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Even if you hate his show and stand-up routines, this book is a big dose of common sense in a weenie-fied world, expressed in a manner that had me spewing morning coffee more than once. Very funny stuff.
Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like a Skank by Celia Rivenbark.
Having spent many years as the Mom of young children, and having spent most of that time wondering of everyone around me was losing their minds, I LOVE this book! More common sense (from a woman's point of view), more spewed fluids.
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman is a fascinating story of a young girl of Hmong descent living in California who develops a seizure disorder. Fadiman's non-judgemental approach leaves no "bad guys" in this tale of a clash between traditional and modern medicine.
Checking in....members have given quite a number and variety of good reads...thanks everybody!!! Those of us who follow these suggestions will be a well read bunch.
I just finished reading "Renegade" by Michael Wolffe. It's an inside look at the Obama campaign by a reporter that covered the campaign from its beginning. Whether you like President Obama or not, it's a good read because it covers not only the political but the personal side of the Obamas as well.
If you like politics and history there is a book titled IIRC "An American Melodrama" by a couple of British writers. It's about the 1968 Presidential campaign. It's intriguing because it's an "outsider's" view of our political process covering the most significant election of a generation. About the time that the primaries started in '08 I brought this up with a friend who's about the same age, early 60s (both of us should have graduated in '70 but neither did until the mid-70s) and he had also read it in college. He said it was one of only 2 or 3 books from his college days that he had kept.
The Naked Island - Russell Braddon
The true and harrowing story of a young Australian POW in Singapore during WW2
The Dragon's Trail - Joana Pitman
History of the painting "St George & the Dragon" by Raphael - really fascinating study of the power of art since the Renaissance and what people are willing to do to obtain it
Tears in the Darkness - Michael Norman
Story of the Bataan Death March as seen thro a young US serviceman originally from Montana
Socialism is Great! - Lijia Zhang
The rather tongue-in-cheek title of an autobiography by a journalist who grew up in 1970s and 1980s China and became part of the Tiananmen Square student protests
The Gardner Heist - Ulrich Boser
The fascinating and mysterious story of the infamous art theft from the Isabelle Stewart Gardner museum in Boston
The Perfect Storm ,forgot author but it was a good read. Very educational about what fishmen in dangerous waters and the Coast Guard . A real page turner from the first page .
Liberalism Is A mental Disorder, Michael Savage . A book about how we are destroying a nation with foolish ideas .
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James Herriot
James Herriot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Herriot books are often described as "animal stories" (Wight himself was known to refer to them as his "little cat-and-dog stories"[4]), and given that they are about the life of a country veterinarian, animals certainly play a significant role in most of the stories. However, there are a few of the stories in which animals play little or no part (particularly those about his courtship of Helen), and the overall theme of the stories is actually Yorkshire country life as a whole, with the people and animals being two of the primary elements that give it its distinct character.
All Creatures Great and Small
All Things Bright and Beautiful
And more.
Also great T.V. series.
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And the Art of Walt Disney
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