The Profile:
Name: Jenine
Other Names: Margaret. Niles. Dalrymple.
Location: Tucson, AZ
Martial Status: Married.  To Phil, for 15 years.
Kids: Andra (8), Grace (6)
Sign: Gemini
Favorite Snacks: Twizzlers.  Dill pickles.

The Photo:

I don't read as much as I would like, at least not fun reading (right now I am reading "A Manager's Guide to Employment Law, which I don't really consider "fun").  I love the box of wine book club - just my speed, great book suggestions, limited accountability, encouragement to drink.

The Book Biography:


Three Books I Loved When I Was a Kid:
Encyclopedia Brown - Boy Detective, Donald Sobol
Where the Sidewalk Ends, Shel Silverstein
The Brothers Lionheart, Astrid Lindgren

Three Books I Loved Before Kids:
Uncle Shelbys ABZ Book, Shel Silverstein.
Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. 
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams.

Three Books I Read About Kids: 
What to Expect in the First 12 Months (I couldn't take What to expect when you are expecting - a little too preachy, but I loved poring over the descriptions in the "First 12 Months" of what caused red bumps and high fevers when my kids were sick - it was almost always NSV, the mysterious non specific viral illness).
The Girlfriends Guide to Getting your Groove Back, Vicki Iovine. 
101 Secrets a Cool Mom Knows, Walter Browder.

Three Books I Loved After Kids:
East of Eden, John Steinbeck. 
Ten Poems to Change your Life, Roger Housden.
Crescent, Diana Abu-Jaber