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I thought that my mother and I could not possibly have any overlapping taste in books.  There are two exceptions that have proven themselves over the past two years.  One was the old family copy of Don’t Forget the Star that she sent in 1998 and the other is How to Build a Business Warren Buffet Would Buy that she sent this last Christmas.

The book is the story of RC WIlley, the Utah and now Nevada and Idaho furniture store.  I knew RC Willey as the store where Joanna and I bought some of our furniture in Utah.  There was … Continue Reading

So round trip from Thomas Paine to now, I finally read something that could be considered current.  Let the great world spin had a publication date in 09 and the edition I had included reader notes with a 2010 copyright date.  That’s the shortest time span from a book coming off the presses to me flipping through the pages that I’ve ever experienced.

This book was listed as Amazon’s best fiction book of 2009, on top of that the late Frank McCourt gives a hearty endorsement on the Amazon page.  Feeling flush with overtime money from the Christmas and New Year’s … Continue Reading