book review

The e-book of Creative You: Using Your Personality Type to Thrive by David Goldstein & Otto Kroeger was sent to me as a review copy earlier this month via Beyond Words Publishing. I very much enjoyed this book and found it so fascinating to begin by responding to the four main questions for determining my …

I love books, and I look getting them in the mail to review! The Shut Up and Shoot Freelance Video Guide: Any Budget. Any Camera. Any Time. by Anthony Q. Artis is a really awesome book to take you step by step through the process of shooting videos – from choosing your camera, understanding what …

“Restitution” is the true story of a Jewish Czechoslovakian family immigrating to Canada during the Holocaust and their determination to reclaim four paintings. If you’re in the least bit interested in history, art, legacy, and the struggle to maintain the self within times of political strife, you will be able to take much away from reading this book.

I just finished reading Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss this past weekend. It is wonderful. If you’re reading this blog, you likely have some interest in rhetoric, editing, and communication, so from that I’m going to go along with the assumption that you also are interested in how you can improve your rhetoric, …

Penguin Group sent me this book to review some time ago; now that we are in the middle of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games, I figured this would be prime time to discuss Red Snow. As a lawyer specializing in cases involving the criminally insane, author Michael Slade sets his murder mystery novel at …

One of my classes this term is Revolutions in Communication. Essentially it is a course about the history of communication, beginning with oral societies. Oral societies relied on stories to convey lessons, and an important part of these societies were the telling of fairy tales. The book that we are reading is Folk and Fairy …