Book #13 of 2016: Modern Romance: An Investigation by Aziz Ansari and Eric Klinenberg On the whole, I really liked this one, although it’s definitely not what you would expect from a stand-up comic / comedic actor like Aziz Ansari’s first book. He makes jokes throughout, but this is mostly a data-driven examination of love …
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Book #41 of 2015: Untouchable: The Strange Life and Tragic Death of Michael Jackson by Randall Sullivan I don’t know how I feel about this one. I did learn a lot, and Michael Jackson had a very interesting life, but this narrative is a really disjointed telling of it. It keeps hopping around in time …
Book #31 of 2015: The Jihad Next Door: The Lackawanna Six and Rough Justice in an Age of Terror by Dina Temple-Raston This was a fascinating piece of local and national history that I’d had no idea about before stumbling across this book in the library. Basically, the Lackawanna Six were a small group of …
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