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In high school and college, reading took a back seat to other pursuits, but I quickly returned after graduation. I read mostly fiction, but often find myself led to non-fiction by the novels I read: Ken Follett's Jackdaws leads to Stephen Ambrose's D-Day or Ken Follet's World Without End leads to Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror.]]> 45 Columbus, OH 02/2008 12/2009 8 435 292 true 5660928 read 4 true 1875399 currently-reading 139 true 1875398 to-read 30 false 1945038 1001-books-to-read--- 30 false 1944892 looking-for 18 false 4010123 get-from-library 17 false 2917922 pulitzer-winners 17 false 2053370 mychildhood 14 false 3817486 audiobooked-it 13 false 1945037 to-read-short-list 12 false 1945041 fiction-favorites 11 false 1945034 chess-library 8 false 2813737 did-not-finish 4 false 1945042 nonfiction-favorites The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3) by Dan Brown]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81846663 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255568700s/6411961.jpg 919792 Incommunicado http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1203628424p2/919792.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/919792-incommunicado Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:00:08 -0800
Does this sound familiar?

World-renowned symbologist and all-around cool guy Robert Langdon is summoned to an Imposing Architectural Landmark, where something Really Yucky has been left in a way only he ...more...]]> A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (Paperback) by Barbara W. Tuchman]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16031431 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1203173999s/568236.jpg 919792 Incommunicado http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1203628424p2/919792.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/919792-incommunicado Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:37:15 -0800 His Excellency: George Washington (Paperback) by Joseph J. Ellis]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62210083 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165602165s/6462.jpg 919792 Incommunicado http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1203628424p2/919792.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/919792-incommunicado Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:21:24 -0800 http://www.goodreads.com/trivia http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1203628424p2/919792.jpg 919792 Incommunicado http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1203628424p2/919792.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/919792-incommunicado Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:25:50 -0800 The Lighthouse (Adam Dalgliesh, #13) by P.D. James]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64158062 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165365148s/3826.jpg 919792 Incommunicado http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1203628424p2/919792.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/919792-incommunicado Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:26:10 -0700 The Time-Crunched Cyclist: Fit, Fast, and Powerful in 8 Hours a Week (Paperback) by Chris Carmichael]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66480725 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255951846s/6576307.jpg 919792 Incommunicado http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1203628424p2/919792.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/919792-incommunicado Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:01:12 -0700 War and Peace (Hardcover) by Leo Tolstoy]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29262065 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255876679s/290979.jpg 919792 Incommunicado http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1203628424p2/919792.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/919792-incommunicado Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:33:55 -0700 Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating with More Than 75 Recipes (Hardcover) by Mark Bittman]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66480669 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1225942065s/3698601.jpg 919792 Incommunicado http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1203628424p2/919792.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/919792-incommunicado Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:48:46 -0700 The Omnivore's Dilemma, In Defense of Food, or any of a number of others; or have come to understand that the current American diet just isn't healthy and are now wondering, "How?" I couldn't recommend this book more highly.

After concisely exposing the flaws in t...more...]]>