tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37818394388132287292012-01-09T13:09:14.012-08:00it's an addiction my brother and I sharemormonhermitmomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10273403409277178248noreply@blogger.comBlogger2091100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3781839438813228729.post-61499174600556169712012-01-09T12:33:00.000-08:002012-01-09T13:09:14.066-08:00

Okay, this is old LDS commentary on the Old Testament. Skousen started work on it back in the 1930's. It reads like an Institute of Religion instructor's notes. Each chapter has discussion questions at the beginning, footnotes at the end, and each book has a lengthy index. In "The First Two Thousand Years", Skousen covers the Creation through the life of Abraham and includes excerpts from the

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A big thank you to my bro Andrew for picking up the slack on this blog with his literary criticism - a definite cultural improvement.I just want to let any potential LDS writers know about a contest.LDS fiction can be difficult to swallow I admit but there HAS to be some talented writers out there that can make a difference. Please. If you are LDS and have a writer in you waiting to burst out,

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The Johns Hopkins University Press of Baltimore and London releases a corrected edition of Jacques Derrida’s Of Grammatology in 1997.  The original, or “uncorrected” version, came out in 1976.  Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak translates this work, presumably in 1974, from the French text De la Grammatologie, which was published by Les Editions de Minuit in 1967.  Spivak provides a very long “

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The University of California Press of Berkeley and Los Angeles—with permission by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc.—publishes The Rustle of Language by Roland Barthes in 1989.  Richard Howard translates this work, originally entitled Le bruissement de la langue, from the French in 1986.  Éditions du Seuil first publishes the French version of Barthes’s text in 1984.  The book does not include an

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In my continuing quest to read books about theories of literary criticism, I have read Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics from the series New Accents whose General Editor is Terence Hawkes.  Its author, Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan, publishes this book through Methuen of London and New York in 1983.  Rimmon-Kenan explains the constitution of narrative fiction and analyses the components making

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IDW Publishing and Charlie Foxtrot Entertainment release in September 2011 a graphic novel entitled Code Word: Geronimo.  Captain Dale Dye (USMC, Ret) and Dr. Julia Dye, Ph.D., write the story based upon the true events that happened during the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.  Gerry Kissell and Amin Amat illustrate the pictures in this graphic novel and John M. Del

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I know it seems if my brother Andy has taken over the blog here. I have been reading, but I've had some major stuff come up.I do have a problem that you may be able to help with. Our little town's public library has no place to call it's own. It shares space with the high school library. That means that I can't just go check out a book whenever the mood strikes. I have to go within two hours

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Under the supervision of George Stade, the Consulting Editorial Director of Barnes & Noble Classics of New York, a 2004 edition of Plato’s Republic comes out.  Plato originally writes his Republic sometime between the 380s to the 350s B.C.E.  Benjamin Jowett translates this work from the original Greek into contemporary English and publishes it for the first time in 1871.  Elizabeth Watson

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The library in my town has been bounced from one location to another. As a maniacal reader, this really ticks me off. It's basically a walk-in closet.Right now the library board is trying to win a contest sponsored by Pepsi's refresheverything.com. The library has some funds to build it's own building, but needs funds to actually put shelves inside it.Please go vote here and if you're a Pepsi

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The Jaguar Prophecies by Phyllis GundersonMy rating: 3 of 5 starsDr. Howard flies to Chichen Itsa to see a tourist attraction and ends up drugged, tattooed, and charged with warning America about the impending destruction about to overtake America somewhere around 2012, we aren't sure exactly. She wasn't supposed to be there. The original invitation was supposed to go to astronomer Dr. Hovard.

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SEAL Warrior: Death in the Dark---Vietnam 1968--1972 by Thomas H. KeithMy rating: 2 of 5 starsThis has been sitting in a stack of books my dad gave me quite a while ago and I'm only now getting to it.This is a memoir of Thomas H. Keith, former Navy SEAL, who fought in Vietnam from 1968 to 1972, which overlaps when my dad was over there serving in the Special Forces. I'm pretty sure they never met

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Abish: Daughter Of God by K.C. GrantMy rating: 3 of 5 starsAbish is one of those women in LDS scripture that appears for a moment during a dramatic event, and we never know much of who she was before, or what happens to her afterward. We know she was a woman of faith, but we don't know how developed that faith was. We don't know how old she was at the time of the event we see her in the Book of

