There are some first-time writers who can write like veterans; one example is Elena Gorokhova. Her first book, A Mountain of Crumbs, a Memoir, is like the product of a writer who has written many books. The book gives us a view of how it was to grow up inside the Iron Curtain, deprived of the right to be a part of the world, deprived of the right to live with freedom. But there is more to Gorokhova's memoir than just the description of the kind of life she had inside the Soviet Union four decades ago, it is an...

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One month after her wedding day, thirty-three-year-old Cami Walker was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. She and her husband were planning on coming back from their wedding, having children, and living their lives as the typical married couple would do, but  this diagnosis changed her life forever. Read More »

What's the greatest book you read in 2009? Are you looking for something new to read? Here is Amazon.com's list of top books for 2009. Let The Great World Spin (Colum McCann) Award-winning novelist Colum McCann has released his best novel yet. Let The Great World Spin is about New York City and its people in the 1970s. Corrigan is a radical and young Irish monk, who lives among prostitutes in the Bronx. Mothers gather to grieve for their sons who died in Vietnam. Tillie, a grandmother at 38, continues to play tricks with her teenage daughter to provide for her family and...

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Former Alaskan Governor and Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s autobiography, Going Rogue: An American Life, hit stores this week. I haven’t read it. Very few people have so far. But that hasn’t stopped a whole lot of people from forming an opinion. In terms of content, this probably is going to be just another politician’s self-serving autobiography. But in terms of reaction, this is something different altogether. Pre-orders were so strong that Going Rogue has been on top of the major best seller lists for weeks. Thousands, literally thousands, of people sat outside a bookstore in...

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The American version of football has tried to expand itself throughout the world by having teams, such as the New England Patriots, play in international places, such as London. Those games do draw a crowd for sure, and the stadium fills itself without any sort of problem, yet, somehow American football is not a popular sport in places other than the United States of America. Soccer, otherwise known as football in many parts of the world, has the ability to draw people together from all over the world. The United States roots for its team, Brazil roots for their players, and...

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