Rebecca Skloot has enjoyed the wonders of hitting the New York Times best seller list with her first book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. She deserves it. This is a book everyone should read in that everyone should know more about the scientific and ethical issues it addresses. Henrietta Lacks was the woman from [...]

I just finished reading Elizabeth Kostova’s The Swan Thieves. It’s a good book. I recommend it. Really, you should read it. I gave it 4 stars on Good Reads. I give 4 stars to lots of books I would truly hope others might pick up and read. So there you go. Read The Swan Thieves [...]

I made a book club group for the school on Goodreads today. So far I’m the only member, so it will be interesting to see how this works out… .gr_grid_container { /* customize grid container div here. eg: width: 500px; */ } .gr_grid_book_container { /* customize book cover container div here */ float: left; width: [...]

I just finished reading the third and final version of Stieg Larsson’s Millenium Series. You know…those “The Girl Who” books that are showing up everywhere these days and dominate best seller lists. Should I admit to reading something like this? When I try to think of way to describe them, I keep thinking of Stephen [...]

I’ve been reading Thomas Friedman’s Hot, Flat, and Crowded today. He wrote The World is Flat as well. I read it, or at least parts of it, a year or two ago and was appropriately disturbed by it. I’m even more disturbed by Hot, Flat, and Crowded. The figures he gets into about over-population alone [...]