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Mockingjay by Suzanne CollinsMy rating: 3 of 5 starsMockingjay, the final installment of The Hunger Games, follows Katniss as the hero/symbol of the rebellion against the Capitol. Decked out in a fancy uniform and given a multipurpose bow with explosive tipped arrows, she is the star of a new series of propaganda films. The leaders of the underground (literally as well as figuratively) District

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Catching Fire by Suzanne CollinsMy rating: 3 of 5 starsBook two in The Hunger Games series continues the story of the two "victors" of Book one, Katniss and Peeta. During book one, Katniss played up a "romance" with Peeta while they were fighting the other candidates from the other districts. The audience ate it up.Now that the "victory tour" through the districts has begun, the "romance" must be

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You never leave your home district. A civil war long ago ended in the triumph of the central government. Not only does the government not want you, the grandchildren and great grandchildren of the rebels, to forget who won, but the government wants to rub it in your coal dusted face. They do this by putting the names of all children 12 to 18 in a lottery. One boy and one girl will have the

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Okay, I can finally come up for air. I gave myself some books for my birthday. I had heard about this series and saw my eight year old daughter reading one and thought, "Why not?" Good choice, it turns out. A good fantasy on par with the Harry Potter series and arguably better because it has a lighter feeling throughout. That's not to say that the conflict isn't gripping; the good guys catch

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Okay, enough poetry for now. How about a little nonfiction? Martin Tyner, with help from his wife Susan, tells the story of his life as a falconer. This story, told in snippets, anecdotes and fragments, follows Martin while he struggles as a student trying to work through learning disabilities, as he talks himself into a job with a slightly fabricated "Sure I know him! I was just talking with

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The next book in my research marathon is a second volume of translated poems by Eleanor L. Turnbull, this time with selections from La voz a ti debida and Razón de amor. Pedro Salinas gives his seal of approval to Turnbull’s work which she gives the name Truth of Two and Other Poems. The Johns Hopkins Press in Baltimore, Maryland publishes this volume in 1940 for the American public. Salinas does

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Dash is a working stiff, a union man trying to survive his job long enough to secure his pension. It's not the work, per se, that's killing him. It's the sheer boredom. After all, how many times can a guy go spinning around the earth in an automatic trash compactor for months at a time before a degree of ennui sets in? Turns out Dash can handle the routine. It's when his routine is disrupted that

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I was able to ask Gary Darby some questions via email. A big thank you to Gary for indulging me!My English teacher once said, “Write what you know.” What experiences did you draw on to put together First Trail?Actually, I heard the phrase “write what you know” not just from my English teacher but from so many other authors and publicists that I literally took it to heart when I started writing “

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It seems like most science fiction I read is geared for adults - there may be adult issues and situations that wouldn't be appropriate for young teens. I think this is the first work of science fiction that I could recommend for the preteen set.In Star Scout Rising, First Trail, the galaxy is opening up to human exploration. Some planets have been colonized and a Confederation has formed to

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I thought I had read this before, but once I got going I realized it must have been one of those "classics" I had attempted reading as a teen and then given up on it as stale and musty reading for English teachers. So now that I have actually got through the whole thing, I can say..... it's still kind of stale and musty reading for English teachers.Why musty? The expressive language waxes

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Another book from the Barnes & Noble Classics series came my way last Christmas entitled The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories. (One of my sweet little nieces gave it to me and she helped me unwrap the present.) I had read Dracula and Frankenstein before getting this book, and I looked forward to understanding what Mr. Hyde was all about. Frankly, I did not know much

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I've been looking forward to reading this for a while. I got lucky and won the book through a contest on goodreads.com. How's that for awesome!Ida Mae and the gang are at it again! In this sequel to Secret Sisters, Ida Mae comes to the aid of Eden, an obituary editor who has been asked to check into the death of an elderly woman at the Shady Pines rest home. The woman's daughter is convinced her

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I almost hesitate to post about this one, but better to forewarn others right?The novel started out well. A journalist investigating an archeological site in Kurdish Turkey, finds that there is more to interest him in Gobleki than he thought he would find. Simultaneously, in England, a series of grisly murders have London investigators scratching to find any leads at all to the killers. In a bit

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I've been missing the Cold War. It was such a great era for exciting movies, books, etc. Don't get me wrong; I don't care for the thought of Mutually Assured Destruction brought on by tense diplomatic relations. However, the stories of the oppression coming from behind the Iron Curtain made for great reading, a la 1984.This book doesn't showcase an exact Orwellian society, but it does depict a

