Article first published as Book Review: Guest of Honor by Deborah Davis on Blogcritics. About: Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked a Nation by Deborah Davis is a non-fiction book which tells of the events leading and resulting of a simple dinner in which President Theodore Roosevelt dined with [...] read more »
"Math City" by Ahmad Amani will make you think and laugh and cheer - reminisce of Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift read more »
Still in my non-fiction stage... and I really can't explain why. They are easier to read because it's much like reading a newspaper or magazine article. Much of this has to do with the unspoken, but assumed fact that this is literary journalism. The facts/backgrounds were doubled checked and the words on the page are as true as it could be.That is...until this becomes creative non-fiction. Isn't that an oxymoron? How much can an author stretch before it becomes a lie? (Remember James Frey's A Million Lit... read more »
Article first published as Book Review: The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter by Mark Seal on Blogcritics. About: The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Impostor by Mark Seal is a non-fiction book tracking one of the [...] read more »
Article first published as Book Review: Private Empire by Steve Coll on Blogcritics. About: Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power by Steve Coll is a non-fiction book about the influence ExxonMobil yields over world economy and politics. While the book has many aspects of the company’s agenda, whether it be science or politics, with clarity and zest. The publisher [...] read more »
This post is inspired by Mad Men's season 5 episode 7, titled "At the Codfish Ball". I'm in love with the series for its character development, dryhumourand its perfectly captured moments of ugly truths hidden beneath faked serenity. In this particular episode, Peggy and her boyfriend makes the decision to move in together. When they break the news to Peggy's Catholic mother, it was (unsurprisingly) met with strict disapproval.This reminds me that is has nearly been a year since I moved in with my bf. Th... read more »
Article first published as Book Review: Man At a Machine by Stef Wertheimer on Blogcritics. About: Man At a Machine by Stef Wertheimer is an autobiography of the Israeli industrialist. My father has always admired Mr. Wertheimer, unfortunately he did not live long enough to read this book which I’m sure he would have loved. [...] read more »
Strangely enough, I found myself gravitating towards Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals right after I finished The Fortune Cookie Chronicles. I guess I wanted more food-based investigative journalism. The title is the book. It's also everything you expect it to be: "eating animals is wrong". Now, it's also everything you wouldn't expect it to be. There wasn't any preaching for the virtues of veganism or membershipsignupfor PETA. Foer simply presented the case for why he chose to not eat animals. T... read more »
Be the best that you can be - "Aging Is A Journey Of Changes" by Marcia Casar Friedman read more »
A sure fire method for punching up your prose is to eliminate adverbs.You do know an adverb when it insinuates itself into your sentence, don't you? Let's have an example or two:Which is better: The sun burned hot on Lothor's chest. The sun burned very hot on Lothor's chest.I'm curious about Lothor and where he left his shirt, buta very hot sun is not hotter nor more evocative. Look at these two: Evelyn's flippancy made her mother anxious. Evelyn's flippancy made her mother extremely anxious.The risk is ... read more »
