Review: Pineapple Disco: A Pineapple Port Mystery: Book Six

Pineapple Disco: A Pineapple Port Mystery: Book Six by Amy Vansant
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

​The latest in Amy Vansant's series of Pineapple Port books is a change of pace. For once Charlotte is not investigating a murder case. She is looking into a missing person. The problem is that the request comes for a person who does not know the name or address of the person.

I get ahead of myself. If you have not read any of this series I recommend you do. You do not need to in order to understand the story. Any backstory is added in as needed. However, the backstory goes like this. Charlotte's mother died and she was sent to live in Florida with her grandmother. Gram lives in a retirement community called Pineapple Port. Gram dies leaving our hero an orphan. She is allowed to continue to live there with the neighbors taking turns at taking care of her. Now she is 20 something woman who lives in an area with senior citizens. Because she keeps getting pulled into murders she decides to become a private investigator.

In this book she is called on to find a man that a former resident of Pineapple Port has been flirting with on her daily walk. He has been wearing a t-shirt each day with one word on it. Will. You. Go . Out. With. Me. ?

The day the woman is about to respond with her shirt, he does not show. While this might sound like a dull story, it does involve a hit-woman, drugs, an underground disco for senior citizens, and stuff that if I told you about it, it would be spoilers.

While she is not investigating a murder, that is not to say there is not murders taking place. For that reason, if it was a movie I would give it a PG rating. There is no other real problems with the book. I could recommend it to any reader who likes a good mystery. It is in the vein of the cozy mysteries but it is not what I would call one as it is not quite in that mode.

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Review: Capturing Freedom

Capturing Freedom by Angelique Conger
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

​I did receive an ARC of this book. I purchased a copy as well to support the author.

Capturing Freedom is the second book of a series by Angelique Conger. The series follows two children, grandchildren of Adam and Eve, in the time of the Bible. Man has fallen by this time and are following a collection of Gods. Nat has been kidnapped and sold to a series of evil slave owners. Because of his knowledge of reading he has worked his way up to the personal servant of high priest of one of the Gods. His sister, Ziva, was a little bit luckier. She was bought as a child to replace the child of a wealthy man. The young girl who had passed away when she was involved in an accident in town with her mother. Mother survived but not for long. The father kept her, not as a slave, but as a daughter. All of this is told in the first book and is back storied in quite nicely.

In this book, ZIva is expecting her first child, and then several more. Nat has committed himself to a young woman before the God Jehova. When the sneak time together, hard to do when you are a slave, she finds that she is with child. Any child born to a slave woman belongs to the master so they do not want this child born there. Nat, working with Ziva and her father work together to get the pregnant woman to be free. Meanwhile, the home of Ziva is attacked. If it had been an army it would have been easy. But disease is running through her home.

Ms. Conger blends the stories together quite well. Even though we can guess the ending (look at the title of the book) it still is interesting how we get there. This is a clean book that I would have no problem suggesting to any age. It is purely fiction, we do not know who lived at these time, or how their societies worked. I can imagine that this was the way of life for these people quite easily.

I recommend this book to any who are looking for a Biblical times story. If a movie, it would be rated PG for some scenes of violence, Nat being flogged is one of them. Enjoy.

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Review: The Lowdown

The Lowdown by Erik Carter
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I received an ARC of this book. I am providing an honest review.

The story takes place in a time that I grew up in. Though I am from the Boston area I had ties to New Orleans where this story takes place. The characters are like of the type of people I knew of the era. Prejudice was king not just in the south.

I was surprised to find out this book was part of a series. It had none of the signs that show it was. There was no heavy handed explanations of what had gone on it previous stories.

Prejudice, a KKK type of organization, an alphabet organization I had never heard of all are a part of this story. Dale is an agent of the BEI, an organization that is part of the DOJ. If a crime has an aspect of history to it, Dale is called in. Percy, a DOJ agent is partnered with him. Dale is white, Percy is black. While it does not bother them,the 1970's era that the book takes place in has a lot of people who do not like one or the other of them, sometimes both.