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Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables has made an impact on my life since I was in the sixth grade. Its musical counterpart, developed by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, and I do mean the original French version, was the door through which I entered into my obsession and career in foreign languages. When I reached the seventh grade, a stand of books tucked in the corner of the classroom had a

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While I was in Tennessee on a trip to present a paper at a conference and visit family members, I accompanied my cousin to a house of a friend on a Sunday evening. The purpose of the visit was to rummage through some items the friend had set aside for a yard sale or for a charity. My cousin’s friend invited her to the house to see if she would like to take some of the things off of her hands,

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Hey, mormonhermitmom here. I haven't actually done the last few posts...introducing..ANDY! He has a master's in Spanish criticism and I invited him to post his latest reading here to keep his literary critic skills sharp. His "to read" list is quite extensive and I hope you all enjoy his thoughts and comments. I myself am struggling to find something noteworthy of reading/writing about so I'm

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Halloween happens to be one of my favorite holidays. It is a socially acceptable time for people to dress up as things that would normally be looked down on as terrifying, weird, or simply wrong during the rest of the year. Growing up in the twentieth century, I remember seeing popular monsters, like Frankenstein, Dracula, the Mummy, and the Werewolf, invade storybooks and television programs.

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Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women tells of a family of girls during and after the Civil War of the United States. Stories jump from one girl to the next in random order. These stories involve the girls in their coming-of-age phases of life at home, their prospective careers, love interests, marriage arrangements, and even death. The language is quite formal and proper. This edition from Barnes

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(I give my thanks to my sister for inviting me to contribute to her blog. I hope my reviews will give value to future discussion as well as comply with her standards.)In this review, I refer to the Barnes & Noble Classics’ edition of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. This edition includes an introduction with notes by Carol Howard. The Barnes & Noble Classics brand does an excellent job in

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I'm a little chagrined that I put down good coin for this one. I was on Amazon, buying a Juvenile Lit selection for my teenager for Christmas and I thought, "I need something for myself" and this looked a bit tongue-in-cheek, so I got it.Well, it is tongue-firmly-in-cheek. If you really want a bona fide "survival manual" this is not the book to read. Mumfrey reviews many prior predictions about

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This is a short story anthology. As the title suggests, the thematic thread throughout tells of turbulent times, tantalizing thrills and tough tricksters. (There, I got the alliteration out of my system.) Having said that, I'm afraid I cannot recommend this one for children. Or teens. Or adults who like clean reading for that matter.The nice thing about anthologies is that if you don't like one

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A book that fell into my hands through a blog giveaway (one of the best ways to get me to read something I wouldn't normally pick up) and not a bad one either.Yes, it's a teen romance. Yes, there is kissing. Yes, sensitive subjects are mentioned (drug use, child abuse, homicide) BUT it is written in an equally sensitive and appropriate way. I had no qualms about letting my teenager read it. A

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Tristi Pinkston has a new book coming out and she is celebrating over at her blog with a giveaway just about everyday in December. You should check it out. You should enter. You should buy her new book, Dearly Departed. You should read her previous book, Secret Sisters. You just should.

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The title is soooo appropriate for Halloween. This is nonfiction told with fiction flow of story. Marriott interweaves the history of how the bubonic plague baccillus was discovered, and the effect of a plague epidemic in various times and countries including our own."Huh?" you ask. Yes. Plague. The Black Death that wiped out a good portion of the population of Europe in the Middle Ages has at

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Let me just state right off that I have NOT read the original Wizard of Oz books.I'm thinking I had better. They have to be better than this.I picked this up thinking, "Oh! This must be the precursor to the musical 'Wicked' that I've heard so much about!" The idea that the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda, the Good Witch of the North were roomies in college was certainly enticing.The "school

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The weather has cooled, I'm inside more often, I have to pretend to be studious at the kitchen table while the kids do homework, it was just inevitable.

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"Go out the back Jack""Make a new plan Stan"Let's face it. I'm not reading as much as I used to and certainly not posting as much as I used to. There are awesome book clubs and review blogs out there, and I'm just a little fish in a big pond, and beyond that...I'm just too busy."So long! Farewell! Auf Wiedersehn! Goodbye!"Hate to do it, but I'm cutting loose. Happy reading, bibliophiles!

