tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87791662394877254572012-01-06T18:28:41.783-05:00A blog devoted to reading, as in what I am reading, what I read, what I want to read. (Note: this was a blog I set up for the Back Mountain Readers Bookclub that I started in 2010, but after 10 months of trying to get that off the ground with no success I put it to "rest")Back Mountain Readershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08089565562215055201noreply@blogger.comBlogger61100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779166239487725457.post-69599674127140745042011-11-06T07:34:00.001-05:002011-11-06T07:35:39.076-05:00<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0849948363/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link"><img alt="Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back, Deluxe Edition" border="0" height="300" id="prodImage" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4170CMUkvXL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg" width="300" /></a>Read this highly talked about book, it was a fast, &nbsp;interesting read with some&nbsp;thought provoking ideas.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8779166239487725457-6959967412714074504?l=backmountainreadersblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Back Mountain Readershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08089565562215055201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779166239487725457.post-53857487456317272562011-11-06T07:31:00.000-05:002011-11-06T07:31:22.616-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1400064163/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link"><img alt="Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption" border="0" height="300" id="prodImage" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517gOImApNL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">What a story - I had never heard of Louis Zamperini, now I will never forget him and his amazing life.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1565123166/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link"><img alt="If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name: News from Small-Town Alaska" border="0" height="300" id="prodImage" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519RNH3E8SL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">This woman is living an amazing life and the stories she shared in this book were great.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/B005Q5PJLY/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link"><img alt="Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs: A True Story of Bad Breaks and Small Miracles" border="0" height="300" id="prodImage" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xMz21qpZL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Just ordered another book by Heather Lende just need to load it onto my Kindle it looks like a nother winner.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8779166239487725457-5385748745631727256?l=backmountainreadersblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Back Mountain Readershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08089565562215055201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779166239487725457.post-17900107202793899352011-05-30T09:04:00.000-04:002011-05-30T09:04:52.812-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IO5VTZ3LhJ8/TeOVbgVwQbI/AAAAAAAAAEc/vdaH_OTpXfA/s1600/511TC4CXPRL__BO2%252C204%252C203%252C200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click%252CTopRight%252C35%252C-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IO5VTZ3LhJ8/TeOVbgVwQbI/AAAAAAAAAEc/vdaH_OTpXfA/s1600/511TC4CXPRL__BO2%252C204%252C203%252C200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click%252CTopRight%252C35%252C-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg" t8="true" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In reading this book you can take a armchair hike on the AT.&nbsp; It is the best book on the AT experience that I have read to date.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8779166239487725457-1790010720279389935?l=backmountainreadersblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Back Mountain Readershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08089565562215055201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779166239487725457.post-81866042429201512642011-01-30T09:37:00.002-05:002011-01-30T09:37:55.298-05:00<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/books/review/Genzlinger-t.html?ref=books">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/books/review/Genzlinger-t.html?ref=books</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8779166239487725457-8186604242920151264?l=backmountainreadersblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Back Mountain Readershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08089565562215055201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779166239487725457.post-47753221099849063452011-01-10T18:04:00.000-05:002011-01-10T18:04:49.568-05:00<img src="http://img2.imagesbn.com/images/13690000/13697837.JPG" /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8779166239487725457-4775322109984906345?l=backmountainreadersblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Back Mountain Readershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08089565562215055201noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779166239487725457.post-62686159389027365132011-01-08T19:12:00.002-05:002011-01-08T19:26:49.291-05:00<a href="http://gawande.com/">http://gawande.com/</a><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">I read "Complications" and "Better"&nbsp; they were both very good.&nbsp; Now I want to read "The Checklist Manifesto"</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8779166239487725457-6268615938902736513?l=backmountainreadersblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Back Mountain Readershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08089565562215055201noreply@blogger.com0