55. The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
This was a really good book about the founding of the Massachusetts commonwealth by Puritans, and it's a lot funnier than that sounds. Sarah Vowell can find the interesting, amusing, and ironic in any historical situation. I especially liked this one because she relates it to current politics.
12/4/08
54. The Kazdin Method for Parenting the Defiant Child by Alan Kazdin
This is a really good book, I really like the method and believe that it works. It basically is about how to reinforce good behaviors by praising your child and not reinforcing bad behaviors to extinguish them. It seems pretty obvious, but this is the first book I've read that really emphasizes the effect your praise can have and doesn't deal a lot with how to punish but rather how not to punish (so that your punishment doesn't reinforce the behavior by giving lots of attention to it)
This is a really good book, I really like the method and believe that it works. It basically is about how to reinforce good behaviors by praising your child and not reinforcing bad behaviors to extinguish them. It seems pretty obvious, but this is the first book I've read that really emphasizes the effect your praise can have and doesn't deal a lot with how to punish but rather how not to punish (so that your punishment doesn't reinforce the behavior by giving lots of attention to it)
53. The Innocent Man by John Grisham
Robbie picked this up at an airport but never had time to read it so I decided to give it a try. It was the true story of a man on death row exonerated by DNA evidence (before the death sentence, luckily). I've never read any John Grisham before so I'm not sure that liking his first non-fiction book means that I will enjoy his other novels, but I may have to look some up. I read all the Wikipedia articles that I could find about the actual case that this book is about. I even read the district attorney's web site about John Grisham's book being a pack of lies, but I found his side of the story pretty pathetic. I couldn't find any point where John Grisham was being unfair or dishonest about the actual facts of the cast. I also requested "The Dreams of Ada" (mentioned often in this book and about a similar case) from our library and they are ordering it.
Robbie picked this up at an airport but never had time to read it so I decided to give it a try. It was the true story of a man on death row exonerated by DNA evidence (before the death sentence, luckily). I've never read any John Grisham before so I'm not sure that liking his first non-fiction book means that I will enjoy his other novels, but I may have to look some up. I read all the Wikipedia articles that I could find about the actual case that this book is about. I even read the district attorney's web site about John Grisham's book being a pack of lies, but I found his side of the story pretty pathetic. I couldn't find any point where John Grisham was being unfair or dishonest about the actual facts of the cast. I also requested "The Dreams of Ada" (mentioned often in this book and about a similar case) from our library and they are ordering it.
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