Clint's Updates en-US Sat, 31 May 2025 06:54:03 -0700 60 Clint's Updates 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg ReadStatus9490485401 Sat, 31 May 2025 06:54:03 -0700 <![CDATA[Clint is currently reading 'Ascent to Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt's Shadow and Remade the World']]> /review/show/7614920118 Ascent to Power by David L. Roll Clint is currently reading Ascent to Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt's Shadow and Remade the World by David L. Roll
]]> Review7614901476 Sat, 31 May 2025 06:45:18 -0700 <![CDATA[Clint added 'After Anna']]> /review/show/7614901476 After Anna by Lisa Scottoline Clint gave 4 stars to After Anna (Mass Market Paperback) by Lisa Scottoline
Thriller involving a blended family in which the wife learns the daughter she hasn’t seen since she was a baby wants to live with her. But the reunion becomes a nightmare when the husband is first accused of sexually harassing, and then murdering, the daughter. But all is not what it seems to be. Wants to make you keep reading, though some scenarios toward the end to make you stretch your imagination to accept. ]]> GiveawayRequest716745809 Tue, 27 May 2025 10:50:21 -0700 <![CDATA[<a href="/user/show/8161103-clint">Clint</a> entered a giveaway]]> /giveaway/show/413405-the-academy The Academy by Elin Hilderbrand
15 copies available, ends on June 16, 2025
Enter to win ]]> Review7593598565 Fri, 23 May 2025 13:04:52 -0700 <![CDATA[Clint added 'In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash']]> /review/show/7593598565 In God We Trust by Jean Shepherd Clint gave 3 stars to In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash (Audible Audio) by Jean Shepherd
A collection of the author’s stories, including one that produced the fabled movie “A Christmas Story,� as he might have recounted them to a childhood friend who is now a bartender. Though many are warm and nostalgic, they’re set in the 1930s and so may be difficult to relate to for today’s reader. ]]> Review7539466241 Fri, 23 May 2025 12:57:11 -0700 <![CDATA[Clint added '[Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America] [By: Shirley, Craig] [January, 2011]']]> /review/show/7539466241 [Rendezvous with Destiny by Craig Shirley Clint gave 5 stars to [Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America] [By: Shirley, Craig] [January, 2011] (Paperback) by Craig Shirley
Heaviest, physically most uncomfortable book I’ve ever read but worth it for a blow-by-blow telling of the 1980 Reagan-Carter presidential election that changed the country. The author, who worked in the campaign and later for the Republican Party, is partial to the 40th president, but he says the facts are partial to him, which is true. It’s doubtful anyone will ever write a more exhaustive but accurate book on the campaign. Worth reading (if you can hold the book). ]]> Review7575985714 Sat, 17 May 2025 04:51:11 -0700 <![CDATA[Clint added 'Cher: The Memoir, Part One']]> /review/show/7575985714 Cher by Cher Clint gave 4 stars to Cher: The Memoir, Part One (Audible Audio) by Cher
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I have researched addictions, interviewed addicts and been involved in theater around the subject of addictions, but I don’t believe I ever got as clear a picture of one as in Matthew Perry’s “Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing.� Though the book is a memoir that covers his television life, the main thrust is about his “terrible thing,� his addictions to alcohol, drugs and tobacco. His account brings to life the desperation to feed his habits, his understanding of what they’re doing to his life but helplessness to stop it, and the countless rehab tries. It is angry and searing and painful, and made all the more so because, despite the book ending with him being clean and sober, the addictions would eventually cost him his life. ]]> ReadStatus9382054983 Sat, 03 May 2025 08:59:12 -0700 <![CDATA[Clint is currently reading '[Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America] [By: Shirley, Craig] [January, 2011]']]> /review/show/7539466241 [Rendezvous with Destiny by Craig Shirley Clint is currently reading [Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America] [By: Shirley, Craig] [January, 2011] by Craig Shirley
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