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"Sisters In Law"
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"How to Be Here"
my take: Part memoir, part pep talk, Rob Bell’s new book feels like he’s chatting with you giving you great …
Rising Strong
my take: Daring Greatly was about being in the arena – engaging in life, going for it, trying and possibly …
"Why We Get Fat"
my take: This is a treatise on why the calories in/calories out paradigm that is touted by medical experts, exercise …
Top Picks July – December 2015
Ah, the second half. These are the most memorable after a year of 50+ books. Fiction: There were parts of …
Big Magic
my take: This is a celebration of CREATIVITY based on the idea that we humans are made to make – …
"The Things They Carried"
my take: Written in pseudo-memoir style, this novel reads like a collection of short stories, and after listening to the …
"Daring Greatly"
my take: I also read I Thought it was Just Me and The Gift of Imperfection by Brené Brown this …
"Turn Right at Machu Picchu"
my take: This is a rather detailed exploration into the who, what, where, when, and why of Machu Picchu. Hubby, …
"Just Mercy"
my take: Profound. Important. Essential. Imperative. What word best sums the necessity of Bryan Stevenson’s voice? Right up there with …
Being Mortal
my take: At first I thought to recommend this to doctors, nurses, people over, say, 70 years … and then …
Top Picks January – June 2015
Inspired by other blogger posts – here are the cream of the crop from the 35 books I’ve read so …
Orange is the New Black
my take: Whilst visiting Daughter and her Bebe back when he was a wee thing, we decided to try the …
"Small Victories"
my take: As noted in a previous post, Anne and I are incarnations of a very similar being. So she …


