Tag: education
group name: commonerbookrevs
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October 06, 2007 02:16 AM EDT --
Have you heard of The Four Agreements by don Miguel Ruiz?
The book is a beautifully written instruction guide to achieve a life of freedom and happiness. He teaches four lifestyle commitments, . . . more
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January 09, 2007 10:57 PM EST --
I'm currently reading Prep A Novel by Curtis Sittenfield (sp?), and have to say that I'm enjoying it immensely. It is the girlie version of "Catcher In The Rye" - but much longer and . . . more
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February 11, 2007 12:41 AM EST --
Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere was the first book by Morris that I have had the opportunity to read, and even though it was so very melancholy I look forward to reading the rest of her works. . . . more
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January 15, 2007 09:31 PM EST --
I just finished Nicholas Lemann’s The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy. It was interesting. Like most readers, I went in from my own biased perspective. I wasn’t really . . . more
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May 28, 2007 07:55 PM EDT --
Body of Evidence is a CSI book by Max Allan Collins. The book opens with the call about amissing business executive in a big industry. When CSI's get there they start to process the crime . . . more
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July 08, 2007 11:57 AM EDT --
Author: Don Foster - literary detective
The author states that no matter what a person writes, no matter how hard that person tries to disguise the writing, some parts shine through to show who actually . . . more
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April 28, 2007 07:19 AM EDT --
Author MacKinley Kantor
In working with a student on American History, this idea came up - what if the South had won. I logged onto the Internet because the phrase sounded familiar. . . . more
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May 21, 2007 08:04 PM EDT --
Author - Elizabeth Haydon
This is the first in what might be a very long series.
The book seemed to take a long time getting started, but since a lot of time was taken to establish the characters . . . more
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September 10, 2007 02:27 PM EDT --
Surprsingly, there is nothing whetting my literary palate, but I plan on picking up a book or two. Any reccomendations? What are you reading at the moment? What has moved you?
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July 04, 2007 07:23 PM EDT --
Author: Howard Buten
This is an amazing book! It is written from the perspective of a child aged 8. He wavers between being highly imaginative and being very concrete in his . . . more
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January 22, 2007 11:11 PM EST --
Just a quick note on this memoir by Augusten Burroughs.
Hilarious.
But don't read it if you are homophobic or scared of crazy people.
Don't say I didn't warn you...
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April 29, 2007 08:04 PM EDT --
Author: Linda Crew
Another in the subgenre of kiddie lit- cross cultural stories of young people who have gone through suffering - war or otherwise.
The heroine is a teenager who escaped from Cambodia, . . . more
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June 24, 2007 04:41 AM EDT --
Author: Isaac Asimov
This s the third volume of autobiography from the prolific writer, Isaac Asimov
The first two were strictly chronological. This one is thematic. He starts to . . . more
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April 21, 2007 05:44 PM EDT --
My journey through Autism
Author Dawn Prince-Hughes
This is an amazing book written by an amazing woman.
Having Asperger's Syndrome that wasn't diagnosed until she was in her mid-30s, . . . more
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June 03, 2007 07:06 PM EDT --
Author Shannon Hale
This is the first in the series - after it come Enna Burning and River Secrets
I read the others before this one, so if felt a little like a flash back. I was able to see how the . . . more
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August 01, 2007 07:36 PM EDT --
R.R. Bowker, the world's leading company for book information and the official U.S.A. agency for assigning ISBN, recently posted its following unbiased review of Building a Noble World at www.bookwire.com. . . . more
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June 09, 2007 10:55 PM EDT --
“Does your job allow you to read on the job and still send a paycheck?"
"Does your job pay you 24 hours a day, even while you sleep?”
“Will your company keep sending . . . more
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July 01, 2007 06:39 AM EDT --
Author: Cokie Roberts
My mother read this book recently and recommended it, so when I saw it at a thrift shop, I picked it up. It is an extensive history of the period around the Revolutionary . . . more
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August 01, 2008 09:39 PM EDT --
It took me a while to be comfortable with this book. Since the diaries are organized based on what the students were studying, there's no real way to create characters from them - VERY different . . . more
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January 17, 2008 03:52 PM EST --
Hello my Gather Friends!
If you don't know, I'm going to graduate in May with my Masters of Education in Reading. I have a Bachelors of Science in Education, majoring in Middle Childhood . . . more
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