“Wipe the pap of your mother’s breast off thy lips and give me a hatful of that dirt,’ the man with his chin on the ground said. ‘No one of us will see the sun go down this night.” ― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls A tragic tale of woe and misfortune about an American who has been ordered to blow up a bridge. Over the course of about three days we watch and listen as Robert Jordan and a band of Spanish Rebels prepare themselves for the battle to come. Given the title, it should come as…
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How Starbucks Saved My Life
I found this odd little book of a rich man who loses everything and ends up working at a Starbucks kind of fun. Who doesn’t like a My How The Mighty Have Fallen story? In this case it’s an evil Madison Avenue Ad Man who was handed a job by a friend of a friend after his graduation from an Ivy League College. After forty years of living the good life, driving fancy cars, rubbing elbows with the rich and famous, wearing two thousand dollar suits-he is fired from his high roller job. At first he isn’t too worried. But…