Title: The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner’s Semester at America’s Holiest University Author: Kevin Roose Genre: Non-fiction, journalism Publication Date: 2009 Purchase Price: $13.99 (paperback) After experiencing the twenty thousand-member Thomas Road Baptist Church (run by Jerry Falwell) as part of his job as a writer’s assistant, 19 year-old Brown University sophomore Kevin Roose is flummoxed….
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“A man sits in a room, manipulating his kneecaps.”
Title: Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex Author: Mary Roach Genre: Non-fiction, science Publication Date: 2008 Purchase Price: $14.95 (paperback) I know I’ve mentioned this before, but Mary Roach is one of my favorite authors. Not only does she write books on topics that are interesting, she does so with aplomb and a…
“Tomorrow, my journey as an English teacher officially begins.”
Title: The Freedom Writers Diary Author: The Freedom Writers with Erin Gruwell Genre: Non-fiction Publication Date: 1999 Purchase Price: Around $10 Erin Gruwell is twenty-three and teaching at Wilson High in Long Beach, California, where drugs and gang activity are the norm. The students are drawn along racial lines, and each group feels that everything…
“The way I see it, being dead is not terribly far off from being on a cruise ship.”
Title: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Author: Mary Roach Genre: Non-fiction, science Publication date: 2003 Purchase price: $10 Today’s blog is all about serendipitous finds. Sometime during the summer of 2003, I was wandering around Barnes and Noble with my father. I didn’t have any particular purchases in mind, so I was just…
“Eventually I had to accept that I wasn’t working in restaurants to support my art…”
Title: Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter Author: Phoebe Damrosch Genre: Non-fiction, biography Publication Date: 2008 Purchase Price: About $15.00 Welcome to the second (and final) part of my “Get a Job!” series. Last time I gave a quick rundown of What Color is Your Parachute?, a book that will help you find…