tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76059339106997021642024-03-12T22:45:11.652-05:00Books On My Shelf and YoursPromoting the joy of reading through a journey into the wonderful world of books and maybe a little music along the way.mhendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05632599156841885957noreply@blogger.comBlogger179125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7605933910699702164.post-5768279992718807672014-08-26T15:24:00.000-05:002014-08-26T15:37:38.949-05:00My amateurish review of The Dude's Concert at the Pantages...As The Dude once said, “Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.” Or as this self-proclaimed Dude most often says, “I’m not passing judgment, I’m only making an observation”<br />
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Keep that in mind as you read through my feeble review of Jeff Bridges and the Abiders show this past Sunday night at the Pantages theater.<br />
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Actors and Singers; “strikes and gutters..ups and downs..”<br />
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Throughout entertainment there are great singers who have questionable acting talent and vice versa<br />
Now for instance, Elvis Presley, great singer. Great as an actor? Some say Colonel Parker is to blame for those musical B movies that EP is so famous for.<br />
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Maria Carey, great singer, great as an actress? The movie, Glitter. Never saw it but by observing reviews and box office receipts, well ‘nuff said.<br />
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Whitney Houston, great, great singer, great as an actress? I’d have to say she was a pretty good thespian. My Bodyguard, case in point.<br />
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William Shatner, great actor; Singer? Well lend an ear to his version of Elton John’s “Rocket Man” and observe for yourself.<br />
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John Mellencamp, great singer songwriter, okay actor? I’ve not seen Falling from Grace so I’ll pass on the observation. <br />
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Then there’s Prince. Given I live in MN, I’ll declare myself not fit to stand trial and again, pass.<br />
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Which all takes us to Jeff Bridges. Great, great actor. An Academy Award winner. Singer?<br />
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Well…in my observation, I’d say The Dude rolled a pretty good ten frames on Sunday night, several strikes, a few spares and one or two gutter balls:<br />
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Strike: Paying homage to MN…the home of Prince and the home of…the…Coooooooen Bros as he so stretched out the vowel to the applause of the crowd<br />
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Strike: Great cover of a tune from The Big Lebowski, Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “ Lookin Out my Back Door”<br />
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Strike: Dedicating the show to Robin Williams who he co-starred with in The Fisher King<br />
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Strike: Cover tunes by Dylan, “The Man in Me”; one by Townes Van Zant called “To Live is To Fly”; Tom Wait’s “Never Let Go” and The Byrd’s “So you wanna be a Rock n Roll Star<br />
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Strike: very engaging; laughable and appreciative of the hoots and hollers of Lebowski quotes that mixed through the night like a straw in a White Russian( the Dude’s drink of choice, affectionately termed, ‘a Caucasian’)<br />
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Spare: The show didn’t start on time, but most shows never do<br />
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Spares: Modestly priced Tshirts, CD’s and Albums both unsigned and signed<br />
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Spares: Souvenir stand only took cash and I only had a check written out to Ralphs’ for .69<br />
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Gutterball: Although it was great to hear that he had family in the audience ( sister, niece and nephew), they were seated in the front row, thus prohibiting any fans from sitting there; I believe there were VIP seats available but I “crossed the line and marked it zero”<br />
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Gutterball: He started around 7:10 and finished around 8:40, not much of a show but his musical catalog isn’t that vast.<br />
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There were no “Nihilists” in the crowd nor was there any “unchecked aggression”, just a good size, perhaps sold out crowd listening to good music and some great guitar playing by lead strummer Chris Pelonis, who's performance ”really tied the room together.”<br />
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<br />mhendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05632599156841885957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7605933910699702164.post-82882170508753431052014-03-04T15:01:00.001-06:002014-03-04T15:04:24.284-06:00A Faithful Spy during Love and War.<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Looking in on someone's marriage could be perceived as
spying, but in this case, the couple offers up a memoir of oddities, challenges, love and
understandings of when opposites
attract, so different in personality and political views one wonders, why
in the heck are they married?<br />
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But they make it work. They being Mary Matalin and James Carville. Yes
you may have heard of these two pundits. One right and one left. Politically
Polarized. </span></span><br />
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Matalin, worked in the Reagan, Bush 41 and 43 administrations and as counselor to VP Dick Cheney.<br />
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Carville was the lead strategist for Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign.<br />
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They both have appeared on numerous television talk shows; Matalin recently has been appointed as Visiting Distinguished Lecturer at Loyola University New Orleans; Carville teaches political science at Tulane University.<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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Love and War is a revealing look at what happens when opposites unite and
how, going tit for tat, toe to toe they stay above the fray and have a
successful marriage.</span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Through sometimes brutal and tenacious honesty, Matalin
and Carville opine on various topics:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>children, politics, ADHD, election recounts, New Orleans and football,
9/11, Katrina and an oil spill, friends such as Mr. Meet the Press Tim Russert, success and failure, life and
loss, the Bushes and Clintons or Clintons and Bushes depending how you may cast
your vote, and those things that are just "none of your darn
business".</span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Aside
from the occasional potshot at this administration or that one,(depending on
your political persuasion) you may not agree with Matalin or Carville or both, but with an open mind and a thirst for learning and understanding people, you'll find this to be a thoroughly enjoyable and entertaining
memoir. </span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Civil
Rights Activist Audre Lorde once said, <!--[endif]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">'It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.'<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: inherit; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Perhaps using a quote by a
civil rights activist to compare the differences of a married couple may
not be the proper reference, but the quote speaks to differences in all of us.
And despite those differences, things can work. Although at times on the verge of a breaking point, they respect each others perspectives and understand the greater good - - the love for and of one another.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Their<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> passion is evident in topics they cover, such as Matalin on her one time employer and long time friend, Dick Cheney; Carville on his deep rooted love of New Orleans and the state of Louisiana which Matalin also embraces.</span> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Fittingly enough, one just has to look at the design and colors of the book cover to understand this. </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">And how apropos, I finished reading it on Mardi Gras.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Clearly, Matalin and
Carville have their diversities, but they recognize, accept, and truly
celebrate them through Love...and War.</span></span><br />
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As I most often do, I have one or two, sometimes three books going at once. And, I'll find how seemingly unrelated things become linked. My reading of a faithful marriage being eerily or 'synchronistically' connected to my next read.<br />
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Now, I'm not one to spy on people, but to some degree we all have a little curiosity in each of us, always wanting to know a little of this and a little of that, regardless of the subject matter. Isn’t that why reality TV is so successful? One could argue biographies, autobiographies and memoirs are just that, reality TV but in written form.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">While reading Love and War, a couple well known journalists that I follow on twitter tweeted their excitement over the publishing of a new novel. Having not read this author, I looked to find which was his first book. And that was in the form of faithful one, Alex Berenson's first novel - - The Faithful Spy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> I looked for The Faithful Spy on my shelf, opened it up and off I went.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">With the backdrop of the 9/11 and the chase for Bin Laden, Berenson spins a timely and creative adventure of CIA operative John Wells. One novel of several. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So here I found myself, peeking into and learning about the lives of two well known figures in our political hemisphere, all the while living the intense fictional life of a spy.</span><br />
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</span>Other John Wells books by Alex Berenson:</span> <br />
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mhendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05632599156841885957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7605933910699702164.post-90591801556176660692014-02-26T07:14:00.002-06:002014-02-26T09:33:29.824-06:00Learn your ABC's: All Books CashI think I was around eight or nine years of age, maybe a bit younger, when my parents took my sister and I to see Johnny and June Carter Cash at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN back in the early 70's. I'm not quite sure the exact date.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">A</span>nd, I'm not quite sure how or why Cash's music and life become a focal point of my musical tastes throughout my life. But I'm very sure of how grateful I am for my loving parents and that small trek through Kentucky and Tennessee that summer of the 70's.<br />
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In Robert Hilburn's Johnny Cash: The Life, you too can take a trek, a journey back to the early days of Dyess, AR(today, Sept 26, would've been his 82nd birthday) through the pills, spills and chills; the peaks and valleys of John's musical life and landscape til that September day when Johnny Cash's journey ended.<br />
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Who's Robert Hilburn, you may ask. Well, I'd guess he's heard this phrase hundreds of times, " Hello I'm Johnny Cash!" but maybe the most memorable time came at the famous Folsom Prison Concert in 1968. Yes, Hilburn was there on assignment for a Los Angeles newspaper.<br />
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Hilburn, a music critic in LA has helped catapult careers of icons such as Elton John, <span style="font-size: x-large;">B</span>ruce Springsteen and Kris Kristofferson, who said that after Hilburn's review of his Troubadour debut, he never had to work again.<br />
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Johnny <span style="font-size: x-large;">C</span>ash: The Life can be seen as the authoritative book on the Man in Black. One only has to read through the number of sources, interviews, including many with John himself and several Cash family members, colleagues, contemporaries and friends to understand Hilburn and the books credibility. But don't start there. Start at page one. Hilburn writes not just through the eyes of a music critic but as a fan and friend adding a sincere, riveting, honest look at a Man, his Music and his Life. Heck, you may learn more about The Man than maybe he knew of himself!<br />
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Learn your ABC's my Mother told me. Not sure if these were the ABC's she was referring to, but they sure have taught me a lot.<br />
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All Books Cash ( I've read some, some I haven't...yet!):<br />
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mhendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05632599156841885957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7605933910699702164.post-55235381275866354102014-02-23T10:58:00.004-06:002014-02-23T10:58:52.522-06:00On this day in 1945 on an island in the Pacific...<br />
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Book Recommendation: Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley,
the son of flag raiser, John Bradley . An extraordinary book on one of the most memorable
days in WWII history, later made into a movie by Clint Eastwood<br />
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Originally written by Pete La Farge, The Ballad of Ira Hayes lyrically tells the
story of Ira Hayes, flag raiser and Pima Indian. The song sang by the likes
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<!-- start of lyrics --><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ira Hayes, </span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ira Hayes</span><br />
