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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
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I was caught once I read that Hindu prayer necklaces have 108 beads, related to the powerful number 3. Our Taoist Tai Chi set has 108 moves, based on this same powerful number.

I thoroughly enjoyed Gilbert's first section, eat, set in Italy. I am now involved in the pray section and finding it reminiscent of much I have discovered during my search for meaning.

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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This book is a must read. Although obviously written by a scientist, not a novelist, it is a pleasure to read. It is disturbing in its content, and will remain with you for long after the book has found its final shelf. I have loaned it to my daughter, promised it to my brother, and then there is the rest of list of those who want to read it.

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
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I bought and started this to learn more about President Obama. I continued, because his written voice is as compelling as his oratory. I will remember it as an epic song. The structure, the story, the voice, the growth, the philosophy all make me happy to be living next door to the country this wise and mature and open man is leading.

Triangle: A Novel
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I read Triangle as if it were a murder mystery, just gulped it down, then I spent three or four days not reading, just thinking about it. That is what Katharine does in her writing, she compels you to read, and then she compels you to think, and to love the thinking too.

Every Last Cuckoo: A Novel
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I loved this book, though I probably read it much too fast. I loved the characters, the relationships, and the spare way in which it was told. My only regret was that it didn't continue for another couple of hundred pages.