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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Born To Run by Christopher McDougall
As a past runner, this book was fascinating. If you are not interested in athletics, specifically running, it may not be the best book for you. However, if you are, I found it hard to put down. I had heard about Born To Run before Christmas and when I went home one of my family [...]
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
I had been wanting to read Fast Food Nation for a very long time, and I’m happy that I finally did it. This book covers many different aspects of fast food. It starts with examining how the fast food trend started and grew in the United States as automobiles became the primary mode of transportation. [...]
As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised As A Girl by John Colapinto
I was a psychology major in college who had often heard the nature vs. nurture debate. When I heard about As Nature Made Him I was very interested in this true life story. It is a heartbreaking life story of two identical twin boys who were taken to be circumcised when they were seven-months old. [...]
If You Really Loved Me by Ann Rule
This was an interesting True Crime story, a little different than the serial killer books that I’ve read by Ann Rule before. If You Really Loved Me is the story of a family. The family is a bit unconventional consisting of David Brown, his 23-year old wife Linda, Linda’s 17-year old sister Patti and David’s [...]
