Eureka! is a compilation of 40 stories of different inventions (Nobel Peace Prize, Slinky, Curious George) that have become fantastically huge. Marlene Wagman-Geller starts by talking about how Eureka means “I have found it” and represents the moment when a light bulb goes off and idea is found. As this book is about aha moments [...]
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
I love Bill Bryson. And that’s really all there is to it. He could write about anything and I would think it was hilarious and enjoy it tremendously. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid is the story of Bill Bryson’s life. It tells of his childhood in Iowa and how everything was generally [...]
Just Like Family by Tasha Blaine
I truly feel that so much of how you like a book has to do with the timing of when you read it. I have recently had my first baby and have contemplated childcare choices while looking at my return to full time work. This is a book about nannies and how they work to [...]
Where Men Win Glory by Jon Krakauer
This is a book about Pat Tillman, the NFL player who left a lucrative multi-million dollar football contract to serve in the military and later was killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan. It is also about the way his death was portrayed in the media and how the circumstances around his death were concealed from [...]
Facing The Wind by Julie Salamon
This is the true story of Bob Rowe. Bob was a lawyer who had worked hard to live the american dream in the 1970s. He was happily married to his wife Mary and the two of them started a family. Bobby was there first son and Christopher was born two years later. Christopher was born [...]
Julie and Julia by Julie Powell
I actually went to see this movie before reading the book. I had heard good things about it and actually enjoyed the movie quite a bit. So when I ran across a copy of Julie and Julia at the library I picked it up. This was a quick read for me…but I have to be [...]
Under the Bridge by Rebecca Godfrey
Under the Bridge is a true story of a murder that took place in Victoria Island, Canada in 1997. The victim was Reena Virk, a 14-year old who had been having trouble fitting in with her classmates and getting along with her family. Reena had been looking to fit in with a group of girls [...]
A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
This is the true story told my a young man who recounts how he became a child solider and eventually was rescued from that life. Ishmael Beah was twelve years old when war broke out in Sierre Leone. Ishmael had gone with his brother and some friends to a neighboring town and tried to make [...]
Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich
I have enjoyed all of the books that I’ve read by Ben Mezrich so I was excited to see that he had a new book out. He typically writes about exceptional college students who are able to use their intelligence to beat the system (Vegas, the Nikkei) and become very wealthy at a young age. [...]
Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder
Tracy Kidder writes about an exceptional young man who escaped the horrors of genocide in Burundi and Rwanda in 1993 and 1994 only to spend the next ten years working hard to pick up where his life left off and return to make his home in Burundi a better place. Deo was a third year [...]
