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Diets Don’t Work

The Metabolic Storm, 2nd Edition by Emily Cooper

February 17, 2019 by Tracy 6 Comments

The beginning and end of this review are going to be fairly personal because the topic is very personal to me. I’ve been overweight for most of my life. After years of being in and out of therapy for food and body issues, I finally recently got around to seeing a nutritionist. She recommended this book to me. Author Emily Cooper makes a point of classifying overweight/obesity as a disease and believes that it should be recognized and treated as such, especially since various medical […]

Shake Me Because I’m Falling Asleep From This Book

To Shake the Sleeping Self by Jedidiah Jenkins

February 15, 2019 by Rachel Leave a Comment

To Shake the Sleeping Self by Jedidiah Jenkins Finished Feb. 15, 2019, took 11 days to read 2 Stars on Goodreads Genre: Non-Fiction Rating 7/7 for 2019 overall, 2/2 for Non- Fiction Let me preface this by stating that I feel bad for the review I am about to write. I realize this is a memoir about someone’s journey, which was likely emotional, passionate, and life-changing. But unfortunately, that doesn’t translate to a book. And now I am about to crap all over that book. […]

I have no idea what I’m doing

Exhibition Design by Philip Hughes

February 11, 2019 by tillie 4 Comments

Say you get a new job, one that’s your dream, but also that you’re grossly under-qualified for. You have limited experience, it requires you move to a different country and you basically have a month to do it. What would you do? Buy a book? Well, congratulations you’re 100% like me. Also you will buy this particular book because you liked the cover. #GoodChoices. This book is not the bible of exhibition design it’s a low-stakes introduction, a sort of ‘which-one-where-does-what’ of exhibition design. I […]

Just call me cranky. Hi cranky, I’m dad.

The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death by Colson Whitehead

February 9, 2019 by yesknopemaybe Leave a Comment

I have a feeling this was a poor choice for first Colson Whitehead book. He’s clearly a very talented writer and yet, this reads like a magazine article that bloated beyond capacity. I would really be curious to read the article in Grantland that inspired this book because I bet it was fucking awesome. As a book? It’s uneven and all over the place. Much of the humor felt forced. It’s hard knowing how to rate a book like this, so I finally settled on […]

When he casually fails to mention his other fiancée

Duped: Double Lives, False Identities, and the Con Man I Almost Married by Abby Ellin

February 9, 2019 by yesknopemaybe 4 Comments

In college, I lived in one of those big houses that had a million roommates. There were always people moving in and out and while I was close with many of my roommates, others stayed for just a short while and we never got to know them very well. One of these was a woman who was a compulsive liar. She told small lies and big lies, so many lies that it hardly seemed she even noticed she was telling lies. It was like she […]

Maybe the movie is better?

The Monuments Men by Robert M. Edsel

February 9, 2019 by yesknopemaybe 5 Comments

2.5 stars. I really, really wanted to like this book. Such an interesting story about world war 2 that doesn’t get told in schools. Hitler and other top brass during the war were obsessed with getting their hands on and hoarding artistic masterpieces. (Except, not modern art which they thought was degenerate and they sought to destroy.) Many treasures were stolen away and hidden, creating utter chaos in the art world. Cue the Monuments Men, a special force tasked with locating and saving these pieces […]

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