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Phillipa Gaunt, a djinn, or genie, has been kidnapped by the supreme djinn on the planet. Ayesha, the Blue Djinn of Babylon, is dying and must find a successor to take over her responsibilities. Unfortunately, being the head djinn means having logic rule your life, and the relationships you once had with your family suffer terribly for it. Phillipa's brother John embarks on a quest to save his

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John and Phillipa Gaunt have a rich father and a glamorous mother, live in a swanky New York home in a wealthy neighborhood, and are lucky enough to be twins without looking exactly like each other. They have their own share of troubles though: they get their wisdom teeth by the time they are twelve and they discover they are not entirely human. They are djinn. As in "genies".Think Indiana Jones

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My Old Man's Challenge #"I can't remember and I don't wanna go back and count". HA!It's a western. I've never been a fan of westerns but I was just sick of soldier stuff, so there you are.Mordecai Lewis is hard to categorize. He's kind of a mountain man because he traipses through the wilderness away from his 19th century Kentucky home, but he doesn't really trap furs the way other mountain men

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I'm becoming more busy with outside things as outside becomes warmer. I'm just not settling into my favorite chair to read these days and it's not like I have thousands of readers hanging on my every word, (HA!) so I don't think my absence will have much of an impact. If you want to know, the book I peek into now is about tanks (as in rolling tracks and big guns) but that's only if I need to

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I know. I KNOW! Another romance. I'm not doing it for me really. It's my teenage daughter. She loves romances and I feel compelled to read, or attempt to read, what she does to keep tabs on how many rippling pectorals she's exposed to.Thankfully, this book doesn't have rippling pectorals. Well, maybe it does, but I wouldn't know because they are modestly covered with shirts. Phew!To sum up: Sarah

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I've heard, from the woman who loaned this book to me, that it's part of a series of Christian romances, each with a different town as the backdrop. My older daughter got it off my desk before I could read it. I was a little concerned at first, but now that I've read it, I believe it's safe for teenagers to read. No worries.Meg Jorgenson, a young twenty-something teacher gets fed up with her

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Book of My Old Man's ChallengeThis compilation contains true stories of experiences in war from World War I to Afghanistan. Some stories describe miraculous deliverance against all odds and others the dogged resilience of the human spirit in the face of horrible adversity. I think my favorites were "Carrier Pigeons are Real Heroes", by an unknown author, chronicling the service of pigeons as a

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Book 17 of My Old Man's ChallengeI took a lot of history classes in college, so I like a historical, or at least pseudo-historical book. I would probably have to technically call this non-fiction but the author has an obvious bias and doesn't hesitate to let you know what it is. Keep the salt shaker handy, as you'll need a grain or two.Stark has a beef against certain historians who claim that

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My new book club actually picked a different book to read, but it wasn't at the local bookstore, and I had wanted to read this anyway so when I saw it I picked it up. I finished it in a few hours and chuckled all the way through.The story takes place in a fictional small town in Utah. (At least I'm pretty sure there is no town in Utah called Omni, but I could be wrong.) A Relief Society president

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I have enjoyed some LDS novels that mix magical/supernatural elements and LDS elements (what was it? Nephite in Tennis Shoes or Nikes or whatever?). The Thorn runs in a similar vein in that on this particular planet there are prophesies about Christ's birth and a future, personal visit to the people of Gan. I don't think this is a "where did the lost tribes go" story, more of a "Moses was shown

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Books 13, 14, 15, and 16 of My Old Man's Challenge.I got started on this series and had to finish it. It's solid Sci-Fi: spaceships, moonbases, space pirates, space explorers, space miners, but no magical transporters, phasers, torpedoes, warp drives or stuff like that. It isn't set so far into the future of Earth that the culture is totally alien. In fact, except for a reasonable stretch in

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Had to take a break from the stack of books Dad unloaded, er, gave me. This is one of those books that I always meant to read when younger but never got a round to it, (or round tuit, if you know what those are).I tried to read through the introduction by Tan Lin, but like the conversations in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, I found myself spinning around and just getting more confused. It felt

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Book 12 of My Old Man's Challenge.This is another installment in the Scott Harvath series. No longer a Secret Service agent, but a "security expert for hire", Scott finds himself tracking the kidnapped daughter of a media tycoon who is in tight with the current President of the United States. The demanded ransom for Julia Gallo's life is a high level Al-Qaeda operative held captive by the Afghan

