How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber My rating: 4 of 5 stars Overall, a valuable addition to the “child raising” section of the bookshelf. Lots of foundation, tactics, and illustrations. It gets the best endorcement I know how to give...

The Only Investment Guide You’ll Ever Need by Andrew Tobias My rating: 2 of 5 stars I didn’t enjoy this at all. In attempting to be The Only book you’ll need on investing (and personal finance, in general)), the author put himself in the tenuous position of being both an...

Equality for Men by Glen Poole My rating: 4 of 5 stars Very good as an introduction to men’s issues.Assuming a person (1) can get past the title and (2) isn’t already polarized/radicalized, it’s written with such simplicity and clarity that it’d be hard for them to walk away from...

The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell My rating: 4 of 5 stars Being an earlier work of Vowell’s, this book is more a collection of narrative essays than a single narrative work. Basically Sarah Vowell is Chuck Klosterman but, instead of pop culture and sports, she writes about politics...