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Marlene’s 2021 Year in Books
Take a look at Marlene’s Year in Books. The long, the short—it’s all here.
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Marlene Banks
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Alex Haley, Francine Rivers, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Tennessee William
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August 2013
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Ruth's Redemption
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2012
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Son of a Preacherman
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2012
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Greenwood and Archer: After The Riot
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2012
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A HAPPY Thanksgiving! (Bea Happy #2)
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2015
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Gunmen of Nicodemis
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2014
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Greenwood and Archer SAMPLER: After the Riot
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Son of a Preacherman SAMPLER
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A Happy Anniversary!
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2014
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A Happy New Year! (Bea Happy #3)
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2015
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Land and Legacy
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Triple Crown Fever
I like horses. They are third on my list of favorite animals. Though I’m not a gambler by nature I do love watching horse races. I have never bet any money on a horse but I get just as enthusiastic as the people with the big bucks on the line. I pick my favorites and cheer them on with the passion of a woman with her life saving in the balance. I was woefully dashed when California Chrome was sid
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| This Biography started out as a repeat of YES I CAN, which I'd just read. But once I got past those chapters it was okay. It covered his life as he started getting older with his third and final wife. The underscored theme seems to be how he was driv ...more | |
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| An eye opening narrative of a multitalented man who broke the glass ceiling for African American entertainers in several areas. He had issues for sure and his life could easily be described as a train wreck in many ways but despite his misfortunes or ...more | |
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| It was a good read as most of the BJ series is but a bit junky. By that I mean the crucial characters were a bit confusing and perhaps too many in number. There was too much other junk that did not enhance the storyline at all but made it confusing. ...more | |
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Marlene Banks wants to read 22 books in the 2022 Reading Challenge
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| Excellent Allegory and on point biblical messages. John Bunyon was certainly ahead of his time as a writer. The issues of that period are very much like those of today. So this centuries-old allegory is still very relevant and necessary in the twenty ...more | |
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| This study book was just okay. It's suitable for a beginner who has not read the Bible before. It is laid out okay but it skims past or ignores important details about Scripture. Tackling the Old and New Testaments like that requires a lot more detai ...more | |
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| Good book on the Bible and how to approach it. He also touches on some other important issues about people who profess to be of the faith. | |
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“Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at something that doesn't really matter.”
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“You never can tell what two people in love will do or how things will turn out. What they say and what they do can be very different from what they feel. How they act often makes no logical sense.”
― Son of a Preacherman
― Son of a Preacherman
“I don't anxiously take in what people say about other people and judge them solely on that basis. I measure a person by how they treat me and what I see in their character.”
― Son of a Preacherman
― Son of a Preacherman
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“The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.”
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“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.”
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“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”
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Thank you for accepting my friendship invitation, Marlene! Blessings,
Sally
