book report – 11 aug 2015

books – 11 aug 2015

This week, I finally finished a book! While I still spent much of the week finishing up the spring cleaning project, I’m finding a few more moments here and there to read once again.

I finally finished The Road to McCarthy: Around the World in Search of Ireland by Pete McCarthy. I didn’t love it, but I was happy to learn a bit more about the history of Ireland via a “travel memoir”. I think I would have preferred to read his McCarthy’s Bar: A Journey of Discovery In Ireland.

I finally started to read The China Study by T. Colin Campbell. I think I’ll enjoy it, but I don’t know how it might change my eating habits.

I also started Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget by Sarah Hepola. Not sure if I’ll like it, but we’ll see.

I read a few chapters of Standard Deviations: Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data, and Other Ways to Lie with Statistics by Gary Smith. I’m still enjoying it.

I *re-started* The College Solution: A Guide for Everyone Looking for the Right School at the Right Price (2nd Edition) by Lynn O’Shaughnessy. This time with a highlighter, pen, sticky notes and more…

I don’t think I read any of this other book this week. Too many books in progress already!

• The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane

I keep a list of completed books on Goodreads. I also keep one here on my blog.