Author: weezel32
Book Nook: Thanks A Thousand, by A.J. Jacobs
Blurb: The idea was deceptively simple: New York Times bestselling author A.J. Jacobs decided to thank every single person involved in producing his morning cup of coffee. The resulting journey takes him across the globe, transforms his life, and reveals secrets about how gratitude can make us all happier, more generous, and more connected. Author A.J. Jacobs discovers that his coffee—and every other item in our lives—would not be possible without hundreds of people we usually take for granted: farmers, chemists, artists, presidents, truckers, mechanics, biologists, miners, smugglers, and goatherds. By thanking these people face to face, Jacobs finds some much-needed brightness … Continue reading Book Nook: Thanks A Thousand, by A.J. Jacobs
Book Nook: Impact Winter Book One, by Travis Beacham
Blurb “They came after the impact and the firestorms. When the sun went dark. Like they’d been there all along. Just waiting.” From executive producers of The Walking Dead and Travis Beacham, the writer of Pacific Rim, comes a heart-stopping Audible Original featuring a brilliant British cast. It’s the near future and seven years since a comet hit the earth and blotted out the sun. The world is a dark, frozen landscape. And then, beastly creatures emerge and take over. Can they really be vampires? In the British countryside, a band of survivors forms a resistance in the fallout shelter of a medieval … Continue reading Book Nook: Impact Winter Book One, by Travis Beacham
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Fab Five Friday–March 22, 2024
Here are this week’s five songs worth listening to. Anders Osborne–Bewildered Nostalgia is undefeated. Drew and Ellie Holcomb–We Can Go Dancing Grab your loved one and dance in the kitchen. Lainey Wilson–Country’s Cool Again Lainey has really blown up over … Continue reading Fab Five Friday–March 22, 2024
The KenPom Criteria Qualifiers For National Champions
3/25/24 Pre-Sweet 16 Checkin Checking in after the opening weekend, and all six of the identified teams have survived, and five of the six are favorites in the Sweet 16 round. If you do the math on those chances to win, that adds up to a 76.5 percent chance the system identified the champion pre-tournament. I have been doing moneyline rollovers on all six of these teams, instead of taking futures bets on any of them. I’ll likely continue to do that for all six at least one more round. 3/18/24 A few weeks back, I wrote about the teams … Continue reading The KenPom Criteria Qualifiers For National Champions
Mules Basketball vs. Flora, 2-21-24
Regional Semifinal, season finale. Continue reading Mules Basketball vs. Flora, 2-21-24
Book Nook: The Covenant of Water, by Abraham Verghese
Blurb: The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of the major word-of-mouth bestseller Cutting for Stone, which has sold over 1.5 million copies in the United States alone and remained on the New York Times bestseller list for over two years. Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning—and in Kerala, water is everywhere. At the turn of the century, a twelve-year-old girl from Kerala’s long-existing … Continue reading Book Nook: The Covenant of Water, by Abraham Verghese
Mules Basketball vs. Carmi, 2-17-24
