'Longitude' by Dava Sobel, ISBN: 0140258795. This book was great. It was bythe same authoras 'The Planets' and Galileo's Daughter'. Sobel charts the history of longitude / navigation and the problems associated with finding it at sea with no reference points. England eventually offered a prize to anyone that could solve the problem because the navy was losing so many ships due to errors in navigation and timekeeping with respect to the prime meridian in England. It's also a great story of the politics in the science community a hundred years ago (some things never change). Excellent book, fun to read. 

'The Mozart Effect' by Don Cambell ISBN: 0060937203 Well I grabbed this book at the library without a clue what it was going to be about. It deals with the concept of the healing capabilities of music. The author explores many case studies of people with different ailments, hearing loss and other issues that were healed or helped through different sounds, vibrations, chanting, etc. It was pretty interesting stuff but in all honesty I just got completely bored reading it about half way through and began reading other things. Eventually I renewed the book online but it came due again with out me ever touching it to finish. There was a lot of kinda interesting stuff about mozart and the specific positive effects his music and scales can have....but damn maybe a ghost author would have helped make the content more palatable. I dunno......it was just kind of too much work to read and bordered on out there hippy crap a little too often, which I thought was sad because I think if maybe 40% of the book had been edited out it would be a lot funner read.....maybe an audio book would be better....read by hot porn stars.... 

'Creating Wealth through Probate' by James G. Banks ISBN: 1419505149. Weeeeelllllll, this was an interesting idea that just didn't really pan out. By that I mean I'm not sure if the author couln't be specific with how to create wealth through buying probate properties or if the book just sucked ass. I may have to go with the latter. The first half of the book is content and the last half is appendix with forms and stuff that the author has used. I think the book is mostly a commercial for his seminars. It's a good idea but the book doesn't supply a lot of specific help on how to do it. I don't really recommend unless you just want a new perspective on real estate investing. Definitely don't buy new. Go to a library or buy it used from half.com or something.

'The Planets' by Dava Sobel, ISBN: 0670034460. OK, This book was great. I loved it. It was an easy an entertaining read about our solar system. Dava Sobel's writing style is light, fun and whimsical. Each chapter describes a different planet except for the first which talks about the sun. She blends trivia, religious dogma, and mythology to chronicle the history of human understanding of our solar system. I loved it and recommend it. I didn't realize it at the time when I grabbed the book at the library but Dava Sobel also wrote 'Gallileo's Daughter" which I enjoyed years ago. She has another book 'Longitude' that I'm going to have to read now.