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Our Father We get to call God "Father" for the first time in History Who art in Heaven Where He dwells, which defines Heaven, not places God Hallowed be Thy name Praise Him simply because He is worthy Thy Kingdom come We aren't asking for it, we're simply agreeing that it will happen Thy Will be done Again, we aren't making a suggestion, just acknowledging a fact On Earth as it is in Heaven and asserting that His will is as valid on Earth as in Heaven Give us this day NOW we petition Our daily bread for what we need, not want And forgive us our trespasses and we certainly need forgiveness, received from the outstretched arms on the cross As we forgive those who trespass against us a reminder that we need to dispense what we receive Lead us not into temptation God doesn't tempt, but we can ask Him to keep our feet from paths where there is temptation But deliver us from evil You better ask for thi...

Look at that Amazon ad in the upper right corner! "Fuzzed" out the page, but otherwise I didn't edit it. I checked the news on CNN and realized that the advertisement in the upper right of the page is MY book! Organize Your Kindle Book Title in Excel ! Right on the front page! How cool is that? So I captured it for this post. Okay, I realize that CNN is targeting me and nobody else will see the ad, but ... My book on CNN - makes me smile, even if it is just an illusion. It is a great book. Just the few tricks on using Excel to Transform data are worth the price.

The Lions of Al-Rassan by G.G. Kay is a complicated tale. It doesn't have the sweeping scope of the popular Game of Thrones series but the world of Al-Rassan is comfortably familiar, based as it is on the Iberian peninsula of our own world (well, at least somewhat). The story is as compelling as Martin's series, though, and Mr. Kay's characters are as fully developed as any in the genre. That doesn't answer your main question, though. Should you buy this book? Tough question, and probably a bit hard to answer. Do you like compelling characters? This book has them. Not all the characters were three-dimensional, but the ones who should be were. By the end of the story I actually had tears in my eyes; that might have been allergies, but I don't think so. Do you like heroes? Villains? Heretics? Zealots? Oh, yeah. You can find them here and you won't be disappointed in them. How about intrigue? This book has subtle plots within plots,...

I just published my latest book: Organize Your Kindle Book Titles in Excel . It is a how-to book to load your Amazon titles in your Library into a spreadsheet. The techniques are simplified Extract and Transform methods, and there are some nice Excel tricks included. Yeah, I don't know about everyone else, but I really like my spreadsheets. I also really like my e-books, now that I've moved into the twenty-first century. (Okay, I still like IRL books. They have a nice feel and my study is full of them, piled high and double-shelved.) Amazon is my major provider of e-books, and I like how they give me the Library to manage my e-book titles. I can even add my own. I even send the books I buy in other places (like Humble Bundle) to my Amazon Library. Now I can keep track of all of them in my spreadsheet. You can too. Go take a look at the book!