What are you reading?

[easygoingfemme]

Originally Posted by Soft*Silver

a book about murder in the ohio amish community

Oooh, title please?

[Kobi]

"The Nixon Effect examines the 37th presidents political legacy in broad-ranging ways that make clear, for the first time, the breadth and duration of his influence on American political life. The book argues that Nixon is the key political figure in postwar American politics in multiple ways, some barely acknowledged until now. His legacy includes a generational shift in the ideological orientations of both the Republican and Democratic parties; the Nixon influence, both intentional and unintentional, was to push both parties further out to their ideological poles. So stark was Nixons influence on party identities that it shaped the hardened partisan polarization in Washington today and the evolution of what has come to be called Red and Blue America,"--Amazon.com.



I'm a history person so this kind of book appeals to me. Not sure I agree with the authors conclusions but it is something to mull over.



Also reading various and sundry books on the value of living trusts over wills. More to ponder.

[Kätzchen]

Originally Posted by Kobi

"The Nixon Effect examines the 37th presidents political legacy in broad-ranging ways that make clear, for the first time, the breadth and duration of his influence on American political life. The book argues that Nixon is the key political figure in postwar American politics in multiple ways, some barely acknowledged until now. His legacy includes a generational shift in the ideological orientations of both the Republican and Democratic parties; the Nixon influence, both intentional and unintentional, was to push both parties further out to their ideological poles. So stark was Nixons influence on party identities that it shaped the hardened partisan polarization in Washington today and the evolution of what has come to be called Red and Blue America,"--Amazon.com.



I'm a history person so this kind of book appeals to me. Not sure I agree with the authors conclusions but it is something to mull over.



Also reading various and sundry books on the value of living trusts over wills. More to ponder.

Thanks for posting about this book, Kobi. I am always interested in reading materials that might not be an easy read or might be provocative by nature or historical accounts about particular political events, views or commentary on the Nixon years.... which I feel hasn't been given the attention it deserves. Recently, friends of mine who own a recording studio posted a photo meme concerning Nixon: "A bad recording can ruin your life" (or something to that effect).

Eta: I'm interested in the sundry materials about living wills vs trusts ..... would like to know your take on those books (if there was any helpful advice, etc).

[homoe]

End Of Watch by Stephen King.............

[Medusa]

I just got through with "The Butterfly Garden" by Dot Hutchison.

Meh. It was entertaining enough and the plot was decent but I just wasn't connected to the characters. Very reminiscent of "Kiss the Girls" and the ending was kinda...meh.

Still, I'd recommend it if you wanted something that would entertain you but not grab you by the throat and choke you for the entire book.

[easygoingfemme]

Originally Posted by Medusa

I just got through with "The Butterfly Garden" by Dot Hutchison.

Meh. It was entertaining enough and the plot was decent but I just wasn't connected to the characters. Very reminiscent of "Kiss the Girls" and the ending was kinda...meh.

Still, I'd recommend it if you wanted something that would entertain you but not grab you by the throat and choke you for the entire book.

I felt similarly about that book. It kept me picking it up but it wasn't like I was running home to it.

[Gayandgray]

I'm in Goodwill and there is this book, "Women who run with the wolves" by Clarissa Pinkola Estes. Anybody read it?

[Soft*Silver]

Originally Posted by easygoingfemme

Oooh, title please?

A Killing in Amish Country: Sex Betrayal and A Cold Blooded Murder by Greg Olsen and Rebecca Morris


At just 30 years old, with dark-blonde hair and freckles, Barbara Weaver was as pretty as the women depicted on the covers of her favorite "bonnet" stories - romance novels set in Amish America. Barbara had everything she'd ever wanted: five beautiful children, a home, her faith, and a husband named Eli. But while Barbara was happy to live as the Amish have for centuries - without modern conveniences, Eli was tempted by technology: cell phones, the Internet, and sexting. Online he called himself "Amish Stud" and found no shortage of "English" women looking for love and sex. Twice he left Barbara and their children, was shunned, begged for forgiveness, and had been welcomed back to the church. Barb Raber was raised Amish, but is now a Conservative Mennonite. She drove Eli to appointments in her car, and she gave him what he wanted when he wanted: a cell phone, a laptop, rides to his favorite fishing and hunting places, and, most importantly, sex. When Eli starts asking people to kill his wife for him, Barb offers to help. One night, just after Eli had hitched a ride with a group of men to go fishing in the hours before dawn, Barb Raber entered the Weaver house and shot Barbara Weaver in the chest at close range.It was only the third murder in hundreds of years of Amish life in America, and it fell to Edna Boyle, a young assistant prosecutor to seek justice for Barbara Weaver.

Product Identifiers
ISBN-10 1250067235
ISBN-13 9781250067234