Category Archives: Book review

The Giving Tree

Posted on July 31st, 2009

My husband and I both have very fond memories of reading the book The Giving Tree as children. I always thought it was a wonderful book and it was one of the first children’s books that we put on our wish list. We were very excited to receive a beautiful hard cover copy of it [...]

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Outliers

Posted on January 26th, 2009

Today I finished reading Outliersby Malcolm Gladwell. I really enjoyed this book and would definitely recommend it. I have really enjoyed all of Gladwell’s books (The Tipping Pointand Blink) and find his writing style to be clear and intriguing and his topics to be highly interesting. This book is about “The Story of Success” – [...]

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Vampires, Myths, Mystery and Stories

Posted on January 9th, 2009

Ok, so I’m going to admit it… I’ve been sucked into the Edward and Bella vampire hysteria. Well, maybe not hysteria. But, in the past week I read all four of the Twilight series books and I have to admit I really liked them (clearly if I read all of them in a week I [...]

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Book Review: The Shack

Posted on June 11th, 2008

I just finished reading The Shack by William P. Young. I’m not sure where to start in writing about this book. I guess I’ll start by saying that I’ve never cried so much during a book. I found myself almost constantly fighting back tears while reading this book especially the whole second half of it. When I [...]

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Brokeness and Beauty portrayed through a song and a book

Posted on January 26th, 2008

Have you ever thought about what protects our hearts? Just a cage of rib bones and other various parts. So it’s fairly simple to cut right through the mess, And to stop the muscle that makes us confess. Today I went to coffee with Carrie and we talked about Middlemarch . I keep thinking about this book – it [...]

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