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It’s rare that I have the kind of spare time to read a nearly 500-page book, but I had the pleasure of doing so during this trip (thank you, awful airline WiFi!) The moment I saw that this book 1929 was going to be published, I pre-ordered it.
I pre-ordered the book below the moment I found out about it, and it arrived on my doorstep last night. I wish I could drop everything I’m doing and just gobble up this book from cover to cover, but I’m going to have to read it as time allows. I’m only a chapter in at this point and already loving it!
Seems that there’s plenty of books the folks in Florida would rather not see.
No one likes paying taxes. That’s one of the few truths which has been around for as many thousands of years as taxes have ever existed. I’m no different, and in preparation for a prospectively giant financial event, I’ve been eager to try to find any tricks, workarounds, or ideas (short of outright fraud) to help reduce the tax consequences to the Knight household. I bought every book on Amazon that was highly-rated and addressed this topic.
One of the funny aspects of meeting 5-star Sloper Xerxes in person a few days ago was that almost every topic that came up would compel me to interject, “I wrote about that in my novel!” It’s true. Solid State, at almost 600 pages, contains just about everything I believe and know, and I was reminded of this with the infographic below, since I also refer to the fact that kids today (yeah, yeah……..) don’t even know the difference between a nail and a screw.
