I Don’t Have Time To Read

Written by on November 3, 2010 - 4 Comments
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I was having lunch with a friend last week and telling him about how great the new Brandon Sanderson novel, Way of Kings, was and he made no comment.  Later we were talking about the economic problems in the US right now and I mentioned that Robert Reich’s new book, Aftershock, was a great book [...]

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