Five Star review, originally posted here on November 8, 2014. For whatever reason, I didn’t actually bother looking into what this book was before I started reading it, and I just assumed it was a history book by Bill Bryson, which sounded pretty damn sweet. I got pretty nervous, though, when I started reading and … More Goodreads Review: A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Five Star review, originally posted here on November 14, 2014. Wow. This is only my second book by Tony Horowitz, but he is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors. He has an amazing ability to capture people’s essence to tell a story, allowing the “characters” to speak for themselves. I knew very little about … More Goodreads Review: BOOM: Oil, Money, Cowboys, Strippers, and the Energy Rush That Could Change America Forever. A Long, Strange Journey Along the Keystone XL Pipeline by Tony Horwitz
Three Star review, originally posted here on December 5, 2015. The main problem with Bill Nye’s “Undeniable” is that I read it so soon after reading Bill Bryson’s “A Short History of Nearly Everything”. Bryson is a writer. Nye is not a writer. So while both books covered a lot of the same ground, I … More Goodreads Review: Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation by Bill Nye
Four Star review, originally posted here on December 27, 2014. I dunno. Not too much to say here. I kept wavering between three and four stars depending on which chapter I was reading: three stars for stuff that was just kinda there, four for any chapter where I was actually interested. This was my first … More Goodreads Review: Naked by David Sedaris
Five Star review, originally posted here on January 13, 2015. WOW. I mean… WOW. The story of the Johnstown Flood is, without exaggeration, one of the most interesting stories I have ever heard. I visited Johnstown and the original dam site last summer, and when I asked the park rangers in the museum which book … More Goodreads Review: The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough
Four Star review, originally posted here on January 20, 2015. ***SPOILER ALERT!!!*** Not too much to say here- this book’s pretty straightforward. Walls’ parents were completely nuts, which means they made for some really fascinating characters. They were also completely horrible parents who deserve to be locked up for child abuse (amongst other things), which … More Goodreads Review: The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Two Star review, originally posted here on February 1, 2015. ***SPOILER ALERT!!!*** Holy Jeebus this book was terrible. The main thing it had going for it was that I wanted so much to be done with it so that I could move on to my next book, that I managed to plow through it pretty … More Goodreads Review: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Ooh! Here’s a treat! Here’s the only One Star review I’ve ever written (at least thus far- knock on wood), originally posted here on February 15, 2015). This book is absolute gibberish. I admit, I am definitely not the target audience, though once upon a time I theoretically could have been. Back in the day … More Goodreads Review: Confessions of a Military Wife by Mollie Gross
Four Star review, originally posted here on March 14, 2015. Yes, I am over a decade late to the party, but I finally got around to reading (the first) Harry Potter. I liked it. I know that as a kid I would have loved it. Rowling does a wonderful job introducing us and young Harry … More Goodreads Review: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
Three Star review, originally posted here on April 7, 2015. I am glad that I read this book, even though I had never heard of Greg Mortenson before. It was still an important and interesting topic, and I was overall really blown away by how jacked up the entire situation is. It served as a … More Goodreads Review: Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way by Jon Krakauer
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