Okay, listen up, if you have the chance to be bigger, faster, thinner or stronger, which section will you read first? There are question thrown up, and answered, that you won’t find anywhere else. For example, can you really reach your genetic potential within 6 months?, can you sleep for only 2 hours and perform better than after 8? and can you lose more body fat than a marathon runner by bingeing? The 4-Hour Body ($17) not your common garden variety diet and fitness book, this is the result of a decade long quest that verged on obsessive, to hack into the body to see what really makes it tick. A quite extraordinary book that will make you evaluate your own way of life.
Cardboard Gods ($19) is Josh Wilker’s memoir, a quite brilliant writer who marked all the important stages of his life through his collection of baseball cards. It also perfectly captures what is is like to grow up with an obsession for baseball cards and explores what it is like to be a fanatic of the game. […]