The Book: The Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and The Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10, by Marcus Luttrell
The Story: A team of four U.S. Navy SEALS was sent out to an area near the Afghanistan/Pakistan border to check out this village where an al Qaeda leader was rumored to be staying [...]
Shaun showed this to me a couple of days ago and it cracked me up.
And if you hover over xkcd comics on their site, there is a little “secret.” This one said, “Of course, since their cautionary tale was reported in a print newspaper, no one ever read it.”
I love every part of this. So [...]
The Book: Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Student Who Took Vegas for Millions, by Ben Mezrich
The Story: In the late 80’s, early 90’s, a group of geeks from M.I.T. learned some serious card counting and headed to Vegas to make tons of money. The group goes through leadership changes and [...]
My parents were so good about reading to me. I’m not sure if that made me the reader I am today, but it sure did broaden my imagination and give me good one-on-one time with my parents. I plan on reading to my little guy all the time and he better learn to love it! [...]
The Book: Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist, by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan
The Story: Nick sees his ex-girlfriend (who he is still pretty much in love with) in a bar with another guy and impulsively asks the girl closest to him to be his girlfriend for five minutes to show his ex-girlfriend that he’s over [...]
As you guys, I’m sure, have gathered I’m a big time cheap skate. If I buy a book at full price, it is maybe the biggest day of my life. I tend to rely on thrift stores, my mama, and library book sales for most of my books. The library that we usually go to [...]
The Book: Kaleidoscope: Seeing God’s Wit and Wisdom in a Whole New Light, by Patsy Clairmont
The Story: The idea here is that kaleidoscopes are kind of whimsical and just offer up random little pictures and yadda yadda. In this book, Patsy Clairmont does a similar deal only out of the book of Proverbs. She just [...]
The Babysitter’s Club Series, by Ann M. Martin
I have put off making this my “Flashback” for so long because I do not even know what to say. For me, these books were IT. I read them for years and had a full bookshelf of them by the time I decided to give them up. I [...]
So I have my Google Reader set up with about 30 or 40 different blogs that I really like. Almost all of them are book blogs. I really love to see what other people are reading, what they thought and what fun blog-related stuff they’re up to. I generally tend towards blogs that post frequently- [...]
The Book: The World Made By Hand, by James Howard Kunstler
The Story: This book takes place in the not-so-distant future, maybe 30 years or so. There have been wars and a couple flu pandemics and things have fallen apart. Electricity is gone and there’s no cars or trucks. Communication has fizzled to nothing. Pretty much, [...]