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>[CHORUS:]</i></span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Call him drunken Ira Hayes</span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He won't answer anymore</span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian </span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nor the Marine that went to war</span><br />
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gather round me people there's a story I would tell</span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">About a brave young Indian you should remember well</span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">From the land of the Pima Indian </span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A proud and noble band</span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Who farmed the Phoenix valley in Arizona land</span><br />
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Down the ditches for a thousand years </span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The water grew Ira's peoples' crops</span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">'Till the white man stole the water rights </span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And the sparklin' water stopped</span><br />
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Now Ira's folks were hungry </span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And their land grew crops of weeds</span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When war came, Ira volunteered </span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And forgot the white man's greed</span><br />
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>[CHORUS:]</i></span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Call him drunken Ira Hayes</span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He won't answer anymore</span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian </span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nor the Marine that went to war</span><br />
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There they battled up Iwo Jima's hill, </span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Two hundred and fifty men</span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But only twenty-seven lived to walk back down again</span><br />
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And when the fight was over </span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And when Old Glory raised</span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Among the men who held it high </span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Was the Indian, Ira Hayes</span><br />
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>[CHORUS:]</i></span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Call him drunken Ira Hayes</span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He won't answer anymore</span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian </span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nor the Marine that went to war</span><br />
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ira returned a hero </span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Celebrated through the land</span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He was wined and speeched and honored; Everybody shook his hand</span><br />
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But he was just a Pima Indian</span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No water, no crops, no chance</span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">At home nobody cared what Ira'd done </span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And when did the Indians dance</span><br />
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>[CHORUS:]</i></span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Call him drunken Ira Hayes</span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He won't answer anymore</span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian </span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nor the Marine that went to war</span><br />
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then Ira started drinkin' hard;</span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jail was often his home</span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">They'd let him raise the flag and lower it</span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">like you'd throw a dog a bone!</span><br />
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He died drunk one mornin' </span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Alone in the land he fought to save</span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Two inches of water in a lonely ditch </span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Was a grave for Ira Hayes</span><br />
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>[CHORUS:]</i></span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Call him drunken Ira Hayes</span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He won't answer anymore</span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian </span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nor the Marine that went to war</span><br />
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yeah, call him drunken Ira Hayes </span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But his land is just as dry</span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And his ghost is lyin' thirsty </span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the ditch where Ira died</span></div>
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mhendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05632599156841885957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7605933910699702164.post-29263534541768661462014-02-10T12:52:00.001-06:002014-02-10T21:36:33.786-06:00After reading 'Tell No One', you may want to tell Everyone!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">You've read books you can't put down. Yes, those books that are so
good you want to read page after page after page until you're finished; you toss
away your list of things to do because you're so captivated by a book you just want to keep reading and reading. Once such book
is Harlan Coben's book, <em>Tell No One</em>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p><u>From the inside cover</u>: For Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened. The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams...</o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>Tell No One</em> is a book you can't put down, but a book that you must.
You have to. To catch your breath. The intensity sucks every air molecule out
of your lungs until you can't breath. You put it down to catch your breath and
you walk away. But, it keeps pulling you back, like a magnet placed to close to a
piece of steel, the attraction so powerful it inches closer to the metal object. You walk further away, but its too much. You try to fight it
but can't. You find yourself back on the couch or chair, slowly picking up the
book and turning to the page where you last gasped for air and
then you..<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I</span></o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">nhale, fill your lungs till they almost burst and start reading.
Released in 2001, you may have already read <em>Tell No One</em> if not, do... you may just find...you'll want to tell Everyone about this great book!</span><br />
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mhendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05632599156841885957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7605933910699702164.post-58308319478198366962014-01-01T15:18:00.002-06:002014-01-02T06:00:54.019-06:00Reflections on Reading - 2013As we most often times do around this time of year, we reflect back on the year that has passed and look forward to the new year upon us.<br />
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2013 brought fifty-six adventures in reading; history, biographies, memoirs, fan fiction and inspiration.<br />
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56 books with an average of 382 pages, way short of last years list of 102 books read.<br />
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I started last year reading a book I hadn't read before. Rarely do I re-read books, in fact I believe I've only re-read maybe one or two over the years.<br />
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This book was voluminous. A classic. 1,436 pages(paperback edition) and is also known by these four letters: GWTW, spelled out, it is Margaret Mitchell's <em>Gone With the Wind</em>. Shortly after reading the book, I watched the movie. A movie that again had yet to see. I was surprised and not surprised at how the book was different from the movie. It most often is. ( Speaking of which, I also read M*A*S*H by Richard Hooker this year. A book, a movie and a TV series - all a little different)<br />
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So, 2013 volume wise got off to a slow start. Took me a month to read GWTW.<br />
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The most inspiring and overall, the best book I read this year was <em>I am Malala</em>, by Malala Yousafzai. Malala stood up to the Taliban for education equality and was shot, in the head, and survived. Truly an inspirational young woman. A must, must read. If you read any book in this new month and year, <em>I am Malala</em> should be one of them.<br />
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Most interesting book this year was a peek into the world of The Dude aka Jeff Bridges in <em>The Dude and the Zen Master</em>. It wasn't as much about The Dude as in, Lebowski, but more so into the inner thoughts, ideas and life of Jeff Bridges.<br />
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Most entertaining book was by far Billy Crystal's <em>Still Foolin 'Em</em>. Crystal brings a self deprecating look at growing old, his life and reflection. Highly recommend to readers of all ages. Young or Old. For the young so they can understand life as we age. For the old, to laugh at ourselves. All with a humorist spin. Laughter starts on page one!<br />
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Most educational, eye opening book was David Brinkley's <em>The Great Deluge</em>. A meticulously exhaustive research into the bureaucratic armageddon that our country experienced in the days prior to, during and after Katrina. It could be argued that <em>The Great Deluge</em> is the authoritative book on some of the darkest days of this nation. Blatant irresponsibility and unaccountability at all levels of government; local, state and federal intermixed with first hand accounts of the human condition at its best through heroism and its worst through pillage, murder, racism, ignorance and violence.<br />
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Authors new to me this year include mystery writer, CJ Box. Rarely do crime mysteries and thrillers make one smile, but Lucy and Sheridan the daughters of Marybeth and Joe Pickett are truly endearing characters. The Pickett series(<em>Open Season</em> being the first) is one of the best I've ever read. A family you'd be privileged to call "your neighbors".<br />
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Lisa Scottoline, a legal based thrill writer with a bit of humor mixed in. One highlight of this year was meeting her at a book signing. I love listening to authors not only talk about the books they've written and the characters they've developed, but learning what inspires them to write, how they write, how much do they write on a day to day basis and how their characters and subject matters somewhat echo the authors personality and life. It was a privilege to meet Ms. Scottoline. (little did I know until I attended this signing that her last name is pronounced, Scotto-lini and not Scotto-line as I had been doing. :))<br />
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Other authors include, Gillian Flynn's <em>Gone Girl</em>, Iris Johansen's Eve Duncan series(started), Agatha Christie, Lee Child, Carl Haissan, Meg Gardiner and Greg Iles. Thanks to the magic of twitter, I'm able to connect with a few including Meg, CJ, and Lisa.<br />
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On the sports front, <em>One Shot at Forever</em> by Chris Ballard will have you reflecting back to your childhood/teenage days of baseball. It could be considered the "Hoosiers" book of Baseball. A true story about the high school baseball team of a small central Illinois town. I loved this book.<br />
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Musically, Linda Ronstadt's <em>Simple Dreams</em> memoir gave us more of a glimpse into the woman's musical talent, inspiration and...her simple dreams. <br />
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And sadly, 2013 saw the loss of some great authors: Vince Flynn, Tom Clancy, Elmore Leonard, Chris Kyle, Stanley Karnow, Doris Lessing and Richard Matheson to name a few.<br />
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Listed alphabetically by author, the books below offer a view into what a wonderful world reading provides us. Recently, <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/brain-function-boosted-for-days-after-reading-a-novel-9028302.html" target="_blank">it was reported that brain function is 'boosted for days after reading a novel.</a> '<br />
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With that in mind, boost your brain and happy reading!<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">*<span style="font-size: x-small;">please note as you browse through my blog you have the opportunity to purchase books directly from this website. However, I no longer earn any income from this particular site as when the state of MN required websites to pay taxes on their affiliate programs, Amazon abruptly ended theirs. Although I don't blog that much anymore, I do so now purely for the enjoyment of writing and promoting reading</span>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Albom, Mitch</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Time Keeper</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Baldacci, David</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Stone Cold</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Baldacci, David</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Camel Club</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Baldacci, David</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ballard, Chris</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">One Shot at Forever</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Box, C.J.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Box, C.J.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Open Season</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Box, C.J.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Box, C.J.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Box, C.J.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Bridges, Jeff and Bernie Glassman</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Dude and The Zen Master</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Brinkley, Douglas</span></div>
