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"I feel like Siri is reading this book to me, as I'm using the Kindle read aloud function to enjoy this book whilst I work. The lack of inflection and expression in her voice makes the story a little hard to follow at times, but I'm enjoying it so far...more"
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"As a side note I'm reading this book on the kindle as a tester to see if I like the kindle.
This book is pretty awesome. It's chock-full of information. The book covers an interesting history of the great plains (think Texas, Oklahoma, Co...more"
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
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As a side note I'm reading this book on the kindle as a tester to see if I like the kindle.
This book is pretty awesome. It's chock-full of information. The book covers an interesting history of the great plains (think Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado) in...more |
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I wish I knew the name for this genre of book. The author tells a series of stories and just as each story gets to the apex, she jumps past the situation on to the next without revealing what happened. Pretty gritty and graphic book. I liked the firs...more |
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| Listening to this one on CD. Really fascinating information about animals. Very entertaining with a dash of the ridiculous. The book has a couple of chapters where it gets bogged down discussing religion, which I would say has been the only slow part...more | |
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Listened to this on a road trip, which helped pass the time nicely. I appreciated the information and history incorporated into this book and learned a little about book making/preservation. The plot of this book cuts across large swaths of Jewish, C...more |
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| I think I came into this book with too high expectations. I really enjoyed the history and insight into how the traveling circus lived. It was a quick read and easy to follow plot and characters. I did however not feel the romance between the charact...more | |
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Unbroken: A World War II Story Of Survival, Resilience, And Redemption
by Laura Hillenbrand
read in May, 2011
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Breezed through this book in a matter of days. Author does a great job of providing background and moving the plot forward. Learned a lot about America's and Japan's ugly WWII history.
The book in general reminded me a lot of Forest Gump...how one ...more |
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Like reading a Leslie Neilson movie. Farse humor on a heavy topic, WWII. Certainly some chuckle moments. It was a little hard to keep characters straight in the beginning and so far there is really no "plot" so to speak.
Finally finished the book a...more |
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