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• Book Review (plus) The Sewing Machine by Natalie Fergie

    Love this!  “One sewing machine, two families, three secrets, four generations and millions of stitches”. This book was funded by readers through a new website:  Unbound.com…a modern version of Samuel Johnson’s idea funding publishing of his dictionary in 1755 in today’s jargon…crowd sourcing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Dictionary_of_the_English_Language Elfcroft loves sewing and posts about charity projects about a dozen […]

• Book Review: 17 Equations that Changed the World

  17 Equations that Changed the World by Ian Stewart 2012 http://www.businessinsider.com/17-equations-that-changed-the-world-2014-3 My previous book review of Cosmic Numbers, The Numbers that Define Our Universe by James D Stein 2011… declared it “fantastic.” I did not reread it immediately, because my young friend (recent Mechanical Engineering graduate) had also loaned me 17 Equations that Changed the […]

• Book Review: Cosmic Numbers by JD Stein

  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12467274-cosmic-numbers https://read.amazon.com/kp/card?asin=B005FFPMY4&preview=inline&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_z40gAb1RRJ250 Previous book reviews included a book with an author having my maiden name as well as a book with a photograph of my niece on the cover.  This recommendation is a challenge.  Stein explains the universe with numbers and why. A new friend who is also a recent Mechanical Engineering graduate and world […]

• Book Review: A Year of Biblical Womanhood

  Love this! This book has sat on my shelf for years.  This morning it captured my attention and held my attention all day.  Smart, witty, insightful, creative, knowledgable, curious, honest… Rachel’s year of Biblical Womanhood was naturally organized with monthly themes based upon scripture.  Each month Rachel had a TO DO list for herself based […]

• Book Review: A Country of Vast Designs

  http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6895978-a-country-of-vast-designs Excellent reading for a period of American history that is rarely studied. James K. Polk committed himself to being the most consequential single term US President 1845-1849 by adding Texas, California and Oregon territories; reestablishing an independent Treasury and reducing tariffs.  The territorial expansion fulfilled the national “Manifest Destiny”…the goal of being a nation […]