Critter Chronicles
Non-Fiction
Book Review: My Hortizontal Life by Chelsea Handler
>Let me say this: if I hadn’t given myself the goal of reading 100 books by the end of 2010, I wouldn’t have gotten much past the second chapter of My Horizontal Life. I disliked it that much. I’m not a prude. One of my favorite TV shows is Sex and The City, and I … Continue reading
Book Review: NurtureShock by Po Bronson & Ashley Merriman
>Confession: I couldn’t put this book down. Or perhaps I should say that I only put it down when I couldn’t stay awake any longer last night, and picked it up to start reading again when my eyes opened at 5:30 this morning, and I did manage to fit in all of Bear’s lessons from … Continue reading
Book Review: Boys Should Be Boys by Meg Meeker
> I first heard of Boys Should Be Boys while listening to a special podcast on Dave Ramsey’s radio show several months ago. Meg Meeker was a guest speaker regarding her newest book, Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters, and I very quickly found and purchased them both. I don’t read a lot of parenting books, at … Continue reading
Book Review: Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
>Last year I read Malcolm Gladwell’s book, The Tipping Point, and really, really enjoyed it. The book club I used to be a part of (and only reluctantly left because I happened to move halfway across the globe from it) had his most recent book, Outliers, on their list this fall so I put it … Continue reading
Book Review: Living In A Foreign Language by Michael Tucker
>I wasn’t expecting much from Living In A Foreign Language. It’s written by a (mostly former) television actor, after all, and my experiences with reading memoirs of celebrities have been that they’ve been self-indulgent, bragging, and woe-is-me-I’m-rich-and-famous-and-have-problems-because-of-my-money-so-feel-sorry-for-me. I don’t do well with pity parties. So when I couldn’t stop reading this book, I was shocked. … Continue reading
Book Review: Naked in Dangerous Places by Cash Peters
>What a disappointment. The title of Naked in Dangerous Places: The Chronicles of a Hungry, Scared, Lost, Homesick, but Otherwise Perfectly Happy Traveler might lead you to think that this (nonfiction) piece is actually about the stories of a happy traveler, but it’s not. This is a book that Cash Peters seems to have written … Continue reading
Book Review: Living Organized by Sandra Felton
> Living Organized was written to a target audience of women (and men, though it felt specifically aimed at women) who find themselves living in homes amongst chaos, unable to figure out how best to organize and clean their space despite their tendencies to let it all go. Being a highly organized person who still … Continue reading
Book Review: The Choice Effect by Amalia McGibbon
> I could tell within a paragraph or two that I am not part of the demographic audience The Choice Effect: Love and Commitment in an Age of Too Many Options was written for, though I fall directly into the Generation Y category. This book was written to young women in their early-20s to mid-30s … Continue reading
Book Review: The End of Overeating by David Kessler
> It took me about nine months to finally finish The End of Overeating. Written by a doctor (pediatrician) who I suspect began this research in order to figure out his own addiction to the wrong foods, this book is research heavy and filled with facts upon facts upon repeated facts. Much of the content … Continue reading
Book Review: Orange Is The New Black by Piper Kerman
> What I loved most about Orange Is The New Black was the fact that the author surprised me from the beginning; she readily admitted that the reason for her incarceration – the story that is this book – was because of her own wrongdoings. Not once did she say she was framed, or tricked, … Continue reading
