Author: Patrick O’Brian
Title: The Surgeon’s Mate
Publication Info: Blackstone Audiobooks (2005), Edition: Unabridged, Audio CD
ISBN: 0786177845
Summary/Review:
The Aubrey/Maturin series picks up where The Fortune of War left off, and the surgeon’s mate of the title is not Stephen Maturin’s surgical assistant but his on again/off again romantic interest Diana Villiers. I’m always turned of [...]
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5 Nov
Book Review: The Surgeon’s Mate by Patrick O’Brian
4 Nov
Book Review: Made To Stick
Author: Dan Heath & Chip Heath
Title: Made To Stick
Publication Info: Santa Ana, CA : Books on Tape, p2007.
ISBN: 141593553X
Summary/Review:
This book is basically a guide for people who want to get their ideas across to other people and will be a useful managers, teachers, advertisers, and anyone else with a good idea who [...]
1 Oct
Book Review: The Art of Travel by Alain De Botton
Author: Alain De Botton
Title: The Art of Travel
Publication Info: Recorded Books, LLC (2002), Audio CD
ISBN: 1402545096
Previously Read by Same Author: The Architecture of Happiness
Summary/Review:
This book reflects on travel focusing on the little things such as the novelty of the commonplace in a new place, disorientation, the boredom of travel, and even ponders whether [...]
1 Oct
Book Review: The Little Book by Selden Edwardse
Author: Selden Edwards
Title: The Little Book
Publication Info: Penguin Audio (2008), Edition: Unabridged, Audio CD
ISBN: 0143143514
Summary/Review:
Wheeler Burden is a lot of things:
son of a revered athlete and war hero
a successful – if not ambitious – high school and college baseball pitcher
a rock & roll superstar
heir to a mentor’s collection of writings about [...]
1 Oct
Book Review: What’s Next: Dispatches on the Future of Science
Author: edited by Max Brockman
Title: What’s Next: Dispatches on the Future of Science
Publication Info: New York : Vintage Books, 2009.
ISBN: 9780307389312
Summary/Review:
This short book is a collection of essays about the future of science and was a nice illuminating read. Oddly enough, much of the material was already familiar to a dilettante [...]
15 Sep
Book Review: The Trial of Robert Mugabe by Chielo Zona Eze
Author: Chielo Zona Eze
Title: The Trial of Robert Mugabe
Publication Info: Okri Books Inc (2009)
ISBN: 0615278116
Summary/Review:
Nigerian author Chielo Zona Eze pulls no punches in this fictional account of the brutal Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe. Set in heaven, Mugabe is put before a jury of pan-African luminaries and victims of his oppression and [...]
8 Sep
Book Review: The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
Author: Jonathan Lethem
Title: The Fortress of Solitude
Publication Info: Books On Tape (2003), Audio CD
ISBN: 0736695273
Other Books By Same Author: Motherless Brooklyn
Summary/Review:
Lethem’s novel is set in Boerum Hill in Brooklyn in the 1970’s, 80’s, & 90’s and tells of the friendship of two boys: Dylan Ebdus one of the few white children in [...]
1 Sep
Book Review: Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street by Michael Davis
Author: Michael Davis
Title: Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street
Publication Info: New York : Viking, 2009.
ISBN: 9780670019960
Summary/Review:
The title says “Complete History” but I’d adjust that to read “The Thorough Behind the Scenes History” of Sesame Street. In fact this book contains a lot of pre-history of Sesame Street. It is [...]
25 Aug
Book Review: Free Lunch by David Cay Johnston
Author: David Cay Johnston
Title: Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (And Stick You with the Bill)
Publication Info: Penguin Audio (2007), Edition: Abridged, Audio CD
ISBN: 0143142968
Summary/Review:
I listened to this audiobook that details the cushy relationship between corporations and politicians that has allowed the rich to become exorbitantly [...]
25 Aug
Book Review: Central Park in the Dark by Marie Winn
Author: Marie Winn
Title: Central Park in the Dark
Publication Info: New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2008.
ISBN: 9780374120115
Summary/Review:
This series of essays follows Winn and her cohorts over a decade spent observing the wildlife of an urban place, New York City’s Central Park. Winn tells of encounters with red-tailed hawks, grackles, moths, [...]
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