Archive for June, 2009
John Adams, By David McCullough
This is an amazing biography of the second president of the United States and a wonderful history lesson. The book tells a very compelling story of sacrifice made by John Adams and the other founding fathers. The book does a beautiful job describing the relationships John Adams had with Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Ben Franklin, […]
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So I read all 4 books of the Twilight Saga, Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn, in less than a week. I started last Thursday and finished Tuesday. Wow!! I just couldn’t put them down! If you have heard anything about these books, your probably know that they are about vampires. That was all […]
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“But I found out everybody’s different – the same kind of different as me. We’re all just regular folks walkin down the road God done set in front of us” Inspiring as it is heart-rending, this New York Times “Bestseller” re-tells the true story of three disparate lives intersected. Ron Hall, a wealthy art dealer […]
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I’ve been reading this series since it started and unfortunately, it’s getting progressively worse. The main character (protagonist, to use Meghan’s word) makes some poor relationship choices that I can’t understand and that gets in the way of my enjoyment of the mystery. That said, it was a good mystery. There are 2 murders to […]
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Sadly, this is the last book I will finish before I go back to the working world, although I’m guessing I won’t get a lot of sympathy for that. A Walk in the Woods is Bill Bryson’s story of his hiking of the Appalachian Trail just over 10 years ago. His telling was surprisingly funny […]
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(post by Jeff Miller) Here’s the post you’ve all been waiting for! I finally finished the book that I can’t stop talking about, Jesus for President. In my case, this should be a post for the blog, Onebookeightmonths… that’s right, I started this book in October of last year in the hopes that I would […]
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3rd Degree by James Patterson
This one I ‘experienced’ as a book on CD, so I wasn’t sure if it counted, “but then I realized I’m the boss” (to steal a line from Aaron Brockett). We listened to this today as we drove from Indianapolis to Asheville, NC (see other blog). It was 6.5 hours long, definitely a much faster […]
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Crazy Love, by Francis Chan
I appreciate that many of you are reading this book right now (or intending to), so feel free to leave your comments on the book as well or make another Crazy Love post when you have finished the book. In the same line of Steph’s review of Just Do Something, this book was for me […]
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This book is based around the following scripture: As Jesus and the disciples continued on their way to Jerusalem, they came to a certain village where a woman named Martha welcomed him into her home. Her sister, Mary, sat at the Lord’s feet, listening to what he taught. But Martha was distracted by the big […]
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This book was a quick read, and for that it gets props. Although I recently learned that one of my friends at one point read 2 1/2 500 page books in a day, so I guess for her, anything is a quick read. Not the case for me. This is a girly book, I’ll give […]
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OnebookOnemonth challenge 