HRC by Jonathon Allen and Amie Parnes

The latest book I have to review from #BloggingForBooks is HRC, by Jonathon Allen and Amie Parnes.
 What can I say about this book.... While it is thoroughly researched, there are no real Hillary Clinton bombshells in it. It plods along through her campaigns, her Benghazi scandal, and her Secretary of State position with page after tedious page of small print and boring dissection. I made it 50 pages in before I started skimming and I don't think I missed a thing along the way. The book begins with Hillary's run against Barack, but  there isn't much interesting to read about in her political advisers or her behind the scenes campaign fundraising. She is upset some old connections backed Obama instead of her...this is not very surprising. I wish the editors would've cut the fat and narrowed this book down by about a hundred pages.
 Unless you are an extreme political wonk with a month of free time ahead of you, I don't recommend this book.

This is What You Just Put in Your Mouth

My latest review from Blogging For Books is This is What you Just Put in Your Mouth by Patrick Di Justo.

   If you're a reader of Wired magazine you've probably seen the articles for What's It Made Of? before. The popular page takes a common item and breaks it down into it's chemical components- often with shuddering results. This book is a compilation of those items, written by the magazines article's author. The book compiled the items into two categories: Things you put in your mouth, and things you do not put into your mouth. It's likely most people have used at least one of the items listed ( there are fifty covered in this book) and the descriptions are frequent eye openers.
 The book isn't written in an alarmist fashion. The author's not saying 'stop using these products today' but merely giving us the facts and leaving us to judge. The writing is witty, with short articles tucked along with the articles on the chemical and biochemical processes of nature. The topics are entertaining to read even if you don't consider yourself a fan of chemistry. I definitely recommend it.