be somewhere in the middle of that, kind of like lukewarm water.”


And of course the reason for the whole holiday:

Nigel Tufnel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and...
Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten?
Nigel Tufnel: Exactly.
Marty DiBergi: Does that mean it's louder? Is it any louder?
Nigel Tufnel: Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?
Marty DiBergi: I don't know.
Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven.
Nigel Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder.

Quotes on Death by Dead People

~ Nothing can happen more beautiful than death. - Walt Whitman
~ First our pleasures die - and then Our hopes, and then our fears - and when These are dead, the debt is due, Dust claims dust - and we die too. - Percy Shelley
~ Death lies on her, like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field. - William Shakespeare
~ Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last final awakening. – Sir Walter Scott
~ Call no man happy till he is dead. – Aeschylus
~ Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. - George Bernard Shaw
~ One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. - Oscar Wilde
~ Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. - Mahatma Gandhi
~ Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others. - Mark Twain
~ Thank Heaven! the crisis --The danger, is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last --, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last. - Edgar Allan Poe
~ The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows. – Socrates
~ Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven. – Michelangelo
~ As a day well spent brings blessed sleep, so a life well spent brings a blessed death. - Leonardo da Vinci
~ Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. - J.R.R. Tolkien
~ I'm not afraid of dying. To me dying is like getting out of one car and into another. - John Lennon
~ Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not? - Epicurus

Quotes from Frederick Douglass:

- At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
- A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
- I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.
- People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
- The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
- The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
- To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
- Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

W. E. B.Du Bois Quotes:

* Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked — who is good? not that men are ignorant, — what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.

* The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame

* Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.

* I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.

* There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong. Unfortunately, this can seldom be realized in real life; for the very existence of the evil usually argues a moral weakness in the very place where extraordinary moral strength is called for.

* The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience.

Quotes from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

* Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase.

* I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

* Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

* Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

* The church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.

* The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.

* Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

* All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

* We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

* It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

* In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Quotes from the Wright Brothers

Note quotes labled O are from Orville and ones labled W are from Wilbur.

- I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years. -W
- If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance. -O
- Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive. -W
- No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris. -O
- The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies. -W
- With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe. -O
- I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine. I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then, if possible, add my mite to help on the future worker who will attain final success. -W
- The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall. -O

Quotes from Thomas Edison:

- Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
- If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
- Great ideas originate in the muscles.
- Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
- I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
- Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
- The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
- I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.
- To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
- To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Quotes from Saints

Today is All Saints Day, and this year we desided to celebrate it here at WNBNI by copying some random quotes from saints again this year. Enjoy.

* Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them. - St. Basil

* Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue. - St. Francis de Sales
* Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing so gentle as real strength. - St. Francis de Sales

* It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. - St. Francis of Assisi
* All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle. - St. Francis of Assisi

* The friendship that can cease has never been real. - St. Jerome
* Never look a gift horse in the mouth. - St. Jerome

* For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God. - St. Teresa of Avila

* Beware the man of one book. - St. Thomas Aquinas
* He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught. - St. Thomas Aquinas

Christmas Movie Quotes:

We elves try to stick to the four main food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corns and syrup.
-elf

SANTA! OH MY GOD! SANTA'S COMING! I KNOW HIM! I KNOW HIM! -elf

I passed through the seven levels of the Candy Cane forest, through the sea of swirly twirly gum drops, and then I walked through the Lincoln Tunnel.
-elf

Can I refill your eggnog for you? Get you something to eat? Drive you out to the middle of nowhere and leave you for dead?
-Christmas vacation

You'll shoot your eye out, kid. - A Christmas story

Every kid, at the back of his mind, vaguely but insistently, believes that he will be struck blind before his 21st birthday. And then they'll be sorry. - A Christmas story

Christmas was on its way. Lovely, glorious, beautiful Christmas, upon which the entire kid year revolved. - A Christmas story

Quotes on Shopping

In honor of Black Friday here are some quotes on shopping.

- "I don't do my own shopping, my housekeeper does that for me, so I'd be doomed if I was a contestant on the show." Bob Barker

- "Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice." Dave Barry

- "The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one." Erma Bombeck

- "In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear." Julia Child

- “People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'” Sinclair Lewis

Saint’s Quotes

As today is All saints’ Day and because for the last two years on this day I gave you information on patron saints for odd things, I thought I would mix it up and do quotes from saints this year. You can always look in our archives if you want to know the patron saint of the internet, compulsive gambling, astronauts or undertakers.

- When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere. St. Ambrose

- Give me chastity and continence, but not quite yet. St. Augustine

- He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent. St. Augustine

- If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend. St. Augustine

- If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself. St. Augustine

- Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature. St. Augustine

- Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. St. Augustine

- I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him. St. Teresa of Avila

Famous Last Words

The following is a list of what various famous people have said on their deathbeds.

“I am ready” Woodrow Wilson

“Go away. I'm all right.” H. G. Wells

“Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.” Pancho Villa

“Woe is me. Me thinks I'm turning into a god.” Emperor Vespasian

“Moose . . . Indian . . .” Henry David Thoreau

“Put out the light.” Theodore Roosevelt

“Lord help my poor soul.” Edgar Allan Poe

“Get my swan costume ready.” Anna Pavlova

“Why do you weep. Did you think I was immortal?” King Louis XIV

“Let us cross over the river and sit in the shade of the trees.” General Thomas “ Stonewall” Jackson (mistakenly killed by own men in battle)

“Oh, do not cry - be good children and we will all meet in heaven.” Andrew Jackson

“All is lost. Monks, monks, monks!” King Henry VIII

“It is very beautiful over there.” Thomas Alva Edison

“That was the best ice-cream soda I ever tasted.” Lou Costello

“I'm bored with it all.” Winston Churchill

“I am still alive!” Emperor Gaius Caligula

“Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.” John Barrymore

“I can't sleep.” James M. Barrie

Famous Quotes: Saint Francis of Assisi

= It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
= All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
= If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
= Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace!
Where there is hatred let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.
Grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console:
To be understood,
As to understand,
To be loved as to love:
For it is in giving
That we receive,
It is in pardoning
That we are pardoned,
And it is dying
That we are born to eternal life.

Movie Quotes: The Princess Bride

- “When I was your age, television was called, "books."”
- “Probably some local fisherman out for a pleasure cruise, at night, through eel-infested waters.”
- “Inconceivable!”
- “You keep using that word. I do not think it means, what you think it means.”
- “You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is: "Never get involved in a land war in Asia." But, only slightly less well known is this: "Never go in against a Sicilian, when death is on the line!"”
- “It's not that bad . . . well, I'm not saying I'd like to build a summer home here, but the trees are actually quite lovely.”
- “Have fun storming the castle!”
- “My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”
“As you wish.”

Famous Author: J.R.R. Tolkien

Born: 1892
Died: 1973
Famous for: books, inventing fantasy and the 1st trilogy with more that 3 books

Quotes:
- If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
- The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination.
- All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.
- Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.
- Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works...

Famous Author: George Orwell

Born: 1903
Died: 1950
Famous for: Books, Essays, Communist pigs

Quotes:
- In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
- All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
- To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
- Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
- Big Brother is watching you.

Famous Author: Carl Jung

Born: 1875
Died: 1961
Famous for: theories of psychology, books on psychology, not being as big of a perv. as Freud

Quotes:
- Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.
- It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are themselves.
- Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
- The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
- I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.
- All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.