Comments on: The marriage of ENG minds http://www.booksandsuch.biz/blog/the-marriage-of-eng-minds/ Thu, 09 Sep 2010 03:50:25 -0500 hourly 1 By: Julie Surface Johnson http://www.booksandsuch.biz/blog/the-marriage-of-eng-minds/comment-page-1/#comment-3282 Julie Surface Johnson Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:57:48 +0000 http://www.booksandsuch.biz/?p=5406#comment-3282 Our honeymoon was so long ago! Besides, since we eloped, there wasn't time to plan what clothes to bring, much less what book to read. Impulsive people that we are . . . . I just got back from a week in Kauai, however, with our daughter and found that David Baldacci's Stone Cold was an excellent read. Our honeymoon was so long ago! Besides, since we eloped, there wasn’t time to plan what clothes to bring, much less what book to read. Impulsive people that we are . . . .

I just got back from a week in Kauai, however, with our daughter and found that David Baldacci’s Stone Cold was an excellent read.

]]> By: jane g meyer http://www.booksandsuch.biz/blog/the-marriage-of-eng-minds/comment-page-1/#comment-3279 jane g meyer Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:52:33 +0000 http://www.booksandsuch.biz/?p=5406#comment-3279 Loved your post. Very fun. No books for me. We went trudging through the backwoods of Guatemala twenty or so years ago and there was story all around! Guns, wild parrots, enormous mangoes hanging from the trees... hippees, chickens on buses, the whole thing. Loved your post. Very fun.
No books for me. We went trudging through the backwoods of Guatemala twenty or so years ago and there was story all around! Guns, wild parrots, enormous mangoes hanging from the trees… hippees, chickens on buses, the whole thing.

]]> By: Jennifer King http://www.booksandsuch.biz/blog/the-marriage-of-eng-minds/comment-page-1/#comment-3278 Jennifer King Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:06:06 +0000 http://www.booksandsuch.biz/?p=5406#comment-3278 Michelle, I love your thoughts on being married to an engineer. :o) Always funny, and so insightful. Are engineers and English majors really so different? In our engineer-engineer house, life is fairly --as they said it at our marriage seminar before we were married-- boring. No heated shoe-throwing matches, no red-in-the-faced arguments about where commas properly go. Just analysis (sometimes) of why a certain pillar structure is better for a determined weight-load, etc. And, I'm really glad we both love to read. Most of the time we finish the book ... :) xo JK Michelle,

I love your thoughts on being married to an engineer. :o ) Always funny, and so insightful. Are engineers and English majors really so different?

In our engineer-engineer house, life is fairly –as they said it at our marriage seminar before we were married– boring. No heated shoe-throwing matches, no red-in-the-faced arguments about where commas properly go. Just analysis (sometimes) of why a certain pillar structure is better for a determined weight-load, etc. And, I’m really glad we both love to read. Most of the time we finish the book …
:)
xo JK

]]> By: Bonnie http://www.booksandsuch.biz/blog/the-marriage-of-eng-minds/comment-page-1/#comment-3277 Bonnie Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:12:42 +0000 http://www.booksandsuch.biz/?p=5406#comment-3277 I don't think I took any either, but then the cruise ship had a library on it so we picked up a couple books there to read. :) I do remember reading part of The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands by Laura Schlessinger... good honeymoon material, eh? (Actually, it's a very good book.) Maybe he should have taken a book - I ended up seasick for a few days and he had to watch TV. I don’t think I took any either, but then the cruise ship had a library on it so we picked up a couple books there to read. :) I do remember reading part of The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands by Laura Schlessinger… good honeymoon material, eh? (Actually, it’s a very good book.) Maybe he should have taken a book – I ended up seasick for a few days and he had to watch TV.

]]> By: Karen Robbins http://www.booksandsuch.biz/blog/the-marriage-of-eng-minds/comment-page-1/#comment-3274 Karen Robbins Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:49:15 +0000 http://www.booksandsuch.biz/?p=5406#comment-3274 LOL. I'm married (41 years) to an Engineer who doesn't read much more than the newspaper and a few magazines. No books on the honeymoon. I do remember that. We only had three days before classes started again and we'd have to dig into college textbooks. Now when we travel I usually take 4 to 6 books (thank goodness for an e-reader). He takes one--the same one several times and by the end of the year may have it finished! LOL. I’m married (41 years) to an Engineer who doesn’t read much more than the newspaper and a few magazines. No books on the honeymoon. I do remember that. We only had three days before classes started again and we’d have to dig into college textbooks. Now when we travel I usually take 4 to 6 books (thank goodness for an e-reader). He takes one–the same one several times and by the end of the year may have it finished!

