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At Risk
by Patricia Cornwell
Too short of a book this time. I barely got into the story line before it closed up and ended. It was about a woman DA who is quite controlling and arrogant then gets victimized and in brief turns out to be quite ethical. Still way too short to have any depth of character in the protagonists. The cop - detective who worked for her seemed to be handsome and good, but was not as clear to me.
The Martha Rules
by Martha Stewart
I loved this book, she is beyond inspirational, so insightful and so direct. With focus, analysis and courage she claims were some of the points of her success. She abides by her own rules that she has set up. What great goal planning, set up a some rules or disciplines to live life by. She acknowledges her demands and certainly does acknowledges her colleagues that support her company as well as her cell mates. What a life and she still keeps on going forward even though most people her age are retired and just knocking around in their own gluttony of life.
The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest
by Stieg Larrson
A hard time getting into it. Larrson is great in recapping the last two books and their characters, but then adding more Swedish names and story line kept getting me lost. I missed the protagonist, she has been silent recovering in a hospital bed.
Finally , the main protagonist enters the picture after the first quarter of the book with her super duper abilities on the computer. She is such a grand role model women. The first independent and strong woman I have ever read in a detective suspense book either written by a man or a woman. I do not know how American women writers can still make their character women so dippy.
Over half of the book read and I was still bored and missing the main female protagonist. Too many male political espionage. The same with the end.
Thrive, The Vegan Nutrition Guide
by Brendan Brazier
A revolutionary change of thinking in a vegan and raw (or rather semi-raw) diet. Amazing recipes for high energy. He speaks much of the body's intolerance of our modern diets. The book is well written and easy to understand. He has no footnotes for his claims on nutrition, yet 95% of his information does rings true of many other books and articles that I have read.
The book includes delicious recipes for drinks, puddings and power balls, all raw and very easy to make.
What stood out for me while reading about Brendan Brazier lifestyle, is that he is a die heart vegan but he is very strong, energetic and is an accomplished competitive athlete. So unlike many vegans who suffer from malnutrition, Brazier has the magic keys to quality nutrition for a vegan.
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Wickett's Remedy: A Novel
by Myla Goldberg
Of course this was well written but it jumped around too much for me with a story that did not have a clear plot or interest.
It is about a woman who works hard as a clerk, very different in the days of the early century when there were model t's around. She meets a quite guy and gets married. He was going to be a doctor but starts this Wickett's Remedy, then dies. A salesman of his takes off with the formula and it makes him famous. The widowed wife goes through depression and then wants to be a nurse. Meets a patient and gets married. Never got paid for the Remedy.
That was about it. Not too passionate or deep.
The Secret Scripture
by Sebastian Barry
OMG, I was absolutely bored in reading this. Yes, it was very well written, but the dialog of an old woman's life with her father, her husband and her relationship with her doctor as well as his life was a monotone journal of bland living - it was not my cup of tea. There was the two protagonists that both jumped around in history that got me lost more than several times since I was spacing out anyway. I kept on missing where I was, I do not believe I even finished reading the book since I got lost too many times. That is it, no more of this persons books.
