The President's Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity by Nancy Gibbs My rating: 5 of 5 stars This book wasn't a page turner, but it did prove to be an interesting read. It's about the relationships, bonds, and occasional bouts of bitterness between former presidents, current presidents, and future presidents, dating from Truman and …
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Charles Bukowski's Scarlet by Pamela Wood My rating: 1 of 5 stars January 6, 2013 -- EDIT: The author of this book emailed me today and wrote me a very gracious email when she could have rightly attacked me for being so mean spirited in my short, bad review of her book. She assured me …
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On Wings of Eagles by Ken Follett My rating: 5 of 5 stars Now this is a five star book if I've ever read one! I couldn't put this book down. It was an amazing story told masterfully by Ken Follett. In looking over some reviews on Goodreads, I was surprised to see a couple …
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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 6,900 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 12 years to get …
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Reading the Bible Again for the First Time: Taking the Bible Seriously but Not Literally by Marcus J. Borg My rating: 4 of 5 stars I found this book really engaging, but I can now see why so many fundamentalists/evangelicals view Marcus Borg as little more than a heretic. He argues that you shouldn't read …
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