Following Atticus: Forty-Eight High Peaks, One Little Dog, and an Extraordinary Friendship by Tom Ryan (2011) | Book Review
Following Atticus: Forty-Eight High Peaks, One Little Dog, and an Extraordinary Friendship by Tom Ryan Genres: Animals, Memoir, Non-Fiction Original Publication Date: 2011 Source: Advanced Reading Copy from the publisher. Goodreads Find the Author: Website, Blog, Facebook, Goodreads, Amazon In Following Atticus, Tom Ryan describes life with his mountain-climbing dog. After a close friend died of cancer, middle-aged, overweight, acrophobic newspaperman Tom Ryan decided to pay tribute to her in a most unorthodox manner. Ryan and his friend, miniature schnauzer Atticus M. Finch, would attempt to climb all forty-eight of New Hampshire’s four-thousand-foot peaks twice in one winter while raising money for charity. Following Atticus is an unforgettable true saga…
Reluctant Hero: A 9/11 Survivor Speaks Out by Michael Benfante (2011) | Book Review
Reluctant Hero: A 9/11 Survivor Speaks Out by Michael Benfante Genres: Memoir, Non-Fiction Original Publication Date: 2011 Source: Advanced Reading Copy from the publisher. Goodreads Find the Author: Website, Goodreads, Amazon Reluctant Hero. On Tuesday, September 11, 2001, Michael Benfante went to work, just like he had day after day, at his office on the eighty-first floor in the World Trade Center North Tower. Moments after the first plane struck, just twelve floors above him, Benfante organized his terrified employees, getting them out the office and moving down the stairwells. On his way down, he and another co-worker encountered a woman in a wheelchair on the sixty-eighth floor. Benfante, the…
The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun by Gretchen Rubin (2009) | Book Review
The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun by Gretchen Rubin Genres: Non-Fiction Original Publication Date: 2011 Source: I purchased this book Goodreads Find the Author: Website, Blog, Goodreads, Amazon Gretchen Rubin had an epiphany one rainy afternoon in the unlikeliest of places: a city bus. “The days are long, but the years are short,” she realized. “Time is passing, and I’m not focusing enough on the things that really matter.” In that moment, she decided to dedicate a year to her happiness project. In this lively and compelling account, Rubin…
Bobblehead Dad: 25 Life Lessons I Forgot I Knew by Jim Higley (2011) | Book Review
Bobblehead Dad: 25 Life Lessons I Forgot I Knew by Jim Higley Genres: Memoir, Non-Fiction Original Publication Date: 2011 Source: I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Goodreads Find the Author: Website, Blog, Facebook, Goodreads, Amazon Jim Higley was a forty-year-old bobblehead. Just like those collectible figurines with oversized, bouncy heads, he’d put on a smiling face and bobble through his hectic, overflowing days. Higley’s bobbling came to a screeching halt with the diagnosis of cancer, surgery, and a summer of healing. More than a cancer story, however, Bobblehead Dad puts you in a front-row seat as the author discovers the illuminating parallels between…
Borneo Tom: Stories and Sketches of Love, Travel and Jungle Family in Tropical Asia by Tom McLaughlin | Book Review
Borneo Tom: Stories and Sketches of Love, Travel and Jungle Family in Tropical Asia by Tom McLaughlin Genres: Memoir, Non-Fiction Original Publication Date: 2010 Source: I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Goodreads Find the Author: Website, Goodreads, Amazon Science Teacher Tom McLaughlin battled a rare neurological disease to a standstill, packed up his life and moved to Malaysian Borneo from a Washington D.C. suburb. Landing in Kuching, he quickly learned the Malay language and involved himself in projects which include orangutan rehabilitation and research about the famed naturalist, From dancing naked in an earthquake in Sumatra to getting lost in a warren of…
