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Book 17: The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
You can always tell the books I enjoyed more based on the length of the blog and my voice in the blog. I would probably skip posts of the books I don’t really like, but it would defeat the purpose …...
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Book 4: Hood – Emma Donoghue
Hood is the first of the 40 books I’ve committed to in Reading Challenges for 2012. It comes from the Mount TBR Reading Challenge and it feels good to cross one book off those three lists. And as...
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Book 74: By the River Piedra, I Sat Down and Wept (And On the Seventh Day #1)...
This is Coelho’s second book I’ve read and although it wasn’t as good as The Alchemist, it was still incredibly well written and moving. I do have a couple more of his books on my shelf and plan on...
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Book 39: Veronika Decides to Die (And On the Seventh Day #2) – Paulo Coelho
I had a copy of The Devil and Miss Prym and planned to read it, but when I pulled it off the shelf I found out it was the part of the And On the Seventh Day trilogy after By the River … Continue reading →
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Book 40: The Devil and Miss Prym (And On the Seventh Day #3) – Paulo Coelho
Of the three books in the On the Seventh Day trilogy, this was my favorite. It has been almost two years since I read By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept and Veronika Decides to Die was too...
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Book 337: Tender as Hellfire – Joe Meno
I first encountered Joe Meno way back in 2011 when I read The Boy Detective Fails, which was a wonderfully quirky story. That following October at the 2011 Boston Book Festival I picked up this novel...
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Book 356: The Witch of Portobello – Paulo Coelho
In a further attempt to get a few more posts up while I’m on vacation I went to my TBR shelf and found I had two more Paulo Coelho novels yet to go so I grabbed them to read. They’re … Continue reading →
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Book 357: Eleven Minutes – Paulo Coelho
Again, I’m not sure when I picked up this and The Witch of Portobello, but I’m assuming sometime back in 2011 as I mention them in a post as far back as my May 2012 update. I once again ask why …...
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Book 376: Ishmael – Daniel Quinn
As a part of every episode of Come Read with Me, I ask my friends to recommend a book. I do this because I know it will take me out of my comfort zone, but I also do it because … Continue reading →
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Book 413: The Emperor’s Soul – Brandon Sanderson
DAMN you Mormons and your great Science Fiction/Fantasy! That’s about 25% fact and 75% unadulterated conjecture. Before I go into that (you can skip the next two paragraphs if you’re not interested),...
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Book 415: The Power of Forgiveness – Joan Gattuso
When I received this book from the publisher*, I immediately rejected it out of hand as I usually steer clear of books that have any sort of religious connotation. I am not a religious person and what...
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Book 420: The Generosity Factor – Ken Blanchard & S. Truett Cathy
Yet another book that I can appreciate, but feel went a little heavy-handed with the dependence on religion to explain things. This was thinly veiled parable about Chik-fil-A and it’s founder’s story...
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Book 435: 15 Things You Should Give Up To Be Happy – Luminita D. Saviuc
At some point over the past two years as I’ve read more and more mental/self health, professional/personal development books something must have struck a chord as I feel a lot calmer and more...
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Book 436: Dragons in the Waters (O’Keefe Family #2) – Madeleine L’Engle
I am slowly making my way through the final books in the Kairos portion of L’Engle’s oeuvre. This is the sixth book in chronological story order and the fourth book published in the Murray-O’Keefe...
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Book 466: The Four Agreements (Toltec Wisdom Collection #1) – Miguel Ruiz
This book came to me from the Human Resources person at my previous job. I had gone to her to ask advice on how to communicate with another member of our team and she had a lot of great advice, but …...
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Book 467: The Mastery of Love (Toltec Wisdom Collection #2)- Miguel Ruiz
I’m not sure I will make it through the third book in the collection. I probably will because I already have it, but I can guarantee I won’t look into the fourth book, The Fifth Agreement or any of the...
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Book 468: The Voice of Knowledge (Toltec Wisdom Collection #3)- Miguel Ruiz
YAY I’m done! I don’t have to read this dribble ever again. That is of course assuming I don’t go through a life changing experience like Ruiz. If you haven’t been following along, you might wonder...
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Book 469: Finding the Blue Sky – Joseph Emet
Unlike the last three books by Miguel Ruiz, this book seemed to really make sense to me and didn’t offend me with it’s contradictory stories and lessons. I didn’t plan to end the year with a bunch of...
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Book 470: The Power of Kindness – Piero Ferrucci
Similar to Finding the Blue Sky, I’m not sure whether this one was great because of its own goodness or because of the three bad ones I read before by Miguel Ruiz. The publisher, TarcherPerigee sent me...
View ArticleBook 497: Ordinary Goodness – Edward Viljoen
Now that I’m starting to settle into my new job (and have two weeks of vacation – when this posts I’ll be somewhere between Seattle and Alaska), I’m starting to catch up on galleys/ARCs that I received...
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