The KKK type of organization is out to flood cities in the south with joints laced with a drug that will kill them. Of course they are targeting the black population. Our heroes must find a way to stop them, even if it means working with the drug sellers.

Action was good, there was a fair amount of killing so I could not suggest this book for younger population, older teens would be OK. A movie like rating would be PG13. If you are in the need for a good thriller, I would pick this book up.

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Review: Hear Me Cry

Hear Me Cry by Amanda J. Evans
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I received an ARC of this book. What follows is an honestreview.

The author has taken an old Irish folktaleabout the banshee and recreated it in a world of fairies and humans. Faries are not the Tinker Bell type of fairies but more of the type that has been created in the fantsy books that have come out lately.

The story is engaging, charachters are real, and they stick to the way that they were written and do not deviate at all. There was one point in the story that did not make a lot of sense, but I feel the author used it as a way to move the story along.

The book is relativly short but it fits the style of the story.

Children might enjoy the story but parent should be aware of an itimate scene between the fairy and the human that gets a little graphic,
Recomeded for older teens though adults. If you like fantsy stories this might be for you.

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Review: Crosscurrents: Would you kill your brother to save yourself?

Crosscurrents: Would you kill your brother to save yourself? by Tom Bierdz
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I received an ARC of this book. What follows is an honest review.

Cross currents is an enjoyable thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat through the book. This is the forth book by the author that I have read and have enjoyed each one of them.

Two brothers separated at a young age because of the mistakes of an abusive father. One goes on to become a crusading senator. The other gets amensia and becomes hit man for hire. As we wander through the life that each one has, and the people around them who love and support them, we see how intertwined their lives really are.

The big problem is that the men they have grown up to be are on a colision course when the crusading senator had become the target of the hitman when a contract is taken out on him. A knock on the head heals the amnesia, but is it to late.

Mr. Bierdz has written well developed characters. There are no throw aways here. Even the minor charachters are given something to flesh them out. All of the people stay true to their identies. Even when the times are frighing to them, they stay true to themselves.

I would recommend this to older teens and above. Obviously because when you have a hit man you have violence. There is also a degree of sexual activity. For the most part it is not written in heavy detail, but it is scattered throughout the book. If a movie I would say it would get an R rating. Let that be your guide if you would read it or not. I have enjoyed the book and would recommend it to anyone looking for a good thriller.

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Review: Coding Projects in Python

Coding Projects in Python by DK Publishing
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I got a review copy form the publisher through NetGalley.

This is an excellent book for children. As I teach a college class it helped me in learning Python ahead of a class that I am teaching in Introduction to programming.

For children it is a step by lesson on learning programming. Python is used for its simplicity. Fun projects are done with an eye to keeping children interested. If I had a young child who showed an interest in programming I would definitely have them look at this. Python is easily available for all systems and though they talk about a specific editor, any editor would work.

Recommend for anyone wanting to learn Python, even adults.

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Review: GHOST COACH

GHOST COACH by Duane Lindsay
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

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I received an ARC of this book. What follows in an honest review.

This the second of a series. It can be read with no knowledge of the first one as I have done.

What if you were a con man and wanted to pull of the ultimate con. How long would you wait to pull the trigger on it.

That is the premise of Ghost Coach. Can the best con man (Leroy) ever pull off the best con ever, even though it is his daughter (Dani) wanting to do it more. Together, along with the people they bring in, they are the best team to do the job.

I never thought about what would go into a con like this. All of the details that have to be done so that they can hook the person. Yet this team made all the work look easy. Even though at almost every step, something got in their way. There are many twists and turns in the story. There are sad moments and happy moments as well as ones that make you wonder if these con men (and woman) are really the good guys.

I would recommend this book to any who like a light hearted story about how people really want to swindle themselves.

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Review: An Alarm to the Unconverted

An Alarm to the Unconverted by Joseph Alleine
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Someone told me that I should read some of the classics of Christan Literature. I thought, OK, let's give it a try. Over a year ago I decided to search online for classic Christian Literature and came up with a site called 'Classics On The Wing' (http://www.onthewing.org/Classics.html). I grabbed the first one on the list (at that time) and started to read the book.

