Archive for February, 2009
Cancer on $5 a Day by Robert Schimmel
February 27th, 2009Title: Cancer on $5 a Day Author: Robert Schimmel Publisher: Da Capo Press (2008) Just based on the title, this doesn’t seem like a very uplifting book. Generally things related to cancer aren’t quite good things. But this book is different, mostly because it was written by Robert Schimmel…who is a stand up comedian. If [...]
Book News: Kindle 2 Is Here
February 25th, 2009On Monday Amazon started shipping out the Kindle 2, which is obviosuly the second version of their book reader. Of course, if you download books to read you are a total loser and probably have very few facebook friends. (At least according to “Trust Me” on TNT). From Information Week: The success of the first [...]
Confessions of a Former Child by Daniel J. Tomasulo
February 24th, 2009Title: Confessions of a Former Child Author: Daniel J. Tomasulo Publisher: Graywolf Press (2008) This book drew me in because I liked the title and I am interested in psychology. I always thought it would been neat to go into that field…but then I learned psychology would have required much more schooling than I was [...]
Who has shaped history?
February 22nd, 2009Jennifer at Literate Housewife (with a new and improved design!) linked to someone else who asked this question: What event in history or historical person do you feel had the greatest influence on the modern world and why? Interesting question! The obvious answer is whoever first came up with string cheese. Google doesn’t know who [...]
Book News: This is how to write
February 18th, 2009This is being tagged under Book News…but that’s kind of a stretch. I just wanted to point out some fantastic writing. This happens to be some fantastic sports writing (which I especially like). The writer is Michael Lewis, who is famous for Moneyball, The Blind Side, and a number of other awesome books. This article [...]
Faster, Better, Stronger by Eric Heiden
February 10th, 2009Title: Faster, Better, Stronger Author: Eric Heiden, M.D. Publisher: Collins Living (2008) Did you know that Eric Heiden is an M.D.? I didn’t For some reason I was totally shocked that I didn’t know…as if I have a store of knowledge about Eric Heiden. Actually, the extent of my knowledge is that he was a [...]
Book News: Author Fight!!!
February 9th, 2009Superauthor Stephen King thinks Stephanie Meyer “can’t write worth a darn”. OOOOOOOOOO BURRRRRNNNNEEEDDD!!! For some reason Stephen King was talking about J. K. Rowling and Stephanie Meyer and it is pretty obvious how he feels. From The Arizona Republic: “Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. . . . The real difference [...]
