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 [...]

 
 
 
 
 
Why does this always happen to me?  I have this habit of putting lots of books that I want to read on hold at the library and then they inevitably all come in at the same time!  Now I have these three that all need to be read in the next two weeks!  Good thing [...]

Don’t let the title fool you, this story has nothing to do with fish. Artie Lange, a stand up comedian that works every weekday morning on the Howard Stern Radio Show decided to write a book about his life. Known for his raunchy humor, Lange writes about his life from birth to his current life [...]

I’ve never found a book on etymology or language in general that I haven’t loved at first sight, but this one should appeal to even those among us who aren’t completely obsessed with words.  The Word Snoop includes great explanations of why English is so complicated and unusually arbitrary-appearing in its grammar and spelling and [...]