The advent of the Internet has left the world awash in information. The answers to our questions are out there on the web, but how do we find them? And how do we know if the answers we find are correct? Enter the awesome but totally under-appreciated librarian. These tireless individuals have always been associated…
Tag: non-fiction
Review: Drop Dead Healthy
Recovering from a freak case of tropical pneumonia and ashamed of his ever-expanding waistline, writer A.J. Jacobs makes a decision to get healthy. And since he’s never been one to do things by halves, he bypasses the piddling goals of lowering his cholestoral or losing weight or exercising once a week and goes for the…
Review: Meat Eater
Steven Rinella has been a hunter his entire life: fishing since age three, hunting squirrel since eight, and whitetail hunting starting at age 13. Like many (or perhaps most) hunters, this passion for hunting was instilled by his father, and Rinella feels bound to pass on those lessons to the next generation. Meat Eater: Adventures…
Review: Leaving Mundania
Live action role-playing, or LARP, is defined as “a type of role-playing game in which each participant assumes a particular character and acts out various scenarios at events which last for a predetermined time.” Although most people associate LARP with a bunch of people dressed as elves beating each other with foam swords, the tradition…
Non-Fiction November 2013
That’s right folks, it’s time for the 4th annual Non-fiction November — time to lay aside my beloved fiction and get a reality check by reading only non-fiction for the entire month. There’s plenty of reviews from previous years, and here’s a sneak peek of what I’ll be reading this time around. NFN 2013 books…