]]> By: Jennifer Degler http://www.booksandsuch.biz/blog/the-marriage-of-eng-minds/comment-page-1/#comment-3273 Jennifer Degler Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:16:37 +0000 http://www.booksandsuch.biz/?p=5406#comment-3273 You made me smile. It was 23 years ago so I don't remember the book I took on my honeymoon, but I'm quite certain I did take one or two, and got them read. Is there anything more cozy than being propped up by pillows in bed, lit only by bedside lamps, as you and your husband quietly read as night falls (fiction for me, hiking books for him)? Of course, my husband would say that this cozy scenario could be improved if we were both reading naked, but I picture us in warm pajamas...smile. You made me smile. It was 23 years ago so I don’t remember the book I took on my honeymoon, but I’m quite certain I did take one or two, and got them read. Is there anything more cozy than being propped up by pillows in bed, lit only by bedside lamps, as you and your husband quietly read as night falls (fiction for me, hiking books for him)? Of course, my husband would say that this cozy scenario could be improved if we were both reading naked, but I picture us in warm pajamas…smile.

]]> By: Lynn Dean http://www.booksandsuch.biz/blog/the-marriage-of-eng-minds/comment-page-1/#comment-3271 Lynn Dean Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:31:37 +0000 http://www.booksandsuch.biz/?p=5406#comment-3271 When we married, my husband was in the midst of a double masters program. We brought his textbooks, and I read management theory to him as he drove. He thought that was very romantic because we were doing it together. ;) Really, it wasn't bad. When we married, my husband was in the midst of a double masters program. We brought his textbooks, and I read management theory to him as he drove. He thought that was very romantic because we were doing it together. ;) Really, it wasn’t bad.

]]> By: Michelle Ule http://www.booksandsuch.biz/blog/the-marriage-of-eng-minds/comment-page-1/#comment-3269 Michelle Ule Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:52:40 +0000 http://www.booksandsuch.biz/?p=5406#comment-3269 You all are making me laugh! I think Wednesday we'll cover what turned out to be a great choice for an Engineer and a story teller . . . or at least a doting female. :-) You all are making me laugh!

I think Wednesday we’ll cover what turned out to be a great choice for an Engineer and a story teller . . . or at least a doting female. :-)

]]> By: Bill Giovannetti http://www.booksandsuch.biz/blog/the-marriage-of-eng-minds/comment-page-1/#comment-3268 Bill Giovannetti Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:49:13 +0000 http://www.booksandsuch.biz/?p=5406#comment-3268 You never finished Perlandra? You weren't sucked into the vortex of the next two? You a trilogy into a [partial] monology? Oh, the humanity! Benny Shannon wrote, "Why Doesn't a Stone Have a Grammar of Physics?" and that might meet you both in the middle, but it's a journal article, not a book. It does, however, mention Newton's Law in the same breath as grammar and that's about as close as you're gonna get. Bookwise, at least. You never finished Perlandra? You weren’t sucked into the vortex of the next two? You a trilogy into a [partial] monology?

Oh, the humanity!

Benny Shannon wrote, “Why Doesn’t a Stone Have a Grammar of Physics?” and that might meet you both in the middle, but it’s a journal article, not a book. It does, however, mention Newton’s Law in the same breath as grammar and that’s about as close as you’re gonna get. Bookwise, at least.

]]> By: Samantha Bennett http://www.booksandsuch.biz/blog/the-marriage-of-eng-minds/comment-page-1/#comment-3267 Samantha Bennett Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:28:54 +0000 http://www.booksandsuch.biz/?p=5406#comment-3267 Haha, I also packed no books on my honeymoon. My husband (who is majoring in Engineering, coincidentally!) isn't a huge reader so I went bookless for him. :) Haha, I also packed no books on my honeymoon. My husband (who is majoring in Engineering, coincidentally!) isn’t a huge reader so I went bookless for him. :)

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