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The Elements of Style – 1972

The Elements of Style (Fourth Edition)

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My rating: 4 of 5 stars
A cottage industry of writers survives thanks to the concise yet profound knowledge found in The Elements of Style. It was required reading in college and should [...]

Three Cups of Tea – 2006

Three Cups of Tea: One Man

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My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Finding your life’s purpose and changing the lives of nearly 24,000 children and their parents in the process [...]

Curious stares

The Mike Singletary Stare

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Then We Came to the End – 2008

Then We Came to the End

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My rating: 3 of 5 stars
For the workaday professionals bound in the fishbowl of office life, Joshua Ferris’ freshman novel, Then We Came To The End, will be familiar territory with [...]

A Series of Unfortunate Events #1 – The Bad Beginning – Lemony Snicket and Brett Helquist – 1999

The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1)

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My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Lemony Snicket should be purchased and perused by audiences of all ages: that is to say, despite the gruesome awful and terrible events befalling the hapless children [...]

The Shack – William P. Young – 2007

The Shack

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My rating: 3 of 5 stars
When I endeavored to begin a 500 book reading voyage, I asked friends and family for suggestions of “the most life altering books.” There were quite a few responses, [...]

Fences- August Wilson – 1986

Fences

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My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I’m ashamed to say that I’d never taken the time to read the 1987
Pulitzer prize winning play “Fences” by writer August Wilson. I’ve really hurt myself by not
reading it, [...]