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 .... SO good to see you here, Fancy! I love it that you're reading Levitt & Dubnar! One of the guidelines to thinking like a freak is ...."Never, ever think that people will do something just because its the right thing...".(Levitt & Dubnar). For anyone who isn't familiar with either author, here's a really good article from The Guardian about both of them, what they do, the ideas behind Freakonomics and other interesting ideas about their life work in helping others to fly their 'freak flag' ! LINK: https://www.theguardian.com/books/20...-dubner-review
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09-03-2017, 05:30 PM
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I finished up with Anna Karenina, a few days ago. I liked it for reasons more purely from an academic pov, usefulness for integrating communication and sociology perspectives. Not quite sure I want to see the movie, tho.
  But, I was gifted another book, which I received the other day. The Help (Stockett, K., 2009). I opened up the book to read last night and just finished reading it, moments ago, like I hadn't had any Apple Pie since last winter. I LOVED LOVED LOVED this novel! Very gratifying.and satisfying. I highly recommend reading it, if you haven't yet. It's good.... so very very good. 
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09-03-2017, 08:04 PM
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I've just started Becoming Odyssa by Jennifer Pharr Davis.
It's the story of a girl who thru hikes the Appalachian Trail. The author frequently does speaking engagements around Asheville, so she may live nearby.
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09-16-2017, 01:46 PM
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My sweet darling Santa sent books to me, this week.
I read the novel Girl with the pearl earring, which was a very interesting fictitious account of Griët, the young girl who was lent out as a maid to the family of painter Vermeer....very interesting way the author presents the girl with the pearl earring. Today, I received two books I have never read....although I did see the movie Fried Green Tomatoes, I've never read the book it's based upon..... Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe! And I do love whistling... The third book is an recently authored lesbian romance novel, by AJ Adair, published by Desert Palm Press. Title is: Don't Forget (2017). This particular lesbian romance story takes place in the 1980s.... and the author wrote an especially poignant dedication to her partner and wife, before the story gets under way. So excited to read both books! 
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"After You"
by UK writer Jojo Moyes while not my usual deep and dark reading, it offers a gentle albeit a bit painful perspective on loss on this my second reading of this story, am finding how far I've come in my own forward movement through loss passage has become tender. Greco |
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