Tampa Book Buzz

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…Movie Crazy by Leonard Maltin

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…Ok, I don’t really want to read this myself, but I want to make sure middle-school girls read it:

Math Doesn’t Suck by Danica McKellar, former star of Wonder Years

“The only television actress in American to co-author a groundbreaking mathematical physics theorem,” said Peg Tyre in Newsweek.

h/t The Week magazine

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Several of the books higlighted on Inkwood Books’ website sound entertaining:

• An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England by Brock Clarke
• Middle School is Worse Than Meatloaf:A Year Told Through Stuff by Jennifer L. Holm
• The Omnivore’s Dilemma:A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
• The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop:A History, A Memoir by Lewis Buzbee

Visit www.inkwoodbooks.com to browse for hours.

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The Sundance Kids:How the Mavericks Took Back Hollywood by James Mottram

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…50 Days Worse Than Yours by Justin Racz

From Amazon.com: Having a bad day? Imagine spilling a soy frappuccino on your best suit while on your way to an interview, or getting stuck in a subway station turnstile, or even getting three flat tires while driving on the New Jersey Turnpike.  Filled with hilarious photographs and outrageous bullet points listing each day’s horrible traits, 50 Days Worse Than Yours is the perfect gift for anyone who’s ever woken up on the wrong side of the bed.

So there are days worse than mine!

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Leave the Office Earlier:The Productivity Pro Shows You How To Do More in Less Time…And Feel Great About It by Laura Stack — First: read the book.  Second: get my boss to let me leave the office earlier.

Thumbs, Toes and Tears:And Other Traits That Make Us Human by Chip Walter — Book titles are just getting better and better.

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…Talking Right:How Conservatives Turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show by Geoffrey Nunberg

No matter what your political affliation, you’ve gotta love the title.

this sounds interesting…

…Mysteries of the Middle Ages:The Rise of Feminism, Science and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe by Thomas Cahill

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My reading list keeps getting longer. I’ve come across a lot of books recently that sound very interesting:

Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl — People called this “a blockbuster debut” full of “literary and pop cultural references and illustrations by Pessel herself” that “demands attention.”

The Ruins by Scott Smith — Entertainment Weekly called it an “old-fashioned horror story” and Salon.com warns “don’t start this book if you are weak of stomach or nerves.” The Week highlighted The Ruins as Novel of the Week and Time included it on their list 6 Guilt-Free Pleasures to Read at the Beach.

I talked my local librarian into giving me an extra copy of a new-book catalog he had lying around (although he made me promise not to clog their online system by adding all of them to my library holds list). There are too many fascinating, intriguing titles to mention them all here, but here’s a few that piqued my interest:

Social Intelligence:The New Science of Human Relationships by Daniel Goleman (out September 26th)

The Birth House by Ami McKay (August)

Renfield:Slave of Dracula by Barbara Hambly (September)

Considering Doris Day by Tom Santopietro (September)

Brainiac:Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs by Ken Jennings (September)

Women of Valor:The Rochambelles on the WWII Front by Ellen Hampton (September)

Reading Like A Writer:A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them by Francine Prose (September)

Dead Center:Behind the Scenes at the World’s Largest Medical Examiner’s Office by Shiya Ribowsky and Tom Shachtman (September)

So many books, so little time!

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Slack:Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency by Tom DeMarco. I saw a quote in a magazine from the book that “people may do their best thinking when they are not concentrating on work at all.”

If my boss is reading this: I’ll be at the beach tomorrow, doing some heavy thinking. Don’t call me; I’ll call you when I’m finished thinking.