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I got the two books I ordered from Barnes & Noble yesterday! I now have new books to savor, digest and thoroughly consume! Then the appropriate reviews will appear here for everyone’s perusal! I also have a book I got from someone on BookMooch, ‘The Beauty Myth‘ by Naomi Wolf. That review should appear here very soon [...] Read more » By Paolo Bacigalupi It has been way too long. I have the book ‘Against all Enemies’ that I have to write a review on and ‘The Beauty Myth’ that I am in the middle of reading. I received a birthday gift of one $25 Barnes & Noble gift card. I look forward to picking up the [...] Read more » One of the lastest books I have read was “A Contract With the Earth – Ten Commitments you can Make to Protect the Environment Now” by Newt Gingrich and Terry L. Maple. Newt Gringrich was the Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999 and was an Environmental Studies Professor. Terry L. Maple [...] Read more » Cover via Amazon Carl Honore was a true member of the Cult of Speed not too long ago. Then one day, he was waiting to catch a flight and saw an advertisement for ‘The One-Minute Bedtime Story’. The ad had quite a different effect, one the creators never anticipated. Carl did not buy the books, instead [...] Read more » Image by San Jose Library via Flickr I recently finished reading ‘The Read Aloud Handbook‘ by Jim Trelease. I am extremely happy that I picked up this book. This book was not only an excellent read, but it was also very informative. The book is essentially divided in two, where the first half presents mounds and [...] Read more » ‘The Bell Jar’ is a recent classic written by the accomplished writer Sylvia Plath. This post is not so much a review of the book, but my feelings when I read it. One does not review classics, one absorbs them and becomes enriched by them. It was hard for me to imagine myself completely in Esther’s [...] Read more » ‘Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking’ is a rather interesting book on how people often behave when faced with a decision without much time to think. The author, Malcolm Gladwell, persues different studies and situations to back up his theory of how people process information and make decisions. When I first read this book I [...] Read more » It has come to my attention that there are a lot more books that I have read that I have failed to review in my own blog. There will now be a short wave of reviews, most of the books I have read a short while ago. In the future I will try to write [...] Read more » I finally found my treasured gift of ‘Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell’ and cracked open the last book. It took me, including interruptions from things like work and my son, about 3 days to read it. It was over way too soon. I loved this last part! It was chock full of intrigue, madness, magical [...] Read more » After reading this post, I have a new favorite HP section. By Far. I look forward to reading this book!Read the Article at HuffingtonPost addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwolfsongs.com%2F2009%2F10%2Fannouncing-my-first-pick-for-the-huffpost-book-club-in-praise-of-slowness%2F’; |
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