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<td colspan="2" nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 164.4pt;" valign="top" width="219"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Great Deluge</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 15;">
<td nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 242pt;" valign="top" width="323"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Child, Lee</span></div>
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<td colspan="2" nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 164.4pt;" valign="top" width="219"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Killing Floor</span></div>
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<td nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 242pt;" valign="top" width="323"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Christie, Agatha</span></div>
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<td colspan="2" nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 164.4pt;" valign="top" width="219"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Mysterious Affair at Styles</span></div>
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<td nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 242pt;" valign="top" width="323"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Christie, Agatha</span></div>
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<td colspan="2" nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 164.4pt;" valign="top" width="219"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Secret Adversary</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 18;">
<td nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 242pt;" valign="top" width="323"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Clancy, Tom</span></div>
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<td colspan="2" nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 164.4pt;" valign="top" width="219"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dead or Alive</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 19;">
<td nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 242pt;" valign="top" width="323"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Coben, Harlan</span></div>
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<td nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 158.35pt;" valign="top" width="211"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Six Years</span></div>
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<td nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 6.05pt;" valign="top" width="8"></td>
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<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 20;">
<td nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 242pt;" valign="top" width="323"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Connelly, Michael</span></div>
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<td colspan="2" nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 164.4pt;" valign="top" width="219"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Trunk Music</span></div>
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<td nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 242pt;" valign="top" width="323"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Cornwell, Patricia</span></div>
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<td colspan="2" nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 164.4pt;" valign="top" width="219"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Port Mortuary</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Crystal, Billy</span></div>
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<td colspan="2" nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 164.4pt;" valign="top" width="219"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Still Foolin' 'Em</span></div>
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<td nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 242pt;" valign="top" width="323"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Deaver, Jeffery</span></div>
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<td colspan="2" nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 164.4pt;" valign="top" width="219"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Roadside Crosses</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 24;">
<td nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 242pt;" valign="top" width="323"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Deaver, Jeffery</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="2" nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 164.4pt;" valign="top" width="219"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Devil's Teardrop</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Evanovich, Janet</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="2" nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 164.4pt;" valign="top" width="219"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Explosive Eighteen</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 26;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Flynn, Gillian</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 158.35pt;" valign="top" width="211"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Gone Girl</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 6.05pt;" valign="top" width="8"></td>
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<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 27;">
<td nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 242pt;" valign="top" width="323"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Gardiner, Meg</span></div>
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<td colspan="2" nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 164.4pt;" valign="top" width="219"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ransom River</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 28;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Haissen, Carl</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="2" nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 164.4pt;" valign="top" width="219"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Downhill Lie</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Hooker, Richard</span></div>
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<td nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 158.35pt;" valign="top" width="211"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">MASH</span></div>
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<td nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 6.05pt;" valign="top" width="8"></td>
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<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 30;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Iles, Greg</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="2" nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 164.4pt;" valign="top" width="219"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mortal Fear</span></div>
</td>
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<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 31;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Johansen, Iris</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="2" nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 164.4pt;" valign="top" width="219"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Body of Lies</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Johansen, Iris</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="2" nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 164.4pt;" valign="top" width="219"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Face of Deception</span></div>
</td>
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<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 33;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Johansen, Iris</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Killing Game</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Johansen, Iris</span></div>
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<td colspan="2" nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 164.4pt;" valign="top" width="219"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Search</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Krueger, William Kent</span></div>
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<td colspan="2" nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 164.4pt;" valign="top" width="219"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Blood Hollow</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mitchell, Margaret</span></div>
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<td colspan="2" nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 164.4pt;" valign="top" width="219"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Gone With The Wind</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Parker, Robert</span></div>
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<td nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 158.35pt;" valign="top" width="211"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Brimstone</span></div>
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<td nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 6.05pt;" valign="top" width="8"></td>
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<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 38;">
<td nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 242pt;" valign="top" width="323"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Parker, Robert B.</span></div>
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<td colspan="2" nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 164.4pt;" valign="top" width="219"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Appaloosa</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Parker, Robert B.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Resolution</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Patterson, James</span></div>
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<td colspan="2" nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 164.4pt;" valign="top" width="219"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Cross My Heart</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Patterson, James</span></div>
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<td colspan="2" nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 164.4pt;" valign="top" width="219"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Second Honeymoon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Patterson, James & Mark Sullivan</span></div>
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<td colspan="2" nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 164.4pt;" valign="top" width="219"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Private: Berlin</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Patterson, James and David Ellis</span></div>
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<td nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 158.35pt;" valign="top" width="211"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mistress</span></div>
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<td nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 6.05pt;" valign="top" width="8"></td>
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<td nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 242pt;" valign="top" width="323"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Patterson, James and Maxine Paetro</span></div>
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<td colspan="2" nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 164.4pt;" valign="top" width="219"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">12th of Never</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Patterson, James and Maxine Paetro</span></div>
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<td colspan="2" nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 164.4pt;" valign="top" width="219"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Confessions: Private School Murders</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Patterson, James and Michael Ledwidge</span></div>
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<td nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 158.35pt;" valign="top" width="211"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Gone</span></div>
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<td nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 6.05pt;" valign="top" width="8"></td>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ronstadt, Linda</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Simple Dream, a Musical Memoir</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sanders, Lawrence</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Dream Lover</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sandford, John</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Silken Prey- SIGNED</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sandford, John</span></div>
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<td colspan="2" nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 164.4pt;" valign="top" width="219"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Storm Front</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Scottoline, Lisa</span></div>
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<td colspan="2" nowrap="" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 164.4pt;" valign="top" width="219"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Everywhere That Mary Went</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Scottoline, Lisa</span></div>
