>>>>>>>>That is good advice Mike, or at least I like it, for I do not know what is good for Mike, or for anyone suffering depression or addiction. From the list of series in Netflix, I would add long running ones, some that I liked are "Monk", "How I met your mother", "Dexter"
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>>>>>>>>What seems to be working for me, but it might be taking as just another addiction, is playing computer games, in particular strategy games, like "Civilization" (currently V) or Medieval Total War (various versions) .
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>>>>>>>Did you ever look at Survivor as computer game? My oldest son keeps playing and I try to make him stop. I never looked into it myself.
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>>>>>>>BTW, I also want some book recommendations for my 9 old youngest son. He only recently started to enjoy reading by himself (I was thinking this time never comes) and he read almost all Lous Zachar books and now finishing up 'Series of unfortunate events'. I want to give him something similar, so he would enjoy reading it, but I am not sure what may be appropriate.
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>>>>>>Encyclopedia Jones (by Donald Sobel)
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>>>>>>My one nephew loved a series about Captain Underpants.
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>>>>>>Tamar
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>>>>>Encyclopedia Brown
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>>>>Good catch. Wonder why it came out "Jones"? Oh, Indiana Jones, Encyclopedia Brown.
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>>>>>See also: Hardy Boys and Little House series
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>>>>Yeah, agreed. One of my boys loved a silly series about "The Plant that Ate Dirty Socks," too, but don't know if those are still available.
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>>>>Tamar
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>>>The Indian in the Cupboard series was great. Where the Red Fern Grows was very good.
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>>Old Yeller.... but its a tear jerker...
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>I never read the book but saw the movie.
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>I also enjoyed The Tripods Trilogy:
http://www.amazon.com/Tripods-Trilogy-White-Mountains-City/dp/0020425716>
>as well as most of Matt Christopher's sports books.
Oh, yeah. I read lots of those when I was a kid. Also, E. L. Konigsberg (who died recently)--she was best know for "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler," but I loved one called "About the B'nai Bagels," though kids today probably wouldn't get it. It's about a Little League team coached by a mom.
Also, the Boxcar Children (think the author is Warner).
Oh, Naomi, if your kids haven't read these yet, try All of a Kind Family. Wonderful story about a Jewish family at the turn of the 20th century. There are three or four books.
Also, though it may be hard to find, try K'tonton, by (I think) Sadie Rose Weilerstein. It's a kind of Jewish Tom Thumb.
Tamar
