Tim Patrick is at it again. Reading, that is. He enjoys books, but now he’s about to get professional. Starting today, May 1, 2011, Tim embarks on The Well-Read Man Project. His goal: to read fifty of the most important books of all time within the span of a year. Fortunately, he’s not going to [...]

Mercury Falls by Robert Kroese To purchase this book from Amazon.com, click here. True believers have been trying to pin down the apocalypse since angels first visited the Apostle John on Patmos, a crazy evening 1,900 years ago that included a few too many late-night chili-dogs. Some of these prognosticators of man’s demise are charismatic, [...]

There Is A God: How the world’s most notorious atheist changed his mind by Antony Flew To buy this book from amazon.com, click here. Today’s atheists and Christians seem to rub each other the wrong way. Whether it’s a “new atheist” like Sam Harris or Richard Dawkins dumping on believers, or a James Dobson type [...]

Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don’t by John R. Lott, Jr. To buy this book from amazon.com, click here. I just finished reading Freedomnomics, a book by John R. Lott, Jr., that is, in part, a response to the popular book Freakonomics by Levitt and Dubner. To be honest, I [...]

The Perfect Thing by Steven Levy To purchase this book from Amazon.com, click here. I finally broke down and bought my son an iPod this week. He already had a music player, something called the “Coby MPC885″ that doubled as a thumb drive. It was small, sleek, had a glowing multi-color single-line interface, and could [...]

When you name your book A Short History of Nearly Everything, you run the risk of having readers ignore all of your other books, since they can’t possibly contain anywhere near the content of said book. But Bill Bryson has gambled with both reputation and financial ruin, and published yet another giant book on whatever [...]