*****= An all-time favorite
**** =
Outstanding
***
= Above average
**
= Enjoyable
*
= Good, with reservations
***No Ordinary Lives
by David Johnson
Reviewed August 1, 2002.
Warner Books, 2002. 241 pages.
This is a nice book. I like the title, because I do believe
that there are no ordinary lives and that everyone has a story.
Years ago, reporter David Johnson got the idea of choosing random
phone numbers, and reporting the story of whomever answered the phone.
The idea worked.
This book tells the story of his column, many of the stories
of people he met, and how those stories affected his own life as he
married a second time, bought a farm, and started a family.
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Reviews by Sondra Eklund