Saturday, November 22, 2014

Nov. 22, 2014

The Intellectual Devotional: Biographies
By David S. Kidder and Noah D. Oppenheim
It’s the end of November and we finally finished Intellectual Devotional: Biographies.  It’s our second book by Kidder & Oppenheim, and it took less than a year to read.  I think we started last April 2014.  We read at mealtime, usually breakfast.  It gave us food for thought and discussion.  We often found ourselves looking up more information on our iPads.  Some of the biographies were like a history review.  Others were people we’ve never heard of.  It kept our minds working and gave us something to discuss besides the daily barrage of depressing world news.  Reading together also gives us a reason to interact with one another, instead of looking at our glow-boxes at mealtime.  All of the Intellectual Devotionals are definitely a good intellectual, nonreligious books and great to share with a partner.  We’re moving on in the series to Modern Culture.

Guy Noir and the Straight Skinny (Audible version)
By Garrison Keillor
Guy Noir and the Straight Skinny was a great audio book.  Read by Keillor himself, it was nonstop FUNNY!!!  There are more than a few one-liners that kept us laughing all the way from New Jersey to Virginia.  The Audible version is four hours and eight minutes.  The time goes very quickly as Guy Noir finds his way through a series of misadventures with a very unusual cast of characters and a tapeworm.  Very entertaining!!!

Wrecked ( A Reagan Reilly Mystery Book 13) (audio book)
by Carol Higgins Clark
I think we may have been at a slight disadvantage by starting the Reagan Reilly Mystery series with Wrecked: Book 13.  I didn’t discover that it was a series until well after we had finished the audio book.  I was surprised that Reagan Reilly was the MAIN character in the mystery.  She definitely seemed like one of the main characters, but that there were others that were close to her in importance.  There were several interesting storylines, which were woven without graphic violence.  All ended well without too much spine-chilling suspense.  It was a ‘cozy’ mystery.  At 10 hours, it is a good audio book for a long road trip.

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