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Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening

admin — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:03:16 +0000

Today, December 21, 2009, is the Winter Solstice. The official start of winter. The shortest day of the year. I am reminded of the Winter Solstice when I read this line from Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening, “The darkest evening of the year.” This poem makes me remember the night hikes I took [...]

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Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening

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Five Classic Tomes I Just Can’t Like

admin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:46:44 +0000

These are five classic books that I tried to like. Honestly, I did. Here’s a list of literary “classics” that I have tried to read and enjoy, but in the end, I failed. It is not often that I cannot finish a book, but there are so many books that I want to read that [...]

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Five Classic Tomes I Just Can’t Like

The Summer He Didn’t Die – Jim Harrison

The Road – Cormac McCarthy

admin — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:04:42 +0000

With the upcoming November 25th release of the movie version of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road I thought I would post a review of the book. I read The Road back when it first came out in 2006 and it was one of the most touching and simultaneously disturbing books I have ever read. It was [...]

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The Road – Cormac McCarthy

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The Last Town on Earth – one town’s fight against 1918 influenza epidemic

admin — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:34:10 +0000

I first read The Last Town on Earth a couple of years ago and remembered it as I was reading one headline or another on the current Swine Flu situation. The Last Town on Earth is a fictionalized account of a tiny logging town, Commonwealth, in Washington during the 1918 influenza (Spanish Flu) epidemic. In [...]

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Celebrate Banned Book Week Sep. 26 to Oct. 3

admin — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:17:47 +0000

Can you believe books get banned here in America? Freedom of speech? Freedom to read whatever you want? Geez, the next thing you know the government will be able to wiretap anyone they want without reasonable cause. What? They already can thanks to the Patriot Act? Ahh, crap. Better go re-read 1984 by George Orwell [...]

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Celebrate Banned Book Week Sep. 26 to Oct. 3

Read a book in honor of Banned Book Week

C. J. Box Below Zero

admin — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:29:06 +0000

I fell in love with the Joe Picket novels by C.J. Box after doing a search on Amazon for an Upper Peninsula DNR officer series by Joseph Heywood. Amazon recommended the Joe Picket novels as other books that people who bought the Woods Cop novels by Heywood had purchased. The fact that Joe Pickett was [...]

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C. J. Box Below Zero

What’s on my summer reading list

Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer

admin — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:57:22 +0000

Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer by James Swanson is one of the most entertaining non-fiction books I have read in quite some time. When this book originally came out I tried listening to it on CD. I am just one of those people who do not like books on CD or e-books. I [...]

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Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer

The Summer He Didn’t Die – Jim Harrison

admin — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:55:09 +0000

My previous experience reading Jim Harrison was The English Major. While the story didn't interest me all that much, I really enjoyed Harrison's writing style. The bare prose was reminiscent of Hemingway, but with just a touch more detail that made for an enjoyable reading experience. Don't jump to conclusions that I am comparing Harrison to Hemingway as far as literary accomplishments - I'm just talking about their similar style.

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The Summer He Didn’t Die – Jim Harrison

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Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

admin — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:40:15 +0000

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs was one of my absolute FAVORITE books as a kid. I can remember checking this out over and over again from the elementary school library. The illustrations alone were well worth the read, but the incredible premise of a town whose food came from the sky was the real [...]

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Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

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Blueberries for Sal

admin — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:14:00 +0000

We took our kids blueberry picking about two weeks ago and while we were out in the blueberry patch we thought of this book, Blueberries For Sal. It’s a classic (and even received Caldecott honors) children’s book that was first published in 1948 and written and illustrated by Robert McCloskey. The book centers around a [...]

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Blueberries for Sal

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs