Roman Keselman Keselman itibaren 7435 PN Okkenbroek, Hollanda itibaren 7435 PN Okkenbroek, Hollanda

The best 1 volume biography of FDR. I would recommend it to anyone looking for an understanding of one of America's best Presidents

Love the tender simplicity of a girl patiently earning the trust of a stray cat as her own very complicated life is rebuilt and new relationships form.

Fave book of all time

The best book I've ever read. Somehow nearly 1,200 pages wasn't enough. I really wish I could give it a sixth star. Taken too literally, one will walk away with the sense that Rand believes only the genius who puts his ingenuity into action should survive. That only the leaders of capitalism are worth anything. But I urge the reader to use caution about viewing this solely in the context of rich vs poor, intellect vs average and the selfish vs the benevolent. If one comes away with that view and tends to favor the latter in each, s/he has missed the novel's deeper meaning. It's really about developing a moral code - not one of personal convenience but of conviction - and following it at all times. It's that very code that most people are missing, as they adapt their views to the events around them and their own circumstances, fitting their code to their life and not the other way around. As Rand would put it, they've flipped the cause and effect. It's also about economics. It holds its belief in capitalism, just not the modern, bastardized form into which capitalism has morphed. The capitalism Rand upholds is a much more primitive version, one in which real production of an economic good or service was required for consumption. Unlike today, where it's all too easy to enhance personal consumption without any real production. So long as one can come by the means of exchange, one can consume. But if all were to consume without any production, no consumption could take place (again it's the proper chronology of cause and effect). Rand asks us all to think about what it is we produce and whether we produce enough to justify our consumption. If our production falls short and we therefore rely on the production of others, we are the very looters which she chastises. Most of us are just that.

Fun fantasy along the lines of Goose Girl and Ella Enchanted.