Finn
A novel by: John Clinch
Random House
John Clinch flirts with the proverbial third rail of literature by writing at the coat tails of the great American novelist, Mark Twain.
This is not what I would call a ‘companion’ book or a ’sequel’ to go along with “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”. This is a dark and [...]
The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
by Natalie Angier
Houghton Mifflin
Kings pour coffee on fairy god-sisters (mnemonic device for remembering the taxonomic system)
Kingdom - Animalia: We belong in the animal kingdom.
Phylum - chordata, subphylum - Vertabrata: We are vertebrates like 50,000 other animals in the animal kingdom along with reptiles, [...]
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible.
By A.J. Jacobs
Simon & Schuster
I’ve just finished reading this book. It is easily one of the better books I have read this year. It was funny, reverent, irreverent, thought provoking. I was [...]
I have just finished reading “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain for the ninth time in my life.
It truly is an amazing book. One I believe should be read at every age in a persons life.
I read it as a boy and thought it was a marvelous adventure about a boy rafting [...]
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
Sarah Crichton Books
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
New York
On March 23, 1991, The RUF, led by Foday Sankoh and backed by Charles Taylor, crossed from Liberia and attacked villages in the Kailahun District, in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone. The Sierra Leone government was unable [...]
Why Do Men Have Nipples
Hundreds of Questions You’d Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini
by Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg M.D.
Three Rivers Press
Survival of the Sickest (A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease) by Dr. Sharon Moalem with Jonathan Prince.
William Morrow an imprint of Harper Collins publishers
“Why does malaria want us in bed but the common cold want us at work?”
“Why do the great majority of people with Type 1 diabetes come from Northern Europe”
Survival [...]
I’ve been reading a book called “They Call Me Naughty Lola” One of the main reasons I bought the book was because I thought it would make a great coffee table book. It’s fun to have innocent books around with provocative titles don’t you think?
The subtitle is “Personal Ads from the LONDON [...]