[Book] This Fight Is Our Fight by Elizabeth Warren

Book Cover Elizabeth Warren is running for president, and pretty much every candidate writes a book prior to running.   It's a good way to let folks know where they are coming from, and do so in a long format, unfiltered by the journalist's desire to pare things down into sound-bites. This book is subtitled: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class.  This is a book about politics, personal history of the author and the economic history of the country along with ample explanation of why the past matters today....

4 Sep 2019 · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink

[Book] How To Be A Snow Queen by Mari Schuh

Book cover This is a children's (6 to 10 years) book about leadership, the subtitle is Leadership With Elsa.  While recapping the story of Disney's Frozen, it is a combination of pointing out leadership traits within the story, and pop-up video style call-outs to movie related facts.  Because this is an educational title riding on top of the fictional story of Frozen, it is categorized as a non-fiction book....

28 Aug 2019 · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink

[Book] The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Book cover This is a book that I've known about for most of my life, and Tom Sawyer is a character that I've heard referenced through my entire life.  A fairly large area of Disney's Magic Kingdom is dedicated to this book; one of my favorite places to hang out for an hour.  Yet, nothing of the story was spoiled for me. First and foremost, the "...

21 Aug 2019 · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink

[Book] Defy the Fates by Claudia Gray

Book Cover This is the final book of the Defy the Stars trilogy (start with reviews of book one and two).  There are probably mild spoilers for the first and one major spoiler for the second book in this review of book three, so please proceed with that in mind. As I wrote in my review of Defy the Worlds, I do not recommend diving into this book without reading the previous two first....

14 Aug 2019 · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink