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I forgot to post over the last couple days that I finished the books I had been reading and have now started 3 new books. According to my list, that makes 24 books read in 2010 and the 5th book finished in April. The first book I finished this week was “Keeper” by Kathi Appelt. This is the only book of the 3 that has my review posted. I read “Lighting Their Fire” by Rafe Esquith as an audiobook. Definitely recommend it to anyone who works with kids, especially parents and teachers. I finally finished “Game Change” by John Heilemann & Mark Halperin which details the inner workings of the 2008 presidential campaigns. Hopefully I will get the reviews written for the last two books shortly.

The books I am reading now are quite interesting. Two of them, “Wonders Never Cease” and “Where Fools Rush In” are Advance Reading Copies sent to me by the publishers. “South of Broad” spent 2 weeks as the #1 Fiction title on the New York Times Best Seller List late last year.

I plan on activating a new Book Queue shortly pulling existing books from my library that I have never made the time to read. It will be interesting to see if I can juggle 3 books and an audiobook at the same time but worry that if I don’t I will never get to some of the books that I have bought over the years with the best of intentions.


Title: Game Change
Author: John Heilemann
Author: Mark Halperin
Sentence: Obama has "waged the dirtiest campaign in American history." [Cindy McCain] said one day. The next, she averred about the Democratic nominee's position on a war-funding measure, "The day that Senator Obama cast a vote not to fund my son when he was serving sent a cold chill through my body."
Page: 421

Word: aver
Definition:
  • to declare to be true; state positively; affirm
  • [Law] to state or declare formally; assert; allege
   Source: YourDictionary.com


Title: Game Change
Author: John Heilemann
Author: Mark Halperin
Page: 405

Prepping for the Vice Presidential debates the authors mention many of the problems Palin was having. This little snippet was interesting in that it gives background on why she started the debates asking Biden if she could just call him ‘Joe.’

  [Palin] also continued to stumble over an unavoidable element: her rival’s name. Over and over, Palin referred to Obama’s running mate as “Senator Obiden”—or was it “O’Biden”?—and the corrections from her team weren’t sticking. finally, three staffers, practically in unison, suggested, Why don’t you just call him Joe?
  Palin stared at them quizzically and said, “But I’ve never met him.”

Title: Game Change
Author: John Heilemann
Author: Mark Halperin
Sentence: The gaffe resurrected every caricature of Biden as a victim of terminal logorrhea and instantly crippled his fund-raising.
Page: 336

Word: logorrhea
Definition:
  • pathologically incoherent, repetitious speech.
  • incessant or compulsive talkativeness; wearisome volubility.
   Source: Dictionary.com

hmmm, logo=word + rrhea=flow, discharge

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