anyone read this? someone suggested it to me...

Quoted: Amazon.com: Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream

hah, this should be funny. i want to read it now.

Quoted: The full-monty Stephen Colbert television brilliance doesn’t quite make it to the page.

Quoted: Amazon.com: Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children: Books: John Wood

Sri recommended this...reminder to get it. Looks like a great read.

Quoted: James Ingham meets the people and mules taking books to the mountain villages of Venezuela.

A "MULE"bile library, heh! That's awesome...can we do this for remote Indian villages? That's going to be my start-up company...any investors?

Quoted: Amazon.com: We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda: Books: Philip Gourevitch by Philip Gourevitch

with increasing violence in North and North East Africa, thought it appropriate to dot this book. FANTASTIC

Journalist Philip Gourevitch returns to Rwanda two years after the genocide to view the aftermath and recount the horrors...it's a non-fiction book. What all happened in Rwanda and the lack of action from the US, Europe, etc. is not only uphauling, but simply, in my mind, unethical. You will cry, possibly even stay awake, but you NEED to read this book. One question for you all, when should the US and EU, NATO be a policing body in the international arena?

Quoted: JK Rowling says she is back at work, just days after the publication of her final Harry Potter book.

Don't lose hope Harry Potter fans!

Quoted: Rowling's work is so familiar that we've forgotten how radical it really is. Look at her literary forebears. In The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien fused his ardent Catholicism with a deep, nostalgic love for the unspoiled English landscape. C.S. Lewis was a devout Anglican whose Chronicles of Narnia forms an extended argument for Christian faith. Now look at Rowling's books. What's missing? If you want to know who dies in Harry Potter, the answer is easy: God.

interesting reflection on religion in Harry Potter...but is leaving out the "sacred" and re-enforcing the idea of "love" necessarily a bad thing, especially considering the youth who are engaged by these novels? if Rowling did indeed leave out God, what about Sirius, Harry's Godfather?

Quoted: ANY American cook who longs to plunge deeply into the cuisine of India is bound to grow impatient with the cookbooks offered by major United States publishers. Wonderful though many of those books are, their scope looks awfully limited stacked up against the riches now found in the innumerable grocery shops and restaurants that the Indian diaspora has brought here.

So true. I wish Indian-American restaurants would serve Bengali food...it's so delicious and very unique, especially if you love sea food. I want to check out these books.