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If you're looking for a Christmas Romance audiobook, I've narrated a great one!
Lily is a single mom starting over in a small mountain town. Last Christmas, her brother's hot best friend Beckett kissed her under the mistletoe. This year she's newly arrived, newly divorced, and hoping for a second chance in more ways than one.
Lily is a great character: she is a woman who knows what she wants and is not afraid to go after it. And Becket is the hunky mountain man we all deserve: caring, together, and more than ready to appreciate a good woman who comes his way.
Taken by the Mountain Man by Kelsie Calloway is one of my top three best selling romance audiobooks of the year. At just 42 minutes long, you can listen in a single session!
If you like a story with a big heart and sizzling sex scenes, this one's for you. Go on and cozy up with a nice hot mountain man romance!
The books is available for Kindle and Kindle Unlimited from Amazon, and the audiobook is available from Amazon, Audible and Apple Books.
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Finished reading Foundryside
Finished reading The Shepherd’s House
Rated Doctor Who: Free Speech 10/10
This one of my favorite Spragg contest shorts yet. Well worth a listen.
If one ever needed further confirmation that smart people don't necessarily make outstanding mates, Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love is a great starting point. Andrew Shaffer has assembled the lacking love stories of 37 philosophers, mostly male, whose words may have stood the test of time, but their ability to personally connect did not. There's not really a lot to analyze here — If you dabble in psychology or philosophy, or if you want to send a funny gift to a student of these subjects, this is a decent book. It's a quick read and the anti-chinstroke to other books on the subject of the historically notable in love.<br><br>(My full review can be found on <a href="http://glorifiedloveletters.blogspot.com/2011/06/great-philosophers-who-failed-at-love.html">Glorified Love Letters</a>.)
Finished reading These Memories Do Not Belong to Us
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Finished reading The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport
Finished reading Machine
Rated Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles 8/10
I read Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles right after Kristopher Jansma's The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards, and they complimented each other to the point of Miracles almost reading like a sequel to Leopards. Both deal with unreliable male protagonists speaking to the reader, men who need some enlightening on matters of women and healthy relationships.<br><br>I preferred Jansma's book, but Miracles is still quite good. Currie's self-named character somewhat accidentally fakes his own death in the Caribbean, and as a result, his novel becomes a bestseller. He misses the woman with whom he'd lived “pre-death,” and eventually coming “back to life” makes the public unhappy with upending their Lost Genius fiction they'd constructed in his absence. We all have stories we tell ourselves, and facing their inaccuracies is startling.<br><br>(More at <a href="http://glorifiedloveletters.blogspot.com/2013/11/for-your-reading-pleasure-3-books-on.html">Glorified Love Letters</a>.)
Rated This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking 6/10
Editor John Brockman posed the question "What scientific concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit?" Leading scientists, psychologists, writers and general advanced "thinkers" responded with the short answers that make up <i>This Will Make You Smarter</i>, and the result is indeed thought-provoking, but not always interesting.<br><br>However, the most interesting portion, to me, is that this was published before the self-plagiarizing/Bob Dylan quote fabrication scandal of Jonah Lehrer. Lehrer's contribution to this book, "Control Your Spotlight," has to do with a study conducted with small children. The children were in a room with a bowl of marshmallows and told that if they could wait a short period of time alone, they could have more than one to eat. The study looked at impulse control, mainly, and the children who were better able to resist taking a marshmallow early were the ones who put their attention elsewhere. Some kids sang songs, others covered their eyes, etc. But what I find rather amusing is this bit from Lehrer:<br><br><blockquote>Willpower is really about properly diverting the spotlight of attention, learning how to control that short list of thoughts in working memory. It's about realizing that if we're thinking about the marshmallow, we're going to eat it, which is why we need to look away.</blockquote><br><br>So, am I to understand that he gambled on the working memory of Bob Dylan fans, and hoped that they were looking at other things when he made up those quotes? That's a pretty big gamble, that spotlight "control." He didn't have the smarts suggested in David G. Myers' contributing essay, "Self-Serving Bias:"<br><br><blockquote>Being mindful of self-serving bias beckons us not to false modesty but to a humility that affirms our genuine talents and virtues and likewise those of others.</blockquote><br><br>In other words, work with what you've got, and work it well. Don't be a self-serving jerk who tries to make his book better with fake quotes. Also, never underestimate a music super-fan’s skills.<br><br>(My full review appears at <a href="http://glorifiedloveletters.blogspot.com/2012/09/this-will-make-you-smarter-edited-by.html">Glorified Love Letters</a>.)<br>
Rated The Book of Spice: From Anise to Zedoary 8/10
<div>Though some of the factual asides — those little bits of irresistibly mentionable research that don't quite fit the brief — could maybe have been narrowed, this was still an informative, interesting read. Some of the spices, I'd never heard of, and discussion of others made me want to cook. (I have a bit of a problem when it comes to buying all sorts of herbs and spices.) If a person wanted to do further research, there is also a fairly comprehensive notes section, as well as a small section on different spice blends.</div>
Finished reading The Folded Sky
Rated Spread Me 8/10
Pretty weird and well written. It's short which works well for the story as it didn't need to be longer. I feel like some people might like this a lot more than I did.
Rated Zen and the Art of Archery 10/10
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