Eating Animals
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March 31, 2010 | 38 Comments
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It is interesting to me that when I hear of a title like Eating Animals, I pretty much know the book is going to advocate not eating animals. After all, we don’t eat animals, we eat meat; delicious, delicious meat. …

Where Mercy Is Shown, Mercy Is Given
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March 30, 2010 | 9 Comments
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Of all the made-for-TV celebrities, I’m not sure that there are many stranger than Duane “Dog” Chapman. He’s a study in opposites: a tough guy who cries, a foul-mouthed dude who quotes Scripture, a family man who has had twelve …

 

This Week’s Bestsellers
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March 27, 2010 | 1 Comments
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After back-to-back weeks of six new titles added to the list of bestsellers, I am glad to see my workload eased a little this week. There are three new titles this week with a couple of others charging hard behind …

American Conspiracies
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March 26, 2010 | 3 Comments
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My family used to watch that old show Unsolved Mysteries. I always hated it. Though I couldn’t deny there was a bit of an attraction in learning about these strange mysteries no one has ever been able to solve, I …

 

Lift
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March 25, 2010 | 1 Comments
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Lift is a tiny book, so just to be different, I’ll give it a tiny review.
Written as a letter from a mother to her two children, Lift clearly coasts onto the bestseller list on the success of author Kelly Corrigan’s …

The Pacific
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March 23, 2010 | 11 Comments
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Well, I need to either begin or end the review with these words, so let’s get it out of the way right off the top: The Pacific just isn’t as good as Band of Brothers. It is an easy but …

 

This Week’s Bestsellers
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March 20, 2010 | 5 Comments
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Oh my. Last week saw six new books added to the list of bestsellers. I managed to read four of them and to review three. That left me with two pretty thick books on my reading list (The Pacific and …

No One Would Listen
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March 19, 2010 | 9 Comments
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In 1999 Harry Markopolos was a small-time number cruncher at a Boston firm; he was tasked with analyzing investment products. One day he was handed a prospectus outlining Bernie Madoff’s strategy and stellar results and asked to …

 

Not Without Hope
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March 17, 2010 | 2 Comments
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On February 28, 2009 four men left Clearwater Pass on what was supposed to be a day-long fishing expedition. On board were two football players, Corey Smith and Marquis Cooper, along with their personal trainer Nick Schuyler and Schuyler’s friend …

Son of Hamas
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March 16, 2010 | 6 Comments
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(You’ll have to excuse the rare double post between 10MillionWords and my blog. This book perfectly fit both sites)
From his earliest days, Mosab Hasson Yousef had a view of the inner workings of Hamas. The son of one its founders, …