</td>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Final Appeal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Woods, Stuart</span></div>
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mhendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05632599156841885957noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7605933910699702164.post-64925134101904494162013-12-24T17:01:00.002-06:002013-12-24T17:30:34.247-06:00Trying to fit in...Whether you're a reindeer with a red nose, a train with square wheels or a jack in the box named Charlie, we all want to fit in.<br />
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Throughout our lives, we all want fit in, feel accepted and be a part of something.<br />
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As a toddler, pre-teen or young adult and as we grow older, acceptance is a part of who we are. Accepted for who we are, not excluded because of race, gender, religion or...<br />
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Mental Disability.<br />
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Think of the challenges that you've faced through out your life, now add a mental or intellectual disability and that challenge becomes more difficult.<br />
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In 1968, Eunice Shriver, created the Special Olympics and some 35 years later it's become the world's largest sports organization for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, providing year-round training and competitions to more than 4.2 million athletes in 170 countries.<br />
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In 1987, Jimmy Iovine, grammy award winning record producer. (Iovine has worked with everyone from John Lennon to Bruce Springsteen) gathered a diverse group of artists to record a collection of Christmas music as a tribute to his late father.<br />
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Proceeds went to the special Olympics. Now 11 albums and millions of dollars later, watch and listen to Vanessa Williams as she narrates of how this wonderful project came about.<br />
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Learn how Whitney's rendition of "Do You Hear What I Hear" stunned the producers and musicians with her performance.<br />
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Others on that first record which in 1998 was certified quadruple platinum, include, Steve Nicks, Bon Jovi, John Mellencamp, Run DMC and Madonna among others. Oh, and some fine artists from Ireland called U2.<br />
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Voices as diverse as the music they're famous for, the artists, not paid for their performance put together memorable versions of Christmas classics, versions that all fit in a holiday play list.<br />
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".....Repeat the sounding joy...."<br />
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Merry Christmas!<br />
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<br />mhendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05632599156841885957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7605933910699702164.post-81798911245576952882013-10-23T07:53:00.003-05:002013-10-23T09:57:34.353-05:00To all the St. Louis Cardinals, Boston Red Sox and Baseball fans alike...<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">As you prepare for this years World Series, pause for a bit and think back to your high school days. To those days of summer when you were either playing high school baseball or rooting for your team. Or perhaps when you're cheering on as a proud parent, watching your son or daughter nervously step up to the plate, your fingers crossed, sitting on the edge of your seat in the bleachers, hoping they'd get a hit; pitch a strike or turn a double play.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Sure your focus is on the Cardinals or Red Sox, but they've had their one shot at forever, many times over. The Red Sox' drought of WS appearances and wins is a fading memory and the Cardinals, well, they've been there the most with the exception of the Bronx Bombers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">But during the off days of the series, pick up Chris Ballard's book called, </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1401312667/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1401312667&linkCode=as2&tag=boonmyshanyo-20"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">One Shot at Forever: A Small Town, an Unlikely Coach, and a Magical Baseball Season </span></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> One Shot at Forever is a wonderfully written book about a small town in Central Illinois, its HS baseball team and their unconventional coach. Released in 2012, Ballard ventures to Macon IL to tell us about the summers of the early 1970s, a High School baseball team and an unbelievable season.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">If you've ever played a neighborhood game of baseball, tee-ball, colt or pony league, American legion or HS baseball; if you enjoy a great human interest story; if you ever grew up in a small town, if you've ever found yourself rooting for the underdog, you'll love this David vs Goliath type book!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> When Lynn Sweet, an English teacher with a unique style, was offered the job of coaching he thought, sure, it might be fun. And that's how the story begins.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">But it's more than a baseball story. It's a story of influence and inspiration; team work and tenacity; caring and community. Ballard walks us through poignant moments of Macon's Ironmen baseball seasons while "touching all the bases" of the biographies of players and their families.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">He puts you in the bleachers during the games then reunites you with the grown men of that magical season reflecting on a memorable time of their boyhood.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Its been said, one misses 100% of the shots never taken, well, the Macon Ironmen of the early 70's took their shot. A shot that stayed with them...forever.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Watch a video on the book...</span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVMlA0cG9LY" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;">One Shot at Forever by Chris Ballard</span></a></div>
mhendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05632599156841885957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7605933910699702164.post-6358137195025371092013-10-19T16:51:00.002-05:002013-10-19T18:44:17.402-05:00Her name is Malala....Her name is Malala Yousafzai. She's a teenage girl from the Swat Valley in Pakistan and she...<br />
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Stood up for girls education<br />
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Stood up for books<br />
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Stood up for equality<br />
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And she was shot.<br />
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Malala's competitive spirit shines through in her book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316322407/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0316322407&linkCode=as2&tag=boonmyshanyo-20">I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban</a>, where she not only talks about education and schools, but her life in violent Pakistan, her family, her fathers influence, the Taliban and confronting inequality in <u>her own</u> way. <br />
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400 schools bombed. Look around your state. 400 schools bombed. Can you imagine?<br />
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Imagine being so passionate about one thing, it could be anything, books, sports, education, religion, nature, whatever that may be, but you have to leave it. Leave it with the hope that someday you'll return. In leaving Swat as an IDP( internally displaced person), Malala left behind her school bag. ( they could only take so much ). A school bag full of books and dvds which she cared about so much, that she prayed over them; prayed that one day she'd return to them again.<br />
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Can you imagine?<br />
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Now, for the most part, we can live, work and do as we please in the country for which we live. A nation abundantly full of choices and freedoms.<br />
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Yea, I get it, we're not perfect. We have our issues. Our education system isn't perfect but it's available to whomever chooses to learn.<br />
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In Malala's book, we learn about the every day challenges she and others face, reminding us of how good we have it and should continue to appreciate all what our country offers.<br />
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You may not agree with him, his views or his show, but this past week, Jon Stewart of Comedy Central, Daily Show fame, <a href="http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-october-8-2013/malala-yousafzai" target="_blank">interviewed Malala</a>. After viewing it, I had to read this young woman's book. It's an extraordinary memoir about a brave young girl.<br />
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Now she does have her critics. One op-ed in particular appeared this week in the USA Today with the infuriating title of: <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/10/11/qanta-ahmed-malala-nobel-afghanistan-iraq/2965043/" target="_blank">Malala is a heroine, but Gandhi she ain't</a>. <br />
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Stood up for girls education<br />
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And she was shot<br />
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And she lived.<br />
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She is Malala and this is her <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316322407/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0316322407&linkCode=as2&tag=boonmyshanyo-20">story:</a><br />
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<br />mhendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05632599156841885957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7605933910699702164.post-30412022664603917202013-10-05T16:48:00.001-05:002013-10-05T17:47:37.621-05:00Like a Wyoming Grizzley Bear ripping through a Rainbow Trout...While ripping through the first two Joe Pickett novels by <a href="http://www.cjbox.net/">CJ Box</a>, I was contemplating my next reading adventure but still wasn't sure where I wanted to travel to.<br />
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When in WinterKill, the third Pickett novel, I found my future reading destination.<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0425195953/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0425195953&linkCode=as2&tag=boonmyshanyo-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=0425195953&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=boonmyshanyo-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=boonmyshanyo-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0425195953" style="border: currentColor !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
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A character at the center of WinterKill is named Gardiner.<br />
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It was a sign. So with the ferociousness of a Wyoming grizzly bear tearing through a rainbow trout( Box' books are that good and they read that quickly), I finished WinterKill. Little did I know what lay ahead of me in my ensuing chosen thrill ride of a read.<br />
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So I grabbed a mug of green tea( yes, no coffee here), let my big thirsty leather chair surround me and I devoured the latest novel by who else, Meg Gardiner.<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0451417895/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0451417895&linkCode=as2&tag=boonmyshanyo-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=0451417895&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=boonmyshanyo-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=boonmyshanyo-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0451417895" style="border: currentColor !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
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Ransom River will strap you in from page one to the last. An originally creative mystery with court room drama as its backdrop, it stacks up against the best of them. One shouldn't be surprised why Stephen King and Jeffery Deaver recommend her, not to <a href="http://www.meggardiner.com/reviews/">mention scores of newspapers and literary reviewers.</a> <br />
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Ransom River is a stand alone but you aught not be standing as you read it. So brew a beverage, grab a chair and enjoy a great novel!<br />
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Another solo(word standalone was becoming redundant) book by Meg is Shadow Tracer:<br />
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Her Evan Delaney series( in order left to right):<br />
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Her Jo Beckett series ( in order left to right):<br />
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For more on Meg Gardiner visit her <a href="http://www.meggardiner.com/">website</a> .<br />
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Happy Reading!mhendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05632599156841885957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7605933910699702164.post-81109035648598769522013-10-04T12:06:00.000-05:002013-10-04T12:06:29.167-05:00The passing of Tom Clancy..<span class="userContent"></span><br />
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<span class="userContent">We read books.</span><br />
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<span class="userContent">We read books for enjoyment and education. We read books for escape and knowledge.</span><br />
