| 1. Outliers: The Story of Success | 
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By: Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
November 18, 2008
What can I add to this host of reviews that has not already been said?
Perhaps nothing, but this book hit me in a profound way based on things that are happening at my work.
Please pardon a little bit of blogging tossed in with a little bit of book reviewing - it's not my normal style.
I am a high school teacher and we are, as a school, busily studying the racial... more
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| 2. Eclipse | 
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By: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
January 01, 2007
This was a fun and exciting read. It had some interesting twists to the story. It was enjoyable... more
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| 3. The Lovely Bones |
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By: Alice Sebold
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
2002-08
I made sure to see the movie for this novel first. I absolutely adored the movie and after finishing the book, I feel that Jackson did for the Lovely Bones what he did for Lord of the Rings. He kept as close to the book as possible without making the movie excessively long. He took creative liberties but overall, it kept the same tone.
I loved the book. I have never read anything quite... more
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| 4. New Moon Special Edition |
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By: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
2007
This book is a must read, the movie is nothing compaired to what the book can do for you! There are so many action packed paragraphs that it is important that you read this book to move onto the next!... more
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| 5. I, Alex Cross | 
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By: James Patterson
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
November 16, 2009
While perhaps not the strongest of the Cross books that Patterson has written, very loyal to the genre and managed to hold my attention. I thoroughly enjoyed the story and recommend it for any Alex Cross fans... more
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| 6. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference |
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By: Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
2000-02
I call shenanigans on some of the assumptions made in this book, but it's a good, quick read and might change your assumptions about how to approach some problems... more
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| 7. Blink - Power Of Thinking Without Thinking |
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By: Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher: Little, Brown And Company
2005
When I was a young man there was late-night disc jockey in Chicago by the name of Sid McCoy who played a lot of Frank Sinatra recordings. He often referred to Sinatra as The Master Story Teller, because Frank's respect for the lyrics and his phrasing were so exquisite that he made you really feel the emotions the songwriter was attempting to convey.
In my opinion, when it comes to non... more
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| 8. The 8th Confession (The Women's Murder Club) |
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By: James Patterson, Maxine Paetro
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
April 27, 2009
Next in line of an entertaining read. Good guys. Bad guys. Good guys win... more
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| 9. Eating Animals |
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By: Jonathan Safran Foer
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
November 02, 2009
This is the most comprehensively damning indictment against factory farming yet written. Engaging, intelligent, riveting, horrifying. It should be required reading for anyone who eats animals or the things we take from them. Safran Foer shows why 99% of the meat and dairy products American consumers are buying is produced in a way that violates our most basic values concerning animal cruelty and ecological... more
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| 10. The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It |
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By: Joshua Cooper Ramo
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
March 23, 2009
Joshua Ramo's The Age of the Unthinkable is about how, in the face of survivability, conventional wisdom is ill-suited for the modern world and how some people cope with reality by thinking about the unthinkable.
This book reminds me of Thomas Sowell's Applied Economics and Intellectuals and Society, Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point, and Nassim Taleb's The Black Swan. Sowell mentioned... more
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