Amazon.com: Books: A. J. Jacobs
What’s notable about this book is that it has 85 reader reviews two weeks before the pub date. And most of them sell the book.
Pauline, one of the two English ladies whose lives in Iraq are the subject of Lynne O’Donnell’s High Tea in Mosul, sends Lynne emails every few days describing what life is like in Dohuk, where she is living these days. They are fascinating for their descriptions of daily lives, which are punctuated sometimes by the violence of war, and always in its shadow.
Walking Broad author Bruce Buschel wonders why his hometown has the first professional sports team to lose 10,000 times.