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  The Four Agreements

  by Miguel Ruiz

  • Rated 5 stars

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  The Four Agreements seem simplistic at first glance, but integrating them into your daily life is both difficult and spiritually benficial. This book is very powerful and its tenets work.
  
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  Killing Floor

  by Lee Child

  • Rated 4 stars

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  The Inheritors

  by William Golding

  • Rated 4 stars

  tapbirds wrote:
  Neanderthals meet Homo sapiens. That is the gist of this story by Nobel Prize winning author William Golding (Lord of the Flies). The story is told from the point of view of the Neanderthals, at least until the last chapter, which is perhaps fitting. Neanderthals find direction both by "pictures" (oracles) and by a keen sense of smell. Homo sapiens on the other hand are more hunter-like, and live with fears of being hunted. The two groups encounter each other as the Neanderthals seek to...
  
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  Sense and Sensibility

  by Jane Austen

  • Rated 5 stars

  Captain Sir Roddy, R.N. (Ret.) wrote:
  From the start this novel just grabs you and off you go with Elinor and Marianne. As a younger man, I was always somewhat frightened, and even intimidated, to read Jane Austen; although I certainly don't know why now. I read Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility many years ago, and enjoyed them immensely; but never continued with the rest of her canon. Now that I am much older, I have since corrected that terrible mistake and have read all of her works, several times,...
  
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  Splendors and Glooms

  by Laura Amy Schlitz

  • Rated 1 stars

  Mrs. Kellie Saunders wrote:
  I know this book has won awards, but.... it was a painful read for me. Also, I can't see any upper elementary or middle school student staying with it. It was long, dull, and boring.
  
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