I didn’t review as many books in 2020 as in past years so I narrowed my annual year end list of the best books I have read to 3. Click on the title links to read my original review of each book: Number 3: What is the Bible by Rob Bell Bell delves deep into the original language many parts …

“You missed it” Rob Bell thought he knew the Bible. He had studied in seminary and relished preaching on topics from the Holy Book. Then one Sunday, after giving a sermon, a man walked up to him and said the words above – “you missed it”. “What? I asked him. What did I miss?” Rob Bell relates. “(the man) then …

I was never one for setting goals, even though I was encouraged to do so in building our travel business. Our travel business turned out just fine, thank you, without goal setting. I found a book that resonated with this strategy. “If you want better results, then forget about setting goals. Focus on your system instead,” writes James Clear in …

19 years ago the September 11th tragedy shocked the World. I have watched several documentaries on what happened that day but nothing compares to the detail presented in Garrett Graff’s book The Only Plane in the Sky: The Oral History of 9/11 The book is entirely made up of quotes from what people experienced on 9/11. From victims in the …

After Franklin Roosevelt passed away the next President, VP Harry Truman, was told a secret. There’s “an immense project that was underway”, Secretary of War Henry Stimson told Truman, to develop “a new explosive of almost unbelievable destructive power.” Author Chris Wallace writes in his book Countdown 1945, “The project was so secret—and so potentially dangerous—only a handful of people …

Whew! That was my reaction to reading Eric Schlosser’s detailed account of the USA’s nuclear weapons program over the years in his book “Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety” Schlosser tells of many near catastrophes where accidental nuclear explosions were narrowly avoided. Airplane crashes with fully armed nuclear bombs, accidents in missile silos, …

“I have never heard or seen such outrageous, vicious, distorted reporting in twenty-seven years of public life.” – The President “I believe the time has come to bring that investigation and the other investigations of this matter to an end. ‘One year of xxx is enough!’” – The President “My research assistant had canvassed prominent constitutional scholars, and the consensus …

I started reviewing books again on this blog in 2019 and there were some good ones! Here’s a list of my top 5 that I read in 2019 (some published before 2019). Each has a link to my original review: Number Five: Target 100: the World’s Simplest Weight-Loss Program in 6 Easy Steps I really like author Liz Josefsberg’s approach …