ChatGPT Secrets

ChatGPT Secrets is the third book in a trio of books about ChatGPT by the same author. It is a good overview for rank beginners who have barely heard of AI and never used it. For those more experienced AI users, there are a few unusual ideas for using itContinue Reading

Vegan Japan

Vegan Japan is a cookbook that is filled with just that vegan Japanese dishes. While the cooking techniques are relatively easy, the ingredients may be a challenge if you don’t live in a large city. My daughter who lives near Los Angeles had no problem finding the ingredients in herContinue Reading

Atlas Obscura: Wild Life

Nature has created some wild things and Atlas Obscura: Wild Life describes them all! From heavy metal vultures called lammergeiers to the Himalayas’ Noble Rhubarbs, these living beings are fascinating to read about. The lammergeier wears “KISS-worthy eye masks”, eats skeletons and loves to dye themselves blood red. The NobelContinue Reading

The Gangs of Zion

Hmmm, well there wasn’t much in this book about The Gangs of Zion, other than that they exist. Instead this is a rather pompous autobiography about a black cop in a gang unit in Salt Lake City, Utah in the 1990s. In Utah, being black was unusual and being aContinue Reading

The Work of Art

Have you ever wondered how artists, writers or other creative types begin their creative journey? How do they continue from the bare idea to the final product? Most importantly, how do they know they are done? The Work of Art lets forty-three creatives speak in their own words about theirContinue Reading

Supremacy

Everything you want to know about the new AI chatbots and the creators behind them are detailed in Supremacy. The book begins with the biographies of OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman, and DeepMind CEO, Demis Hassabis. Both begin with altruistic views of saving, or at least, helping, mankind. But the massiveContinue Reading

Nexus

Sometimes you want to read a light humorous cozy mystery or romance. Other times, you want to read a book that makes you think deeply and ponder the future. Nexus fills the second need. This book is intense and thought provoking. We have all heard the arguments both pro andContinue Reading

Capital & Ideology

Capital & Ideology is a graphic novel adaption of the famous non-fiction book of the same name. This version uses a fictional family across centuries to teach basic economics history and theories. It works well for high schoolers and up. However, younger children will be quickly bored by all theContinue Reading