The Book: Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance, by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
The Story: Just like the original Freakonomics, this second book is pretty much story-less. They kind of just take these different ideas and combine bits of information that don’t seem like they go together to [...]
The Book: NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children, by Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman
The Story: Not to say that these two piggybacked, and maybe the two books have nothing to do with each other, but I think that the best way to summarize this book is to say that it is pretty much Freakonomics about kids.
The [...]
The Book: The Unheard: A Memoir of Deafness and Africa, by Josh Swiller
The Story: Josh was born deaf. With the use of hearing aides, he was able to hear enough to get by and lead a “normal” life. By that I mean that he went to public school and did everything that his hearing friends [...]
Does being pregnant give me enough leverage to get my husband to stay up late to write a book review for my blog? Um, yeah it does! This book had been laying on the back of the toilet for the last 9 months, all the while I was reminding Shaun that at some [...]
The Book: The Life and Times of The Thunderbolt Kid: Travels Through my Childhood, by Bill Bryson
The Story: Although he is known for his travel memoirs, Bill Bryson decided to take us on a trip through his childhood in this one.
Bill Bryson grew up in the 1950’s and 60’s in the midwest. He is nostalgic [...]
Somehow I had missed any news of the Barefoot Bandit until just today when there was a story on him on CNN.
I was shocked at how similar his story is to the Whiskey Robber story that I just reviewed yesterday.
Sometimes it seems like after I read about something, I notice it everywhere, but this is [...]
The Book: Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts, by Julian Rubinstein
The Story: This is the story of Attila Ambrus a guy who snuck into Hungary in the 1990’s and kind of stumbled into a job as a professional ice hockey [...]
The Book: Same Kind of Different As Me: A modern-day slave, an international art dealer, and the unlikely woman who bound them together, by Ron Hall & Denver Moore
The Story: Denver Moore and Ron Hall really could not have led lives that were more opposite than the ones that they were leading: Denver was a [...]
The Book: Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival, by Norman Ollestad
The Story: Yet another survival story. That’s kind of been my “thing” for the last month or so, no idea why. I don’t have any more in my pile, so this may be my last one for awhile, but I’ve probably read 5 [...]
The Book: The Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and The Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10, by Marcus Luttrell
The Story: A team of four U.S. Navy SEALS was sent out to an area near the Afghanistan/Pakistan border to check out this village where an al Qaeda leader was rumored to be staying [...]