Written episodically, giving it a slightly different form than one is used to with most Scalzi works.

Read aloud to the boys in the car. Excellent lessons on manners, thrift, self-sufficiency and money management amid tales of life on a farm in post Civil War America, where apparently doughnuts and pie were served with every meal, every day.

The newest book in Cussler's turn-of-the-century detective series is the best one yet. Fast moving with new locations and interesting twists on his normal formula.

A collection of newspaper and magazine articles from the 30's to the 50's - Wildly varied in subject, invariably entertaining.

An easy, breezy read, a must-read for anyone with any kind of hospitality or customer-service related position.

Dark, depressing, and beautiful. Black Lizard had yet too steer me wrong.

Some of the relevance and shock value has worn off as kitchen memoirs are no longer a novelty, but the readability of the material and the universality of the characters and lessons keep it as interesting today as it was upon publication.

A critical examination of baseball legend, folklore, and oral history. Interesting for student of both baseball and history for the methodology, the analysis, and the interpretation of stories about Ruth, Gehrig, Dean, Wagner and others.

Entertaining but limited in its scope of appeal.

Issue 41 (second issue in this collection) is one of the more powerful comics I've ever read.

Been a while since I read vol. 4, but the story picked up easily and pulled me right back in.

Classic characters mucked up by DC's current modus operandi of superficial PC changes - Atom (Now Chinese), Vixen (the  Black and Female Animal-Man rip-off) The Ray (Now Alien AND Gay), plus the current de rigueur "reformed villain" make for a terrible read.

Never disappointed with a Cussler.

A chef's memoir, heavy on the personal and light on the cooking.

Entertaining, but choppier and less focused than his other novel or short stories.

Another in a series of broad pictorial histories, oddly weighted toward photos of the old Curtis Publishing Company (prob. 10 percent of the content).

More a collection of essays than his previous biographical works, still highly entertaining.

Typical leftist Doctrow, but well written enough that the politics can be ignored in favor of the story.

Nothing new and fairly childish; good for a chuckle but never a laugh.

A bit repetitive but otherwise entertaining. It felt like something was off when I was reading it and I didn't realize what it was till I reached the end of the story and glanced at the jacket blurbs - this is the second volume in a series.