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The Road (Oprah's Book Club)
Cormac McCarthy
Vintage Books, 2007
McCarthy For Dummies
I should have titled this review "Oprah's Practical Joke" because it HAS to be -- how could she recommend a brilliant work of literary fiction to 23 million viewers (and that's just the weekly count in the United States alone). I am delighted she did, and I think ...
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Blood Noir (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 16)
Laurell K. Hamilton
Berkley Hardcover, 2008
Woooow
I totally love this book!! I think it's one of the best Anita Blake books. I love getting to know more about Jason, great writing!!!! Everybody who is a Laurell K Hamilton fan should buy this book.
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Always By My Side: A Father's Grace and a Sports Journey Unlike Any Other
Jim Nantz
Gotham, 2008
Fathers Day gift
I enjoyed reading Jim's book and gave it to my two sons-in-law as a Fathers Day gift
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A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father
Augusten Burroughs
St. Martin's Press, 2008
This book made me cry..
I was a bit suspicious about this book because of the negative reviews with one or two stars, but I can't begin to tell how I'm so glad I got to read this book. Not only because I'm Augusten's biggest fan, but A Wolf At The Table is, without a doubt, clearly one of his ...
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Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
David Sheff
Houghton Mifflin Co, 2008
Preventing Drug Abuse
Beautiful Boy is an informative book about drug abuse. The author is a journalist so it is well written and well researched. Mostly it is the author's personal experience and the agony of having a child addicted to drugs. The author blames himself for his son's drug ...
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Guess How Much I Love You
Sam McBratney
Candlewick, 1996
Love this book!
This is a sweet little story about a little nut brown hare and a big nut brown hare. It is a story my child and I both enjoy. It is the whole book in it's entirety, not just a shortened version of the hardback as many boardbooks can be. My child loves when I ...
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Big Russ and Me: Father and Son: Lessons of Life
Tim Russert
Miramax, 2005
A blueprint for fatherhood
This book should be required reading for all young men who eventually will become fathers. It's filled with wisdom and real-life examples of how to set the stage for success in raising a child.
It reads like a novel but in the end it's like an invauable user's ...
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Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life
Spencer Johnson
G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1998
Great Analogy
The book is a quick read and reread. A good reminder of how we MUST flow with change in our lives.
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Down River
John Hart
St. Martin's Minotaur, 2007
Tightly written
The thriller/mystery is one of my favorite genres. I love to get lost in a great page turner, but hate being let down by a sloppy ending. Some books build to a great climax, only to fall apart in the resolution. It's disappointing when writers get themselves stuck ...
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Wisdom of Our Fathers: Lessons and Letters from Daughters and Sons
Tim Russert
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007
Buffalo Wings
The coasts have had too much influence on America for the last 50 years, beginning with Rock & Roll, I suppose, and the cult of youth. There is much to be said for the heartland beginning with the unglamorous mid-west and the great rust-belt cities of Buffalo, ...
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Don't Fill Up on the Antipasto: Tony Danza's Father-Son Cookbook
Tony Danza
Scribner, 2008
Sunday Dinner at Grandma's. ( usually in the afternoon )
This is the only Italian Cookbook that you will need.
Easy to prepare recipes, however this is what we ate in the old days.
Easy to make "The Perfect Meatball" Gravey ( sauce ) in half the time.
The book is your basic Italian cookbook. If you are Italian or ...
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Robert M. Pirsig
HarperTorch, 2006
What is best vs what is right
Although this book requires a bit of reflection (so is therefore not a fast read) it provides a great explanation of ZEN philosophy - the key points summarized are: Western Philosophy = What is right vs wrong, Easter Philosophy = what is best. Also, the author ...
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Just Too Good to Be True: A Novel
E. Lynn Harris
Doubleday, 2008
E. Lynn Harris does it again!
Here was yet another grand reading written by E. Lynn Harris. When I began to read it, I was immediately hooked to the point that I seriously did not put it down until I had completed the entire book in one sitting. Of course I took small respites to eat, etc. but I ...
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East of Eden
John Steinbeck
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2003
Steinbeck meets Dostoevsky in "East of Eden"
Is is possible that Netflix may boost literacy? I just did a Netflix mini-retrospective look at James Dean's films: "Rebel Without a Cause," "Giant" and "East of Eden." Watching the complex story of "East of Eden," reminded me that I had never read the Steinbeck novel ...
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A Confederacy of Dunces (Evergreen Book)
John Kennedy Toole
Grove Press, 1994
A Masterpiece of Prose and Character Description
What a book, what a masterpiece! A comedy, the likes of which I've never read, with characters so unbelievable real I had to occasional take breaks from reading it.
The prose surprised me again and again with such beauty, wit and genius. From the first page, I was ...
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