Title: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Genre: Non-Fiction

Will any of the information from the book ever be useful to me in either my business or personal life? I’m uncertain. That’s ok though because the information in this book is totally interesting and that alone makes it worth knowing.

Really fascinating stuff including a lot of info and history on the children’s televisions programs Sesame Street and Blue’s Clues. Most interesting perhaps though was the stuff about the Broken Windows Theory as applied to NY subways and crime in NY in general.

The book can be a little dry in parts but it’s very well worth it if you can stick with it for the whole thing.

Title: Wonder Boys
Author: Michael Chabon
Genre: Fiction

I love the film based on this book. Love it. I love it so much I false remembered that I’d read this book shortly after seeing the film and love the book too. Having just read the book I can say definitively that I have not read it before. The things that were different or just absent in the film were not even vaguely familiar to me. It was a completely fresh read.

I liked it ok. Very, very rarely do I like a movie better than I like the book it’s based on but this is one of those cases. I still think I want to read all of Chabon’s work since I loved The Yiddish Policeman’s Union so very much. I know for a fact that I did read The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay when it first came out and didn’t love it but I’m going to give it another go and hopefully have a better experience with it this time round.