book review: the stuff of thought
Steven Pinker’s The Stuff of Thought is one of the best books I have read in a while. If you’ve read his most popular book, The Language Instinct, this book is an indispensable companion that, while is...
View Articlebook review: lolita
Having heard so much about Lolita in past years, but only knowing that the story was about some perverted old guy who gets into a questionable “relationship” with a teenager, I was hesitant to read...
View Articlebook review: eating animals
To start, Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals is one of the best books I have read on the food industry, and even in general. If you have read Marion Nestle’s Food Politics or Eric Schlosser’s Fast...
View Articlebook review: reality marketing
I had to read this book a few months ago for work. Keeping it brief, it’s an overview of online marketing, but I don’t really think it’s for people in their 20s who use social media and the Internet...
View Articlebook review: harry potter, books 1-7
There’s not much that I can say about this series that hasn’t been said a million times already. Does it live up to its hype? Yes, and sometimes no. Are the books better than the movies? Yes, way...
View Articlebook review: garlic & sapphire
What happens when the New York Times needs a new food critic? Apparently everyone but the food critic herself knows she’s getting the job and her picture gets plastered across New York City, warning...
View Articlebook review: the china study
The China Study is probably the best book I read all year. If you ever need to be convinced that a vegetarian diet is your best bet for a number of health issues (although I’m guessing most people...
View Articlebook review: the end of overeating
I was pretty excited to pick this book up, given that we were reading about the tobacco settlements and the FDA last semester with David Kessler leading the effort in many ways. This book, however,...
View Articlebook review: eat pray love
So when Lo and I were trying to recruit members into our book club of two (but open to new members!) recently, two people that we talked to about it asked, “So what’re you guys reading? Eat, Pray,...
View Articlebook review: everything is illuminated
This is probably one of the best books I have read since Lolita. Author of Eating Animals, Jonathan Safran Foer sets out to learn more about his grandfather’s past by reaching out to an agency called...
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