I’m not entirely sure that I can adequately review Thinking Fast and Slow. It’s so chock full of fantastic ideas, insights, and information that I’m afraid even trying to comment on it will make me look like a fool. Let me just say, then, that Thinking Fast and Slow is absolutely fascinating, a book worth […]
Archives for December 2016
Short Book Review | The Name of the Wind (Kingkiller Chronicle #1) by Patrick Rothfuss
2016-12-28 · by ·
What follows is a gush of a review…but I really did like the book. So, allow me to gush for just a moment. I had heard that The Name of the Wind was a good read, but I had no idea how much I would end up enjoying it. I seemed to keep bumping into Patrick […]
Book Review | El Deafo by Cece Bell
2016-12-24 · by ·
I loved reading El Deafo to my daughter. With El Deafo, Cece Bell proves she can broaden and deepen her reader’s lives with a fun and beautifully-told story. Bell makes the experience of being deaf and separated from others, a handicap shared by many, accessible to children and, at least in my case, adults. The […]
Book Review | Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
2016-12-23 · by ·
What King Henry wants King Henry is going to get. It’s his world, and everyone else is just living in it…or rather, is scraping and scrapping to get ahead in it. With the future of the kingdom at stake and England’s master without a male child, Henry VIII decides he must marry Anne Boleyn in order […]
Book Review | Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS by Joby Warrick
2016-12-12 · by ·
Joby Warrick’s Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS makes a complicated mess easier to understand. Readable and accessible to anyone with an interest in how we ended up with ISIS, his Pulitzer prize-winning narrative of the rise of the terrorist cum state of the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq is a must-read. If there’s anything I […]
Children’s Book Review | Nanette’s Baguettes by Mo Willems
2016-12-10 · by ·
Mo Willems is a brilliant artist, and the simplicity with which he does it is absolutely genius. When my better half brings home a load of new picture books to test drive, we usually end up with a slew of duds, a few fun ones, and, if we’re lucky, a genuinely good find. With Mo’s […]
