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Decided to keep it light with a reread of some C.S. Lewis. I’ll be forever rereading the Chronicles of Narnia
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
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Right now, my life consists of reading book, after book, after book in a bright blue chair on my parent’s patio looking out onto a river surrounded by forest
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epic beards.
I’ve said it before (and I’m sure I’ll say it again): beards hold incredible stories. This man’s story would be one for the ages, I am sure.
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Finished Reading Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner today.
Took this picture in the dark because I read the majority of this book between 11:30pm and 3:00am.
I’m giving this book a 4.5 out of 5!!
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Looking out the window at 5:30am, just as the sun’s coming up
Eighteen Mile Bay - French River, Ontario
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This week I’ve been reading a lot and doing little work. That’s the way things ought to be. That’s surely the road to success.
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Summer Reading Shelf.
Hopefully I can get through it all - I’ve already knocked out 2 and am started on Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
The list consists of:
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Elixir: A History of Water and Humankind by Brian Fagan
The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, The Epidemic that Shaped our History by Molly Caldwell Crobsy
The Song of the Dodo by David Quammen
Justinian’s Flea: Plague, Empire & the Birth of Europe by William Rosen
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
Aftershock: The Next Economy & America’s Future by Robert B. Reich
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
South: The Endurance Expedition by Ernest Shackleton
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
Why I Hate Canadians by Will Ferguson
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
The Age of Steam by Thomas Crump
The Hanging of Angelique by Afua Cooper
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938 by Stephen E. Ambrose & Douglas G. Brinkley
Beethoven’s Hair by Russell Martin
The Intelligencer by Leslie Silbert
The True Memoirs of Little K by Adrienne Sharp
A Most Damnable Invention by Stephen R. Bown
Peak Oil Survival by Aric McBay
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
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Beautiful sights as we stroll along the streets of Hoi An, Vietnam
Photo Credit: Karen
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Passchendaele by Paul Gross.
So umm I only gave this book a 2.5 out of 5 rating because it depressed the crap out of me.
**SPOILER ALERT** (Don’t hate, but I’m going to ruin the ending)
Otherwise, it’s the story of Sergeant Michael Dunne who gets sent home from WWI due to shell-shock. Meets Sarah Mann, a nurse in Calgary who is addicted to morphine, and they fall in love (of course). Sarah’s younger brother David is 17 and decides, as an act of desperation, to scam the system and join the Canadian military. Michael Dunne feels like he owes it to Sarah to protect her younger brother and so he follows David back overseas to keep a watchful eye. When there, turns out Sarah went overseas as well to work in a field medical tent.
Long story short, Michael dies in Sarah’s arms and David grows up to be a strong young man and is transformed to be a better human being.
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