Lewis Black: Red, White & Screwed47 reviews Lewis Black, Joe Grifasi HBO Home Video, 2006 Funny as Hell! + Great ! ! + Very Funny + Way too funny! + Hilarious comedian who is not afraid of being critical             The Primal Teen: What the New Discoveries about the Teenage Brain Tell Us about Our Kids25 reviews Barbara Strauch Anchor, 2004 Adolescence partially explained + Why do teens do what they do + A must-read for every parent! This book provides a series of relatively recent findings on brain development, during adolescence, and connects those changes with behavior patterns seen in many teenagers. Some of the findings discussed are interesting, but not startling, while others are quite remarkable, and go a long way ...             Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors52 reviews Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan Ballantine Books, 1993 Years later, still effective + Carl Sagan's Best Book + Easy read on a hard subject + Sagan Again Explains the Universe + Truly a page turner.....             Art of Intimacy3 reviews Thomas patrick Malone, Patrick thomas Malone Fireside, 1988 Doesn't get any better than this! + A life-changing book! + My therapist recommended this as a "step above" Malone & Malone have written an excellent exploration of intimacy and its dynamics. As a therapist, I have recommended this book year after year for those who can benefit from a higher level of reading than most self-help or consumer-focused books. I recommend to both clients and therapists ...             Ordinary Heroes71 reviews Scott Turow Grand Central Publishing, 2006 Incredible World War 2 novel full of engaging characters + Good experience + Solid Turow Book + Turow tries something a bit different--and it works + Slow to start, powerful second half.             Special Topics in Calamity Physics257 reviews Marisha Pessl Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007 Have Yet to Finish, but its great! + Special Topics In Descriptive Sentences and Tangents This book is very hard to read because there are so many references. It confuses me sometimes because I'm wondering...Who actually knows what the author is talking about? Although, that is what intrigues me. It leaves me guessing! It makes me want to strive to figure out exactly what the author is ...             Sweet and Low: A Family Story71 reviews Rich Cohen Picador, 2007 The mystery of the pink packet + ELLEN & HER ISSUE Rich Cohen is only getting better with time. This is a captivating story of the ubiquitous pink packet and the family business around it. Lucky us: a very good writer seems to be related to every remarkable person on the planet (see Rich's other books: the Avengers and Tough Jews). Find out what ...             Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number (The Americas)7 reviews Jacobo Timerman University of Wisconsin Press, 2002 Siempre la misma pregunta + Fantastic book + Harrowing + Que triste, Lo mismo ahora             A Day of Small Beginnings: A Novel15 reviews Lisa Pearl Rosenbaum Little, Brown and Company, 2006 Enthralling blend of mysticism, music, dance and history + Spiritually Moving and Thought Provoking + Delightful! + This novel has big heart. + A Novel that Resonated with Me             A Lost Lady (Vintage Classics)22 reviews Willa Cather Vintage, 1990 A Captivating Novellete! + Compact and beautiful + A tiny gem of a book. You'll be thinking about it long after you're finished. + Frontier loneliness invades this marvalous novel. + A Book About Old Society             Bel Canto (P.S.)584 reviews Ann Patchett Harper Perennial, 2005 A Song of Love + Loved the book, just not the ending + Awesome! You won't be able to put it down! + Almost spectacular             The Magician's Assistant96 reviews Ann Patchett Harvest Books, 1998 Great Story From Unlikely Scenerio + Just Another Normal Life + A truly wonderful book + Storyteller             Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying162 reviews Maggie Callanan, Patricia Kelley Bantam, 1997 Comfort and Reassurance for the Caretaker + Final Gifts + A blessing + Not Helpful If You & All Your Loved Ones Are Immortal, But The Rest Of Us...             Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life305 reviews Anne Lamott Anchor, 1995 Attention Writers: Keep This Book on Your Shelf + Touching and funny + Beyond the book - "Real" Life Tips + Teacher resource + fantastic             The Memory Keeper's Daughter873 reviews Kim Edwards Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006 Freeze Frame + What a memory!!! On a snowy winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced to deliver his twins and makes a split-second decision that forever alters theh lives of everyone involved. When it is apparent to him that his daughter has Down's Syndrome, he asks the nurse to take her to an institution, without telling ...             The Cloister Walk59 reviews Kathleen Norris Riverhead Trade, 1997 A Helpful, Thoughtful Book + "My little story...has turned into prayer."--Emily Dickinson + Inside View It's been a few years, but memory tells me this was - and is - a wonderful book. I suppose it makes a difference to have been to the monastery in Minnesota where the author went, and to have met Ms. Norris; nonetheless, she has a lot to say. Her thought-full exposition of the Psalms was ...             Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking967 reviews Malcolm Gladwell Back Bay Books, 2007 blink...and then it's gone There's not much substance to this book. Rather than being a resource of information, it is merely a book of examples. There is no broad takeaway you can gather from it after reading except to say perhaps that many of our decisions are based on split-second thoughts. But did you really need to read ...             Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith305 reviews Anne Lamott Anchor, 2000 Shocking but profound + pretty good book + "...I can always find my way home from here..." + Entertaining Read...             1421: The Year China Discovered America256 reviews Gavin Menzies Harper Perennial, 2004 Excellent history + 1421, the Year Chinese Discovered America + Goodbye to the "Spaceman" theory + Fact/Fiction who cares......             The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel291 reviews Michael Chabon HarperCollins, 2007 Ghetto Mentality Retrogression + Chabon's best to date + Bittersweet like woodsmoke The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon: Ghetto Mentality Retrogression Review by Arthur L. Finkle Mr. Chabon writes a masterpiece of a "what-if" portion of history. In this case, what if the Jews lost their War on Independence on 1948? The solution was one proffered at that time, ...