so i was hurt for the past few weeks which greatly increased my reading load…

“evicted” – highly recommendable – but a very sad book – the author spent 1 1/2 years in downtown milwaukee living with people who were consistently evicted – his basic premise is that we as a society should do something about this – that people who don’t have steady housing make really bad choices – the most heartbreaking part of the book for me was the mistake that led to a young child dying in a house fire – regardless of how you feel about the choices adults make, kids don’t get to make those choices – they have to live with the consequences

“the endurance diet” – i bought pills to solve my running woes:) actually, good book about the habits of elite athletes – the good things they do – unfortunately, i wasn’t feeling like an athlete when i read the book – so it was somewhat depressing to eat about all the things i couldn’t be eating

“handwriting” – whatever was the book that was a recent ny times bestseller – so there’s more  to the title – but a great book – lots of facts i could spring on the eighth grade about ancient civilizations and writing – the author was a bit (way) pretentious – she challenges her freshman students every year – and in her words, wins – that’s a bad way to look at teaching

“destiny and power” – book about the hw bush presidency – great book – long book – there were many times i read that book and thought about how different politics are today – but, sigh, history isn’t coming back for us – lots of other books i’d read before complemented this book – so i was surprised at how much i could recall

“bombastic, fantastic” – there’s another adjective in there – but a book on the 1970 A’s – well, the three teams that won world serieses – the owner was from b’ham – ensley – he isn’t a great guy in the book though – but the book was great – i enjoyed talking it over with my dad – he knew most of the major characters – it’s fun when you can have conversations like that

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