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<span class="userContent">We read books.</span><br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_hide">...</span><span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> With the passing of authors Tom Clancy, Vince Flynn and Elmore Leonard, and others this year, the delicate pages of our lives turn. Characters written by our favorite authors ever cemented in the library of our memories.<br /><br /> But with all artists, poets, singers and writers, their works live on. Live on to be passed to generations that exist today and those yet born. <br /><br /> A great legacy for the creativity that enlightens our lives with each verse, brush stroke, sentence and lyric.<br /><br /> Teach a child to read and their world becomes endless.<br /><br /> RIP Mr. Clancy, you'll be missed.</span></span><br />
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mhendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05632599156841885957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7605933910699702164.post-26625015689629871052013-09-26T08:10:00.000-05:002013-09-26T08:10:38.205-05:00Hey Baby Boomers: This book is for YOU and isn't for those who take themselves too seriouslyAttention Baby Boomers: This book isn't for those who take themselves too seriously. No this book isn't for them. Not for the close-minded, no, not for them.<br />
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In Billy Crystal's, memoir, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805098208/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0805098208&linkCode=as2&tag=boonmyshanyo-20">Still Foolin' 'Em: Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys?</a>, Crystal takes a humble, self-deprecating humorous look at himself, his adventures and the changes in life that we all experience both physically and emotionally.<br />
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Some Things:
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Jazz.<br />
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Lew Alcindor aka Kareem Abdul Jabbar.<br />
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Dark Chocolate. <br />
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Parenting.<br />
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Grand parenting.<br />
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Being on this side of the dirt.<br />
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Muhammed Ali and Howard Cosell.<br />
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The Yankees, Mickey Mantle and Joe DiMaggio.<br />
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City Slickers, Beechnut and Curly.<br />
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When Harry Met Sally and "I'll have what she's having..".<br />
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New York and 9/11.<br />
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Saying goodbye and letting go.<br />
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SNL and "oh I hate when that happens" and many more...<br />
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No this book isn't for the self-centered humorless, abundantly serious people. No this book isn't for them; It's for those of us who can stand in front of a mirror and laugh at ourselves.<br />
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Laugh at every day experiences.<br />
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Laugh at and with our religion and politics.<br />
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Laugh at and with the young, middle aged and the old.<br />
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Smile at ourselves and with one another.<br />
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..and realize we won't live forever and how joyous this life is.<br />
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So look yourself in the mirror, laugh and say...<br />
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" You look mahvelous!!"<br />
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<br />mhendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05632599156841885957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7605933910699702164.post-50413505303619193752013-09-25T07:34:00.000-05:002013-09-25T07:34:36.799-05:00Hits ya like a cold wind from the Big Horn mountains......and keeps you warm like the embers of a camp fire.<br />
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If you like William Kent Krueger, you'll love C.J. Box and vice versa.<br />
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Just finished Box's first four Joe Pickett novels, called, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/042518546X/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=042518546X&linkCode=as2&tag=boonmyshanyo-20">Open Season</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0425189244/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0425189244&linkCode=as2&tag=boonmyshanyo-20">Savage Run</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0425195953/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0425195953&linkCode=as2&tag=boonmyshanyo-20">Winterkill</a>, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0425202933/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0425202933&linkCode=as2&tag=boonmyshanyo-20">Trophy Hunt</a>. Stunning, engaging, mysterious and...do I dare say, endearing. That's a lot for one book, but Box delivers.<br />
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Makes you want to saddle up and go for a ride into the Wyoming canyons, pines, buttes and forests and search for the cold truth no matter how blazing it may be.<br />
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Joe Pickett Novels by C.J. Box in chronological order, left to right:<br />
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Mr. Box also writes stand alone thrillers. For more information check out his website: <a href="http://www.cjbox.net/" target="_blank">C.J. Box</a><br />
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Much like Joe Pickett, William Kent Krueger's character, Cork O Conner, scouts the backwoods of the northern boundary waters of Minnesota. O'Connor, part Irish, part Anishinaabe Indian and a former sheriff of Aurora, MN finds the truth no matter how difficult the search may be.<br />
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Krueger, like Box, writes stand alone thrillers too. Here are his O'Conner books in order, left to right, and his website for more information: <a href="http://www.williamkentkrueger.com/">William Kent Krueger</a><br />
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Box and Krueger's characters are family men and are written in such a way, you'd be privileged to call them your friend and neighbor.<br />
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Happy Reading!mhendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05632599156841885957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7605933910699702164.post-69883911176678178342013-08-29T12:11:00.001-05:002013-08-29T14:59:06.871-05:00Time, why you punish me....Time. We've all heard songs speaking of time:<br />
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Time in a Bottle by Jim Croce<br />
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Does Anybody Really Know What Time it Is? by Chicago<br />
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Time is on My Side by the Rolling Stones<br />
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Time after Time by Cindi Lauper<br />
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Time for Me to Fly by REO Speedwagon<br />
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Feels Like the First Time by Foreigner<br />
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and....<br />
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Time by Hootie and the Blowfish. " Time, why you punish me..."<br />
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Time, why are things going so slow? Remember as a child, we couldn't wait. Couldn't wait to get our drivers license, couldn't wait to graduate high school, to start college, to graduate college, etc; all rites of passages all marked by time. <br />
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Then there's wanting more time. "..there's not enough hours in a day." "I wish I had more time to read, to exercise, to spend with my children....more time to spend with my parents...more time to get work done...deadlines and commitments..."<br />
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And more time, more time to spend with those that leave us too soon. "I wish I'd spent more time with her/him/ them..."<br />
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Keeping time and spending time, wanting more of it and hoping it would move faster are all topics of discussion in Mitch Albom's poignant novel, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1401322786/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1401322786&linkCode=as2&tag=boonmyshanyo-20">The Time Keeper</a>. <br />
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Albom, best selling author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/076790592X/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=076790592X&linkCode=as2&tag=boonmyshanyo-20">Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/140131046X/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=140131046X&linkCode=as2&tag=boonmyshanyo-20">Have a Little Faith: A True Story</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1401308589/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1401308589&linkCode=as2&tag=boonmyshanyo-20">The Five People You Meet in Heaven</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1401309577/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1401309577&linkCode=as2&tag=boonmyshanyo-20">For One More Day</a> tells of three stories that become interwoven teaching us of one of life's most important lessons.<br />
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His book reminds us of how "we fret over missed chances, ...inefficient days, ...how long we will live and how by counting lifes moments only lead to counting them down."<br />
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"Of how in yearning for what we lost, we forget about what we have; how time isn't something you give back."<br />
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Spare yourself an hour or so and read Mitch's book. You may find its less punishing to live life One Day at a ....Time.<br />
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<br />mhendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05632599156841885957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7605933910699702164.post-31465179525017693442013-08-02T14:39:00.002-05:002013-08-02T14:39:25.834-05:00Better Hurry...Jobs, Jobs, Jobs...The US Jobs report came out today showing improvement in the unemployment rate but jobs added were less than the estimates.<br />
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But this post isn't about jobs, per se. It's about jobs as in Steve Jobs.<br />
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The movie on Steve Jobs' life is due out August 16th with Ashton Kutcher portraying the iconic founder of Apple. Not sure about the casting but yea better hurry and read the book, August 16th is just two weeks away.<br />
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Here's my 11/10/2011 post on the critically acclaimed best selling book by Walter Isaacson:<br />
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Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, it's all about Jobs!<br />
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No, this isn't a political rant about the economy, but jobs were prevalent in 1955. Unemployment was 4.4%; which is less than half what it is today, a small restaurant with golden arches opened and Mr Potato Head received its patent a few years prior...and the world welcomed onto this planet a boy named Gates and another named Jobs. The former in October, the latter in February. No Potato Heads here. Gates and Jobs would change our world. Columbus discovered the Earth to be round. Jobs transformed it into the shape of an Apple.<br />
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Walter Isaacson opens our eyes to the core of Apple, revealing the politics of one of the worlds largest and most successful companys. Politics that we who live in the corporate world have come to love and hate, more so hate, but it's the nature of the beast. Isaacson, through detailed interviews and access to friends, enemies and Jobs' himself, reveals the petulant personality of Steve Jobs, his family life and the wrath of his work ethic.<br />
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From his chastising of subordinates during one on one meetings or in front of an audience to his slashing criticism of ideas only to return a week, sometimes a few days later explaining an idea he thought of, when in fact it was theirs to begin with. Jobs held a unique perspective on management, style and vision. One day berating people, the next, crying, literally, over the simplest things. <br />
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By providing Gates' opinion after each Apple product release, Isaacson perpetuates the friendly yet competitive and contentious relationship between Jobs and Gates, helping the reader understand their different personalities, motivations and philosophies.<br />
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Jobs' had a way of willing things or ideas to fruition. Ideas that his best engineers said couldn't be accomplished but then miraculously would. A concept throughout the book called, reality distortion field. One could argue this way of thinking led him to struggles, particularly in his battle with cancer, that he couldn't overcome. Electing not to be more diligent in health matters and continue his eccentric diet and lack the common sense to follow the direction of medical professionals as well as close friends and family.<br />
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Job's clearly is a genius. Not smart, as Isaacson states, but a genius and there's a difference. History will define Steve Jobs in the same category of those before him. Those that had such an impact on how we live that leaving him out of the mix would be an insult to his legacy. Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Ben Franklin, etc.<br />
