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I have comments on three things I’ve been reading. The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman – I really enjoyed this book. After a discussion with a good friend in Dallas about the Harry Potter series, she gave me all three books in this trilogy – this being the first. I’d say it’s appropriate for a slightly … Read more

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Given $100 at amazon, What Would Bill Buy? 2 books: “Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means”, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi Emergence: The connected lives of ants, brains, cities, and software. 6 DVDs: “The Lord of the Rings – The Two Towers (Platinum Series Special Extended Edition)” “Koyaanisqatsi” (1983) life out of … Read more

Book Club

It’s like Fight Club, but we don’t hit each other with our fists… and a few of the participants are pregnant,… and…

For those that don’t know, I’m in a book club. It’s a very interesting and always changing hodge-podge of people, both home grown and imported. I’ve been involved off-and-on for two, three years; I don’t know, I’m not keeping score.

We meet about every 5 weeks. We all propose and then vote on what book will be next. Last month it was The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner. This coming month we’ve voted on The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell

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