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The real McCoy

Revisado: 01-25-25

I like Nancy’s candor and directness. She gives the inside scoop on a few key events in American history and politics that have shifted my perspective somewhat. She’s a real fighter, but having real values matters.

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Excellent inside view

Revisado: 11-24-24

This gets behind the scenes of what we know of Paris from television, etc. it cracks the code of the elite scene and describes what it is like to eventually find friends in Paris. Its explanation of the culture seems to make sense with the history of 18 century elite culture, one still being played out today.

It was great to hear about the plan to include the suburbs in the city in the Grand Paris plan. There are also a lot of interesting updates about what is going on in Paris in the 21st-century.

Interesting, excellent book.

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How to protect against mental illness

Revisado: 08-03-24

I’d liked the honesty of the author, and her sincere way of narrating about the events in the life of her family. To protect one another from mental illness means looking out for one another. The thought that in a dangerous world that we need to love and understand one another is the heart of religion and exactly exactly what is needed to face the challenges that we all will inevitably. I spoke changes how I look at others, my family, and my own mental health. It is something to be encountered honestly and fully. Thanks

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Compassionate view

Revisado: 06-30-24

I’ve heard a few books on this subject. This was a compassionate look with the stories of the two boys and their family at the heart of it. I thought the challenge was to focus on them and not to sensationalize, and this book was able to do that. It showed me what we as humans all need in common and that all possessed the dignity to have it. This book is well worth it, a little long at sometimes but that’s OK.

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Reality is Sacramental

Revisado: 06-22-24

The book can get a little long at times, but it is very good to see how Barack Obama got his world view. Africa and his upbringing could be tough places. You have to be streetsmart. But it doesn’t hurt to be booksmart as well. The book ends with a scene where they are pouring out a blessing/libation to his family and ancestors. Barack asks at the end of the book about how community and freedom work together. What unites Africa, street smarts and book smarts, even how we live in nature, is a common reality that all connects us. We have to choose life with that reality in mind.

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The personal affects of redlining

Revisado: 05-24-24

I liked that this book showed what life was like from a personal standpoint in a neighborhood that was pressured by racial discrimination. The book does cover some aspects of the broader social history. What I learned was that economics, maybe even more than race was used to pit the races against each other. Sad, but true, but people lived to survive it somehow. Still, her question about why a neighborhood turns into something like Berlin after World War II while some don't is a good one.

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Lively and Pithy

Revisado: 05-17-24

Not what I would’ve expected from the pope. Live and make some noise, he says. Don’t become a couch potato and fall victim to false allurements of consumer culture. He addresses issues today like narcissism and consumerist pride because we definitely need a more healthy way to live. Very good, recommend.

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Trust God with your self

Revisado: 04-26-24

Great, good for anyone interested in this issue. Gets into the issue of what we are, maybe more important than “who”- which already relies on definitions. My take is to get away from definitions and trust God. Recommends that our first identity is to be found in God. Makes philosophical arguments that how it all works out in reality, and truth, is actually good. Needed to hear that.

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Not just a tragedy

Revisado: 04-03-24

Gives you the whole Vincent. He was probably obnoxious as a kid but had a lot to deal with. Later had serious medical problems. It was not madness or romantic excess that drove him. It was his love of art and the people around him.

I would like to know more about his painting. This book describes him as an expressionist and a symbolist, but also committed to life, and its every day appearance.

Great, well written, and an absorbing story. I would recommend to anyone who is interested in Vincent van Gogh.

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Interesting and not boring history

Revisado: 02-26-24

This book gets it right as far as balancing historical events with every day reality in East Germany.  It seems like it was such an interesting place to be - so ideologically driven in some ways and such a failure in others.

This book also showed me that capitalism is primarily an economic system.  It is not meant to be a social or cultural system. Maybe that’s what East Germany has shown us.

The author’s point that the end of East Germany is just another point in the history of Germany is well taken.  I recommend this to anyone interested in a general history of East Germany.  It engages the big politics, but still stays on the ground. Nice work.

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