While I’ve always thought it would be fun to design and conduct sociological experiments, it never occurred to me to undergo them myself. Each chapter of this book describes the process and results of the author’s assorted undertakings, including outsourcing his personal tasks to India, impersonating an absent Australian actor on the red carpet at [...]

“The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game” is the book by Michael Lewis that is the basis for the surprise smash hit film starring Sandra Bullock. At the center of both the book and the movie is the incredible true story of Michael Oher and his climb from desperate poverty, neglect and dysfunction to wealth, [...]

Dominick Dunne, crime journalist for Vanity Fair for nearly 25 years, passed away in August at the ripe old age of 83. I’ve been reading Vanity Fair for the last couple of years and his column was always my favorite, so, in honor of his passing, I decided to pick up this “best of” collection [...]

I loved Firoozeh’s first book, Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America, so it made perfect sense to purchase her follow-up publication. If you don’t like mass market fiction but want something light to read while traveling or at the beach, I’d definitely recommend this one. The short autobiographical chapters can [...]

I have been looking for different foods to bring for lunch. I found a few recipes that I am going to try cooking from a book called, Vegan Lunch Box Around the World by Jennifer McCann (Da Capo Lifelong Books - August 2009). The first dish I cooked was a from Tanzania, Black-Eyed Peas and [...]

Bret hart is a retired pro-wrestler with many championships on his resume. Most people wouldn’t know him, unless they watched wrestling and probably wouldn’t read his autobiography; those people don’t know what they are missing. As you read the book you learn about where he came from and how he has changed as he has [...]

The temperature outside 30 degrees with a windchill of 7. It is the perfect weather for curling up with a good book. I want to plan an escape from all the cold. Here is the book that can help me to do just that.

Laughter is a powerful thing, few people have that special talent to create laughter anytime they want.  Steve Harvey, very successful comedian,  has written a book about men for women, finally a book to help women understand the question they always ask, what is he thinking? A problem that has been around since the start [...]

I found this book While I was waiting in line to check out at the library. Once I started reading it, I couldn’t put it down. It was first published in 2003. This is the 2009 updated edition. It has some good ideas on getting the most for your money. If anyone out there likes [...]

Since I’ve been blogging about tons of children’s books lately, I thought I’d mix it up a little and tell you what I thought of this lengthy, mostly serious, near-encyclopedic history of science. I’ve read just about every book Bill Bryson has written, but it wasn’t until I listened to this one that I was [...]