Drop Dead Healthy Review - Here's a glance at what is buzzing within the books world today:
--Flab to fab: How did A.J. Jacobs get in shape? USA TODAY's Bob Minzesheimer talks to the author and Esquire editor at giant regarding his funny memoir, Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection, during which he strives to travel from wanting like "a python that swallowed a goat" who rarely ate something inexperienced - "not counting bottles of Rolling Rock" - to changing into the embodiment of maximal health. verify a video of Jacobs' recommendations on eating less and a photograph gallery of his journey, and skim Jacobs' first-hand account of attempting the caveman workout on The Daily Beast.
--New Grisham: John Grisham has caught spring fever! The king of the legal thriller has written a completely unique regarding baseball, Calico Joe, asking "What if a pitcher intentionally hit a batter, a young star? What if each careers were ruined?" USA TODAY's Bob Minzesheimer offers it three stars (out of four). need a lot of baseball book suggestions? verify these baseball book recommendations for kids and adults.
--Stanley Tucci scans Etgar Keret: hear Hunger Games star Stanley Tucci read from Israeli author Etgar Keret's short story assortment, Suddenly, a Knock on the Door (via EW). The audiobook, out April twenty four, are narrated by literary celebs together with Ira Glass, Josh Radnor, Jonathan Safran Foer, Willem Dafoe, Nathan Englander and Michael Chabon.
--Cyndi Lauper memoir: can the singer's memoir show her true colors? Atria can publish the women simply need to possess Fun and Time once Time hit-maker's memoir, Cyndi Lauper, this fall. The book can cowl her rise to fame within the Eighties and therefore the "ups and downs" that followed.
--Literary addicts: What books does one scan and re-read? Authors reveal their literary addictions to The Guardian, from Hilary Mantel (who loves Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honour trilogy) to John Banville (who re-reads the good Gatsby).
--Watch Jeff Kinney scan Diary of a Wimpy child at this weekend's White House Easter Egg Roll:
