This is another title that my cousin, Ann, donated to the collection. She wasn’t 100% sold on it, but I still want to give it a try. The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner: NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2013 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW New York magazine’s number one book of the… Read more

Another helpful title: Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives by Gretchen Rubin: The author of the blockbuster New York Times bestsellers, The Happiness Project and Happier at Home, tackles the critical question: How do we change?    Gretchen Rubin’s answer: through habits. Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life. It takes work to make a habit, but once… Read more

This is another title I hope to read very quickly: Slim by Design: Mindless Eating Solutions for Everyday Life by Dr. Brian Wansink: In Slim by Design, leading behavioral economist, food psychologist, and bestselling author Brian Wansink introduces groundbreaking solutions for designing our most common spaces–schools, restaurants, grocery stores, and home kitchens, among others–in order to make positive changes in how… Read more

I love short stories, and I’m betting by the time this post shows up, I’ll have already reviewed this one. Lucky by Jonathan Lethem: Jonathan Lethem’s third collection of stories uncovers a father’s nervous breakdown at SeaWorld in “Pending Vegan”; a foundling child rescued from the woods during a blizzard in “Traveler Home”; a political prisoner in a hole in a… Read more