I haven't posted anything in a while, and since I've been doing a lot of reading this year, I decided let everyone know what I've read, and what I will be reading!
Below are books I have yet to read/finish. The top one is what I'm currently reading. I'm almost finished, and it's been one of those I have a hard time putting down! My next read will be "Moment of Truth in Iraq" by Michael Yon. Michael is a photographer, author, columnist and war correspondent, current embedded in Afghanistan. I encourage all of you to follow him on his website: http://www.michaelyon-online.com/ or on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MichaelYonFanPage?ref=nf
These are some that I have already read, and I must say I loved each and every one of them!! I'm sure everyone already knows about the Twilight series, so no need to explain there! "Columbine" by Dave Cullen is a powerful book taking you back to the horrific massacre in Littleton, Colorado. This is a book that I read in two settings! "The Good Soldiers" by David Finkel takes you to the war in Iraq. David reports from the front lines with Battalion 2-16. I will let you know that this is very graphic, as he tells it like it is. I have had people ask how I could read this when I have a son in Afghanistan. I'm not sure how I did it, I guess I have felt at peace about my son being OK. This is another book that I read in two sessions! 
I would love to hear if any of you have read any of these books, and take your requests for any "good reads"
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Cullen , who first reported on the story for the online magazine Salon, acknowledges in the book's source notes that thoughts he attributes to Klebold and Harris are conjecture gleaned from the record the pair left behind.
Jeff Kass takes a more straightforward approach in "Columbine: A True Crime Story," working backward from the events of the fateful day.
The Denver Post
Mr. Cullen insists that the killers enjoyed "far more friends than the average adolescent," with Harris in particular being a regular Casanova who "on the ultimate high school scorecard . . . outscored much of the football team." The author's footnotes do not reveal how he knows this; when I asked him about it while preparing this review, Mr. Cullen said he did not necessarily mean to imply that Harris was sexually active. But what else would such words mean?
"Eric and Dylan never had any girlfriends," the more sober Mr. Kass writes, and were "probably virgins upon death."
Wall Street Journal
Thanks gm! I'm going to now have to read "Columbine: A True Crime Story."
Thanks for the shout-out on my book, Columbine Kenny, Kelley, Kayla, Kenneth/Kenney and Kali.
FYI, the book just came out in a new Expanded Paperback Edition. Here’s what we added:
— New 12-page afterword: “Forgiveness,” with startling new revelations.
— Actual journal pages from Eric Harris & Dylan Klebold.
— Book Club Discussion Questions (also available at Oprah.com).
— Diagram of Columbine High School and environs.
— Large-print edition now available.
More info at my Columbine site.
FYI, GM is a Denver businessman who published the book he is touting.
If you take a look at my Author's Note on p. ix, you can see that his accusations are not true.
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