reviews

Always look on the bright side of ... Author:  Barbara Ehrenreich Are you a glass half-full or a glass half-empty kind of person?  Which kind of people do you prefer to hang out or work with?  I’ve read her book and I’m not sure how Barbara Ehrenreich would answer those questions.  While we’re taught from an early age to look on the bright side of any situation, Ehrenreich contends that in the United States this positive psychology has run amok, making a compelling argument for negativism in Bright-sided. From the very first chapter of Bright-sided, Ehrenreich doesn’t pull any punches.  [...]

Slow Paced Military Sci-Fi And Lizard Wars Author: Tanya Huff In a far distant future, the Star Trek like idiom of discovering new life forms has come full circle and humans are hardly the oldest or wisest entities to populate the far flung stars. Indeed, humans are one of the few species underdeveloped enough to still fight, and, for that reason, they are still needed. The Confederation is a coalition of sentient species across the universe who cohabitate and work with one another, and they are threatened by another federation, ominously known as the Others who seek nothing but destruction and [...]

Tennis time travel... Author:  Andre Agassi I think I'm still living in the 1990s.  I have to admit that from a tennis perspective, I haven’t really moved on from the years when Andre Aggasi and Pete Sampras battled for supremacy.  When Sampras retired in 2002 and Agassi followed him in 2006 my interest in professional tennis abruptly faded.  As a result I didn’t pay much attention when Aggasi published his memoir to much acclaim in 2009.  Over the ensuing years, I’ve come across enthusiastic recommendations that placed it amongst some of the greatest sports biographies ever written.  So I decided [...]