A thread called 'Rambling of a BFing Richard Dawkins fan' digressed many times onto non-breastfeeding books... and before some great ideas get lost any further down that thread lets start afresh here.

General Richard Dawkins books were referenced, the main one on that thread was The Selfish Gene. A very illuminating read on how our genes motivate us etc.

From Hollygolightly:
It's not on the book list but I am reading Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas by Maya Angelou.
Very entertaining. Saw it on my grandma's book shelf and just had to have it.

From Unicorn:

Steve Biddulph: Raising Babies (& Raising Boys is generally recommended)

The last novel I read was The Careful use of Compliments, by Alexander McCall Smith. Liked it, a gentle read, perfect for a foggy mind, very well written and you get the feeling that there's alot more to the book than the book, iykwim, it's not as inconsequential is it seems, I think. I often think about this author, that if you didn't know who wrote the books, you would think it was a woman. BUT in this book, Isabel, the lead character, has a baby, and Charlie (the baby) is so quiet and un-interfering with Isabel's life, that it could only have been a man that wrote this book, no offence intended to men, but it seems clear that A McCall Smith has never looked after kids for any length of time! Recommend.

From Unz:

The Baby In The Mirror, a Child's World from Birth to Three, by Charles Fernyhough.

It is not written as a reference book, more in the format of a novel, he writes about his own daugher. He studied developmental psychology at Cambridge University. A Yale Prof of Psychology said that it was essential reading for psychologists and new parents, - I wouldn't say it is 'essential', but I did enjoy it.

When he comes to the end of the 3 years of spending all his time with his daughter and they are moving back from Sydney to Durham he reflects on the end of their era of so much time together saying that moving on from that time left him with 'that particular kind of wistfulness: that warm, anxious desolation that comes from leaving something you love'. and that expression really sunk in as the plight for all parents who are properly and fully involved with their child as he/she continually moves towards independance.

Just finished a nice funny holiday read: David Niven's The Moon's A Balloon.

Margot Sunderland, What Every Parent Needs To Know, and The Sears The Attachment Parenting Book are something I'll come back to in the Book Club.

This thread may hold together as a single thread or not .. lets see, we don't want it to clog up the breastfeeding chat so single thread is the best thing to try I think.