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If you haven’t already, meet the Honey Badger, voiced by Randall. Dubbed the “Crazy Nastyass”, this fearless creature fights all kinds of wild life in order to eat and take whatever it wants, and basically takes no shit off anyone and doesn’t give a shit about anything. In this book, he basically gives us the lowdown on other ugly, [...]
I loved reading about Kathleen Flinn‘s teaching adventures in The Kitchen Counter Cooking School. I can’t recommend it highly enough for those who want, very simply, to master their kitchen domain. Flinn had the idea to start the “school” after she sneakily followed a mother and daughter around the supermarket pondering their choices, which all seemed [...]
When I accepted Recipes For Life: My Memories by Linda Evans for review, I had no idea just how much I would love this book. Prior to reading it, I didn’t know that much about Linda Evans. I knew vaguely that she had been in a television soap opera (now in reruns on Soapnet) called Dynasty, [...]
From the moment I started reading Nathaniel Philbrick’s latest book, Why Read Moby-Dick?, I felt as if I had met Herman Melville’s biggest fan and he proceeded to whisper in my ear for one hundred-twenty-seven exciting and thought-provoking pages. There were fights with whales, comparisons to current and present political situations, analysis of Melvilles’s letters [...]
The Psychopath Test, by Jon Ronson starts off with the curious story of Ronson, an investigative reporter, being called upon to look into the mysterious circulation of an odd manuscript and an equally odd note among leading neurologists around the world. He quickly gets to the bottom of what must surely be a hoax, but [...]
Clark Rockefeller is the strange, complex and ultimately enigmatic persona profiled and exposed in Mark Seal’s The Man In The Rockefeller Suit. In a definite case of truth being stranger than most things fiction could ever have dreamed up, Rockefeller is not a real Rockefeller, but Christian Gerhartsreiter, a German immigrant who entered the United [...]
When Jean-Louis Fournier’s first child was born disabled, it was unexpected, but neither he nor his wife could fathom that a second child could be similarly affected. They are astonished when after a few years their second child exhibits the same symptoms as his brother. The Fourniers go on to have a third child, a [...]
The title of Living Richly: Seizing the Potential of Inherited Wealth doubles as the book’s summary as well. Myra Salzer is a wealth coach for a very particular group of people. She deals solely with clients who have inherited a minimum of twenty five million dollars or more. She does this because at that level, [...]
For the most part I neglected non-fiction in 2010, but I did spend time reading some about Rosa Parks in At The Dark End of the Street, by Danielle McGuire. Rosa Parks’ life was surprisingly more radical and awesome (to me anyway), than the life that has been historically accorded to her. It has me [...]
American Literature has such a variety of names from different backgrounds that a lot of the time it is hard for me to know what’s what and where the author was born just by seeing their name on a book. I am also not that diligent about looking up that type of information. Sometimes curiosity [...]
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