Category Archives: Book Review

Meditations On Meaning

“I denied myself noth­ing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no plea­sure. My heart took delight in all my work, and this was the reward for all my labor. Yet when I sur­veyed all that my hands had done, and what I had toiled to achieve, every­thing was mean­ing­less, a chas­ing after the wind; …

March 14, 2012 – 4:22 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Book Review | Comments (0)

Book Review — The Great Cholesterol Con

Let’s go on a lit­tle jour­ney. Imag­ine if you will the fol­low­ing sit­u­a­tion. A US phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal com­pany, always on the out­look for ways to improve people’s lives, cre­ates a drug that is excep­tion­ally good at treat­ing patients with chronic and acute pain par­tic­u­larly in cases of arthri­tis. The drug is sub­mit­ted to and approved by …

September 15, 2011 – 10:26 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Book Review, Culture | Comments (1)

Book Review — Roads by Larry McMurtry

I picked Roads — Dri­ving America’s Great High­ways up on a lark at the Wylie library on Tues­day and fin­ished it Wednes­day. Larry McMurtry is an excel­lent author and that trans­fers well from his more famil­iar fic­tion to this semi-travel book on dri­ving the major roads of the United States. He starts off the book …

June 17, 2011 – 12:14 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Book Review | Tagged | Comments (0)

Book Review — When The Cheering Stopped

I recently fin­ished read­ing When The Cheer­ing Stopped, an account of the last years of Woodrow Wil­son. This is the hard­cover edi­tion, pub­lished in 1964. K found it when going through some of her late father’s things and gave it to me since she knew I like his­tory books. Based on the inscrip­tion, it was …

April 26, 2011 – 10:22 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Book Review | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)