Archives for the 'books' Category
Ready To Hurt More
Published on 5 Nov 2009 at 8:22 am.
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Two more waiting to receive their copies of Fit for Combat: When Fitness is a Matter of Life or Death for a total of 18 since last month.
Two got The Complete Guide to Navy SEAL Fitness. One got The Official United States Navy SEAL Workout. And one, sensibly, got the Joist Mount Chin Up Bar. Which is a [...]
Hurt More
Published on 4 Nov 2009 at 10:20 am.
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Before we get around to that “injuries” post I mentioned yesterday, here are some more ways to hurt.*
The Official United States Navy SEAL Workout by Andrew Flach. The boss passed this on at work yesterday, I did a quick flip-through. A lot of basic information about the SEALs, with easy-to-follow photo guides on how to hurt [...]
Mock As We Say!
Published on 22 Oct 2009 at 8:05 am.
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Not as we do!
Lefties resort to sexism vs. empowered woman! Again! (Caution: Don’t try this with the sitting president) Entertainment Weekly:
Leadership Secrets Of Attila The Hun
Published on 21 Oct 2009 at 11:10 pm.
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Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun, 20th Anniversary edition,* just crossed the transom at work. Remember when? Some cynics might say the cruel realities of the early ’90s and pretty much the entire the ’00s would tend to render ridiculous any cultish macho business self-help books from the ’80s. Bah. What’s a Hun care about a bunch of junk [...]
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Get Smart, Get Ready, Go!
Published on 17 Oct 2009 at 8:15 pm.
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Filed under books, everything.
What you guys are reading, month to date, the site’s Amazon bestsellers plus some of your own individual reading regimens:
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Scene Setter
Published on 17 Oct 2009 at 10:00 am.
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The wife’s book was part of the scenery in a bookstore author-signing scene in CBS’ “The Medium” last night. Fast forward to about 13:05 at the link, look for the “Tethered” poster. Or watch the whole show:
Allison begins having visions of strange symbols and she thinks it could be the after-effects from her brain surgery. But those [...]
Battle of the Books
Published on 7 Oct 2009 at 1:24 pm.
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Filed under Afghanistan, Obama, books, vietnam.
Literary quagmire! Looks like Obama’s hitting the books to figure out the best way to have his own Vietnam. Wall Street Journal:
Forward Movement’s Sunday Review Of Books
Published on 4 Oct 2009 at 10:08 am.
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Reader Michael Croy writes:
Two books I’ve read recently that I’d urge readers of this site to check out are:
Heart of a Soldier by James B Stewart.
The story of Rick Rescorla, a Britisher who emigrated to the U.S., joined the American Army and was one of heroes of the Battle of Ia Drang valley in Vietnam. He won [...]
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She’s Got It Covered
Published on 2 Oct 2009 at 10:30 am.
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Via Surber, Palin’s not-yet-released bestseller,* Going Rogue, gets a cover. Hmm. I’m getting “hot, engaging, yet visionary” off that.
* For more on how right titles are beating left titles like a rented mule: No. 1 In Books.
How To Live Forever Part 4: Fit For Combat
Published on 1 Oct 2009 at 9:27 am.
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As part of our ongoing counterintuitive life-extension series, we’re looking at freelance combat embed J.D. Johannes’ Fit for Combat: When Fitness is a Matter of Life or Death.
Great workout concept. Dustjacket notes via Amazon:
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#1 In Books
Published on 1 Oct 2009 at 7:11 am.
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Filed under books, shameless opportunism.
Going Rogue: An American Life Sarah Palin. You should see the company she’s keeping. Top right and left titles below. Right’s beating left like a rented mule. First, Amazon’s “Rogue” dustjacket blurb:
A Fuller Life
Published on 20 Sep 2009 at 12:45 pm.
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Filed under Hollywood, books.
Couldn’t be made up. Reader’s pick of the week: A Third Face: My Tale of Writing, Fighting and Filmmaking by Samuel Fuller. Booklist reports, via Amazon:
Ebullient and cantankerous, director Sam Fuller probably had more personality than anyone else in the movie business … Fuller’s earlier life was actually more colorful and exciting than his Hollywood years. At 17 [...]
A Boutique Warmongery’s Bestseller List
Published on 13 Sep 2009 at 2:42 pm.
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Filed under books, shameless opportunism.
UPDATED with some jockeying for position and some additions thanks to your response.
Most popular titles at A Boutique Warmongery to date. Turns out you’re an erudite lot:
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The Jihadi Review Of Books
Published on 9 Sep 2009 at 10:07 am.
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What’s topping the Guantanamo Bestseller List. Times of London on the three hottest reads among the Jihadi literati:
1. The Harry Potter novels
2. Don Quixote
3. Dreams from My Father
Discuss amongst yourselves. No cruel teen wizard alternate reality jokes, please. No cruel tilting-at-windmill irony jokes, please. No cruel inspirational fantasy escape literature jokes, please.
