Break free from overthinking
Kismet dishes up everything a reader could possibly crave: family drama
and Louisette Bertholle break down the classic foods of France into a logical sequence of themes and variations rather than presenting an endless and diffuse catalogue of dishes—from historic Gallic masterpieces to the seemingly artless perfection of a dish of spring-green peas
Norah is questioning all of her assumptions about the world
Trumbo sets this story down almost without pause or punctuation and with a fury amounting to eloquence
Slam Dunks and No-Brainers - Pop Language in Your Life, the Media, and Like . . . Whatever Popular Culture Break free from overthinkingIn this marvelously original book, three time Pulitzer Prize finalist Leslie Savan offers fascinating insights into why were all talking the talkDuh; Bring it on!; Bling; Whatever!and what this reveals about America today. Savan traces the paths that phrases like these travel from obscure slang to pop stardom, selling everything from cars (ads for VWs, Mitsubishis, and Mercurys all pitch them as no brainers) to wars (finding WMD in Iraq was to be a