The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.
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Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin I initially picked up Three Cups of Tea some time last year, in the same shopping trip that included picking up a couple of different anti aging creams for my mother, having my hair done, and spending some time alone with a grilled cheese [...]
Prairie Tale: a Memoir Melissa Gilbert Gallery, 384 pages Get it from Amazon >> I’ve been a fan of Melissa Gilbert ever since the first episode of “Little House of the Prairie” first aired, but I hadn’t realized she’d published her memoir until I saw it for sale among the souvenirs of “Little House on [...]
The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman Get it from Amazon. The Zookeeper’s Wife sounds rather grim on the surface: it’s about the keepers at the Warsaw Zoo hiding Jews during the holocaust. As the blurbs on the back say, it’s a rough subject to find in such a beautiful book, and yet, [...]
On Teaser Tuesdays readers are asked to: Grab your current read. Let the book fall open to a random page. Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12. You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way [...]