I do not often give a book less than 3 starts. I can always learn something and nobody is that bad a writer that they do not deserve less than three stars. However, this is one of those cases. If you follow me on Goodreads you will see that I started this book over a year ago. At about the 1 year anniversary I decided that I needed to find a way to finish it as it sat for the longest time at 50%. Though no one can find Mark Twain ever saying it, a quote that is credited to him was something I had to do to finish this book: "Eat a Live Frog Every Morning, and Nothing Worse Will Happen to You the Rest of the Day". Who ever said it, never read this book. I basically had to force myself to read 5% every day so that I could finish the book.

I am sure that it is the time that this was written but the author has a one track mind. You are a sinner, you are going to hell, repent and show that you are Christian by your acts. Chapter one told us this in about 30 ways. Chapter two was more of the same. I remember reading this and thinking I did not know there was that many ways to be told I was going to hell. I am not discounting the message, but if I was a non-Christian reading this book, I would not have been influenced by it in the least. If you tell me 100 times I am a sinner in the tones that this author used, well, I most likely would have told you that you will see me there as well.

I had someone say, 'well that is just the way that Puritan authors were. That may be so. He wrote the book in 1652.

I cannot recommend this book to anyone of today's times. It is a heavy theological subject or how depraved we are as sinners, but does not offer help to those who would be converted, just more condemnation.

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Review: The 14 stations of The Cross

The 14 stations of The Cross by Mimi L. Thompson
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

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I received an ARC copy of this book. What follows is an honest review.

When I first saw the advertisement for this book it caught my interest. The Stations of the Cross was a tradition from when I was growing up in the Catholic Church. As a child, I was told to walk around these sculptured pictures on the walls of the church I went to. Each one of them reflected a time in the events of the death of Jesus. It is hard to get a grade schooler to think of anything like that for more than 10 minutes, and we were supposed to do at least that much at each station. It soon became just look at them and act like I was paying attention while thinking about my favorite books or TV shows. By my teens, when I would have a better understanding of them, it was just a tradition to me. Now I am in my 60's and can see the significance of the stations but as I am no longer a Catholic, I have no place to practice them. Only a few of the high order protestant churches practice them, not that I have attended. So, reading this was an interesting exercise I was to embark on.

The book advertisements said it was to be a devotional. I am not sure who it was a devotional for. To explain, I heard someone ask a preacher why he wanted to put his sermons on a Christian radio station. His reply was he wanted to reach the lost and lead them to Jesus. The person than asked him why he was not going to secular stations because only Christians listen to Christian radio stations. So, to the author, who did you hope to reach with this devotional. If it was the Christians, I am not sure many will read it because of the vulgarity of speech from so many of the people including Jesus himself. If you are trying to reach the lost with this language, and I do understand that you would want to do that, the fact it is a devotional will turn them off.

The book is basically the view of 14 events on the path to the crucification. Each story is told from one person's point of view so we have 14 points of view. In this respect, it was well done. It is hard to flesh out that many people and not get lost in the process. These people are real people, who had doubts and fears and were touched by Jesus in so many ways. We even get to look at Jesus point of view as why He was doing this. It is a good set of stories, and it should be marketed a different way in my thoughts.

Spoiler, Jesus does die in the end. Yes, I know, I may have ruined the story for you. Even though the stations end with Jesus being taken down from the cross this story does not. It follows through to the resurrection and the second coming of Jesus. I point this out because I would not want Christian friends to get the idea that I support the theology behind the book. In the end, all go to heaven, sinners and saints. I will not argue if his theology or mine is correct. I kind of guessed we were going there by about the middle of the book, and there it was at the end. I will not mark it down on the stars, theology is not what a review should be about, how it is written is what should be looked at.

Because of the language and the violence I would only suggest this book to older teens and above. While well written be aware that there is some language in it that as a Christian some may be offended by. I am not, that is the type of people who Jesus hung with. I am putting it here to let people know it is there. If it was a movie it would most likely get a soft R or hard PG because of the violence and language.


