Rainy Day Reads

I figured it was about time I did something other than a review. Both to break up my feed and to get back into blogging again. As I’ve explained I have been quite busy lately and haven’t really devoted much time to my blog, but I am determined to get back into it and this tag sounded fun, so here goes! I first saw this video on Youtube at Lauren and the Books , so you can click here to see her video.  Recently Watched:The last book you finished reading. I finished “Delirium” just yesterday, as I am writing this (and wrote a review, like the good blogger I am (trying to be)). I didn’t really enjoy it that much, so I’ve decided to not continue the series, but you can read my review for more thoughts :)  2. Top Picks: A book/books that have been recommended to you based on a book you have previously read. This sounds a little bigheaded but I think I am the one in my circle of friends who reads the most, so I generally find my new books myself. I really can...

As one of my New Year’s Resolutions I decided to read more non-fiction this year, more specifically 12 non-fiction books. I picked this one as one of them because I don’t like the way the public debate has been conducted lately. There seems to be a lot of hate and intolerance and people try to justify it with “facts” apparently pulled out of almost thin air.   This book promises to take a hard look at these “facts” and refute most if not all of them, and unlike the propagators of the hateful speech, it actually backs up its claims. Granted this does get a little boring sometimes, but this is the stuff we need to refute the haters, so I definitely think it’s worth it to power through. And it really isn’t that bad. Saunders does a good job of giving us enough numbers to back up his claims and then adding a meaningful context to those numbers.  In the first part of the book Saunders takes the claims made by anti-immigrant, anti-muslim people and refutes them one by...