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I’m reading using Audible. I’m surprised at how few people have reviewed this book. You’d think people would seek out primary sources from a very popular President. While I don’t like hunting, I have to say I have learned about the era he lived and about the way our country looked. He can describe scenes to take you there.

It’s interesting to note that Roosevelt had to publish to make a living. He had failures that put him in the hole
and even on his honeymoon to Italy, he had to write.

I’m disappointed with the writer’s who can’t seem to understand that Roosevelt saw the overhunting of the animals while being a hunter himself — this led to him protecting lands for animals to continue to live in perpetuity. Hunters are the best naturalists and preservationists. Pheasants Forever is an example.

I love everything Nero Wolfe. I loved Lena Horne’s introduction to this book. My mother read this book and was a huge Nero Wolfe fan too.

Bleh

So far wondering why we are following the life of a woman who just gives in to her base instincts and think she’s so great.

Met Martin on trip and he took me out to lunch and told me about his book. Very nice man and as a travel professional, I am enjoying this book a little too much, but if people behaved kindly towards others, I would have no cause to be so smug as they are exposed for what these “characters” really are all about. And I’d like to say it’s not just southerners who act and speak
without thinking.

I picked up this book at Uplift North, a thrift shop in Richfield, MN. A few weeks later, I saw a show on Amazon Prime that we started to watch and quite enjoy. The Puzzle Lady. I picked this book up and started to read and there were the same characters!! Delightful. I’m enjoying the book even more.

This book is making me cringe. I’m on Chapter 18’and he loses 50k in a casino. I can’t stand to think the casino got all that money and he kept gambling. It’s just a constant culmination of bad choices over and over again. I want to outlaw drinking, gambling and all drugs of all kinds after reading this book. The way people get hooked is awful. I’m suddenly for prohibition.

I’m so sorry I spent the credit on audible on this book.

Not a fan so far. Just like the main character Joan pushed away Griffith, I’m realizing how much I would not lean towards Joan’s sexual persuasion. The characters are two dimensional and it’s like the author said hey they publishing companies are asking for books about lesbians. Let’s put them in the 80s with a space shuttle exploration and make it like a romance novel but with girls!

Finally! Page 132 does explain it’s the Mouse Family (their name).

Is this a mouse family or human family with the last name Mouse? Maybe Annie’s nickname was mouse and she used that to create the idea. My nickname was mouse when I played YMCA soccer at 5 years old. But was expecting more of a Stuart Little type book and none of the logistics of a small creature are explained. Sort of deceptive by the cover art of a mouse with a camera.

I’m not impressed. They didn’t go up into the arch because they are all afraid of heights? And the little ones didn’t like the newspaper clippings in the visitor center. And no one bought souvenirs at the Meramec Caverns. There just seems to be a lot of negativity in this book so far. Im wondering if she’s trying to sabotage America’s Route 66 tourism.

Bizarre set of short stories. Very Edgar Allen Poe-like. I will read it, because I will read anything, but the strange nature of these stories make me do a double take.

I’m intrigued by this man’s life so far. Didn’t think it would be a page turner, but the research by Theising has been fun to follow.

I was given this book to read because I will be traveling to stay at the Greenbriar. So far, I can’t imagine a more poorly suited book to read if you are going there. The description of the place throughout the book is anything but positive and is meant to elicit nothing but ick. Blood-red walls, walls the lurid pink of Pepto Bismol, ceiling grayish pink of the cold poached salmon. . .

I have a law degree and there are some major problems with her reasoning in her quilt descriptions. She speculates and draws conclusions that might be one scenario, but there are other scenarios I could posit which would come to another perfectly viable conclusion. I need more support for her leaps. She could have added more to bolster as it’s fiction anyway.

Interesting

Interesting! Amazing what the explorers had to endure.

I’m inspired.

After the war was over, and the north was celebrating the victory, Lincoln asked the Navy Band to play Dixie as it was one of the best tunes Lincoln had ever heard. Lincoln’s mission was malice towards none, charity for all.

I picked up a much older version of this book at Half Price Books that was published by Dillon Press— the seventh printing in 1978 and it has a different cover. I’m enjoying learning about the country. Taking my group to the American Swedish Institute in MN in February where this author spent years of her life volunteering. Neat that her legacy lives on.

Reading via audible. I have to say that this is a slow burn. We all know the right resolution, but it’s getting there that’s so painful. I’m tempted to skip chapters and just have my quick fix, but I haven’t so far. The letters to Scotty help the reader, Kenna & Ledger. Moral=journal.

Fabulous. This book has so much merit. Read this book if you can find it. It is so well written and so much wisdom comes through these pages. Great stories.

Wow. I can do this book only in doses. Difficult to see the world through this lens. It’s going slowly. Problem is these girls may not think they are victims. The human trafficking warnings are on the back of the bathroom stalls.They could call the hotline, but the problem is complex. Tough problem.

As I near the end, I am reminded of the other book I’m reading called Girls Like Us which deals with sex trafficking.I wish men and women could join forces to overturn brothels using the heavy hand of beating & embarrassing those who use & abuse others for their own personal gain. Of course, the difference is that these girls were stolen & not groomed.Guns would have been easier on the ones implementing justice.

Bought this at the St. Louis Scottish Highland Games. I wonder how many women encountered problems like Bella did on the trip to America.