Blog No 129 – May 17, 2021

 FREE BOOK .. FOR YOU

Just write a quick review on Amazon

A Few Words … 1-2-3 Sentences

About my latest book, The Writings of a Lifetime.

Very easy… It takes about 3-4 Minutes

And I will send you a FREE COPY of my earlier book, The Relevance of Reason. 

If you already have a copy of my book, The Writings of a Lifetime 

1. Just Go to Amazon.com.

2.  Type in “The Writings of a Lifetime”.

3. Click on my book.

4. Scroll (way) down to “Customer Reviews”.

5. Click on “Write a customer review.”

 NOTE: You do NOT have to have purchased my book on Amazon.

You only need to be an Amazon customer;

 and

 You do NOT have to post your name.

You can “sign” your review with your name or merely as an “Amazon Customer” or some abbreviation like “John F.” or “Nancy S.”

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If you have NOT yet ordered a copy of my book, The Writings of a Lifetime,

1. Please just go a www.mackwborgen.com, click “Book Ordering.”

2. Order your hardback or paperback – your choice.

Special Sale Prices still in effect. 

Then, write a quick review, and once it is posted on Amazon,

I will forward to you

A FREE, SIGNED COPY

Of one of my prior national award-winning books

– The Relevance of Reason –

The Hard Facts and Real Data about the State of Current America.

BETTER YET – GET 2 FREE BOOKS!!! 

If BOTH you and your spouse post separate reviews, then I will forward to you

A FREE COPY OF BOTH VOLUMES I AND II OF THE RELEVANCE OF REASON.

 After you have posted your review sentence or words,

Please remember to email me your name and shipping address

Thank You So Much. 

A little explanation about book reviews and Jeff Bezos’ Algorithms: The publishing world is, for better or worse, largely owned and controlled by the algorithms of Amazon — and Amazon’s book promotion algorithms are controlled almost exclusively by the number of reviews a book has. I so much welcome reading your thoughts about my book, but Amazon’s promotion of my book focuses upon how many Customer Reviews a book has. Thus, I need “reviews” or even a few commentary/word descriptions of my book plus the star rating (1-5 stars).

And on a lighter note,

No pun intended,

 The Best Song Lyrics of Modern America- Part 18

– The Poetry of Our Time –

READING TIME: Just 10 Minutes

By Mack W. Borgen

Recipient of Eight National Book Awards.  For a “cleaner” / non-email presentation of this and my other blogs, essays, and articles, please go to my website at https://www.mackwborgen.com/

Introduction

                Song lyrics are the real poetry of Modern America. The lyrics of our favorite songs roll around in our heads for decades. Almost unconsciously, every day we honor the words of America’s songwriters who said something in that perfect, poetic, or clever way.

Here is Part 18 of my assembled list — done over the last eleven years in conjunction with my research for my last series of books, Dead Serious and Lighthearted – The Memorable Words of Modern America.  For an explanation about the background of this Best Lyrics project, see below.

How Am I Supposed to Live Without You?

Michael Bolton (1990) (B: 1953, New Haven, Connecticut)

            “And how am I supposed to carry on?

           When all that I’ve been livin’ for is gone?”

Happy

Pharrell Williams (2014) (B:1973, Virginia Beach, VA)

            “(Because I’m Happy)

Clap along if you feel like a room without a room

              (Because I’m happy)

Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth

              (Because I’m happy)

Clap along if you know what happiness is to you

              (Because I’m happy)

Clap along if you feel like that’s what you wanna do.”

Best (or at least Most Memorable) Movie Lines of All Times

“Will you just watch the hair!

You know, I work on my hair a long time and you, you hit it.”

John Travolta, as the main character on John Badham’s American “”stayin’ alive” dance movie, Saturday Night Fever. The movie was set in Brooklyn and for many Americans it single-handedly — both with its music and its dancing — came to characterize the powerful, albeit short-lived Donna Summer-Bee Gees-Studio 54 disco age of the late 1970s and early 12980s. Excerpted from Mack W. Borgen’s Dead Serious and Lighthearted – The Memorable Words of Modern America (Vol  II ) (1977-1993) (414 pp) (Released 2019).