The Martian – How much is a one-way ticket to Mars worth?
As a married father of three young children, there are many days when being stranded alone on Mars sounds like Eden. Throw in the fact that lead Martian Mark Watney is a mechanical engineer, and heck...
View ArticleWe Were Liars: Get Beyond the Hype
Multiple reviewers said, “the less you know the better it will be.” And so I went in blind. Ann Kingman says, “not just one of the best YA books I’ve read this year, but one of the best books I read...
View ArticleReview: An Untamed State by Roxane Gay
I have an uncle who works with governments in second and third world countries to build systems, policies and help advance their protocols into the new millennium. Right now, I believe he is in...
View ArticleFILM VERSUS BOOK: The Fault In Our Stars
So I waited until two days ago to read the incredibly famous The Fault In Our Stars by John Green. On purpose of course; to maximize the amazing TFIOS concentration that I anticipated with today’s...
View ArticleFathers Day Book Recommendations
When I was a kid, I don’t remember my dad reading with me much. What I do remember, is that as a teenager he read books for his own personal journey like The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and...
View ArticleReview: Summer House with Swimming Pool by Herman Koch
Have you ever read a book, and within about five pages you can tell by the persona of the narrator that every single person who reads this book will either hate the protagonist, or love him in a very...
View ArticleReview: All Fall Down by Jennifer Weiner
When you can see a part of yourself or a loved one in a character of a book without any stretch of the imagination, you know the author knows how to write well. While of course not every facet of any...
View ArticleReading In Crisis
Why do I willingly subject myself to such depressing reading material! Here is my pretty significant life problem right now— my husband of eight years, father to my three children, my best friend- Mark...
View ArticleReview: Daddy’s Little Princess by Cathy Glass
A couple of years ago, I stumbled across Damaged, by Cathy Glass, and was completely sucked in. I read it in one day. It was the completely heartbreaking story of a child that Cathy took in as a foster...
View ArticleOn Writing
As mentioned in my previous post, Reading In Crisis, my husband Mark is in the ICU. He has been in the hospital exactly 25 days now; 19 of them in Intensive Care. As you can imagine, this has turned...
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