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"Excuse Me Your Life Is Waiting"- Lynn Crabhorn. I have read many life coaches, but she was one of the best. I say was, because she committed suicide while battling cancer. She firmly believed in the power of positive feeling and thinking, mental and emotional cause and affect, visualization, and magnetism. It still remains a mystery as to why she committed suicide. Dale Carnegie, also was one of the best life coaches in the world, and he also committed suicide while battling an illness.
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The is How (Burroughs) Axis (Wilson) Armada (Cline) Still Alice (Genova) The Aviator's Wife (Benjamin) The "Captive Prince" trilogy (Pacat) in progress: Voyage of the Narwhal (Barret) The Water Knife (Bacigalupi)
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https://g.co/kgs/UzLda People in my reading group swapped books this week. I was lucky to be in on a trade for the book, Bettyville, which was a New York Times best seller, last year. I plan to read it over the weekend.
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Stephen King- The Four Seasons- 4 Novella set -1982. Stephen King's books make me crazy, yet are so addicting.
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02-06-2016, 12:36 PM | #2565 |
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I'm reading another great schlocky novel by James Michener (1907-1997), "Poland" (1983).
Michener's novels include Tales of the South Pacific, Hawaii, The Drifters, Centennial, The Source, The Fires of Spring, Chesapeake, Caribbean, Caravans, Alaska, Texas and Poland. His non-fiction works include Iberia, about his travels in Spain and Portugal. His first book was adapted as the popular Broadway musical South Pacific by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein. The guy wrote some 40 novels/books, almost all based in sweeping historical research and full of manifest destiny, which is always fun. Thankfully I wont list them all here but: I did learned about "the missionary position" from "Hawaii"; all about why everyone wants pieces of Israel from "The Source"; and I can still sing all the words to "Gonna Wash That Man Right Out of My Hair" from South Pacific. |
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Maria Konnikova's "The Confidence Game"
It is about the psychology of the con. Fascinating and filled with handy tips that work really well in business.
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I very recently finished Anne of Green Gables. I can't believe I've never read these books before... damn my preconceived notions!
I've started Anne of Avonlea, but put it on hold yesterday when I realized that Morning Star was out, the third (and last) in the Red Rising series by Pierce Brown. I'll be stepping back in Anne's world by the weekend, I'm sure!
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Currently reading: "We Gotta Get Out of This Place - The Soundtrack to the Vietnan War", "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", and "Star Wars: Annihilation".
I think I'm all over the genre spectrum.
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Patricia Cornwall"s Latest!- Scarpetta Series.- A must read for fans! Scarpetta's butch niece Lucy, is still being stalked by her psycho ex Carrie, who has been trying to murder her. This novel is all about them. Of course, Patricia dedicated this one to her partner Staci again. She looked too thin on her jacket photo though. I hope she is well.
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The Light of the World, (Ellen Simpson)
After her grandmother’s death, Eva finds a series of diaries detailing the life of a girl caught up in the magic of the Roaring Twenties. She cannot reconcile the young woman in these diaries with the miserable old woman she loved so fiercely. What happened to change her grandmother so drastically? Eva is desperate to know more about this period in her grandmother’s life. I'm enjoying this book even tho it started out with a funeral and flashbacks to a suicide attempt by Eva. |
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I'm reading Room by Emma Donohue
I saw the preview for the movie and thought I should read the book. Its an incredible read. I really can't put it down. You literally feel the full spectrum of emotions...I'm laughing I'm sobbing Im really glad I'm reading it alone in my own Room.... See how I did that??
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I am actually reading the "Fifty Shades" trilogy. Only five years late on that one
The writing is really bad--intrusively so-- but I am still into it
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I'm not all the way done with Room yet but almost...
But today I got an amazing book called Me, Myself and Why: searching for the science of self. It seemed SO interesting that I read the forward...which I rarely do... Its basically a look into what makes us US...it does a comparative of nature vs nurture which is a fascinating subject for my former psych major brain... I can NOT wait to dive in head first....I'm super nerdy that way and I accept it
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A Fighting Chance by Elizabeth Warren
An unlikely political star tells the inspiring story of the two-decade journey that taught her how Washington really works—and really doesn't.
As a child in small-town Oklahoma, Elizabeth Warren yearned to go to college and then become an elementary school teacher—an ambitious goal, given her family's modest means. Early marriage and motherhood seemed to put even that dream out of reach, but fifteen years later she was a distinguished law professor with a deep understanding of why people go bankrupt. Then came the phone call that changed her life: could she come to Washington DC to help advise Congress on rewriting the bankruptcy laws? Thus began an impolite education into the bare-knuckled, often dysfunctional ways of Washington. She fought for better bankruptcy laws for ten years and lost. She tried to hold the federal government accountable during the financial crisis but became a target of the big banks. She came up with the idea for a new agency designed to protect consumers from predatory bankers and was denied the opportunity to run it. Finally, at age 62, she decided to run for elective office and won the most competitive—and watched—Senate race in the country. In this passionate, funny, rabble-rousing book, Warren shows why she has chosen to fight tooth and nail for the middle class—and why she has become a hero to all those who believe that America's government can and must do better for working families. |
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Dark Money : The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right / Jane Mayer.
The investors -- Weaponizing philanthropy : the war on ideas, 1970-2008. Radicals : a Koch family history ; The hidden hand : Richard Mellon Scaife ; Beachheads : John M. Olin and the Bradley brothers ; The Koch method : free-market mayhem ; The Kochtopus : free-market machine -- Secret sponsors : covert operations, 2009-2010. Boots on the ground ; Tea time ; The fossils ; Money is speech : the long road to "Citizens United" ; The shellacking : dark money's midterm debut, 2010 -- Privatizing politics : total combat, 2011-2014. The spoils : plundering Congress ; Mother of all wars : the 2012 setback ; The States : gaining ground ; Selling the new Koch : a better battle plan. |
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Essential of Human Anatomy & Physiology. Fun stuff.
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Messengers of the Wind Native Native American Women Tell Their Life Stories by Jane Katz Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball |
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I have a few going at the moment...
Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton Jonathon Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke Star Wars Battlefront: Twilight Company by Alexander Freed The Hollow Boy by Jonathon Stroud The Courage to Try by C.A. Popovich The Knife by Ross Ritchell
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