books I've read

Anne Hawn's books

Who Moved My Cheese?
If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans
Scientific Secrets for Self-Control
Just One Damned Thing After Another
The Vanishing
Exercises in Knitting
The Good Dream
The Very Best of Edgar Allan Poe
The Chosen
BT-Kids' Knits
Talking God
The Professor
The Christmas Files
The Finisher
Home Decor for 18-Inch Dolls: Create 10 Room Settings with Furniture and 15 Outfits with Accessories
Dracula and Other Stories
A New Song
Christy
All Quiet on the Western Front
File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents


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I'm reading 150 Books

2019 Reading Challenge
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Books we've read

The Help
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
The Night Circus
The Golden Compass
11/22/63
The Little Lady Agency
Catch-22
The Good Father
A Discovery of Witches
The Knife of Never Letting Go
Fahrenheit 451
Frankenstein
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
A Christmas Carol
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
The Color Purple
Matched
Cloud Atlas
The Princess Bride
The Catcher in the Rye


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Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent FaithUnder the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This was such a disturbing story.  It is about a splinter group from the Mormon church who have distorted the faith into a cult.  It is just Jim Jones in different clothes.  It is hard to understand how people can justify having such complete control over others and calling it religion.  Sadly, there must be something in human nature than lends itself to these kinds of cults because the crop up over and over.

The book is well researched and well written and it makes for compelling reading.  I just keep thinking about the women and children and wondering what kind of future they will have with this in their past.


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Friday, August 17, 2007

Eats, Shoots & Leaves

Eats, Shoots  &  Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss


My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is such a clever and interesting book on the use of punctuation. Up until I read this book, I never considered the idea that grammar could be amusing, but this is wonderful. Just reading a few pages will convince anyone that punctuation is important.

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