Category: Book Reviews

  • The Taxpayer, Third Expedition – SFS 003

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    Today’s edition of Science Fiction Saturday is going to cover two stories from The Martian Chronicles. 1. The Taxpayer 2. Third Expedition

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  • The Summer Night, Earth Men – Science Fiction Saturday 002

    The Summer Night, Earth Men – Science Fiction Saturday 002

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    Today we’re going to look at 2 more stories from Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles. The Summer Night and Earth Men. Subscribe for a weekly dose of Science Fiction.

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  • Free-Range Kids Book Review

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    > An unwatched child is a tragedy waiting to happen. Early in the book Lenore Skenazy sets the tone for the book, one that’s going to shine a light on the fairly crazy claims like the one above. Skenazy’s purpose is to help us tease out what is really worth being afraid of when it

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  • February Reads and March TBR

    February Reads and March TBR

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    – Purchase North of Normal: [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0062289861/?tag=blogcurtismchale-20) | [Book Depository](https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=5478&awinaffid=674023&clickref=&p=%5B%5Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.bookdepository.com%252FNorth-Normal-Cea-Sunrise-Person%252F9780062289872%5D%5D) – Purchase Words Have a Past: [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0062289861/?tag=blogcurtismchale-20) | [Book Depository](https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=5478&awinaffid=674023&clickref=&p=%5B%5Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.bookdepository.com%252FWords-Have-Past-Jane-Griffith%252F9781487521554%5D%5D) – Purchase The Innovators: [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0062289861/?tag=blogcurtismchale-20) | [Book Depository](https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=5478&awinaffid=674023&clickref=&p=%5B%5Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.bookdepository.com%252FInnovators-Walter-Isaacson%252F9781471138805%5D%5D) – Purchase Free Range Kids: [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0470574755/?tag=blogcurtismchale-20) | [Book Depository](https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=5478&awinaffid=674023&clickref=&p=%5B%5Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.bookdepository.com%252FFree-Range-Kids-Lenore-Skenazy%252F9780470574751%5D%5D) – Purchase The Library Book: [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/dp/1476740186/?tag=blogcurtismchale-20) | [Book Depository](https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=5478&awinaffid=674023&clickref=&p=%5B%5Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.bookdepository.com%252FLibrary-Book-Susan-Orlean%252F9781782392255%5D%5D) – Purchase Snow, Glass, Apples: [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/dp/1506709796/?tag=blogcurtismchale-20) | [Book Depository](https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=5478&awinaffid=674023&clickref=&p=%5B%5Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.bookdepository.com%252FSnow-Glass-Apples-Neil-Gaiman%252F9781472262912%5D%5D) –

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  • The Books That Changed My Business

    The Books That Changed My Business

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    After 12 years in business, things run fairly smooth around here. I’ve made a bunch of mistakes, and put processes in place to help ensure that I don’t make further mistakes. I’ve read lots of books and learned a bunch of things that changed my business. Today is all about those books that helped my

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  • Words Have a Past

    Words Have a Past

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    Up front let’s get this out, I’m a white dude of middle age. There are lots of things I don’t know and can’t understand at an emotional level because of my upbringing. I don’t think this means I shouldn’t expend effort to see through the eyes of others though. To start down this road one

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  • Ready Player One

    Ready Player One

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    I’ve had Ready Player One on my list of books to read and movies to watch for a while now. Well the DVD came available a week before the book did at my local library, so today I’m going to talk about my thoughts on both of them. What do I think of the styles

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  • Mr Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore

    Mr Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore

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    I first saw this as a beautiful cover from [Byways in Bookland](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM5GuSLTOIN-zxX0fQ_V6Ww) and after reading a few other reviews I borrowed it via Libby from my local library. I’m of two minds as I reflect on the book. On one hand, I finished it and enjoyed it. I enjoyed the characters and while the finish

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  • iGen – Why Are They Acting They Way They Do?

    iGen – Why Are They Acting They Way They Do?

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    While there is much written about the Millennial generation, we’re getting past that as the marker for people entering the workforce and not what Gene M. Twenge calls iGen in her book of the same title. Twenge backs her writing on iGen on 4 major representative surveys of the generation. She uses this data to

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  • Can Malcolm Gladwell Teach Us How to Talk to Strangers?

    Can Malcolm Gladwell Teach Us How to Talk to Strangers?

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    Malcolm Gladwell’s most recent entry into the writing world revolves around how we understand strangers. To get to the end quickly, we’re really bad at it. Gladwell starts off the book with the Sandra Bland case. If you’re not familiar with this case, it started as a fairly basic traffic stop where an warning was

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