For many Americans, the standard meal is cheap, tasty, and fast. Many people go out to eat (fast food or sit down), order take-out, or grab something from the freezer. In Food, Inc. filmmaker Robert Kenner examines the costs of putting convenience and value  over nutrition and environmental impact. Food Inc. It's the movie that has gotten people to stop eating certain foods and to start eating healthier. Some people simply gawk and gasp at how unhealthy the food processing world is and continue to live their lives, but for others, it is a life changing experience. Food, Inc. reveals...

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I cannot keep up with the number of books that Stephen King has churned out through the years. Somewhere along the way I have lost count. There are too many of his books already, and it seems that he's always there, every time I am in a book store there is another Stephen King book waving at me from the shelves, begging to be read. I stopped reading him years ago, not because his books have lost their magic but because there are many other authors and their works to read. But King's new book, Under the Dome, somehow...

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PostSecret is a project founded by Frank Warren. Essentially, Warren collects postcards upon which anonymous senders have written their secrets. The postcards are artistic creations (one might even venture to call each one a tiny masterpiece), with pictures, drawings, magazine scraps, stickers, and other materials that have been put together to form a unique, shared secret. At first this was a one-manned project. Warren printed 3,000 blank postcards and invited people from the streets of Washington, DC, to mail them back to him anonymously with a secret. From this original first batch, only 100 actually followed the instructions, but the idea...

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OK, I know this is thinking outside of the box for most literary types, but one of the best books that you'll ever read isn't, strictly speaking, a book. It's a graphic novel called The Watchmen. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term 'graphic novel', it means 'big, expensive comic book'. But this is not a kiddies' funny book. The Watchmen is an intense, psychological, layered story. If you're skeptical about reading a comic... ahem... graphic novel, consider that Time Magazine rates The Watchmen among the 100 best English language novels from 1923 to the present....

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Millions of copies of this book have been sold.  Written by Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo started off as a sensation across Europe and has now moved on to be a  national bestseller in the United States as well. It is a combination of a murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue. It kept me itching for more as I breezed through the pages, and I never wanted to put it down. How does the plot go? Well, the story exists due to the disappearance of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest...

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