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Booking Through Thursday (09.03.09)

Booking Through Thursday (09.03.09)

This weeks question is “What’s the biggest book you’ve read recently? (Feel free to think “big” as size, or as popularity, or in any other way you care to interpret.)”  I again took a trip along my bookcases pondering an answer to the question.  I have not read any truly hefty-sized books as of late [...]

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Booking Through Thursday (8.27.09)

Booking Through Thursday (8.27.09)

The question this week is “What’s the lightest, most “fluff” kind of book you’ve read recently?”  I sure love a good fluffy book once in a while.  Just read and read and enjoy the story for itself – no hidden meanings, no double entendres, no dictionaries needed!  These are the stories I finish, sit-back and [...]

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Booking Through Thursday

Booking Through Thursday

This weeks question is “What is the worst book you’ve read recently?”  Keep in mind, recently is important.  Well, this may not be a popular choice but I would have to choose Life of Pi by Yann Martel.  I know!!!! Before heads explode let me explain.  I did not choose this because of the writing [...]

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Review – Under this Unbroken Sky

Review – Under this Unbroken Sky

Spring 1938. After nearly two years in prison for the crime of stealing his own grain, Ukrainian immigrant Teodor Mykolayenko is a free man. While he was gone, his wife, Maria; their five children; and his sister, Anna, struggled to survive on the harsh northern Canadian prairie, but now Teodor—a man who has overcome drought, [...]

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It really is funny!

It really is funny!

What is the funniest book I have recently read?  Hmmm, tough one.  I actually had to think about this since I do not usually read outright humorous books.  There have been those stories that have the spattering of chuckle initiating paragraphs but the book itself is not funny as a whole.  Take Marley and Me.  [...]

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