The End of Oil
Paul Roberts
Back Cover: The situation is alarming and irrefutable: Within thrity years, even by conservative estimates, we will have burned our way throught most of the oil that is readily available to us. Already, the costly side effects of dependence on fossil fuel are taking their toll. Even as oil-related conflict threatens entire nations, individual consumers are suffering from higher prieces at the gas pump, resing health problems and the grim prospect of long-term environmental damage…
Status: Reading at the moment
The Firm
John Grisham
Back Cover: When Mitch McDeere signed on with Bendini, Lambert & Locke of Memphis, he thought he and his beautiful wife, Abbey, were on their way. The firm leased him a BMW, paid off his school loans, arranged a mortgage, and hired him a decorator. Mitch McDeere should have remembered what his brother Ray - doing fifteen years in a Tennessee jail - already knew. You never get nothing for nothing. Now the FBI has the lowdown on Mitch’s firm and needs his help. Mitch is caught between a rock and a hard place, with no choice - if he wants to liver.
I read this book about 10 years ago and remembered really enjoying it. I recently saw the film for about the 10th time, so I decided to re read it. It didn’t quite live up to what I remembered, but it is still a great read.
Status: Finished
Hotel Babylon
Imogen Edward-Jones
Back Cover: The manager of one of the world’s exclusive hotels gives a grad tour of glitz, glamour, decadence, and debauchery - floor by floor, room by room, in this hilarious and horrifying expose of the ultimate service industry.
Written in the style of a novel which follows the adventures of a hotel receptionist over a 24 hour shift and all the unusual and not so unusual things that go on behind the scenes in a hotel. I really enjoyed this book.
Status: Finished
Batman, Hush Volume Two
Jeph Loeb, Jim Lee & Scott Williams
This was my first reading of a graphic novel. I really enjoyed it and it is definitely something I will read more over the comming months.