Category — Non-fiction

Nina Hachigian and Mona Sutphen — The Next American Century: How the US Can Thrive As Other Countries Rise

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The standard going around now is that America needs to be deeply afraid. China and other countries are on the rise, the terrorists are waiting to get us, and the world is, basically, about the end. This is a scary, scary poison, whose effects can be felt throughout the political world.
The Next American Century: How [...]

May 12, 2008   No Comments

Sex Detox — Ian Kerner

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Basically, Sex Detox is a guided meditation on the role past relationship experiences have on your present day relationship life. While its primary focus is on the bedroom, its goal is that the program it details will help improve every aspect of your monogamous long term relationship OR help you get centered enough to work [...]

March 14, 2008   No Comments

candy girl: a year in the life of an unlikely stripper — diablo cody

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I have some seriously mixed feelings about this memoir. Basically, it’s about a middle-class white woman who falls in love with someone over the internet, and moves in with him. Sadly, he lives in Minneapolis, which is incredibly boring. She ends up falling into stripping, almost as though she’s looking for something to do. [...]

October 16, 2007   2 Comments

The Surrendered Wife

The Surrendered Wife, by Laura Doyle, has been out for a few years now, but has started making the blogs again recently -
this isn’t a proper review, as I haven’t read it - but “know them by their works” as the proverb goes, and this book’s works are ugly.
For example: this - http://www.aish.com/family/marriage/-The_Surrendered_Wife-$.asp [...]

June 20, 2007   32 Comments