My mom loaned this book to me, as encouragement that small choices can add up to a big difference over time, whether for better or for worse.
Favorite illustration (which I will paraphrase and possibly get a few details wrong): three hypothetical men all start out more or less in the same place ...
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The Salt Fix
Fabulous! Best medical book I've read in awhile.
This book casts serious doubt on the prevailing dogma that salt is the enemy, particularly in hypertension and cardiovascular disease. The studies (as in several other areas of prevailing medical dogma) have long been conflicting at best, and ...
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The Druid
What is it about Jeff Wheeler stories? They're sort of like watching episodes in a favorite fantasy TV series in which each episode is a standalone with different characters, but they're all set in the same fantastical setting. They all feel about the same, and while all the characters are ...
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A Conflict of Visions
An insightful modern-day philosopher! Awhile ago, I spent some time trying to articulate (to myself, anyway) what it was that fundamentally divided liberal and conservative thought, and why it was that it seemed there was nearly no overlap between them. The conclusion I came to, which even still ...
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Review of The House of the Seven Gables
First: what a fabulous title! I don't know what it is about it... so intriguing and mysterious.
This definitely isn't the kind of story I would have picked up on my own, though. My husband read and loved it, but it's a ghost story which isn't my usual fare. When we traveled through Salem ...
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Review of The Snow Queen Saga
A fun, clean fairy tale retelling! Best listened to, I think, rather than read.
I don't know the actual Hans Christian Anderson version of the Snow Queen; all I know is "Frozen." This duology (it's two novels and one set of short stories, which I didn't read) is similar to "Frozen" in feel but ...
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