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Weaving the fantastic with the historical, Deborah Harkness spins a convincing tale of the supernatural. Well-developed characters and a an enthralling plot move the story swiftly along and suddenly you find yourself at the end. I'm really looking forward to the next installment in the trilogy.
I love when factual/historical books read like a novel and Lynne Olson accomplishes this feat with her incredible telling in Citizens of London. The reader will feel a whole gamut of emotions including the tension, the frustration and the eventual relief in the time leading up to our involvement in WWII just as Edward R. Murrow, Averell Harriman, and John Gilbert Winant did.
Lily Casey Smith has sass, gumption, focus, drive, wit and intelligence and in a first-person account with her grandmother's voice, Jeannette Walls gives us another outstanding book filled with wonderful stories.
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More than even Barbara Kingsolver or Mark Bittman, "Eating Animals" is easily one of the most influential books I've read in a long while. Without being preachy, Jonathan Safran Foer takes the reader through the evolution of farming to the corporate-run manufacturing and processing plants that produce our poultry, fish, pork and beef today. He matter of factly lays out the entire journey of how our food is bread, slaughtered and brought to our table. Along the way, he is constantly asking of himself, "Is this right for me and my family?"
I was most definitely challenged to the point of asking myself the exact same thing and after reading "Eating Animals" there doesn't seem to be a way to go back.
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A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
i8pixistix, January 19, 2012
Weaving the fantastic with the historical, Deborah Harkness spins a convincing tale of the supernatural. Well-developed characters and a an enthralling plot move the story swiftly along and suddenly you find yourself at the end. I'm really looking forward to the next installment in the trilogy.Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda by Romeo Dallaire
i8pixistix, January 1, 2011
I wrote a comment about this book on January 27, 2010. I still feel the same way.Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour by Lynne Olson
i8pixistix, March 9, 2010
I love when factual/historical books read like a novel and Lynne Olson accomplishes this feat with her incredible telling in Citizens of London. The reader will feel a whole gamut of emotions including the tension, the frustration and the eventual relief in the time leading up to our involvement in WWII just as Edward R. Murrow, Averell Harriman, and John Gilbert Winant did.Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel by Jeannette Walls
i8pixistix, March 9, 2010
Lily Casey Smith has sass, gumption, focus, drive, wit and intelligence and in a first-person account with her grandmother's voice, Jeannette Walls gives us another outstanding book filled with wonderful stories.(1 of 1 readers found this comment helpful)
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
i8pixistix, March 9, 2010
More than even Barbara Kingsolver or Mark Bittman, "Eating Animals" is easily one of the most influential books I've read in a long while. Without being preachy, Jonathan Safran Foer takes the reader through the evolution of farming to the corporate-run manufacturing and processing plants that produce our poultry, fish, pork and beef today. He matter of factly lays out the entire journey of how our food is bread, slaughtered and brought to our table. Along the way, he is constantly asking of himself, "Is this right for me and my family?"I was most definitely challenged to the point of asking myself the exact same thing and after reading "Eating Animals" there doesn't seem to be a way to go back.
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