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The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz

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I try to go to yoga two or three times a week. The instructor for early Wednesday runs an insurance/financial advising office outside of the studio, and is fond of bringing in the self-help/improvement kinds of things that can be made to work for both the business side of things as well as the yoga. This is how I first heard of The Four Agreements. I saw the book itself, and in need of retail therapy, I decided to see what the whole thing was […]

Panda Bears Eat 35 Pounds of Bamboo Daily

The Beast in the Clouds: The Roosevelt Brothers' Deadly Quest to Find the Mythical Giant Panda by Nathalia Holt

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This book was recently chosen for my book club of dudes, perpetuating the stereotype that guys don’t read fiction. Y’all know I *do* read fiction, though, because (a) I like it, and (b) I like to be a contrarian. Anyway, Dr. Nathalia Holt’s newest historical narrative is about the Roosevelt brothers’ 1929 expedition to the Himalayas to try and locate the fabled panda bear. Ted and Kermit were sons of former President Teddy Roosevelt, and frenemy cousins with FDR. Neither son could do much to […]

“The truth is that the truth is almost beside the point.”

The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family  by Jesselyn Cook

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I begin the year hunting through my very long TBR looking for books for the various Read Harder Challenge tasks. Some of those tasks are easier than others, and some I think will be easy to pick out a book for from my TBR and find that I don’t have any that fit… or maybe only one. That was the case with reading a book about cults – I thought for sure I had plenty of options for it but in fact only The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the […]

My Fate is in Your Hands

This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial by Helen Garner

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You can also add this to the list of books I have been meaning to read for a while Back in September 2005, Robert Farquharson’s VN Commodore swerved off the Princess Highway not far from the town of  Winchelsea and dove straight into a dam. His three young sons—Jai, Tayler and Bailey—had been in the car with him and while Farquharson was able to get free, the boys all drowned.  Farquharson claimed that it was all an accident; he supposedly suffered from a coughing fit […]

The American Female Q

In True Face: A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked by Jonna Méndez

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Jonna began her work at the CIA as a ‘career wife,’ supporting her husband’s job, but soon she started taking on bigger and important roles in the agency, for which she lived all over the world and eventually rose to the position of Chief of Disguise. Having read plenty about the CIA’s origins as the OG old boy’s club in which a lot of men threw ideas at a wall and hoped they’d stick during World War 2, this book was interesting to me for […]

A Change in Perspective

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad

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I found One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This [One Day] (2025) by Omar El Akkad because I was seeing it all over the place. It won the National Book Award and was on a number of high-profile lists. I’ve been interested in learning more about Palestine for some time, especially after the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas, and the subsequent violence from Israel against Palestinians. I found this book very well written and eye opening. Omar El Akkad was born in […]



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