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Did Apple promote a God-like complex with Steve Jobs? This notion passed my way during a discussion with a friend and fellow reader. Let's look at Coke for instance, do you readily know who their CEO is? IBM? Pepsi? Proctor and Gamble? If the CEO of Proctor and Gamble quit, would P & G fail? Not likely, nor will Apple, but it is an interesting concept where as the CEO of a company becomes so prominent that it becomes more about the CEO than it does the company or its product. So, is it all about Jobs or all about Apple? As Jobs goes, does so go Apple? But what is the future of Apple? Is his innovation and vision for the future ingrained deeply enough to sustain the growth Jobs' drove during the last decade? <br />
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Take for example, Sam Walton. Walton was clearly the face of Walmart. But there was so much more to Walmart than Sam Walton. Walton was a retail visionary and changed how America and the world shopped. Walmart has lasted beyond Sam's passing. Full disclosure, I worked for Walmart (Sam's Club) during Sam's tenure and after. It did change. Changed in respect to employee benefits and workplace environment. Gone with Sam were many employee benefits, a less employee friendly environment. Will the vision and innovation of Steve Jobs diminish at Apple now that he's gone? Will the tense, volatile environment change now that he has passed and will the innovation and growth sustain itself. Was his management style the catalyst that drove Apple to success?<br />
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Two other examples, Howard Schultz and Michael Dell. Dell's last name alone gives you a hint at what company he founded. Schultz? Starbucks. Both executives and founders left the company as did Jobs, albeit involuntary, but each came back after the company struggled only to rejuvenate their respective companies. Starbucks to all time high stock price.<br />
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Comparing Jobs with those mentioned maybe like comparing apples and oranges. But in Jobs' case, only time will tell how far the Apple falls from the tree.<br />
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His college acid dropping days, personal hygiene and diet, illegitimate child and coincidental, serendipitous encounter with his biological father are anecdotes you would expect from a biography but much more intriguing and fascinating here. Author of classics on Einstein and Franklin, Isaacson brings much credibility to his book, it's very believable, where as some biographies fail due to access or salacious innuendos.<br />
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Steve Jobs always wanted the last word and Isaacson allowed him to do so. In reading the biography, you'll never view Apple products the same way again.<br />
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, (HeLa) is in the very early stages of becoming a movie. Oprah's production company and HBO are collaborating.<br />
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You'll learn more about Henrietta later below but Rebecca Skloot's book is highly recommended. A biography on Henrietta, her family, life and science, it's an extraordinary book!!!<br />
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<a href="http://www.imdb.com/news/ni2426527/" target="_blank">Information on the Movie.</a> It's a bit dated but searches didn't result in any more up to date information from reputable websites on the progress or status of the movie. However, according to Ms Skloot's twitter account, no release date, perhaps production may start this year(2013).<br />
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Having read the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0399157913/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=boonmyshanyo-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0399157913">The Help by Kathyrn Stockett</a> this past year, I was anxious to see the movie. So upon an unseasonably, warm New Years eve, I clicked on the remote and off I went, back into the 1960's in to the age of racial tension, assassination and the world of cleaning ladies and house maids. <br />
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As one fellow reader and movie goer pronounced to me, 'you'll love the movie, the way the characters are so brought to life and the casting is wonderful'. I couldn't have said it better myself. The movie adaptation was one of the best, especially the cast!<br />
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I don't claim to be a prognosticator, but with the results of the Golden Globe awards being a precursor to the Oscars, my money is on The Help to clean up at least one category on Sunday night.<br />
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Now you may ask, okay, I know about the book and the movie, The Help. But what is HeLa?<br />
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Best known in the science community, HeLa is the name given to a strand of cells that continue to grow and multiply, providing medical research the unprecedented ability to explore cures for cancer, polio and many other diseases. <br />
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Much like the story of the maids in the Help, HeLa has its own story to tell. Thanks to Rebecca Skloot's decade long research, those absent from the medical research field, now know the true story of HeLa. A story that needed to be told.<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400052181/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=boonmyshanyo-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1400052181">The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks</a>, isn't as much about science as it is about the love for one's mother, family, self dignity and pride. Dying of cervical cancer in the early 50's, Henrietta unconsentingly and unknowingly provided cancerous cells to doctors and researchers.<br />
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Expecting these cells to die away like so many do, researchers were shocked to find they didn't. They continued to grow and live. What did these cells offer science you may ask? Henrietta Lacks' cells provided the basis to help cure many diseases ...<br />
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Skloot's writing not only tells about the life of these cells but what became of them, who they came from and why they've so effected each and everyone of our lives. People are alive today because of the HeLa cells were used to develop cures for cancer. That in itself is why the story needed to be told.<br />
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Interjecting factual events at Johns Hopkins, questionable ethical activities within the medical community, the stories of fraud and Supreme court cases signify the importance of Henrietta to the world.<br />
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The Lacks family for many years desired to learn more about their mother, how she lived, how she died and all that was left for Deborah, Henrietta's daughter, was a few strands of hair, a bible and the home-house where Henrietta was raised. All the while as their mothers cell's catapult research into a multi billion dollar industry while they can't afford their own medical insurance.<br />
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So in what the movie, The Help, provides us in entertainment and the state of society in the 60's, Henrietta Lacks gives us something more important - - life, deserving of an award in her own right.<br />
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From hardcovers and paperbacks to the desktop and laptops to the Nook, Kindle to Apple, Microsoft tablets, the world has more ways to read now more than ever.<br />
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What is your favorite method? electronically or the traditionalism of hardcover or paperback?<br />
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Interestingly enough, as I talk to e-reader fans, it's been discovered that some readers can't recall the title or author of the book they're reading! Could it be that they're not holding an actual book and can't see the cover, title, author's name each time they read? Who knows.<br />
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With society's love of nostalgia and comfort of history and things from days gone by, physical books will remain. Look at the success of used book stores across the nation, one in particular, <a href="http://www.hpb.com/" target="_blank">Half Price Books</a>, who buys and sells not only books, but anything printed or recorded. Books, Albums, CDs, DVDs, VHS tapes, Cassettes and even, dare I say, 8-track tapes? Yes, at one location this weekend, I saw several and asked, "Do people actually still buy these?" The response: "yes, mostly from people who restore old cars that have the player still inside.." Interesting I thought.<br />
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Lets look at the demise of vinyl. It died, but as witnessed in the last few years, it's making a comeback. Our love for nostalgia remains. But as streaming and downloading of movies is on the rise through Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, etc., and iTunes for music, one can simply walk through a Barnes and Noble music and movie section and see how our buying methods are changing. <br />
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But back to books. Regardless of one's reading preference, there's one experience that can't be debated and will remain:<br />
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Meeting an author and a signed/inscribed book.<br />
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How does an author sign an electronic book and how does a reader replace the experience of a book signing, visiting with the author and receiving a signed book if they chose to read through an eReader?<br />
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You can't. And I haven't. The pleasure of a book signing remains! Sure you can order a signed book off the web, but....<br />
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Can you look in the author's eyes and say, "What's your book about?" Just as I did this past weekend:<br />
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0988904918/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0988904918&linkCode=as2&tag=boonmyshanyo-20">Theory of Remainders</a><" target="_blank">Theory of Remainders</a> by Scott Dominic Carpenter. <br />
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Description of book from the inside flap: A suspenseful literary novel set in the lush backgrounds of Normandy, Theory of Remainders explores the secret ties between love, trauma, and language."<br />
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Author bio from back inside flap: <a href="http://www.sdcarpenter.com/" target="_blank">Scott Dominic Carpenter</a> teaches French literature and critical theory at Carleton College in Northfield, MN. His fiction has appeared in a broad array of literary journals, and his collection of short stories, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1480172774/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1480172774&linkCode=as2&tag=boonmyshanyo-20">This Jealous Earth: Stories</a><" target="_blank">This Jealous Earth</a>, came out in 2013. <br />
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Happy Reading!mhendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05632599156841885957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7605933910699702164.post-56351063883498411222013-07-28T14:32:00.000-05:002013-07-28T14:39:24.755-05:00"Let the River Run.." and your emotions will flow!Paddling around the web, looking for something, can't remember what, I clicked on a link regarding Carly Simon. Having not kept up with her music for some time, I streamed through websites, learning more and more until...<br />
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I anchored on an interesting page. <br />
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The United Kingdom's inaugural City of Culture award and a video promoting the winning city of Derry~ Londonderry with Carly's song, "Let the River Run" as the soundtrack.<br />
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You know the feeling. We've all felt it. When you hear, read, or see something that...moves you. Chills, goose bumps, watery eyes. Passion. We've all felt it.<br />
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A voice emerges early in this film. A voice that will move you. Lead vocals from a virtual unknown. Vocals from a beautiful, young woman from Ireland. One album, CD or iTune, whatever you want to call it. One things for certain when you hear, Mairead Carlin, you'll want to call her, angelic. <br />
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The video is a extraordinary montage of culture, diversity, music, art, dance and the love a city has for it's own. Carly Simon upon viewing said, " I just played it and cried my eyes out and am still crying. It's absolutely stunningly wonderful. Thank you for doing me proud. Every one of those singers and players and dancers added the spirit that I only imagined could possibly be added in my dreams. There is so much light here that I know we'll get to the new Jerusalem!!! " *<br />
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Bravo to the UK for starting this program.<br />
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Video: <a href="http://youtu.be/VlXWPR7oPUE" target="_blank">Londonderry UK City of Culture 2013</a> <br />
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"Let the River Run..." and your emotions will flow!<br />
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Let The River Run:<br />
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... Let the river run,<br />
Let all the dreamers<br />
Wake the nation.<br />
Come, the New Jerusalem.<br />
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Silver cities rise,<br />
The morning lights<br />
The streets that meet them,<br />
And sirens call them on<br />
With a song.<br />
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It's asking for the taking.<br />
Trembling, shaking.<br />
Oh, my heart is aching.<br />
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We're coming to the edge,<br />
Running on the water,<br />
Coming through the fog,<br />
Your sons and daughters.<br />
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We the great and small<br />
Stand on a star<br />
And blaze a trail of desire<br />
