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I’ve been on a bit of a productivity and accountability kick lately (see my previous post about Focusmate). I have been a user of Michael Hyatt & Company’s Full Focus Planner for a few years now but knew that there were some aspects of the planner I wasn’t fully optimizing. So when they announced their …
As a native of Hot Springs, you really should read The Vapors. Christi W. That’s what a friend and fellow book lover told me not long back. So, of course, I downloaded the audiobook stat. The Vapors: A Southern Family, the New York Mob, and the Rise and Fall of Hot Springs, America’s Forgotten Capital …
Practically every single day this past week, I had an idea of what I wanted to blog about but couldn’t get to it on my to-do list. By the next day, that idea was supplanted with another one. Then, last night, we watched Netflix’s The Social Dilemma. The Social Dilemma is an approximate hour-and-a-half documentary …
Spider-Man: Homecoming is an apt title for Marvel’s first movie adaptation of the character since working out a rights deal with Sony. But that’s not the only thing that’s perfect about this movie. (Not perfect as in Wonder Woman perfect – because that’s a whole other ballgame – but perfect nonetheless). Since discovering that Spider-Man …
I guess I’m a Trekkie at heart. I grew up watching the original series on late-night reruns, could recite the intro monologue complete with Shatner-esque pauses, and wanted to be Mr. Spock (pointy ears and all). Truth be told, while I love all things Star Wars now, I’d never even seen its original trilogy until …
Okay, all kidding and overdone lines aside, have you been WRECKED? That’s the question Jeff Goins asks in his book WRECKED out this week (August 1). And if you answer no, Jeff basically says, “Well, you should be.†WRECKED is about taking off the blinders we all walk around wearing. It’s about finally seeing what’s …
For as much as I hyped this book in my mind and on this site, I was really disappointed with it. So much so, that I didn’t even review it when I first read it (in one sitting, the night of its release, October 4, 2011). Silence is the third installment in the Hush, Hush …
Silence, by Becca Fitzpatrick, the third novel of her series preceded by Hush, Hush and Crescendo (see reviews of those books here and here) is due out October 4th. Having just preordered my e-copy to be delivered to my Droid’s Kindle app on the release date, I felt a re-read was in order. I re-read …
This feels a bit like deja vu. It’s the middle of the night, storming outside, and I’ve just finished reading about Patch; I won’t be going to sleep anytime soon. Sound familiar? Crescendo, by Becca Fitzpatrick, is the worthy (and even better in some parts) sequel to Hush, Hush, which I just posted about a …
It’s almost 3 a.m. and storming like crazy outside, and quite likely because I didn’t take a magic sleep pill before it got too late (because I didn’t want to fall asleep before the end of the book), I can’t sleep. Oh, and also I keep thinking about Patch. When MorganMorganMorgan told me to read …
I recently finished reading Kathryn Stockett’s The Help, a New York Times Bestseller that I’d never even heard of until I saw a movie poster about a month ago. I’d take the kids’ to see the new Pirates movie and saw a movie poster with Emma Stone on it. I like Emma Stone. I think she’s hilarious. …
My friend Morgan (or “Morgan, Morgan, Morgan!” – like “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!” – as Bryan likes to say; apparently, I talk about her a lot) read an interview with Suzanne Collins, author of The Hunger Games’ Trilogy (of which we are both fans; see my review here), where she was asked whether she’d ever read …
Of the five books my friend @shabbygeek let me borrow, I’ve now read four, and the latest is my favorite. Â Five Flavors of Dumb, by Antony John, is unique and imaginative, but completely believable at the same time. Â He took a main character with whom many would prematurely assume difficulty relating, and made it work. …
Okay, so I’m fairly certain that most people know what the “first page test” is for a book. Â You know, you read the first page and if it’s enough to hook you then you decide to read the whole thing. Well, most of the time, my test for reading is a little more intimate than …
This is another of the books I borrowed from the gracious @shabbygeek. Â This review may contain spoilers, so consider yourself warned. Caleb + Kate, by Cindy Martinusen-Coloma, is a Christian young adult novel. Â The blurbs on this book call it a modern-day Romeo & Juliet, and, for the most part, that’s true … complete with …