My very first Wordless Wednesday!   I’ve long thought that the popular Wordless Wednesday observed by quite a number of quality blogs was a great idea, but since this site is tightly focused on book reviews I’ve never found a way to participate.  But recently I stumbled upon a unique and wonderful children’s book that has [...]

Several years ago I read Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed, an expose on just how badly low level employees of major companies are treated and an examination of just how challenging it is to actually survive on what these companies pay.   While it was mildly interesting to learn a few more details about just how [...]

Awhile back I was tagged with the Six Word Memoir meme and I wish at the time I had had this just recently release trade paperback from the editors of Smith Magazine.   Subtitled  "six word memoirs by writers famous and obscure", Not Quite What I Was Planning is a collection of over 1,000 stories, told [...]

Thank you to  blog reader PB for suggesting today’s title.  Steve Greenberg’s Gadget Nation is a lavishly illustrated over-sized hard cover filled with two page spreads about hundreds of inventions and the inventors behind them.  I was particularly intrigued by the "Clocky"– a rugged alarm clock designed by an MIT student with a bad habit [...]

In attempting to write this review of Barbara Wallraff’s  Word Fugitives, a book about finding or coining words needed to convey concepts not defined by a known or existing word, I found myself quite relating to Wallruff’s theme.   Somewhere out there, I am certain, is a word that defines a person who is extremely interested [...]