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Review: Werewolf M.D.: A Paranormal Shifter Doctor Romance

Werewolf M.D.: A Paranormal Shifter Doctor Romance by Taylor Haiden My rating: 4 of 5 stars Available at Amazon

I was provided an ARC copy of this book. What follows is an honest review.When you get to read ARCs you get a lot of different styles of books, and even some mixed ones at that. This is one of those mixed ones. One part horror/fantasy. One part romance. I think you get the idea. While this is not my style of book, I will still give it a review based on the writing. Isabella is a nurse trainee from a small Kansas town in a backwoods town in Louisiana to do her nurse residency. Dr. Roman is a doctor from there who, with the skill he seems to have could be practicing in the big city, but wants to stay right where he is at. All the woman seem to fall in love with him, including Isabella. He is what you call a player. Everyone tells Isabella that Doctor Roman is not goodnews. You might think she would listen and pay attention. Might not be much of a story if she did. She just has to know how he is healing these patients who are incurable. Without giving too much of a spoiler, you might look at the name of the book for an idea. The book is written well. There are no obvious plot holes. characters seem to be well written with a good ballance of self preservation and desire to be in a loving relationship. While the book was enojoyable, there were several intimate scenes. If you do not mind that or can read around things you may enjoy the book. Because I cannot half stars and it has one of the things I hate, I had to drop a star. I do not mind setting up for a sequel. It mind cliffhangers. Other than that, it was an enjoyablet story of a type I do not normally read. View all my reviews

Review: A Stitch in Space

A Stitch in Space by Christopher Lansdown
My rating: 0 of 5 stars

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I received an ARC of this book. What follows is an honest review.

Since I had previously read another book by this author, I was really wanting to read this one. His previous book that I ha read, 'The Dean died over winter Break', was an interesting joining of mystery and philosophy. This book seemed to be very heavy on the philosophy. the basic story is of a group of passengers catching a ride on a cargo ship. along with the crew and the robots this had the makings of what could be an interesting story.

Our point of view is from Father Xris. a Catholic priest who in the story represents all of Christianity in this future time. I had a slight problem with this. As I am a Christian who is not Catholic I did not agree with a few of his views. Most of his thoughts on the subject were OK. I suspect the authors did not consider other faiths.

My other main problem as I had stated before was the heavy philosophy. While there was some action in the early story it was mostly there so Father Xris could explain philosophy to any of the passengers or crew who would listen. It was 2/3 of the book before any real action took place.

The writing was clear. The characters well developed. The action when we got it was good and well done. It was just too much philosophy.

I look forward to what this writer can do in the future. The book is acceptable for most who would read it. I would recommend it to anyone wanting to read about a priest in space.


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Review: Journaling with Jesus: How to Draw Closer to God

Journaling with Jesus: How to Draw Closer to God by Carol Round
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
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I received a review copy of this book. What follows is an honest review.

Carol Round has written an excellent book about journaling. I have tried to journal many times in my life and have always wound up stopping because a lot of it got repetitive. Most of what I wrote was like a diary more than a journal. What I needed was a kick to move out of that and into something better. This book was it.

The author takes the time to lay out what is called prayer journaling. Each day, as a Christian, we should take time to read the Bible and pray. So often our prayers never seem to be answered. In journalling them out to God, we now have a written form that we can return to later and see that they really are answered. In reading the Bible, so often we forget what we read. Again, doing this helps us to be able to return later when times of need come up. The journalling can also be done with devotionals that you read.

My only problem with the book is the audience. I am a male, and for the most part the cover implies that this book is for everyone. While a few male authors are cited, the book is clearly written with a female in mind. This is not a complaint, as I can clearly learn from anything written for anyone. It is pointed out in case someone did have a problem with it.

I would recommend this book to any of my Christian friends wanting to know more about praying and journaling together.


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Review: Money: Physics and Distributive Justice

Available at Amazon. Money: Physics and Distributive Justice by Oded Kafri
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

“GIVE me a one-handed economist,” demanded president Truman. “All my economists say, ‘on the one hand...on the other'”. This book is not like that as it takes a stand, I am just not sure where the stand is.

I received a review copy of this book, what follows is an honest review.

I thought that the college classes I had taken in micro and macro economics and physics would have prepared me for this book. I think I came out a little bit more confused then when I went in.

