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Mishpatim - blew my mind

DNF. Just common sense stuff and blowing her own horn. And then the chutzpah section was just too much (and bizarre timing reading her thoughts on being humble, right when women NOT being humble caught fire).

I kept going back and it still didn't help. I couldn't get into this book.

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DNF

Not sure I'm going to finsih. There are some insights into people's thinking, but barely scratching the surface. The author's tone is non-serious at best. The section on McCain's funeral he refers to Graham as Uncle Lindsey and ponders - were Ivanka and Chelsea once friends? Not hard to research that.

He comes across as naive! He both sides the blame and it's not equivalent. He uses examples of bi-partisonship from the past that don't relate to today's environment.

For instance he uses the term "vaccination program" metaphorically as a fix for something when vaccines are a political nightmare now (some states want to bring back smallpox and measles!).

He does at least acknowledge as the title states it can hap

I've just started this, but unfortunately it's going to get set aside for a while. Nothing against this book, seems interesting. Just have a bunch of books arriving all at once, and this one has no deadline.

Much better than the last few entries in this series.

Started off thinking it was going to be a balanced story telling, but then Yuki's story disappeared for hundreds of pages.

I've had to set this aside for way too long, because I've had library books come in just one after another...until now I've had four come in at the same time!

The past few weeks I've had two books out of the library and I CAN'T READ! The Sixth Extinction is a Cory Booker book club pick. I can't even open it; it terrifies me, we're going to be ramming full speed into killing our planet. Sander's Our Revolution I'm sure has lovely suggestions for fixing many problems and none of them will happen!

I am in too dark a place to write a review for The Book of Joy. I wish I had read it years ago instead of now. A few weeks ago I had finally gotten a copy of Ari Berman's Give Us The Ballot and I couldn't open it for fear it would be too depressing. Now I have a copy of The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert, it's Sen. Booker's book club selection, but I feel the same way I don't think I can open it!

This book has no premise! "Year of voting', but it obviously doesn't see it through to the end and it covers decades back. At least there is some sense in the old columns; they are actually more interesting than reading the newer ones. But, then 2/3 of the way through there are suddenly columns about Pres. Obama!
The book is just a hot mess.

This book has no premise! "Year of voting', but it obviously doesn't see it through to the end and it covers decades back. At least there is some sense in the old columns; they are actually more interesting than reading the newer ones. But, then 2/3 of the way through there are suddenly columns about Pres. Obama!
The book is just a hot mess.

I read about a quarter of this book and then had an onslaught of library books come in. Picked it up again and got through another quarter, but stopped even before I got the next batch of books. It is great, but very draining to work through the writing parts. Her story is actually broken up by the writing so it doesn't feel as sad and as if you're living through her stuff.

Not what I expected, but interesting. Pieces he has written over the years of political figures still front and center today. So it's frustrating that while one chapter is not connected to the next, they jump randomly through time. It's hard to recall what the author didn't know at the time, especially when having just read a chapter from a recent year. Each chapter also tends to feel a bit too long.