Reading Copy Book Blog

Enjoy my colleague Richard’s review of The Blind Side and Moneyball, both by Michael Lewis – the writing is interesting enough to keep even a non-sports fan interested.

Review of The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern – an absolutely enchanting book, nearly impossible to put down.

Lots of interest, including an appearance on the John Stewart Show, in a book called Soldier Dogs by Maria Goodavage that was published a couple of weeks ago. The book details canines in the military. Apparently, there was a dog on the team when the US Navy Seals killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. I [...]

I’m probably going to have to read some of Ed Smith’s books sooner rather than later. The Guardian reviews his latest book, Luck: What It Means and Why It Matters – a key element for anyone who has made a living in professional sport. One of Smith’s aims is to challenge the view popularised by [...]

AbeBooks review of The Hunger Games movie.

The blog 101 Books writes about Graham Greene and eight-year-old Shirley Temple. The English author reviewed one of Temple’s movies and wrote this: Watch the way she measures a man with agile studio eyes, with dimpled depravity. Adult emotions of love and grief glissade across the mask of childhood, a childhood that is only skin-deep. [...]

Angelo Dundee has passed away at 90. His illustrious and unforgettable career included training Sugar Ray Leonard, George Foreman, and of course Muhammad Ali.

My colleague Beth offers this review of R. Crumb’s Heroes of Blues, Jazz & Country. Robert Crumb, better known as R. Crumb, is an American cartoonist, well-known for being outspoken, critical and subversive, for his highly recognizable illustrative style, and for his friendship and collaborations with Charles Bukowski. But many people don’t realize that Crumb [...]

Have you ever tried keeping a list of all the books you read or all the movies you watch in a year? For the past few years I’ve done both, and have been pleased at how satisfying it’s been to see the list as winter winds down. For someone who finds value in reading, it [...]

Daniel Kalder offers a review of Kim Jong-il’s Our Socialism Centered On the Masses Shall Not Perish.