Adventures With Alex

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  • BR11) 10 1/2 Things No Commencement Speaker Has Ever Said Book Reviews

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    10 1/2 Things No Commencement Speaker Has Ever Said by Charles Wheelan.  4/5 rating.  Book #82 of 2019. Read June 13, 2019. A short and fun little book that is based on Charles’s Commencement weekend speech to Dartmouth in 2011. As I finished this on my long roadtrip, I especially liked his advice to “Take…

  • BR9) Infidel Book Review

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    Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali.  3/5 rating.  Book #80 read in 2019. Read May 30, 2019. This is Ayaan’s story of her early life. It tells about her upbringing in various African countries as a Muslim refugee. She talks about her eventual disenchantment with Islam for many reasons but mostly focusing around the subjugation of…