This is not a very exciting book for my first review but it was interesting. I found some parts more interesting than others and I don’t know if I will change any of my habits in the coming year but I am glad I listened to this book. (Hopefully I will start the habit of writing and posting my reviews timely) This book is broken down in sections about personal, business, consumer, and societal habits. I found the personal and social sections the most engaging […]
Triumphant may be an understatement
The Hiding Place, originally published in 1984 and rereleased more recently as an audiobook, kept me hooked for the whole 10 hour run-time. It definitely put the “difficult” activities I was performing while listening (taping and painting a bedroom) into perspective. “Surely there is no more wretched sight that the human body unloved and uncared for.” Corrie ten Boom spent the first 50 years of her life pleasantly and quietly. Her father’s family owned a watch business in Haarlem, and she worked alongside him repairing […]
Took a year to read but worth it…..
St. Trigger by Aaron Coleman is one of those books you look and think it will be easy. After all, the publisher review says it only has 52 pages. After reading the first few poems I stopped and went back and re-read them. Started in early-late December, I finished on January 1, 2019. I have no idea what I read. Is there beautiful language and images? Oh boy yes! “A dozen monarch butterflies strewn like candy wrappers in the seaweed.” This was one of many […]
I’ve Finally Been Educated
I finally got around to reading the most praised book of 2018. It is brutal. I was prepared for the religious fanaticism, lack of education, and fear of government and doctors. I was not prepared for the amount of abuse, accidents, injuries, mental illness, and cruelty. I struggled through those difficult parts and gained an appreciation for the normal family I was raised in and raised my own daughter in. I guess the critics are right, overall a good read, but not really my cup […]