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Moriah Ruth 777
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I'm reading "The Mephisto Club" By Tess Gerritsen
"Beauty for Ashes" by Joyce Meyer
"Beauty for Ashes" by Joyce Meyer
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christianmomof3
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I am currently reading
A Year of Biblical Womanhood by Rachel Held Evans
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Man Seeks God by Eric Weiner
I recently have read several books including
Reinventing Rachel by Alison Strobel
which I highly recommend
A Year of Biblical Womanhood by Rachel Held Evans
and
Man Seeks God by Eric Weiner
I recently have read several books including
Reinventing Rachel by Alison Strobel
which I highly recommend
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Thanks for the link to your book blog, which I clicked through. Think that I'll order Night of the Living Dead Christian: One Man's Ferociously Funny Quest to Discover What It Means to Be Truly Transformed .
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Yesterday, I finished reading The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways by Earl Swift. I posted this review of the book on Amazon, which I thought that I would share:
More Than a History of the Interstate System
Earl Swift's book is a tribute to the government engineers - Thomas MacDonald and Frank Turner chief among them - who moved our highways and interstates from plans into reality through rigorous testing, hard work, and asserting their influence where they could. As monumental an achievement as the building of the interstate system is (dwarfing any building project in history in its size and complexity), it didn't come without human, social, and tremendous financial costs.
Swift shows that carving an interstate path through America's cities required (in some cases) leveling homes and businesses. And protesting against planned roads (especially in urban areas) became part of the larger protest movement of the 1960s.
The building of the interstate system and its enormous financial cost was only the beginning. Maintaining it (largely financed through a gasoline tax) has proven more difficult as cars are more fuel-efficient, states are strapped for cash, and portions of the system are aging and have fallen into disrepair.
The reader will be of two minds upon finishing Swift's study. The interstate system is a tremendous technical achievement that has made possible the safe, convenient, and time-saving movement of goods, services, and people. Yet, while not the cause of suburbanization, interstates have helped to helped to accelerate this trend and with it the reduction of American culture to a generic sameness in place of originality and regional distinctiveness.
More Than a History of the Interstate System
Earl Swift's book is a tribute to the government engineers - Thomas MacDonald and Frank Turner chief among them - who moved our highways and interstates from plans into reality through rigorous testing, hard work, and asserting their influence where they could. As monumental an achievement as the building of the interstate system is (dwarfing any building project in history in its size and complexity), it didn't come without human, social, and tremendous financial costs.
Swift shows that carving an interstate path through America's cities required (in some cases) leveling homes and businesses. And protesting against planned roads (especially in urban areas) became part of the larger protest movement of the 1960s.
The building of the interstate system and its enormous financial cost was only the beginning. Maintaining it (largely financed through a gasoline tax) has proven more difficult as cars are more fuel-efficient, states are strapped for cash, and portions of the system are aging and have fallen into disrepair.
The reader will be of two minds upon finishing Swift's study. The interstate system is a tremendous technical achievement that has made possible the safe, convenient, and time-saving movement of goods, services, and people. Yet, while not the cause of suburbanization, interstates have helped to helped to accelerate this trend and with it the reduction of American culture to a generic sameness in place of originality and regional distinctiveness.
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Juan Rosario
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Energy Booster For Your Soul[/FONT][FONT="] Volume 1 by Juan Rosario[/FONT]
Energy Booster For Your Soul[/FONT][FONT="] Volume 1 by Juan Rosario[/FONT]
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NIrelandGillian
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I am about half-way through towers of midnight. Looking to finish it and the last book of the wheel of time series.
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Moriah Ruth 777
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I just finished "The Timekeeper" by Mitch Albom.
Now I'm reading, "The Instanbul Puzzle" by Lawerence O'Bryan
Now I'm reading, "The Instanbul Puzzle" by Lawerence O'Bryan
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