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A practical guide to introduce yourself to data science. This book explains many key concepts in a simple straight-forward way; each concept includes example using simple spreadsheets (Excel) on how to solve.

My daughter bought this book for my wife at her school's book fair because it has a cute dog on the cover. Some how I got nominated to be the one to read it. The book's point of view as the dog was interesting for a bit but got quite annoying after a couple chapters. A dog's brain isn't complex and interesting enough to want to be inside it for that long.

I started put down, started again and then after 6-7 chapters just skimmed through the rest.

The Nutcracker story translated from the original German and enhanced with the artwork of Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are). The artwork is wonderful, but limited, it is far more story than a picture book. It is also a bit darker and mysterious than the story I'm familiar with from the ballet.

All in all I enjoyed the book, especially the The Story of the Hard Nut which gives the background of how the Nutcracker became cursed and why he's fighting the mouse king.

It makes me interested in seeing the Pacific Northwest production of the ballet that Maurice Sendak worked on which was the basis of the book's creation.

A good follow up to Little Brother, I gave it one star less than the first in the series but mainly because it is just a continuation of the story and characters, while the first one was the building. Origin stories always tend to be a bit better, and there are no half-stars.

My review for Grapes of Wrath is published at: mkaz.blog/2017/11/30/book-review-grapes-of-wrath/

My review published at: mkaz.blog/2017/10/12/book-review-little-brother/