Saturday, September 5, 2009
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Welcome!
Welcome to our little corner of the 'net. We've both moved around a lot over the last few years and we've made a lot of friends along the way. We hope this blog will improve our ability to stay in touch with all of you. Let us know if you have any suggestions about how to improve the content you see on these pages. Enjoy! - Alison and Michael
Michael's Current Diversions
- Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- The Irony of American History, Reinhold Niebuhr
- Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment, George Leonard
- The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
- English Essays: From Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay. Harvard Classics, 1937 (****)
- The Gathering Storm, Part I of Winston Churchill's History of WWII (****)
Next in Michael's Queue
- Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
- Their Finest Hour, Part II of Winston Churchill's History of WWII
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, by Carol Dweck
- Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras
Alison's Recent Reads
- People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks
- Cradle & Crucible: History and Faith in the Middle East
- Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi
- The World Without Us, Alan Weisman
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, Carol Dweck
- The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Kim Edwards
- What Terrorists Want:Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat, Louise Richardson
Next in Alison's Queue
Interesting Articles
Disclaimer: We provide links to lots of other websites from our blog . Providing links to other websites or blogs doesn't necessarily mean that we completely support (or are fully aware of) the ideas and opinions expressed on these other sites. However, we fully support the marketplace of ideas and encourage discussion and dissent on this blog and elsewhere. - Alison and Michael