Gandhi the Man: How One Man Changed Himself to Change the World by Eknath Easwaran

This is a biography of Gandhi. It explains his philosophy of nonviolence and how he used it in South Africa and then in India to help the Indian people in both places win their freedom. I found the book to be very interesting. I had heard of Gandhi in the past but this book made him into a real person and showed me how one person can make a difference.
It also explains the use of nonviolence as used by Gandhi in India and how it can be used today. It can be used in our families or in our workplaces. I found the concepts used in this book to be very interesting. I think that violence is overused and does not really come up with a solution to the problem. Violence just kills the problem.
Gandhi seemed to understand what violence does to people and tried to teach people how to handle problems without violence. He spent a lot of time in jail and his life ended in a tragic way. He was assassinated by a man who was angry because Gandhi was succeeding. This book is a wonderful book for learning more about Gandhi and also learning more about his principles of nonviolence.

Look at Flower: A Novel by Robert Dunn

This was an interesting book. It is a novel set in the 60’s. It tells the story of a teenager who lived in the 60’s and her life during that time. It was interesting how many different things this young woman went through. I found the book to be funny as well as sad. It held my attention and gave me a feel for the 60’s.
I feel that Flower had an interesting life. I liked it when she was hopping trains and hitchhiking. These seemed to be very realistic things that someone could have done then. It can still be done today but not as easily. She met many different people who helped her in different ways. I liked the elderly woman who took her in.
This book shows that people can learn to like each other no matter how different their backgrounds. When Flower met the elderly woman, they seemed to hit it off. At the end of the book they are almost like best friends. This is a good book that was well written. It had enough information in it to make me want to read more. I finished this book in less than a day. It is a very good book.

Z 2 A 2012 Art Calendar by Eva Dillner

This is a beautiful calendar that has 12 different art works, one for each month. The art is beautiful and abstract. It has many different ways to look at it and see different things. I enjoyed all of the art work shown in the calendar and will be looking into more of her work.
At the beginning of the calendar, Eva has two pages that explain how she started in art and healing. It also has her website and websites where you can get more of her work. This is a very interesting calendar. I had never seen one like this before. I think that I will keep this one for next year. I have not seen a calendar with the moon phases and holidays on it like this one has.
I found the art to be beautiful and I think that I will find different meaning in it than someone else might. I think that this art is interesting. I appreciate the work that was done to create the art in this calendar. I am not an artist, but I can appreciate good art when I see it.

The Filter Bubble by Eli Pariser

I enjoyed this book because it made me think about the internet in ways that I had not thought about it before. I found it to be thought provoking and easy to read. It allowed me to see things about Google and Facebook that made me think. I will not quit using these sites but I will think about them in a different way now.
This book is about the way that Facebook and Google as well as other websites are using our personal information to personalize our internet experience. It talks about how different people see different things when they type in the same search terms into Google. This is because each person gets a personalized search.
I think that personalization can be good but too much personalization of the internet could be bad. It could cause us to not know as much about the world due to the way the searches and sites come up for us. This book talks about how this affects the common person.
I think this book is an important read for anyone who uses sites on the internet and especially Google, Facebook and sites where you purchase anything. This book is very good and explains a lot that is going on now and that could be going on in the future. It is well worth reading.

Rise and Shine: Awaken Your Energy Body with Taoism Alchemy and Qi Gong by Pedram Shojai

This book was very good. It teaches the principles of Taoism and the exercises of Qi Gong. I found the book to be very interesting. It helped me think in terms of more than just myself. There are principles that help you let go of the past and grow stronger in your own power.
I found the exercises that were shown in the book to be very good for gaining some ability to breathe better. It also helped me see that I can do more once my body is in better shape. I loved the exercises.
This book was very good for teaching the ideas and principles of Taoism. It helped me see something besides the religion that I have lived with for many years. I think that it could help other people as well. We all need to think about how our lives affect other people.
This was a very good book. I loved it and found that the principles can help people grow and develop in the ways of Taoism. I want everyone to be able to read this book. I also think that it is important for people to see the website that is associated with the book.

The Bashful Vampire Murder and Comic Book Murders by Bob Frey

This book was interesting. I really enjoyed the book. When I started reading it I was wondering what kind of story it would be. The stories were murder mysteries, but they were also very funny.
The main detective is gay so that put a different spin on the book. There was not much about that aspect in either story but I did find it to be any interesting aspect of the stories. It made me think of that detective and I found him to be a hard character.
The Bashful vampire murder was interesting since the trial was for murder but the defense used a vampire defense to get the guy off. The main detective was comical in this story because he had some good quips. He fought the vampire defense. At the end of the story the main detective was scared by his friends who came at him in the dark. He thought they were vampires.
The Comic book murders were murders done by people dressed up as comic book characters. This was very funny because the police were having trouble finding out who had done the murders.
In both stories the gay detective had the fact that he was gay brought up as a reason for the murderer to get off. I found that to be an interesting reason for the bad guys to be freed
These were great stories that had murder, mystery, and comedy combined. What more can you ask for in a book. This was a wonderful book that I would recommend to anyone.

