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Yiddish with George and Laura by Ellis Weiner and Barbara Davilman

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

Reviewed by L.D.Y.

Hardcover, 108 pages, 2006

Rating: 8/10

Reason for Reading: We’ll call this a tribute to the mid-term elections of our southern neighbours.

Synopsis: George and Laura Bush take their daughters to visit George Sr and Barbara for their birthdays, and are also joined by George’s charming assortment of brothers…but they’re doing it in Yiddish. Watch the dysfunctional presidential family interact with each other, all while learning Yiddish words to slyly get your digs in at the shmendrik in your life.

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An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore

Saturday, September 30th, 2006

Reviewed by L.D.Y.

Trade, 328 pages, 2006

Rating: 8/10

Reason for Reading: I didn’t realize there was a book to go along with Gore’s movie of the same name until he was on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

Synopsis: Global warming: proof that it exists; proof that we’re seeing the damage now and not just in future generations; and hope that something can be done. Gore based this book on lectures he’s been giving steadily over the past six years, and presents everything in quick snippets of photos, graphs, and accompanying explanations of what they mean to the planet, and to us.

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Dude, Where’s My Country? by Michael Moore

Saturday, November 22nd, 2003

Reviewed by L.D.Y.

Hardcover (available in trade), 249 pages, 2003

Rating: 9/10

Reason for Reading: I liked Stupid White Men, as well as Moore’s documentary, “Bowling for Columbine.”

Synopsis: Moore explores post-September 11, 2001 America, and how the event has been exploited and lied about for political gain, including trying to justify the war in Iraq. He also looks at how America’s wealthiest have exploited not just other countries, but their fellow countrymen as well. He finishes up by arguing that most of America consists of RINOs - Republicans in Name Only, and how America needs to change it’s idea of ‘liberals’ to get rid of Bush in the upcoming election.

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Fire and Ice: The United States, Canada and the Myth of Converging Values by Michael Adams

Monday, September 15th, 2003

Reviewed by L.D.Y.

Hardcover (available in trade), 224 pages (incl. 80 pages of appendix and index), 2003

Rating: 7/10

Reason for Reading: It sounded interesting.

Synopsis: Through a series of surveys conducted in 1992, 1996, and 2000, Adams explores how Canadians and Americans stack up against each other, values-wise, and argues that the two countries are actually growing apart in ideals rather than blending together as one.

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Archive for the ‘Current Affairs’ Category

Yiddish with George and Laura by Ellis Weiner and Barbara Davilman

Reviewed by L.D.Y.

Hardcover, 108 pages, 2006

Rating: 8/10

An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore

Reviewed by L.D.Y.

Trade, 328 pages, 2006

Rating: 8/10

Dude, Where’s My Country? by Michael Moore

Reviewed by L.D.Y.

Hardcover (available in trade), 249 pages, 2003

Rating: 9/10

Fire and Ice: The United States, Canada and the Myth of Converging Values by Michael Adams

Reviewed by L.D.Y.

Hardcover (available in trade), 224 pages (incl. 80 pages of appendix and index), 2003

Rating: 7/10

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