Category: Book Review

Book Review: Best Of All

Best of All by Max Lucado For many years, I never ate eggplant. Every time I had it in a restaurant, it was pithy and bitter and overly chewy to the point of making a dish inedible. I avoided dishes that even had eggplant as an ingredient. Too easy to ruin things with such a …

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Book Review: My Stroke of Insight

My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey by Jill Bolte Taylor I’d heard about this book on the radio when it came out in 2006, but never got a chance to read it until I came across a cheap copy in a discount bin. (Winos have to make do with cheap wine, book-gluttons …

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Book Review: In Praise of Stay at Home Moms

In Praise of Stay-at-Home Moms by Laura Schlessinger I chose to be a stay-at-home mom, and did so for more than a decade, so it came as a surprise to me that a book dedicated to lauding my decision would piss me off so much. I’m giving it three starts, because I enjoyed reading it. …

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Book Review: Love Walked In

Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos I think my opinion of this book was colored by the last book I read. The last book I read was about manly men who kill people for a living, live rough, and try not to think about the futility of it. This book is about women …

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Book Review: War

War by Sebastian Junger I bought this book on spec, mostly because of the strength of Junger’s other book THE PERFECT STORM, the book by which all other maritime disaster accounts are held up to (and usually found lacking). In WAR, Junger takes on the war in Afghanistan. He follows a platoon for fifteen months …

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