I am not sure where the author was going with this. At times it read like a textbook. At times it read like a series of blog posts. Sometimes he seemed to be talking about politics, other times it was deep into the subject. At places he said, if this confuses you do not read it. Then he turns around and develops off of that.

If you have a strong background in physics, not the entry level kind, this book might make a little bit more sense to you that it did to me. In which case, you might enjoy it. I am not sure who else I could recommend it to.

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Review: Graciousness: Tempering Truth with Love

Graciousness: Tempering Truth with Love by John Crotts
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
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I was not sure How much I would like this book. I liked the topic but then I read it was by a gentleman from the reformed branch of Christianity. Most of the people who identify themselves as reformed tend to be rigid in their thinking, I was seriously questioning if I could agree with this man at all.

I was pleasantly surprised to find he felt a lot like I did. We may be in the right, but our actions make us in the wrong when it comes to christian actions. The author does not tell us to abandon our beliefs. He tells us to act in love to each other. While this is important to do to all, it is important to the unbeliever as well.

While the author and I will most likely' agree on theology, we can agree that the love walk is important.

I would recommend this book to all Christians as a wake up Call to the way we look to the world when we fight and bicker.

I received an advanced copy of this book. This is an honest review.

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Review: Mageborn: A Seven Stars Novel

Mageborn: A Seven Stars Novel by Dayne Edmondson
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
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The author provided me an ARC copy. I am providing an honest review.

Mageborn is a bit away from the normal fare that I read, but one does have to broaden their horizons. It opens with an event from the past that would appear to have an influence on the story as we read it. Other than to introduce younger versions of some of the characters we later meet, it kind of confused me. When we get to the story proper everything started to mesh and the story progressed nicely.

We have a young lady and her brother, Emma and Ethan, who at a later age than normal (16) develop magic, and in the process, scare the town to death. Their parents think that it would be a good idea to send them off for training, even though most children have had training since 10. Off they go for the training, but they are delayed along the way as people who are against them attack and in great numbers.

An interesting feature is that some of the people in the story talk of things the others do not understand. It leads me to believe that somehow they were dropped into this world and are making the best of it.

Characters that are prominent to the story seem to be well developed. This is especially true for Emma as we tend to see the story from her eyes.

It is a YA book but I think anyone who would like fantasy books would enjoy this story. There are large amounts of death in the story, mostly of an impersonal nature, and how it affects the people in the story is a minor point of the story. If deaths are not your cup of tea, then you might not enjoy it. They are not gory, just needed to advance the story. Age range would be teenager to adult as my suggestion. I did enjoy it.

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Review: Dark Origins: Herr Graden: Book 1: A Short Story

Dark Origins: Herr Graden: Book 1: A Short Story by Bill Hargenrader
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
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I was given an advance copy of "Master of My Fate" by Bill Hargenrader, which is part of this collection.

Excellent story of a young boy who could have gone on to be someone great and helped mankind, but because of an unfortunate set of circumstances, goes on to be great, but with evil in his heart. Having read the Mars Journey series I knew where the little boy would wind up. Mr. Hargenrader still makes an excellent story of how that boy turns into the man he is now.

Any age should be able to read. Children would not really be interested in it in my opinion.

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Review: The Dean Died Over Winter Break

The Dean Died Over Winter Break by Christopher Lansdown
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
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I was quite surprised at just how entertaining this book was. The premise of the series is that of consulting detective who happen to be Franciscan Friar (not a monk). They are called upon in this book to look into a murder at a university campus. On the night of a snowstorm, in his office, and with a window left open to cover the time of death. The dean has quite a few enemies all of which have opportunity.

There guide around the Camus and town is a college secretary with a doctorate. She is the source of a lot of discussion that has to deal with philosophy. That is what makes the book interesting to me. I have never really read a book that seems to combine the two elements so we'll.

The book is safe for all ages as far as I am concerned. There is a murder of course, but the body is gone before we get there. While I enjoyed the Brothers, it seems a shame for such great character development with the secretary only to never see her again. I do hope the author has plans for her again.

