NutureShock: New Thinking About Children by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman
Read for: This review from Dreadlock Girl
Wow! I loved this book and I think everyone who has kids or works with kids or ever plans on having kids should read it. So basically this book is about child studies with a twist. They’ve found [...]
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NutureShock by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman
Book Review: Stones into Schools
Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with books, not bombs in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Greg Mortenson
Many people have read Three Cups of Tea and are familiar with Mortenson’s mission to build schools in Pakistan. In this book Mortenson continues to build schools in Pakistan (with some new challenges) and begins to to build schools in [...]
Book Review: Left to Tell
Left to Tell by Immaculée Ilibagiza
Read for: Global Reading Challenge
Wow, was this one ever intense! Immaculée was a university student who had travelled home for easter in 1994 when the Rwandan genocide began. As a Tutsi, she and her entire family were in danger. She managed to make it to a neighbour’s house where he [...]
Book Review: Bad Mother
Bad Mother by Ayelet Waldman
There’s not much of a summary I can post for this book. Basically it’s a set of essays/memoirs of Waldman’s experiences as a mother. Waldman claimes to be a bad mother because she discusses way in which she is unlike the stereotypical “good mother”. But I disagree (and I think she [...]
Book Review: The Guinea Pig Diaries
The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment by A. J. Jacobs
This is the third book by Jacobs that I have read and I found it just as entertaining as the first two. I think the sub-title for this book pretty much summarizes what it’s about. Some of the experiments that he does are [...]
Book Review – Three Cups of Tea
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
I’m sure most people are aware of what this book is about so I’ll make my summary brief. Greg Mortenson was coming off the mountain after failing to summit K2 (his failure wasn’t really a failure, he wasn’t really given the opportunity to even attempt [...]
Book Review: Catch Me if you Can by Frank W. Abagnale
Catch Me if you Can by Frank W. Abagnale
This book is written by con man Frank Abagnale and is the story of the frauds he perpetrated. He started out impersonating a pilot (and this seems to have been his favourite scam) and used the guise to garner trust for passing bad cheques. He also pretended [...]
Book Review: Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
After reading The Tipping Point and Blink I was very excited when I got an email from the library letting me know that it was my turn to read this newest of Gladwell’s books. This one is about outliers, an observation that is numerically distant from the rest of the data. Using [...]
Book Review: Hiding in Plain Sight by Ken Bowers
Hiding in Plain Sight by Ken Bowers
“Unmasking how secret combinations operate in the last days”
I read this book for book club and I wish I hadn’t. I wouldn’t recommend it to my worst enemy.
The book is basically a mormon version of all the same bullshit conspiracy theories you can find anywhere. (I realize that “bullshit” [...]