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Required Reading
Published on 2 Sep 2009 at 9:25 am.
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At the high school in la-di-da Hingham on Boston’s South Shore: “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance.” Parents complained, and the principal said their kids could read another memoir of their choice. She just never told all the other saps, who got stuck reading the vanity campaign tome. Boston Herald:
Top 10 Reasons To Buy My Wife’s Book
Published on 11 Aug 2009 at 9:48 am.
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Filed under books, husbands and wives, literary.
Tethered: A Novel, out in paperback today.
10. NYT called it a “hypnotic debut.”
9. Paris Match compared her writing to Henry James and Emily Dickinson.
8. Borders likes it too, it’s their August Spotlight: http://www.borders.com/online/store/ArticleView_mystery0809
7. Marie Clair Australia called it ”a haunting and multilayered debut novel, with a killer twist.”
6. If reading it in English doesn’t work for you, there’s [...]
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Battle Joined
Published on 27 May 2009 at 10:26 pm.
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Filed under A Right-Wing Warmonger's Boutique Bookshop, books.
Reader Bill Befort has this to say about the S.L.A. Marshall controversy:
S.L.A. Marshall deserves very little of the criticism he’s received, most of it from people who never got around to challenging him while he was alive to reply. Even his disputed claim that three-quarters of US WWII infantrymen would fail to engage in any [...]
Great Books That Made Great Flicks
Published on 27 May 2009 at 1:14 pm.
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Filed under A Right-Wing Warmonger's Boutique Bookshop, Hollywood, books.
UPDATE: Grimmy weighs in with Band of Brothers : E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest, by Stephen Ambrose, and Band of Brothers, the fine HBO series that is one of my favorites because of its fidelity in depicting real events in the lives of real people. Grimmy adds a new category. Great books [...]
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Take The High Road
Published on 13 May 2009 at 8:31 am.
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It’ll drive the low road crazy.
There’s Palin tome due out. Here’s hoping she doesn’t turn it into a big whinefest about how she was attacked by the press and purported supporters of women’s rights. We all know that already. How about something a little more stirring and insightful about how a beauty queen and mom became mayor, [...]
Crittenden’s Boutique Right-Wing Warmonger Bookshop & General Store
Published on 1 Apr 2009 at 12:28 pm.
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Filed under A Right-Wing Warmonger's Boutique Bookshop, blogs, books, literary, money, shameless opportunism, shameless self-promotion.
You’ll notice the Pajamas Media ads at top and at left have been replaced by Amazon widgets. This is because PJM has discontinued its blog advertising network, of which I was an arm’s length member.
My non-exclusive contract paid less than the usual deal, but allowed me to pursue other advertising relationships. I never did the math to figure out whether [...]
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In Other Presidential Book News
Published on 19 Mar 2009 at 10:30 am.
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Obama got a $500,000 advance on a children’s book deal days before taking office. Washington Times thinks this may be an unprecedented pre-inaugural deal. It’s an abridged version of “Dreams from My Father” for middle-school kids. Seeing how Obama apparently was focused on staying afloat while the country sank, howzabout a new title. ”Pet Goats from My Father.”
Maguire [...]
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Bush Book
Published on 19 Mar 2009 at 9:08 am.
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In the offing, won’t be a bio, that would be “far too boring” says the ex-prez. Instead, he’ll zero in on key decisions he faced in his life and his presidency. Like … you know. And, well … you know. Sounds like he’s getting to the nub of the matter, though it also sounds a little [...]
Kindle Afire
Published on 18 Mar 2009 at 10:11 am.
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Filed under Internet, books, geekism, media.
Future of newspapers? Maybe in some form. That’s the Kindle buzz. A variety of reviews follow, including one from a pal who is a reader here. No techno-geek, he’s a crusty old Vietnam vet.
Books = Gifts
Published on 28 Nov 2008 at 8:03 am.
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I did a bad bad thing. I got carried away, forgot myself, ordered two books from Amazon. D’oh! What was I thinking? I entirely forgot what the wife said. It’s Black Friday: Support your local independent bookseller. Help get me out of the dog house. Go buy a book at an independent bookstore and go tell [...]
Books = Gifts
Published on 23 Nov 2008 at 10:03 am.
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The wife’s writers group blog on the sorry state of America’s literacy infrastructure and what you can do to help.
Book of the Year
Published on 11 Feb 2008 at 9:23 am.
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Powerline awards it to Norman Podhoretz’s “World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamo-Fascism” and will deliver an anonymous donor’s $25,000 in Podhoretz’s name to Soldier’s Angels. Powerline is out-awarding the majors … Pulitzer, National Book Critics Circle … and for a good cause. I’d call it a blogosphere arrival moment, echoing Scott at Powerline who, in true [...]
Bite Him!
Published on 22 Aug 2007 at 10:37 am.
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Knuckle-dragging moderate resorts to slogan vs. snobby lib. MVDG to Schroeder, Bite Me:
