By Neil Postman | One day, as I was contemplating the shear volume of media content that humanity has created—and the inability of one single person to consume a meaningful portion of it–I came across a book titled “Amusing Ourselves to Death.” Intrigued, I immediately bought the book and placed it in my bookshelf where…
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Bodyweight Strength Training Anatomy
By Bret Contreras | Do you work out, want to work out, or are you getting back into the swing of things? Are you looking for a new routine? Want to increase your physical education knowledge? Have you already learned the basics of, “Eat more, lift more,” but still find that something is missing. |…
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Why America Doesn’t Work | How the Decline of the Work Ethic Is Hurting Your Family and Future—and What You Can Do
By Chuck Colson & Jack Eckerd | Day after day the prisoners hauled the same mountain of rubble back and forth from one end of the camp to the other. After several weeks of this meaningless drudgery, one old man began sobbing uncontrollably and was led away by the guards. Another screamed until his captors…
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WEBTOON Round Up: Spring 2023
1) To Not Die | If I had to describe ‘To Not Die’ in one word it would be… fluid. This series is all about fighting, street fights to be exact, and so it uses a lot of impressive visual effects such as comic streaks, panorama shots, and blury camera effects to depict all of…
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WebToon Round Up: Fall 2022
1) Odd Girl Out | This was the webtoon that got me into webtoons. It’s ongoing and was good enough to get a K-Drama adaptation made of it. Here’s the official summary: “After a successful winter break makeover, Nari is finally ready for her high school debut. But somehow, she ends up friends with the…
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
By Simon Winchester | As someone who likes both words and biographies when I saw the title The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary I knew that it was something that I had to pick up. I don’t regret that choice. Delivered in a…
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The Book of Psalms
| Psalms. The biblical book of songs. Likely you’ve seen or heard a few of them such as “The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.” or “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they…
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The Defining Decade | Why Your Twenties Matter and How to Make the Most of Them Now
| Let’s be honest the people who need to read this book the most are the ones who are the least likely to. Maybe you fall into that camp, so I’ll do my best to summarize it here. “The Defining Decade” is not a book about fictional people. It is a book about real people….
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If It’s for My Daughter, I’d Even Defeat a Demon Lord Volumes 1-4
| One hundred and fifty. This is the number of instances that my Google Play Books’s word counter could find the word “cute” in the first four books of the light novel series “If It’s for My Daughter, I’d Even Defeat a Demon Lord”. So cute is a good word then to describe this series…
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On the Run | Fugitive Life in an American City
| In high school, I sold Little Debby snack cakes during our morning break. I never made much but at least I could throw some money down on my phone bill or put some gas in my truck. For the young, poor blacks of 6th Street depicted in Alice Goffman’s book “On the Run: Fugitive…
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