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June 24, 2009 - 2:41pm
In this title we have insights from a man who started the company, Stratfor, “the worlds leading private intelligence and forecasting company.” Okay, I can buy that there are much smarter people than myself out there studying the Big Picture, the REALLY Big Picture – using facts from history and studying new trends to combine it all in a shaker bottle (his brain?) and shaking out some new “forecasts” or predictions for the future. I bet he ends up being correct some of the time and it was all interesting to read.
I began to question a lot of what he was saying though, when his fore...
June 24, 2009 - 2:39pm
I wish everyone in the U.S. could read this book! While the title reads a, “soldier’s education”, it is an education for the rest of us civilians who will never know what it is like to go to West Point, then to Ranger School and THEN on to be a Rhodes Scholar and then on to fight a war in Afghanistan! Mullaney’s descriptions and observations are clear, concise and very human.
The son of blue collar workers, he is a young man with an iron will to succeed – that shows itself most often at the very times he is failing. This soldier is no super hero full of bravado, nor is he a god- like...
June 24, 2009 - 2:37pm
This is a book to live and breathe. It is beautifully done with a rich Southern nuance that is both refreshing and remarkable.
It is 1962 in Jackson, Mississippi, and the book begins with wise and loving Aibileen, an African American maid working in a white household. She lovingly tends to her white employers children while cooking and cleaning their homes. In contrast to the patient and kind Aibileen, her best friend Minny, also African American, has had jobs all around Jackson for 19 different families. She is angry and her mouth gets the best of he...
June 23, 2009 - 4:42pm
I know Rachel Ray has a wildly popular program on television, but I must confess right off the bat that I've never seen it. That said, I didn't pick up Rachel Ray: Best Eats in Town on $40 a Day because I'm a fan, although judging by her book I probably would be if I had access to cable TV!
Best Eats is a foodie's dream book -- choc full of yummy pictures, easy to do recipes and reviews of restaurants that feature regional specialties from coast to coast as well as a chapter of European highlights. The book is a also a great guide for travelers who want t...
June 23, 2009 - 4:40pm
Elizabeth Berg is my favorite author -- hands down, without a doubt and without reservation. Berg has a way of reaching into her readers' hearts and giving them a gentle, life-affirming squeeze, and her latest, Home Safe: A Novel, is no exception.
Berg explores the crushing pain of losing a beloved spouse through her character, Helen Ames. Helen is a bestselling author although, in addition to losing her husband, has lost her ability to write. Like the proverbial ship without a compass, Helen is adrift without the anchors to her former safe and comfortable life. She fo...
June 23, 2009 - 4:39pm
Summer is here and while the focus is usually on long vacations to far away destinations, we have a lovely getaway spot just a couple hours away. Cuyahoga Valley National Park Handbook by Carolyn V. Platt features exquisite pictures of the flora and fauna of the 33,000 acres that comprise the park as well as historical photos and interesting text on the park's current attractions, beginnings and changes over the years.
With its waterfalls, towpaths and trails, abundance of fish, birds and animals including the recent appearance of coyotes, the author describes its allu...
