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Books 1-7 of 52: 2012's Goal

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1/52: The Hunger Games by Collins, 4/5 Stars

Entertained Me: High / Made Me Think: Med

This book reminds me of a cross between Stephen King's The Running Man and a short story that Richard Bachman (Stephen King) wrote called The Long Walk. I wonder if Collins is/was a Stephen King fan? Anyway, The Hunger Games was a quick ride that I thoroughly enjoyed. Read it in about 24 hours.


2/52: Catching Fire by Collins, 3.5/5 Stars

Entertained Me: High / Made Me Think: Med

Not quite as good, for me, as the first book, but loved it when they had to return to the arena. I just want Katniss to speak about her feelings; to air them out and figure them out in the open! You don't have to know before you speak. Good read.

3/52: Mockingjay by Collins, 3.5/5 Stars

Entertained Me: High / Made Me Think: Med

Glad that Collins didn't go back to the arena for a 3rd time. Her books would have started to feel like Harry Potter stories with the same template over and over again. Tough ending, especially when you think about how the entire story takes place over the course of 4 years from age 14 to 18, I believe. Another great story and good read.

4/52: Mercury Falls by Kroese, 3/5 Stars

Entertained Me: High / Made Me Think: Med

Kroese has great wit and I'm not a big fan of religion, so to learn that the gods and angels really have no idea what they're doing aside from battling each other... well, that's good entertainment to me. NOTE: It's not as much fun when our U.S. Congress is doing the same thing.

5/52: Mercury Swings byKroese, 2/5 Stars

Entertained Me: High / Made Me Think: Med

This is simply a short story between the two novels.

6/52: Mercury Rises by Kroese, 3/5 Stars

Entertained Me: High / Made Me Think: Med

Back into the fray with Mercury goes Christine, and it's just as fun as it was the first time around with several of the same heavenly characters. Fun read.

7/52: We Are All Weird by Godin, 3/5 Stars

Entertained Me: Med / Made Me Think: Med

Truth, as usual, from Seth Godin. I do believe what he says in this book, which is basically about dis-aggregation. More flavors. More colors. More choices. We're all weird because we can all have the weird things that we want, or build the weird things that others want. The masses are done. The more I read, the more I thought, "If you really wanna know what I'm made of, then this would be a good book for you to read." Since I can remember, people have called me weird or crazy (in a good way), because my mind just kinda works differently than most.

"The new normal (the weird) is also the new moral.” 

“The fact is, some days I don’t care about marketing. I don’t care so much about whether or not Nike sells another sneaker or Marlboro sells another cigarette. What I care a great deal about, through, is each human’s ability to express her art, to develop into the person she is able to become. I care about the connections between people and our ability to challenge and support each other as we create our own versions of art. And I care about freedom, the ability to express yourself until it impinges on someone else’s happiness.”

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Book #07 = We Are All Weird by Godin, 3/5 Stars
Book #06 = Mercury Rises by Kroese, 3/5 Stars
Book #05 = Mercury Swings by Kroese, 2/5 Stars
Book #04 = Mercury Falls by Kroese, 3/5 Stars
Book #03 = Mockingjay by Collins, 3.5/5 Stars
Book #02 = Catching Fire by Collins, 3.5/5 Stars
Book #01 = The Hunger Games by Collins, 4/5 Stars

See 2011's list of 64 books (I made up for being 12 short in 2010!).
See 2010's list of 40 books.
See 2009's list of 53 books.

this says 1000 words about that evening...

sink the pink!

hey Hey HEY!

Worst eAppeal EVER... I just got an email from Obama with the title, "Hey."

HEY OBAMA, do you have any idea how many spam emails I get with the same subject line?

HEY OBAMA, have you run out of headline ideas for your emails? Look, I agree a lot with what you're trying to accomplish and I realize that Congress is full of whiney bitches, but this lame email appeal, dude, really?

The 9 Lives of Truth

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It's easier to kill love than it is to kill the truth; truth has a way of coming back to life. The truth lives in emails, in others, in letters, in this little box inside of the mind with iron hinges that begins to rust as soon as the lock has clicked into place—it's only a matter of time. And, when the mind is stormy, mental rainfall washes the rust into the fresh water supply and poisons it. It's only a matter of time... before you must purge the poison and admit to the truth. The longer you wait, the more sickly and infectious you become.

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