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| The second in a series, but no need to have read the first for this book to make sense. The age rating Amazon has is for 0-5 year old kids. I tried it on my barely 6 year-old granddaughter. Her eleven year-old sister joined in, helping me read. The y ...more | |
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| This is a solid mystery with a lot of common elements: people who have gone missing, a reporter trying to figure out the mystery of where they are, a few different evil-doers that may or may not be involved. It would be a good read for any mystery re ...more | |
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| Imagine Fergus, an aging male academic in the mid-1980s. He’s someone who has spent his adult life as a professor and unrepentant skirt-chaser. Now he’s getting older and the world has been changing around him. What was acceptable in the past, isn’t ...more | |
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| I’ve read more than a few dystopian novels. The Kitchen Brigade has the elements those I like tend to have, most significantly happening in the near future with a story world that I can easily relate to and picture myself trying to survive in. I’ve r ...more | |
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| Each of these ten short stories have one thing in common, young love. Beyond that, they’re all solid efforts. In every other way they run a broad gambit with multiple genres and different writing styles represented. If a short read with young love as ...more | |
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| Reviewing non-fiction is sometimes an interesting proposition. With fiction, if the story entertains, that’s all that matters, but with non-fiction I’ll often find myself wondering how to tell if the author is qualified to write about the subject and ...more | |
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“People that think I’m strange don’t realize I’m just being funny and people that think I’m being funny don’t realize I’m strange.” As someone who has been called a “smart” ahhh … we’ll go with “smart aleck” more than a time or two, I understood and a ...more |
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| The concept is an interesting one to consider, ridiculous, yet clever too. Commit armed robberies and other crimes dressed as a clown. You’ll stand out in a crowd, but what are the odds that anyone will be able to identify you later? Start a little c ...more | |
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| While largely aimed at inspiring or leading you to find the inspiration to be innovative in building a new business of some kind, the concepts in Spiral could apply to your personal life, a hobby, or anywhere in your world where a little innovation, ...more | |
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| As the description points out, the question that has occupied humans since there have been humans is whether we are alone in the universe. Are there other intelligent beings living out there somewhere. The authors explain the science and theories in ...more | |
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
― The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It
― The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It
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