Good clean mystery. Recommend it.

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

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Review: Lost Children of the Prophet

Lost Children of the Prophet by Angelique Conger
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
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I was provided a copy of the book. What follows is an honest review.

Lost Children of the Prophet is a tightly written book with good characterizations. The story is told from the point of view of several of the participants, mainly a young man and woman who do not seem to have any relationship to each other.

While the opening of the book does not provide a time or location of the story, it does become clear after a while. It takes place in the times of the early events of the Bible. This should not scare away any reader. Christians can read it knowing the expressions used. Others can read it for what it is.

Ziva, our lead female character is a strong willed teenager. She knows what she wants and more importantly what she does not want. She wants to be mated with a man she loves, not one that has to.
Nat is a slave in the employment of one of the most cruel men in the city. His master is wanting to be the head priest of a religion of a god who requires much in the way of sacrifice, mostly bloody sacrifices. Nat moves up from a pot scrubber to the assistant of the priest.

How these two people relate is the basis of the story. Each are on a path, one set out for them from time they began their lives.

The book has a satisfying ending while also leaving a hook for the next book in the series. I recommend this book for all ages. There is no sex or serious violence in it so it can be read by all without a problem.

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Review: Not So Dead: A Sam Sunborn Novel

Not So Dead: A Sam Sunborn Novel by Charles Levin
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

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I have both the audio version and the eBook version. The review is based on the eBook.

If the author is reading this I am sure he will get the pun I am about to make as he references it a few time in the book.

This book takes place 20 seconds into the future. Unlike the other dystopian books I have read, this is more of a normal future. We have our alphabet soup of government agencies. We have people who love each other, people who protect them, and people who are just people. But I get ahead of myself.

The idea of the book is that in the near future we will have one group of people who will be able to create digital copies of themselves so that after they are dead, they can interact with their love ones. This is close to a concept that many countries as well as a few terrorist organizations are working on. Sam Sunborn and partner Frank Einstein are attacked by terrorist leader the Leopard. Frank is killed in the process. He just happened to be wearing the device to digitize himself at the time so all of his information up to the point of death is available to him.

From this point they travel across the US trying to capture the Leopard with a local police detective and Rich Little from Homeland Security (no not the famous one). As they travel you get pulled into the story and start to like each one of the characters. You want to keep turning the page, or in my case, listen just a few minutes more. I listen to audiobooks while driving to and from work. When I would get to my destination many times I would sit there and at least finish the chapter I was in.

Age wise I would say older teen through adult. Killing is a big part of the story. If you are interested in suspense stories with a little science fiction, this would be a good choice for you. I would recommend it.

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Review: The Book of Mistakes: 9 Secrets to Creating a Successful Future

The Book of Mistakes: 9 Secrets to Creating a Successful Future by Skip Prichard
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

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Mr. Prichard has written a marvelous story around a list of mistakes that we commonly do that keep us from becoming a success. Why the story? Because it is easier to learn when you learn from a story. Even Jesus used parables to help teach a lesson. If it had been written as a bunch of dos and don'ts I am not sure I would have been able to keep still long enough to read it. By providing a story, we become engaged with the main character and want to see him succeed and by nature we know we can as well.

The mistakes, all 9 of them, are ones that everyone makes from time to time. To learn from them and advance is the important thing. Along with these Mistakes are rules to live by.

The main story (there is a smaller sub-story as to how the rules got to us) is of a young man who wants so much more our of life. He feels trapped in his job, cannot seem to please the boss, well you get the idea. He meets a young girl in the park by chance and accidently gets one of her papers. He wants to meet her again so he goes to the location on the flyer hoping to meet her again. He instead meets the Old Man, the first of the nine more that will come into his life at the appropriate time. The doctor, the conductor, the artist, the bookstore owner and more show up right at the time he needs to learn a new lesson in another mistake.

I used the mistakes recently with a group of men who have addiction problems. Most in the group were able to learn something from each one.

I would recommend this book for all. While I think young adults and teenagers would gain a lot from this book I am not sure that they would see the need to read it. Even at my advanced age of 64, I learned a lot from reading it. It is a book I recommend.

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