Top Ten List: Non-fiction Book Reviews 2008

Seems like everyone makes lists this time of year, so I thought I’d add my ten cents worth. I’m thrilled so many people have stopped by to read Mostly NF this year, and I hope I’ve helped turn you on to a few good reads. Of all the books I’ve mentioned this year, [...]

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A Hard Day’s Write (Steve Turner)

What comes to mind when I mention a banker with a motorcar? Don’t most bankers have cars? Yes, but you probably thought of the same banker that I did. Have you ever heard of little Lucy O’Donnell? You know Lucy.  She’s Julian’s friend from school. Have you seen [...]

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The Emerging 2.0 World: Three Book Reviews

I usually review one book at a time in this blog. Not today. These three excellent books go so well together that I can’t help sharing them all at once. Each one examines an aspect of the web 2.0* social networking revolution (and the technology supporting it), and then projects into a [...]

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Phraseology (Barbara Ann Kipfer)

I enjoy words and phrases. They contain the memory of past usage and the flavor of different cultures. Studying the origins of those words and phrases lets you peel back the modern context and reveal those earlier secrets.
With great expectations, then, I opened a new book offered as a “definitive compendium” and an [...]

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Into Thick Air (Jim Malusa)

“Of course I’m happy just to get through the morning without being pelted with rocks,” Jim Malusa wrote the day after repeated attacks from “forty-pound children with stones” — children who reminded him of those in The Lord of the Flies. The experience, along with warnings given by others, left him with the nagging [...]

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