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Book Recommendation: Snow Falling on Cedars

05/25/2020

Book Recommendations

Publisher: Vintage; Contemporary Edition First Edition: September 26, 1995 Page Number: 460 I don’t even remember when I started reading this. It was probably in 2018. I bought this book because I wanted to see how a romance story would play out. I also read it because I had spoken about the movie adaptation, maybe
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Book Recommendation: The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump

02/26/2020

Book Recommendations, Random Posts

Quote from The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump by Edwin B. Fisher “Delicate are the dynamics and nuanced are the judgments that may keep the world safe or plunge it into the abyss.” Publication Date: 2017 Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Page Number: 360 Before I discuss this book, let me say despite a
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Book Recommendation: Whoopi Goldberg Book

01/08/2020

Book Recommendations

Quote by Whoopi Goldberg: “Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection.” (Non-read book on the left and my clearly used book on the right. It’s true that over time the inside book covers can change colors.) Publisher: Avon Books Publication Date: October 1998 Page Number:
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Book Recommendation: Comfortable With Uncertainty

11/25/2019

Book Recommendations

Quote from Pema Chödrön “We can make ourselves miserable or we can make ourselves strong. The amount of effort is the same.” Publisher: Shambhala Edition: March 27, 2018 Page Number: 152 While I do not adhere or belong to any organized religion as I consider myself more spiritual than anything else although I could do
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Book Recommendations: First Seven of John Grisham

11/17/2019

Book Recommendations, Movie Recommendations

Quote by John Grisham “In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.” The Firm was first released in 1991 hardcover by Random House. The Mass Market
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Book Recommendation: Heart Thoughts

11/15/2019

Book Recommendations, Self Help, Self Reflection

Quote from Louise L. Hay “You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving yourself and see what happens.” Publisher: Hay House, Inc. Reprint Edition: March 1, 1992 Page Number: 256 If you haven’t realized it yet, I’m a multifaceted person. I know all about inner and outer pain. I know
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Book Recommendation: Loser Take All

10/29/2019

Book Recommendations, U.S. Government

Quote by Mark Crispin Miller: “Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection.” Publisher: Ig Publishing Publication Date: April 1, 2008 Page Number: 200 ******* It’s amazing to think I had no interest in politics at one point in my life. I didn’t put too much
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Book Recommendation: Description and Setting

09/16/2019

Book Recommendations, Writing

“Everybody needs a pat on the back occasionally, even if it is self-inflicted.” -Ron Rozelle- Publisher: Writer’s Digest Books Reissue Edition: March 15, 2005 (first published in January 2005) Page Number: 224 As I’m in the rewriting process of my first novel that will be done by the end of this year and self
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Book Recommendations: The Bluest Eye and Beloved

08/06/2019

Book Recommendations

“Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits and death and where the world went when I closed my eyes.” (from The Bluest Eye) “She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I
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Book Recommendation for Writers: Revision & Self-Editing and a Few Quotes about Writing by Writers

07/24/2019

Book Recommendations, Quotes, Writing

“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit-detector.” -Ernest Hemingway- Publisher: Writer’s Digest Books (2nd edition) Publication Date: May 5, 2008 Page Number: 272 I did some soul searching this last weekend and this week as well. I’m not going to lie in that I’ve struggled lately with my rewriting.
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Book Recommendation: The Anatomy of Motive

06/06/2019

Book Recommendations

“There are certain crimes that are simply too cruel, too sadistic, too hideous to be forgiven.” -John Douglas- Publisher: Pocket Books Reissue Edition: July 1, 2000 Page Number: 432 There are many reasons why I read this book, but the main three were to understand better the personality traits of certain small pocket of society.
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Book Recommendation: Rising Strong

05/27/2019

Book Recommendations

“A lot of cheap seats in the arena are filled with people who never venture onto the floor. They just hurl mean-spirited criticisms and put-downs from a safe distance. The problem is, when we stop caring what people think and stop feeling hurt by cruelty, we lose our ability to connect. But when we’re defined
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Book Recommendation: When to Rob a Bank

04/19/2019

Book Recommendations

“The most remarkable thing is that even after we figured out our eleven-cent contribution, we still felt good about the fact that we had saved a little patch of land as big as the room we were eating breakfast in.” -Steven D. Levitt- “It’s a lesson in opportunity cost: if you spend all your time
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