The Mullah’s Storm by Thomas W. Young

This is not a book that I would normally read. I did think that it looked good. I loved this book. It was able to keep me reading and wanting more. This author worked very hard to tell a good story. The best part is that it could also have been a true story.
The descriptions of the terrain in Afghanistan were amazing. I could imagine the mountains and the ruggedness just by the way it was described. I found the descriptions in the book to be very lifelike.
The story was great. I thought that the way it was written showed that this author had put a lot of thought into how he wanted the book to flow. The descriptions of the torture endured by the characters were amazing as well. The idea of having all of the fingernails removed was interesting and made me almost feel the pain myself. That would hurt horribly.
Seeing a crew member who had been decapitated by the terrorists would be a horrible sight. I found that this made me feel bad for the main character. He had been through a lot by that point of the story and to see that would have hurt him again. He had not wanted to leave the crew but was given orders to do so.
This book was well written and able to hold my attention. I loved the book and would recommend it to anyone.

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Paranoid Pip by Yvonne Sherwell

This was an interesting book. It was written from the perspective of the mother in the story, but it is about the dog that they acquire. The dog is Pip. He is a wire-haired terrier. This dog is constantly getting in trouble. The first part is about how the mother relates to the dog. He ends up saving her from being raped.
The second part is about the relationship with the children. The kids are from New York and visit their grandmother in a small town. Drugs start coming into the community and the kids are blamed. Pip figures out what is really going on.
The third part is the father’s relationship with the dog. The father seems to hate the dog. By the end of this part the dog has done something major for the father.
The last part is the dog’s relationship with everyone. He becomes a famous singing dog who is kidnapped. The end of the book is very funny.
This book has its serious moments but for the most part it had me laughing and really interested. I enjoyed this book. It was very interesting to read what this family went through.

Damaged by Alex Kava

This book was very interesting. It is a mystery. As it starts Maggie has just come back from a case where the bad guy was shot with her close by so she is pulling stuff off of herself. When she gets done showering, she is called by a friend wanting her to go to Florida to look at the parts to her next case. Maggie is a profiler.
When they get to Florida, a major hurricane is getting ready to hit. Maggie goes to the sheriff’s office to see the cooler where the body parts were found. The body parts are from at least two different bodies. They try to find out if the bodies are murders or if they are something else. The Coast Guard woman who found the parts works with Maggie. Her father ends up being kidnapped by the guy who is taking body parts.
I love the way the story ends but will not give that away. It is a very good book. I loved it and would read more from this author anytime. She has a way of writing that pulls you in and keeps you hooked. She made the book feel like you were right there.

3 Off the Tee: Targeting Success by Lorii Myers

This book uses the game of golf to help explain business and how to succeed in business. The first nine holes are used to teach what you need to do in yourself to be ready for success in the workplace. At the turn asks you to figure out what you want in business and life. Without a goal you have nothing to work for. The back nine holes teach you how to put what you have learned in the front nine to work. They talk about risk and reward.
This book gave me the way to start thinking about how to move ahead or move on from where I am now. It also gave me the tools I need to begin my journey. I found the risk and reward part to be very important to me. I found the whole book to be interesting. It even had a glossary at the end of the book with golf terms for people who have not played and did not know the terms. This book was great for me and my personal development.

Dearly, Departed by Lia Habel

This is a young adult book. It is a zombie story but it is written in a way that makes it very interesting. You read the book from back to front and right to left pages wise. I enjoyed the book. I find myself waiting for the next book so I can continue the story.
This story is written in the future. The earth has been destroyed by natural disasters and wars so everyone is living around the equator. There are things that are very old fashioned but still futuristic about the book.
Nora is the main character. She is kidnapped from her home by Bram who is a zombie. In the book there are the zombies who wake up still remembering themselves and are fully aware and the zombies who wake up with no knowledge of anything except to eat humans. Bram is a conscious zombie. Nora has thought that her father is dead for one year.
After she is kidnapped Nora finds out that her father is a zombie. She finds out that her home has been overrun by the bad zombies. Her friend Pam still lives in the city and is trying to survive the zombie attacks.
This is a very interesting book. I really enjoyed reading it.

Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away by Christie Watson

This was a very interesting story of a family in Nigeria and how they live. It started out with the mother finding out that the father was sleeping with another woman. When the father moves out the mother, daughter and son have to move with the mother’s family. The grandfather is a Muslim who wants to be a petroleum engineer. The Family is African American.
During the story the mother starts dating a white man. The son loses his ability to go to school and gets shot by local boys whom he later joins. The daughter starts her education with her grandmother to be a midwife (birth attendant). It is an interesting story that causes you to think a little bit about how the world is today and how we treat the people in other countries. The kinds of things that are told about in this story still happen.
It tells of the way the petroleum companies hired police to go in and kill whole villages. One boy in the story had lost his whole village and was living with the grandfather who was watching over him. I found the story to be very interesting and thought provoking.

The Year We Left Home by Jean Thompson

This was an interesting novel. I found it captivating. Living in the Midwest I know the weather and the way of life here. People are taught to live in certain ways and when that is challenged people tend to think that the rules have been broken and that someone needs to change. Chip would have been a severe rule breaker without trying to. He was a Vietnam vet and had trauma from it. This made it hard for him to be able to function normally.
Bringing the religious aspect into the story made it interesting. The older generations seem very religious and as the younger generations come up, they are less and less religious. They tend to stop going to church or really hate going to church. I also found the idea of the farm crisis and how it affected the Midwest to be interesting. I am too young to remember a lot of this. I can see though how having a family member who works for the bank that takes you farm from you would be very difficult. You can’t do anything to help them, but they expect you to do something.
This is a very good coming of age story about the life of a family in the Midwest. It does tell us more about how the families in the Midwest live. It touches on divorce, religion, and many other aspects of a family including death and injury. This is a great book.