I used to work in the business world, so every once in a while I’ll pick up a business book just to see what the latest strategies and philosophies are. I’m particularly interested in marketing, which is why Guerilla Marketing by Jay Conrad Levinson sounds good. This book is aimed specifically at small business owners [...]
Summary: In Godless: The Church of Liberalism, conservative writer Ann Coulter once again goes on the warpath to denounce what she sees as the failings of the liberal agenda. She covers a number of different topics in the book, including abortion, crime and punishment, teachers, “sobbing hysterical women”, and evolution. Coulter first explains liberal ideals [...]
Summary: In Outliers: The Story of Success, journalist Malcolm Gladwell contends that many success stories are not due to sheer talent or intelligence alone. Instead, there are usually a multitude of factors that come into play, resulting in a unique opportunity for a few people to rise to the top while those not fortunate enough [...]
Waiter Rant was available via my local library as a free download, so I decided to check it out. The description from the publisher made it sound interesting and funny. I thought I’d be getting tons of anecdotes about how awful some customers could be and how good others were. But while there were a [...]
I just started knitting as a hobby a few weeks ago, and am still trying to get the hang of it. It’s a lot harder than it looks — at least for me — so who knows when I’ll actually be able to make anything useful. I was thinking about buying a few pattern books [...]
Summary: I’m not really a fan of Mental Floss or anything, but I’ve heard the magazine (and website) praised by friends and acquaintances, so when I saw my library had this volume of The Mental Floss History of the World, I decided to check it out. The book is subtitled “An Irreverent Romp Through Civilization’s [...]
Summary: Anyone who has studied Latin in high school or college probably had to commit these famous lines to memory: “Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres, quarum unam incolunt Belage, aliam Aquitani, tertiam qui ipsorum linguam Celtae, nostra Galli appelantur.” Rendered in English, this usually translates to, “All Gaul is divided into three parts, [...]
Summary (from the publisher): “After being dumped by his longtime girlfriend, twenty-eight-year-old Justin Halpern found himself living at home with his seventy-three-year-old dad. Sam Halpern, who is “like Socrates, but angrier, and with worse hair,” has never minced words, and when Justin moved back home, he began to record all the ridiculous things his dad [...]
Summary: In The Tipping Point, journalist Malcolm Gladwell sets out to identify the major elements that need to be in place for an epidemic to ensue. This could either be a health-related epidemic, such as the outbreak of syphilis in Baltimore in the mid-1990s, or it can be something far more innocuous, such as the [...]
As much as it saddens me to acknowledge that my mother is growing older, this is something I have to prepare for. One of the things I’ve been doing recently is trying to learn something about Medicare because I think Mom will have to apply for this kind of coverage soon. I’ve tried navigating some [...]