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I just finished "The Eleventh Plague" by Jeff Hirsch. It was supposed to be kinda in the same genre as "Hunger Games" or maybe "Divergent". Needless to say, its a YA novel and it reminded me why I rarely read them. The writing style was fine but I couldn't get into the characters. I just didn't care about them all that much.
Switching gears! Picked up "The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence" by T.H. Breen. From the synopsis: The Marketplace of Revolution offers a boldly innovative interpretation of the mobilization of ordinary Americans on the eve of independence. Breen explores how colonists who came from very different ethnic and religious backgrounds managed to overcome difference and create a common cause capable of galvanizing resistance. In a richly interdisciplinary narrative that weaves insights into a changing material culture with analysis of popular political protests, Breen shows how virtual strangers managed to communicate a sense of trust that effectively united men and women long before they had established a nation of their own. The Marketplace of Revolution argues that the colonists' shared experience as consumers in a new imperial economy afforded them the cultural resources that they needed to develop a radical strategy of political protest--the consumer boycott. Never before had a mass political movement organized itself around disruption of the marketplace. As Breen demonstrates, often through anecdotes about obscure Americans, communal rituals of shared sacrifice provided an effective means to educate and energize a dispersed populace. The boycott movement--the signature of American resistance--invited colonists traditionally excluded from formal political processes to voice their opinions about liberty and rights within a revolutionary marketplace, an open, raucous public forum that defined itself around subscription lists passed door-to-door, voluntary associations, street protests, destruction of imported British goods, and incendiary newspaper exchanges. Within these exchanges was born a new form of politics in which ordinary man and women--precisely the people most often overlooked in traditional accounts of revolution--experienced an exhilarating surge of empowerment. Breen recreates an "empire of goods" that transformed everyday life during the mid-eighteenth century. Imported manufactured items flooded into the homes of colonists from New Hampshire to Georgia. The Marketplace of Revolution explains how at a moment of political crisis Americans gave political meaning to the pursuit of happiness and learned how to make goods speak to power."
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I'm trying out a new site (which means I ordered some books) and I thought I'd share it with all of the readers.. check it out. http://www.betterworldbooks.com/
Still reading Herodotus.
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I can't tell if that posted or not, it's not showing up, so if you read, check out this site: http://www.betterworldbooks.com/
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Confidentiality in Allied Health.... Perfunctory school reading is never the funnest stuff.....
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Been combing through her bookshelves since I've read everything in mine.
Not a poetry fan so I passed over those. Been told I'm not allowed to skip it completely if we're going to be "friends". What I do for love. (rolling up sleeves) She started my sci-fi education a month or so back. Not clear on all the subgenres but I'm enjoying what she has so far. Glad she doesn't go much for the fantasy end of things. Read the typical Tolkien in my 20's but otherwise not really feeling the love when it comes to dragons and orcs. (the recently completed Rowling, excepted) Been switching back and forth between fiction and non-fiction shelves. Will finish (autographed copy!) of Ocean at the End of the Lane tonight. Short read. Wanted to finish it last night but couldn't keep my eyes open. On deck, W.E.B. Dubois biography called Biography of a Race. Been told that William Gibson should be next on my sci-fi agenda. She says I "must read the classics". There are science fiction classics?
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I'm just finishing it, and he is also accounting his hike on the AT. However, in true Bryson style, he injects much about the history, current situations, and stories about the AT throughout the book. I'd be interested to hear what you think about the book you're reading. |
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The Not So Big Life ~ Sarah Susanka
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I am now reading (been few days now) The House Of Thunder by Dean Koontz (another one of my fav authors)
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The final few hundred pages of 'Dance with Dragons' book five of the Game of Thrones series. Soon I will join the masses of people waiting (and waiting...and waiting some more) for books six and seven.
I might launch in to 'Cloud Atlas' by David Mitchell after this.
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The other book I had been reading, On the Beaten Path, was very good. Stirred my fires some more where hiking the AT is concerned If you like books such as these, you may like a book written by a much loved (by me) naturalist named Bernd Heinrich. The first (and favorite) book I read by him is called A Year in the Maine Woods. He does a Thoreauesque experiment of living MOSTLY in his cabin in Maine....
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Lately, I've become obsessed with Laura Nyro and am reading "Soul Picnic" - which is about her music and her incredibly private, even mysterious life.
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Mayhem at the Marina A Lexi Hyatt Mystery by Carlene Miller
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