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Jesse Cozean
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Thrive: Finding Happiness the Blue Zones Way by Dan BuettnerMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Studies on happiness always fascinate me, primarily because of how wrong we typically are about what makes us happy. Dan Buettner's idea, to find and study some of the happiest places on earth, is a unique look at what factors affect our moods and, ultimately, our lives.
One of the biggest takeaways from the book... Read more of this blog post »
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My Grandfather's War: A Young Man's Lessons from the Greatest Generation
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This is a book that inspires a strong reaction - most people seem to love or hate it, without much ambivalence. I enjoyed the first book in the series very much, and was looking forward to this one. The main theme of the book, at least for me, is the...more |
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| This is a fantastic book, and I can't recommend it highly enough. It's the story of a man who stayed behind in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. The first half of the book is a fascinating personal account of the devastation and flooding of the c...more | |
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| This book was set during Prohibition and written in 1987 - the year after I was born - but it felt to me like it was written specifically for today. The book is an account of a man's slide into madness after the murder of an innocent girl, and the re...more | |
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| As I knew it would be, the combination of Michael Crichton and 17th century pirates made for a fun summertime read. A great adventure story - nothing more, and nothing less. Explosions, cliff-climbing, cannon fire, disguises, storms, sails, oaths, an...more | |
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| So "The Broker" was the worst John Grisham book I've read - though that's a bit like choosing my least favorite chocolate bar. Unlike most Grisham books, the plot unfolds predictably and very slowly. The vast majority of the book consists of an exten...more | |
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The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag (Flavia de Luce, #2)
by Alan Bradley (Goodreads Author)
read in January, 2012
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| Having enjoyed Bradley's first Flavia de Luce mystery, I was excited to continue the series. I was slightly disappointed with the second installment, though still quickly tore through it's pages. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie drew me in and...more | |
“We had our family patterns and were quite comfortable in them, which made it even more shocking when, just after his eightieth birthday, Papa began bringing up his time as a prisoner of war in Germany.
Of course, I had always known that he had served in World War II and been captured, just like I had always know the stories about my grandmother and the build of their house. It's that peculiar type of family memory, where someone has obviously told you but you were too young to remember actually hearing it, so it seems like knowledge that was instilled at birth. Papa never brought it up, and my parents said they hadn't heard him mention it once in the previous fifty years. But suddenly, he was talking.”
― Jesse Cozean
Of course, I had always known that he had served in World War II and been captured, just like I had always know the stories about my grandmother and the build of their house. It's that peculiar type of family memory, where someone has obviously told you but you were too young to remember actually hearing it, so it seems like knowledge that was instilled at birth. Papa never brought it up, and my parents said they hadn't heard him mention it once in the previous fifty years. But suddenly, he was talking.”
― Jesse Cozean
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“We had our family patterns and were quite comfortable in them, which made it even more shocking when, just after his eightieth birthday, Papa began bringing up his time as a prisoner of war in Germany.
Of course, I had always known that he had served in World War II and been captured, just like I had always know the stories about my grandmother and the build of their house. It's that peculiar type of family memory, where someone has obviously told you but you were too young to remember actually hearing it, so it seems like knowledge that was instilled at birth. Papa never brought it up, and my parents said they hadn't heard him mention it once in the previous fifty years. But suddenly, he was talking.”
― Jesse Cozean
Of course, I had always known that he had served in World War II and been captured, just like I had always know the stories about my grandmother and the build of their house. It's that peculiar type of family memory, where someone has obviously told you but you were too young to remember actually hearing it, so it seems like knowledge that was instilled at birth. Papa never brought it up, and my parents said they hadn't heard him mention it once in the previous fifty years. But suddenly, he was talking.”
― Jesse Cozean
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