5. Davis was a good friend of Teddy Roo­sevelt, and he helped cre­ate the rep­u­ta­tion of the Rough Rid­ers while report­ing on the Spanish-American War.

It seems as if Mr. Barry put great thought into the nar­ra­tive of this book. Each of us, I’m sure, can go back and point to events which, in our opin­ion, were either a turn­ing point or cross­roads in our lin­ear path even though we did not know it at the time – this is what McNulty is writ­ing about.

Today we start to cel­e­brate Passover, the com­mem­o­ra­tion of the lib­er­a­tion of the Jew­ish slaves from Egypt as told in Exo­dus, a chap­ter of the Jew­ish bible. Passover is a great hol­i­day because you get to see fam­ily you haven't seen in a long time and eat some good food. In the Jew­ish reli­gion, that […]

Attila József (11 April, 1905 – 3 Decem­ber, 1937) was a famous Hun­gar­ian poet.

The mur­der / mys­tery is inter­est­ing but not the cen­ter, or the strength of the story. The char­ac­ters are also inter­est­ing, it takes awhile to get to know them which is not nec­es­sar­ily bad, but are also not the strength of the book. The book is strong with describ­ing a soci­ety gone amok.

I've been feel­ing exhausted lately, mind you I don't sleep a lot and the only time I'm exhausted is when I don't sleep at night, or about twice a year and never, ever, for weeks. I went the doc­tor and, as it turned out, I basi­cally had not vit­a­min D in my sys­tem. It's so […]

Today we cel­e­brate the birth­day of notable author and poet Maya Angelou (4 April, 1928). Her life is an inspi­ra­tion to many peo­ple and she is known for cap­ti­vat­ing the audi­ences through her mag­i­cal lyrics and beauty of her words in her poems. Books by Maya Angelou The author’s birth name is Mar­guerite Ann John­son Ms. […]

About: Out­wit­ting His­tory: The Amaz­ing Adven­tures of a Man Who Res­cued a Mil­lion Yid­dish Books by Aaron Lan­sky is a non-fiction book about sav­ing a cul­ture. It was sad to read about all the abon­dan­doned books nobody wanted, but a great plea­sure to read about the tri­als of try­ing to save these books. 328 pages Publisher: […]

With R3, eBook pub­lish­ers will be able to cre­ate dif­fer­ent pur­chas­ing plat­forms, and will be able to charge read­ers per page, per time allo­ca­tion, per usage or per down­load. For exam­ple, pub­lisher X might charge it’s users a penny a page (or more), while pub­lisher Y might charge a penny a minute (or more). On the other hand pub­lisher P might want to charge the reader per down­load (PC, Kin­dle, etc.) or they might decide they like the cur­rent struc­ture and not change a thing.

The main char­ac­ter and the nar­ra­tor is 13-year-old Madi­son Spenser. Every per­son can envy her life, her mother is a Hol­ly­wood star and father is a film pro­ducer. But as it turns out dur­ing the nar­ra­tion of dead Madi­son, who tells her story from Hell, she was very much unhappy and unap­pre­ci­ated child when she was alive.