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2011 End of the Year Book Survey: The Best of Books, The Worst of Books

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1. Best Book You Read In 2011? Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand 2. Most Disappointing Book/Books You Wish You Loved More Than You Did? The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich 3. Most surprising (in a good way!) book of 2011? There … Continue reading

Quotable: Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

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Today I’m joining Bookish Ruth for a feature she calls Quotable (click on the button at right for more information or to join Ruth and me).  Each Friday she shares a short passage that caught her attention during that week’s … Continue reading

Of Harvard, Rome, Omori, Naoetsu, Honolulu and half a billion miles away from Earth

Earlier this week I finished The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich and last week I finished Terra Incognita, the second in a mystery series about a doctor in ancient Roman times, by Ruth Downie. Of the two, Terra Incognita was … Continue reading