The Fireside Book Chat

The Fireside Book Chat


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Playing Our Game: Why China’s Rise Doesn’t Threaten The West - a book review by Will
November 17, 2010

MLA citation: Steinfeld, Edward. Playing our Game: Why China’s Rise Doesn’t Threaten     he West.New York.Oxford press.2010.print China as a country has expanded at an unbelievably rapid pace over the last decade. They are almost entirely diffe

Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber - a book review by Carrie
November 16, 2010

Schreiber, Rheta Flora. Sybil. New York, NY: Warner, 1973. Print. 14 October, 2010. The book Sybil, by Flora Rheta Schreber, is about the life of a woman by the name of Sybil Dorsett. This woman, Sybil Dorsett, had developed sixteen different personalit

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch- a book review by Mike
November 15, 2010

Pausch, Randy. The Last Lecture. New York: Hyperion, 2008. Print. There are few works as inspiring and surreal as Randy Pausch’s The Last Lecture. A brilliant professor at Carnegie Melon University, Pausch was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. With on

Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines by Nic Sheff - a book review by Kim
November 12, 2010

Sheff,Nic. Tweak: Growing up on Methamphetamines. New York: Atheneum books for young readers.2007.Print. The book Tweak is about a guy named Nic Sheff going through life living on all kinds of drugs like crack, cocaine, heroin and crystal meth. He expla

Fast Food Nation: The Darkside of the American Meal by Eric Schlosser - a book review by Bobby
November 10, 2010

Schlosser, Eric. “Fast Food Nation: The Darkside of the All-American Meal”. New York:         Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001. Print The premise of Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation: The Darkside of the All-American Meal is to discuss the sto

Black Like Me by John H. Griffin - a book review by Emily
November 08, 2010

Griffin, John H. Black Like Me. New American Library. 1960. Print. John Griffin had always wanted to know what it would be like to become a negro in the deep south. He started his experiment and was shocked by the way he looked because he resembled not

Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil by Peter Maas - a book review by Jenna
November 05, 2010

Maas, Peter. “Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil.” New York: Vintage Books, A Division of Random House, Inc., 2009. Print. A country that possesses the power of oil, is generally doomed to have a total destruction of its political, social, and

Roach, Mary. Stiff. Stiff:The Curious Lives Of Human Cadavers. - Anthony
November 03, 2010

Roach, Mary. Stiff. Stiff:The Curious Lives Of Human Cadavers. New York: W. W. Norton 8         Company, 2003. Print. Summary With Quote: The book Stiff by Mary Roach discusses the many different ways that human bodies that are dedicated to scien

We Beat The Streets by Sharon M. Draper - A Book review by Shane
November 02, 2010

I read a book called We Beat The Streets. It’s a story of how Three boys friendship pact led to their success. Sam, George And Rameck Grew up in Newark, New Jersey a very poor area with  a lot of crime. They also had to fight violence and drugs in thei

The Blindside by Michael Lewis - a book review by Jeff
November 01, 2010

The Blindside by Michael Lewis - a book review by Jeff