With Four Books Read in December I Tie My 2015 Total Books Read
So I haven’t posted anything for a week, but that doesn’t mean that things haven’t been happening. Hey, it’s Christmas time there’s always lots to do! Most of it has been things around the house, but there’s also work at Target and babysitting Zoe. Then again maybe it’s just that I have been lazy about writing! The one thing that I have done is reading. These are the four books that I have finished so far this month
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December Reads
Book 48 – Flip – Kevin Cook – I really enjoyed this book about one of the top black comedians of the 60s and 70s. The book opened my eyes to many aspects of Wilson’s life. The of the aspects of his life that I knew little about was his early life and his drug use before and during his famous TV show. The book did bring back a lot of memories and smiles though. It has been many years since I.thought about :”Chris gonna’ find Ray Charles! and The Devil Made Me Do it!
Book 49 – The Nordic Theory of Everything – Anu Partanen – Another enjoyable an informative book. I thought that this was an honest analysis of what the Finnish and Nordic political system does right and sometimes wrong. At a time when it looks like our government is hellbent on destroying our healthcare system and our safety nets, it was nice to dream about what it must be like to have health care you don’t have to worry about bankrupting you , free daycare and one of the top educational systems in the world.One of the most interesting things to me was that Nordics don’t mind paying taxes because they know what they are getting back for their money!!
Another thought is that we don’t need a bigger government but a smarter government!
Book 50 – The Revenge of Geography – Robert D, Kaplan – I must confess that I read the majority of this book a while ago.The book does provide a good analysis of the impact of geography on the world’s geopolitics From Goodreads:
In The Revenge of Geography, Kaplan builds on the insights, discoveries, and theories of great geographers and geopolitical thinkers of the near and distant past to look back at critical pivots in history and then to look forward at the evolving global scene. Kaplan traces the history of the world’s hot spots by examining their climates, topographies, and proximities to other embattled lands. The Russian steppe’s pitiless climate and limited vegetation bred hard and cruel men bent on destruction, for example, while Nazi geopoliticians distorted geopolitics entirely, calculating that space on the globe used by the British Empire and the Soviet Union could be swallowed by a greater German homeland. Read More
Book 51 – Blind Sight – Carol O’Connell – This is book 12 in the Kathleen Mallory series from Carol O’Connell. Several years ago I
stopped this series after book 6 Crime School. for whatever reason I couldn’t get into Book 7 Dead Famous. After a few years I decided to jump back into the series at book number 10 – The Chalk Girl. Since then I have kept up with the series. I have read both the following books It Happens in the Dark and the current release Blind Sight
My rather unrealistic goal was to read 60 books this year. Last year my goal was 50 books and I surpassed that goal and read 51 books. So I have already matched total number of books I read last year with almost two weeks left in the year! I know I am not going to get to 60 books. But every book I do finish beats a pretty good 2015!!
Oh and I am still working on my Reading Challenges for next year, I will write about them soon!