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My Old Man's Challenge number 11.Yes, I have been reading, I just haven't been posting. Never fear.This thriller is the first of a series chronicling the adventures of one Scott Harvath, Secret Service agent and all-around stubborn, slightly egotistical, obsessive pursuer of justice/bad guys, adrenaline junkie, etc. etc. To be honest, I actually read one of the books later in the series before I

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Book 10 of My Old Man's Challenge.This is a mountain man story. Wolf Rockwell is a teenage mountain man hauling back furs to the Salt Lake Valley to sell to the Mormon settlers who want them for winter coats. Unfortunately, he runs into some Crow warriors, gets captured, and then has one chance to run away in a manhunt called the run of the arrow.What would you do if you were given a brief

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Book 9 of My Old Man's Challenge.This is a sequel to Polaris. We meet Chase Kolpath and Alex Benedict, antiquities finders/dealers extraordinaire, once again chasing after a missing ship which in turn becomes a search for a missing colony. After reading Polaris, Seeker was a little predictable: Alex manages to have the correct hunches about skimpy leads and they lead him to spectacular finds,

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Book 8 of My Old Man's Challenge.I have no idea how many books in the United States revolve around the Civil War, but it must be in the tens of thousands by now. How many movies? How many t.v. mini-series? I almost didn't want to read this one. Once I read it, I wished I hadn't.The battle gore I suppose I expected. I even expected to read about soldiers sneaking off to visit prostitutes. I

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Book 7 of My Old Man's Challenge.When I was young, there was a t.v. movie called "The Day After" which showed what it would be like to have an atom bomb go off in America. Well, it was more than one bomb actually, but it was hypnotically horrifying to see homes and people vaporized in a second, the radiation sickness that followed and the chaos that resulted from it. I think in the movie the

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Book 6 of My Old Man's Challenge.An NFL backup quarterback has a really bad day: he throws three passes that get intercepted by the other team and they score, (whoops) and gets slammed by tacklers resulting in a bad concussion (ouch) and a promiscuous cheerleader is claiming he is the father of her unborn child (hmm). Driven out of town by angry fans, the only job his agent can get him is a small

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Book 5 of My Old Man's ChallengeI prefer science fiction movies to science fiction novels, but I kind of liked this one. Polaris came out a few years ago. This story has plenty of futuristic spaceships, technology, and faraway worlds, but the plot is essentially a mystery.The Polaris is a space yacht carrying well known scientists and social activists to witness an aging star get pulverized by a

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Book 4 of My Old Man's ChallengeThis is an older book, which my dad probably picked up at a used book store, but I liked the story and I got through it in a day.Cal Morgan, a Vietnam veteran and successful businessman, travels to Washington D.C. with his wife Nancy to testify to Congress about Social Security planning. Basically, he's in the business of predicting when people will die. During a

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Book 3 of My Old Man's ChallengeI'll be surprised if some Hollywood producer doesn't make a movie out of this one. there is actually a book that comes before this, don't know that title, but this story can stand on it's own. John Carr, aka "Oliver Stone", assassinates two important U.S. government officials who orchestrated the murder of his wife and daughter. After years of doing such "work"

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I have always been fascinated with World War II. Is it some morbid fasnication with one of the most manipulating regimes of all time? I don't know. But if you put a swastika on the cover, I'll give a look-see nearly everytime.Book 2 of my old man's challenge.The residents of a small Arizona reservation town die an nearly inexplicable death. The remains of what looks like a bomb have Nazi markings

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Book 1 of My Old Man's challenge. Positives: I love the graphics. And I thought his A.D.D. moments were hilarious.Negatives: I've heard it all before. No liberal will be swayed by his arguments and no conservative has the guts to do what he is suggesting.Glenn Beck puts a lot of the material from his radio show into print here. If you dislike him, or hate his guts, it's just going to annoy you.

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I perused my 2009 list of books I read and they totaled 49. I know there was one other book I didn't review because it was so awful I wanted to forget all about it, so I guess I actually read 50.I get my reading habit from my Dad. He'll just grab something in the grocery store checkout line, or snag something from the book section at whatever store. I've never known him to purposely go to a

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How many of us have had to adapt to a more frugal way of living since the economic "downturn"? (How many of us were living frugally before the downturn and didn't feel much when it happened?) And what does this have to do with Summer in Paris. Not a whole lot. However...Imagine a wealthy, sixteen year old girl, living in New York City and preparing to audition for a spot at a prestigious ballet

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