Category: Book Review
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Review: “Enlightenment Now” by Steven Pinker
by Jason Stotts In case you haven’t heard of it yet, Harvard Psychologist Steven Pinker has a new book out defending the enlightenment and the progress that humanity has made since then called “Enlightenment Now”. The blurb for it is: Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant…
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Inferno: Cassandra’s Call
by Jason Stotts A friend of mine just released a new fantasy book called “Inferno: Cassandra’s Call.” It’s the first in a new series that looks to be quite interesting. The blurb is: Fall into a world where each new moon renews Earth’s hunger for human sacrifices. The Order of Pure and Cleansing Inferno administers…
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Ill-Defined Harm: A Review of Jesse Bering’s Perv
by Jason Stotts Let me start by saying that overall, I enjoyed Jesse Bering’s new book Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us. Bering does a great job of parsing psychological studies and medical texts in a way that’s easily readable and interesting. In fact, overall I recommend Perv and think that most people…
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Mindset
by Jason Stotts I don’t do a lot of book recommendation on here. But, sometimes a book is so good that I just need to comment on it. That book is Mindset by Carol Dweck. The basic premise is that there are two fundamental mindsets in life: the growth mindset and the fixed mindset. In…
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The Hunger Games
by Jason Stotts The movie The Hunger Games has been doing exceptionally well in the box office and it’s no surprise. The Hunger Games are poignant, dramatic, and moving. It is the story of children caught up in the machine of an all powerful government who controls the very lives of its citizens and kills…
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Review: Crosspoints
by Jason Stotts Crosspoints: A Novel of Choice by Alexandra York ISBN:1413418953 In Crosspoints, Alexandra York weaves the story of three people whose passion for their work may or may not be the result of unacknowledged premises: Leon, whose artistic fame is rivaled only by the price of his commissions; Tara, whose passion for archaeology…