Through the dark'ning dawn.<br />
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It's asking for the taking.<br />
Come run with me now,<br />
The sky is the color of blue<br />
You've never even seen<br />
In the eyes of your lover.<br />
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Oh, my heart is aching.<br />
We're coming to the edge,<br />
Running on the water,<br />
Coming through the fog,<br />
Your sons and daughters.<br />
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It's asking for the taking.<br />
Trembling, shaking.<br />
Oh, my heart is aching.<br />
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We're coming to the edge,<br />
Running on the water,<br />
Coming through the fog,<br />
Your sons and daughters.<br />
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Let the river run,<br />
Let all the dreamers<br />
Wake the nation.<br />
Come, the New Jerusalem.<br />
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* from Carly's websitemhendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05632599156841885957noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7605933910699702164.post-53920737124575703292013-07-27T14:05:00.002-05:002013-07-27T14:13:22.690-05:00Everywhere I go and Everywhere that I went...Everywhere I go and everywhere I went, I'd look for and/or talk about books.<br />
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Chicago<br />
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Denver<br />
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Every bookstore I go to and every book store I went to, I kept seeing this author: Lisa Scot-to-line, Lisa Scottoline, but I've never read her. Author of twenty lawyer-esque mystery's based mostly in Philly, Ms. Scottoline has been quite successful both in and out of the literary world.<br />
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Twenty books. That's a lot. If you've ever tried to write a book ( full disclosure, I have) it's not easy. It's downright hard. So twenty best sellers, she must be good, right.<br />
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You darn tootin' she's good. <br />
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So, as I most often do, call it an addiction, I'll buy all the books of an author than categorically file them in my fiction section or non fiction based on the genre and subject matter, of my library (guesstimated to be 4,000) with the pleasurable intention of reading them some day. So with Ms. Scottoline, I did just that. Well, over the course of a few years I did.<br />
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I would pick up one or a few of her books at Barnes and Noble STORE, not a web site, or at HalfPrice Books, again a STORE not a website. ( caps used for emphasis of the love of a book STORE and all that it entails). Until just this past spring I had all of hers. Yes all twenty of them. She has also written four non-fiction books which I've yet to pick up during my journey.<br />
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As I'm writing this blog and taking a photo to include, I discovered this shocking dilemma: I don't have all of them...yet! I'm missing two. Everywhere that I went I was certain I had all of her books.<br />
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But until that next exciting trip to the bookstore( visited two today) to complete my Scottoline selection, I'll continue reading what I have, so that everywhere I go and everywhere that I went I can say I have read or at least have all of her books.<br />
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Everywhere That Mary Went<br />
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Happy Reading,<br />
Mike<br />
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PS. Teach a Child to read and their world will be endless.mhendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05632599156841885957noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7605933910699702164.post-17060234932867189422013-07-19T19:00:00.000-05:002013-07-19T19:29:12.459-05:00Climbing a tree, hoping the circle will be unbroken?<span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Over the 4th of July weekend I climbed a tree. It was
tall, full of branches and leaves. Some branches old, but as strong as the truth
of oak. Leaves in abundance, over 5000 at last count. Yes I scaled this tree in
a journey to learn more about it. Ya see, this tree is one of my families
history<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>stretching to the heavens for
miles and miles, budding leaves of knowledge and heritage. Some I knew of, while
others were foreign but held purpose.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Back to the mid 1700s thus far, a part of this tree started to grow. Full
of , "doctors and lawyers and such" , a verse from a song yet a lineage of my
existence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">As I studied this tree with my beautiful Mother, learning things of
new and old, a circle started to gather.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>An arc of close and yet distant relatives, cousins and kin. Some not seen in years
while others just a summer ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some
last seen have gone now, past on unexpectedly, but leaving us with memories of
laughter, warmth and love. A void that reminds me of a song about a circle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We start to form another circle under a
tree, touching that "..green green grass of home.."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>with a soft summer breeze of smiles blowing through our hair and a
dusting or two of melancholy and remembrance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Words spoken of laughter, traditions and trust.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What I know of this tree I climbed has barely scratched its bark.
Theres much more to learn, to absorb and to grow with. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I wish to revisit this tree in months and years to come
and learn more to strengthen the trust that this family circle no matter how
torn and tattered will continue to be unbroken.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">There's a few iterations of a song, beginning with AP Carter, patriarch of the first family of country music, the Carter family, then in recent memory, the Nitty Gritty Dirt band who put an album together and subsequent video and kept it relevant in our society's consciousness. The video, includes Johnny Cash, Roy Acuff, Roger McGuinn, Rosanne Cash, John Haitt, Chet Atkins, Bruce Hornsby, June Carter Cash, Emmylou Harris,, Marty Stuart, Earl Scruggs, Levon Helm and many others. A link is included below.</span></o:p><br />
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It's a song of spirit and loss but also of strength, love and family. A song that my family, immediate and extended, holds dear. Dear as the limbs stretch to the heavens, the leaves abundant and full of memories, and a love that forms a circle that will always remain...unbroken.</span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Will the circle be unbroken, bye and bye Lord bye and bye..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bRJLkNqNXI">Will The Circle Be Unbroken</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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mhendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05632599156841885957noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7605933910699702164.post-25781946633872640872013-07-17T17:03:00.000-05:002013-07-17T17:03:56.451-05:00Boston Terrorist On the Cover of the Rolling Stone...and 911 callsThere's been an outcry both on social media and in political circles( <a href="http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/Original_PDF/2013/07/17/Menino_to_Rolling_Stone__1374089137_4526.pdf">Boston Mayor letter of criticism</a>) on Rolling Stones magazines cover showing the Boston bomber on it's latest issue.<br />
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I guess the question I have is, history has shown that magazines have covered similar subject matters, was there an outcry then? I don't know, just asking. Hitler, Bin Laden, Charles Manson come to mind. <br />
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What's different from Rolling Stone vs Time Magazine? Time Magazine did the same thing with the Columbine shooters. What am I missing here? Journalistic freedom or abuse there of or blatant insensitivity? <br />
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Either way, TV, Newspapers, Magazines 'celebritize' violent acts by reporting names of the perpetrators in their issues and covers. Unfortunately we see it time and time again. Columbine, Newtown CT, Tucson AZ, Aurora CO, Virginia Tech, how's RS's decision any different? Perhaps they're providing rock star treatment? Or as this subscriber has witnessed, RS has been making a much stronger play to report on more than just music for years.<br />
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Is Rolling Stone considered a news publication? Review the many years of past issues and decide. Entertainment photos, musically and cinematically as well as politically. Their interviews and articles have ranged from the Vietnam war to politics to drugs to sex and of course music, you name it and they've probably covered it.<br />
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Their name and history alone speaks to rock stardom and celebrity. Have they crossed the line?<br />
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If we're angry at RS, we should be angry with TV and other media outlets and prohibit the release of photos/names of those criminals and instead of 'promoting it' and be more sensitive.<br />
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By no means do I condone it( and no I'm not cancelling my subscription), I'm just stating a fact: Sensationalism sells and good journalism does to. The mere fact that social media is discussing it is in itself doing what RS wants, publicity, directly or indirectly. How's the saying go? "There's no such thing as bad publicity" as associated with PT Barnum. Well, relatively speaking any way. But it's a sad fact, sensationalism sells. Unfortunately, it comes at the price of sensitivity and respect to those that have suffered from acts of violence. Could they have shown photos of the victims, sure, but would that have garnered as much attention? Again, it speaks to publicity.<br />
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Or are they wishing to debate a cultural issue: "How a popular, promising student was failed by his family, fell into radical Islam and became a monster", as the cover states.<br />
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Sensitivity and journalism can long be debated, it has for many years and will continue. Freedom of the Press and Freedom of Information Act allows our American society to speak, either verbally or written; freely.<br />
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Let's take 911 calls for instance, what's the real value of releasing to the general public the sometimes gut wrenching recordings of victims on 911 tapes? What social value does that bring? Freedom of Information act? Please!! <br />
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Imagine you're a victim or you've lost a loved one or a friend by the result of a violent act and the 911 call for help is re-broadcasted on your local and national news. Do we need to relive these moments? There's sensitivity and privacy at stake here. What's the real social value here? My view is we prohibit the airing of these calls, period. <br />
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A magazine decides to sell their publication with a terrorist on the cover and other news organizations, TV and internet are doing the same thing, so the questions remain:<br />
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What's different and where do we as a society draw the line?<br />
<br />mhendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05632599156841885957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7605933910699702164.post-87381059132308909782013-07-12T14:59:00.000-05:002013-07-12T14:59:40.986-05:00Live at the Troubadour<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">As complex as the times were, the music was simple in its
purity. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Carole King, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Crosby and Nash, Eagles, Cheech and Chong ( yes, really) and
more took part in the platform of Doug Weston's Troubadour. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Weston - complex; the
music - pure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Think of your favorite faded jeans, your favorite shirt, your
favorite shoes or chair and bury yourself in the comfort of a look back to a
time when the country was changing and music was changing too. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">To this music
fan, there's nothing more innocent than the soft strum of an acoustic guitar and
lyrical messages that comfort ones soul during reflection, bad times or good,
and the pleasure of the company of an old friend. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">History of music, history of
our country, an education of music royalty, watch "Troubadours - The Rise of the Singer-Songwriter" and transform
yourself back to the rage and age of innocence of the late 60s and early
70s. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">For lovers of this musical history era and for those lovers of music in general, your library isn't complete nor are you doing your musical knowledge justice if you don't own this CD/DVD treasure.</span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Peace, Love and Happiness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
mhendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05632599156841885957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7605933910699702164.post-39012902943722389732013-06-27T11:11:00.001-05:002013-06-27T11:12:28.801-05:00The Voice has been silenced.....well at least one of them.<br />
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With the recent announcement of Amazon ending it's <a href="http://www.twincities.com/business/ci_23485656/amazon-ending-affiliate-relationships-avoid-minnesotas-online-sale">affiliate program in the State of Minnesota</a>, the ability of earning money for bloggers has been severely limited.
