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Fifty Places to Go Birding Before You Die

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Fifty Places to Go Birding Before You Die: Birding Experts Share The World’s Greatest Destinations

By Chris Santella

If you a bird watcher this is a destination guide for you! This is a book for bird watchers. If your not a bird watcher and want a gift for this is also for you, but otherwise this review isn’t for you.

Santella talks to the luminaries of the bird watching sport and finds out the most amazing places they have been or would go to bird watch. Included with the recommended destinations are travel ideas and tips, but most of all stories about the places that make them even more incredible.

This book is great, especially of you love to scheme and dream about traveling. It also does quite well at including a variety of destinations, not just destinations most people could never even dream about going. About half of the destinations are in the United States making the book even or useful for the average birdwatcher.

My only negative about the book is that there are only 50 spots, and no real information about each area on a broader scale suggesting other close by hot spots and things that can be done around those destinations. Many places listed are only one hot spot among many. Otherwise this is a great book, and a great starting place for finding an incredible place to go birding!

Rating 4/5.

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Father Knows Less Or: “Can I Cook My Sister?”

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Father Knows Less Or: “Can I Cook My Sister?”: One Dad’s Quest to Answer His Son’s Most Baffling Questions

By Wendell Jamieson

This book is from a dad who decided to find the answers to the questions his inquisitive son had. You get the good, bad and ugly in this book to answer almost all the questions you might expect to get as a parent. Not just that, it offers an introspective into parenting and bigger questions parents will face themselves.

This book is well written and hilarious to read as odd questions and answers roll forth from the mouths of kids and experts.

Fun to read a bit at a time or all the way through, it is a good change from the same old thing you’ve been reading. A must read for everyone.

Rating 5/5.

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Father Knows Less Or: “Can I Cook My Sister?”: One Dad’s Quest to Answer His Son’s Most Baffling Questions

Collapse – Jared Diamond

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Collapse – How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

By Jared Diamond

Collapse is a book for everyone to read. It isn’t a soft fluffy fairy tail but a serious look at the journey of mankind. It considers where we have been, mistakes we have made along with successes and suggest directions we may be heading unless we make some major and minor course corrections.

This book digs deep into why past societies have failed and what led up to those failures. Diamond then considers how the multitude of failures seen in the past, apparent and not, might be sneaking into our own society. The book isn’t a doom and gloom book but does attempt give an honest perspective on where we are as a society, both good and bad.

Overall this book really should be read by everyone, environmentalist or not. It is slow at times because of the depth of information given, but Diamonds story telling ability makes even boring facts come to life and fit into a proper and interesting context.

I give it a must read and rating of 5/5.

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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Twilight

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Twilight

by Stephenie Meyer

This book mainly falls under the category of fiction, and contains a bit of romance. It is a fun, easy, enjoyable novel to read about Bella, a teenage girl, caught up in the world of vampires.

Things begin when the stunning vampire Edward Cullen and the ordinary Bella Swan fall intensely in love. It is naturally highly dangerous for her to be so involved in a world of monsters, and does indeed find herself in quite a bit of trouble. This happens when the Cullen family known as “vegetarian,” have other “natural feeding” of their kind show up.

Overall Rating: 4 of 5

This book is extremely popular, and incredibly accepted especially among women, (it is partially a love story). I do know guys that have read it and most did enjoy it.

In my opinion, the authors voice is a turnoff. I don’t like the repetitive descriptions of particular things, and also I don’t favor the relationship that Bella and Edward share. It is relatively unbalanced. Nonetheless I did quite enjoy the book, and would recommend it. It is certainly a page turner with a captivating story and definitely entertaining.

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Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1)