Archive: May 2014
Great hot sauces are one of my favorite low-calorie ways of spicing up otherwise bland meals. If you’re in a hurry and only have time to whip up some protein and veggies, a yummy hot sauce can make it special. The Hot Sauce Cookbook offers a wide variety of pepper and salsa sauces ranging from Mexican salsas […]
With millions of copies sold, The Richest Man in Babylon is one of the classic books on how to properly manage your finances. In 150 short pages, it uses parables to teach you a handful of vital financial principles for creating and preserving wealth. Things like… How much of your income you should be saving and investing. […]
The young adult genre really isn’t my thing, but there’s a reason Timebound won Amazon’s Breakthrough Novel Award–it’s really good. The story introduces you to Kate Pierce-Heller, a 16-year old girl attending a private high school in D.C. Before long, she discovers that her grandma is a time-traveling historian from the future, and that Kate too has the ability to time […]
I saw Lone Survivor last weekend (PLEASE EXPLAIN WHY THEY DIDN’T JUST HAVE THE GOAT HERDERS MARCH WITH THEM UNTIL THEY MADE CONTACT WITH THEIR BASE?) and it reminded me of this book, and how enthralled I was with Richard Marcinko’s crazy antics as a SEAL. This book chronicles Marcinko’s harrowing missions across Vietnam and other theaters of war, as well […]
All great stories seem effortless when read or viewed, but they were, one-for-one, painstakingly crafted by someone who knew exactly what he or she was doing with every character and every element of the plot, from a mere beat to the scene it builds to an entire act. Stories that suck you in, move you, […]
“My name is Patrick Bateman. I am twenty-six years old. I live in the American Garden Buildings on West Eighty-First Street, on the eleventh floor. Tom Cruise lives in the penthouse. “I believe in taking care of myself, in a balanced diet, in a rigorous exercise routine. In the morning, if my face is a […]
If you’d like to get an interesting, statistical analysis of how to catch cheating sumo wrestlers and teachers, what online daters lie most about, why prostitutes earn more than architects, or why the 1960s were a great time to be a criminal, then read this book. It’s an entertaining romp through our culture and sheds […]
