Category Archives: Books

Fakes, Frauds, and Flimflammery: Even More of the World’s Most Outrageous Scams, by Andreas Schroeder Some history on Andreas Schroder that I picked up from Google: Since 1991, Andreas Schroeder has been a regular on the very popular national CBC-Radio … Continue reading →

The Outsiders, S. E. Hinton One of the most surprising things about this book is not that it was written by a woman, but that she was a teenager at the time she wrote it. It has such amazing insight … Continue reading →

The Perfect Stranger, Megan Miranda Why does it seem that in every story about a single woman embroiled in a mystery, especially if there is an element of personal danger, there is a handsome, unattached police officer with whom she … Continue reading →

Little Brother, Cory Doctorow I’ve heard about Cory Doctorow, but never really knew what he did. Turns out he’s a writer! And a Canadian, and a computer geek and a proponent of free sharing of all digital media. In some … Continue reading →

My Life on the Road, Gloria Steinem The last Gloria Steinem book i read was Revolution From Within, at the age of 27, when I thought a was having a crisis of existentialism and aging. Hahahahahhaha!!! [sigh] One thing I’ve … Continue reading →

Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card Orson Scott Card is not a very nice man, in the nicest way of putting it, or is a raging homophobe and racist, in the less nice but more accurate way of putting it. After having read … Continue reading →

The Help, by Kathryn Stockett A group of oppressed black maids join forces with a quirky, ostracized white woman in Mississippi to write a tell-all book about the families for whom they work. [Before I go further, in this post … Continue reading →

When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi Paul Kalanithi was on his way to becoming a neurosurgeon when he was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer in his last year of residency, at the age of 36. The book was written after his diagnosis, … Continue reading →