I have broken a record with this one. This is the first time EVER in the history of MY LIFE that I read four pages of a book that: – Was hailed as number 53 on the readers list and 63 on the boards list as one of the top 100 books of the century. [...]
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The non fiction book “What the Dog Saw” by Malcolm Gladwell is a fun book to read. The book contains 19 essays that Malcolm wrote in the New Yorker spanning over 8 years I think which makes it an easy read for people with a short attention span or people who don’t have hte time [...]
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LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT. I have not read a non fiction kinda scientific book (biology) in a while that was sooooo much fun, the author, Hannah Holmes, is hilariuos. At one point in the book she stood in the front of the mirror naked and used herself as a study specimen [...]
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Ok so The World According to Garp by John Irving is apparently sooooo popular that it was voted as one of the best 100 books of the century by readers ( I will share the list with you in a future post) I also was at a baby shower and one of the ladies there [...]
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I like everything Malcolm Gladwell writes . I have read The Tipping Point and Blink and enjoyed them immensely so when I saw this book with my buddy Bob I grabbed it right away. The book talks about how people become successful and how much effort a person needs to put into something to become [...]
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What shocked me the most about the book “The Glass Castle” is the fact that it is a memoir. I kept saying to myself, there is NO WAY there are people in the United States who lived/live like this. This is the story of the author Jeannette Walls, her Mom, Dad and her three siblings. The [...]
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This book is BRILLIANT! I’ve never encountered this style of writing before and it took me by surprise! I couldn’t stop giggling all throughout the book because the writing style was refreshing and funny although the subject matter that it tackled was not funny at all. This book talks about a 17 year boy who [...]
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I loved watching the first 2 seasons of the show True Blood so when I knew there were NINE books that inspired the show I jumped right in and started reading them. I really enjoyed reading the books which were very entertaining and quick reads! The show differs from the books but I think the [...]
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World Without End is a sequel of The Pillars of the Earth. A book rich in history, social issues and religion with architecture sprinkled on top. Unlike the pillars of the earth that revolved around building the Kingsbridge cathedral and was rich in architectural history this book focused more on the social aspects of life [...]
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I am a big fan of the outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. The Outlander series is a story about a woman who lived around the time of world war II in the 1940′s who while visiting Scotland finds herself suddenly and inexplicably back 200 years in time in the Eighteenth Century. As per wiki: The [...]
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OK this title could be misleading because most of the books I read in 2009 have been published for years but none the less they affected me in 2009 one way or another. Click on the links to read my reviews of the books. – The Blind Assassin Such a complex book! – His Dark Materials Surprisingly [...]
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I have never in my life read a book so full of despair, every time you think there is hope and your spirits lift you turn the page and you get crushed by the reality of life. And yet I could not stop reading “A Fine Balance “ or stop turning the pages so fast. [...]
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I seldom take books out from the library, I take out a lot of Audio books but not actual paper books. It always seems that the popular books are always not available or on a VERY long waiting list where you have to wait ages to get them. So when I saw The Almost Moon [...]
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“Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.” These words are spoken by Iris Chase Griffen, married at eighteen to a wealthy industrialist but now poor and eighty-two. Iris recalls her far from exemplary life, and the events leading up to her sister’s death, gradually revealing the carefully [...]
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I watched the movie “The golden compass” when it first came out, although I haven’t had read the book at the time, and was very disappointed in it. I thought it could have been much more. So I was hesitant to read the books. A year ago as I was browsing in one of those [...]
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