Categories
Mrs Enginerd TV Shows and Movies

Masters of Sex: Real Science in a Sexy Package

Virginia Johnson and Bill Masters are real life sex researchers who built their careers on demystifying sex myths and misinformation. Not as sexy and good looking  as Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan, who play the power couple on the show, the sex duo was able to breakthrough in the fields of infertility, impotence and arousal […]

Categories
Mrs Enginerd TV Shows and Movies

War Dogs (2016)

Miles Teller and Jonah Hill play two naive 20 year olds with ambition and gall to bid for small US Military contracts in the hopes of becoming reputable arm dealers. After a quick trip to Jordan to smuggle an order of Berettas to Bagdad, the duo land one of the biggest contracts, The Afghan Deal, […]

Categories
Book Reviews Mrs Enginerd

Hyperbole and a Half…

Allie Brosh nails it with this eloquent and funny account of life and personal enlightenment. You may be fooled by the caricatures, which have become veritable memes on their own. Her message resonates with most of us in the adult “age” bracket; the Millenials with a Gen X twist who are both happy and overwhelmed […]

Categories
Mrs Enginerd TV Shows and Movies

Queen of the South

Loosely based on the book La Reina del Sur by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, and translated into English, this Telenovela has been revamped for USA audiences in what can only be described as a female led version of Breaking Bad. The cinematography and writing styles are superb, and the mixing of Spanish and English dialogue glues you […]

Categories
Book Reviews Mrs Enginerd TV Shows and Movies

The Strain: Vampire Zombies Take Over Manhattan

Guillermo del Toro wanted to create a horror sci fi thriller that could be made for TV. This was way before he became the father or Gypsy Danger and a world renowned director of the gods and monsters kind. For this project he enlistes Chuck Hogan, and together they decided to enhance vampire lore by adding a […]

Categories
Book Reviews En español Mrs Enginerd

Reseña: El Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados, por Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Esta reseña es original del 2016. Ha sido revisada el 1ero de junio del 2021, tras terminar de leer el cuarto y último ejemplar de la saga… Carlos Ruiz Zafón creó un mundo extraordinario, de película y de noir, que fue influenciado por la intriga del realismo mágico que inspira la España del Generalisimo Franco […]

Categories
Book Reviews Mrs Enginerd

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Book)

I cried reading this wonderful story about crew teammates who make their dream of earning Gold in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Being a University of Washington Husky, I can only imagine the pride and joy the eights crew felt after so many days out in Lake Washington in the Cut. Daniel James Brown researches each […]

Categories
Book Reviews Mrs Enginerd

Generation Me: Why Today’s Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled – and More Miserable Than Ever Before (Book)

Jean M. Twenge created  this excellent book a few years ago, and updated it recently- to make a case for the Millennials or Gen Y. For some strange reason, my generation was seen as lazy, disloyal and well, as losers because of student debt, the abysmal job market post college and our need to stay […]

Categories
Book Reviews Mrs Enginerd

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

Daniel Kahneman is renowned for meshing economics, common sense and psychology into his theories. Working with a team of experts, he has set the standard for cognitive analysis. I haven’t found many books that don’t reference him or Csikszentmihalyi. The book solidly presents its case by introducing us to the mechanics of fast (System 1) […]

Categories
Book Reviews Mrs Enginerd

Contagious: Why Things Catch On

Jonah Berger uses his Wharton education experiences and professional study findings to explain why certain ideas stick and others flop. Although Gladwell and Kahneman have broached the subject in other books I have reviewed, no one has really dissected the art of transmitting information and making certain topics trend faster than others. Yes, marketing is […]