Title: Cesar’s Way: The Natural, Everyday Guide to Understanding & Correcting Common Dog Problems
Author: Cesar Millan
If you’re looking for some helpful strategies to correct common dog problems, this book doesn’t really deliver what it promises. After watching the miraculous behavior transformations on Cesar Millan’s show “The Dog Whisperer,” I picked up this book hoping it [...]
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Book Review: “Cesar’s Way: The Natural, Everyday Guide to Understanding & Correcting Common Dog Problems”
Book Review: “The Polysyllabic Spree”
Title: The Polysyllabic Spree
Author: Nick Hornby
As an avid reader, I have a tendency to buy way more books than I’ll ever read. I have books in my house that I know I will never read. I thought this was a problem with which I alone suffered, but it’s nice to know that I share [...]
Book Review: “Candyfreak”
Title: Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America
Author: Steve Almond
Candyfreak, first published in 2004, is a fun book. Writer Steve Almond is obsessed with candy. He’s a self-described “candyfreak” and laments about how he can’t find the candy he loved as a kid. The book is the story of his obsession and [...]
July 17th, 2007 | girlcorrupted | 1 comment | ContinuedBook review: “Crossworld”
Title: Crossworld: One Man’s Journey into America’s Crossworld Obsession
Author: Marc Romano
If only one word could be used to describe Marc Romano’s 2005 nonfiction book Crossworld, it would be “pretentious.”
Book Review: “The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town”
Title: The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
Author: John Grisham
The Innocent Man, published last year, distinguishes itself from John Grisham’s other legal thrillers in a major way: It’s nonfiction.
This book tells the true story of murder in the small town of Ada, Oklahoma, and the bizarre string of events that led to [...]
Book Review: “Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir”
Title: Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir
Author: Janice Erlbaum
Author Janice Erlbaum’s memoir Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir, which she calls “narrative nonfiction,” was first published last year. Since then, it has become very popular among readers in their 20s.
The book highlights Janice’s experiences as a teenager in New York in the 1980s. Her life certainly wasn’t [...]
Book Review: “Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping”
Title: Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping
Author: Judith Levine
Imagine not buying any CDs, games, books, movies, or clothes for an entire year. Imagine not eating out in restaurants, going to the movie theater, or any spending money on any other entertainment. That’s exactly what Judith Levine did. The nonfiction book Not Buying It: My [...]