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[bobf <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Wow bev, you did some real damage at B&N.  I'm not famaliar with any of those 
books except, of course, for the Hemingway Novels and the Ron Paul book.  
But, it sounds like you have some real varied topics.  Lots of worthwhile 
reading..........................................


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--- On Thu, 12/18/08, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:

> From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Moods
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Thursday, December 18, 2008, 10:47 PM
> bobf wrote:
> > What books did you buy?  I love book stores.
> 
> I went looking for William Bennett's new _American
> Patriot's Almanac_
> which is basically a history of the US, good things that
> people should
> know.  It is written like a calendar, for example, I
> believe the first
> entry, for January 1, is a small piece on the Emancipation
> Proclamation,
> which was 'issued' on that day.  Anyway, apparently
> the publisher did
> not print enough as they told me that it was a no go until
> after
> Christmas.  I came home and checked Amazon,,,,same story. 
> I intended to
> order multiple copies for various family members.  I ended
> up ordering
> it through Amazon, but won't get it until mid January
> probably(I am
> ticked at Amazon right now about this.  It really sucks a
> big one,
> especially since it is an almanac.
> Anyway, here are some of the gifts I bought..
> 
> Sean Hannity's _Let Freedom Ring_
> Frances S. Collins _The Language of God_
> Alan Weisman's _The World without Us_
> Ron Paul's _The Revolution: A Manifesto_
> Bobby Flay _Boy Meets Grill_
> Bruce Lipton's _The Biology of Belief_
> Weight Watcher's Great Cooking Everyday
> Paul Bishop's _Vegetables Every Day_
> Ernest Hemingway's _Four Novels_ (an anthology)
> 
> The best part of all of that is that since it is going to
> family, I can
> ask to read them when they are done!!  New stuff to read! 
> I have
> already been reading _The World Without us_...very cool,
> and I can't
> wait to read _The Language of God_, which is a gift for my
> BIL the
> monk..he loves stuff like that, too.  It is supposed to be
> about
> scientific evidence for the need of a belief in God-kind of
> like another
> book titled something to the effect of the The God Part of
> the
> Brain..anyway, I like stuff like that, not that I believe
> it either way,
> just find it interesting.
> I really wanted to find and get Pollan's book, but
> didn't...I had
> already spent too much and thought she would like the other
> anyway.
> Books are easy to wrap...much better than birdhouses.
> 
> Bev
> 
> 
> -- 
> The true significance of Sacajawea's involvement in the
> Lewis & Clark
> expedition is that it was the first documented trip in
> history where men
> asked a woman for directions and followed them, allowing
> them to arrive
> at their destination.
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