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Good or bad, the decision does ponder a question of creativity and money making.<br />
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As the saying goes, " ...follow your passion." One of my passions is writing. But as I would blog or write, that little dollar sign voice in my head would scream 'how should I write this post in a way that could make me money?'.<br />
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Well that voice has been silenced. Now, some people may point out that I still hear voices in my head, perhaps that is true, however, with Amazon's decision, my motivation has been cleansed of any 'doing it for the money' virus and purifies my creativity back to my original passion, free of any thoughts of how to write to make money and do just that....write.<br />
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If the stars were to align in the great cosmos in the skies, perhaps my blog, writing skills and content would one day be noticed and someone would find it worthy of more than a few shillings and pence. <br />
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For those that did support my blog by purchasing books through it, I thank you. For those that continue to read and comment, I thank you even more.<br />
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So it's onward with my passion and now a bit quieter with one less voice inside my head.<br />
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Huh? What was that, did you say something? Shh...I'm writing.<br />
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Thank you.<br />
<br />mhendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05632599156841885957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7605933910699702164.post-3631752272214514142013-06-07T08:41:00.000-05:002013-06-07T08:56:30.622-05:00Is the truth stranger than fiction? NSA, Verizon and The Broken WindowBack in June of 2011, I blogged about a novel by Jeffery Deaver called, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BRA81PI/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00BRA81PI&linkCode=as2&tag=boonmyshanyo-20">The Broken Window</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=boonmyshanyo-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00BRA81PI" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />. The recent leak or discovery of the National Security Administration tracking cell phone calls, records, etc. reminded me of this great thriller. <br />
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Fictitious in nature, Deaver digs into data mining and the consequences of that data if it were to fall into the wrong hands. Every phone call, web search, GPS route and destination and credit card scan is tracked by one company. A very timely read, leaving one to wonder what if?<br />
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Out of the many fictional books I've read, this is by far one of the most intriguing and thought provoking novels leaving the reader to think, ....to think about every phone call, text, tweet, Facebook post made, every credit card scan and web search. Where does all that data go and who's looking at it, and even more importantly, how's it being used!<br />
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Highly recommend it. 5 out of 5 bookmark rating!<br />
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<u>From June 2011</u>: <br />
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Bond James Bond.<br />
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<img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=boonmyshanyo-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0452284236" style="border: currentColor !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=boonmyshanyo-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1451620691" style="border: currentColor !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=boonmyshanyo-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1416549986" style="border: currentColor !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />I hadn't read Jeffery Deaver in a few years, 07/18/09 to be exact. I'd pick up a book that I hadn't read of his, think about it, then put it down, my uncertainty would then continue. But this week, I decided to and as I read, The Broken Window, I couldn't understand why I ventured away from his books. Cause he's a great author of suspense and who done it's! <br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Broken-Window-Lincoln-Rhyme-Novel/dp/1416549986?ie=UTF8&tag=boonmyshanyo-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="The Broken Window: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=1416549986&tag=boonmyshanyo-20" /></a></div>
In <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Broken-Window-Lincoln-Rhyme-Novel/dp/1416549986?ie=UTF8&tag=boonmyshanyo-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The Broken Window</a>, join Lincoln Rhymes and Amelia Sachs as they dig deep into the world of data mining and personal identification to solve despicable crimes in Deaver's eighth installment of these extraordinary detectives. Somewhat George Orwell, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Nineteen-Eighty-Four-George-Orwell/dp/0452284236?ie=UTF8&tag=boonmyshanyo-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Nineteen Eighty-Four</a>-esque with a touch of Huxley's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Brave-New-World-Aldous-Huxley/dp/0060850523?ie=UTF8&tag=boonmyshanyo-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Brave New World</a>, The Broken Window raises questions about personal privacy and how much anyone should know.. how safe is your data? Who sees it and what do they do with it?<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Brave-New-World-Aldous-Huxley/dp/0060850523?ie=UTF8&tag=boonmyshanyo-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Brave New World" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=0060850523&tag=boonmyshanyo-20" /></a></div>
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Nineteen-Eighty-Four-George-Orwell/dp/0452284236?ie=UTF8&tag=boonmyshanyo-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Nineteen Eighty-Four" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=0452284236&tag=boonmyshanyo-20" /></a><br />
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Now you may ask, why did I entitle this post, Bond, James Bond. Well the reason is, Jeffery Deaver has been commissioned by the estate of Ian Fleming to continue the James Bond story. His first book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Carte-Blanche-Jeffery-Deaver/dp/1451620691?ie=UTF8&tag=boonmyshanyo-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Carte Blanche</a> was released this week. Do you prefer yours shaken or stirred?<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Carte-Blanche-Jeffery-Deaver/dp/1451620691?ie=UTF8&tag=boonmyshanyo-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Carte Blanche" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=1451620691&tag=boonmyshanyo-20" /></a></div>
mhendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05632599156841885957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7605933910699702164.post-18189718084958851462013-06-06T07:32:00.000-05:002013-06-06T07:32:05.403-05:00Sixty nine years ago, on a beach...Sixty-nine years ago, boys soon to be grown men, landed on a beach they've never seen and most likely never heard of.<br />
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As we turn the calendar on another anniversary of D-Day, these men fought for the freedoms we have today, some freedoms cherished, some taken for granted, but there's no denying without these courageous young men, our liberty to Facebook, tweet, blog, text, and email may not have been realized.<br />
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Steven Spielberg, in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003LL3N1I/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B003LL3N1I&linkCode=as2&tag=boonmyshanyo-20">Saving Private Ryan </a>
, reminds us of a Mrs. Bixby:<br />
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Executive Mansion,<br />
Washington, Nov. 21, 1864.<br />
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Dear Madam,-- I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. <br />
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Yours, very sincerely and respectfully, <br />
A. Lincoln<br />
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Although Memorial Day has passed and we remembered those from all conflicts, lest not forget those soldiers both foreign and domestic who joined the fight to defeat dictatorship, Fascism and Nazism some sixty-nine years ago.<br />
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God Speed to those that serve; pray that they'll arrive home to their own Mrs. Bixby, safe and sound.<br />
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