This week's book reviews, by Connie Forst, as submitted for publication in the Tofield Mercury.

Eat this, not that, supermarket survival guide : the no-diet weight loss solution by David Zinczenko

According to this book you can burn fat and sculpt the body you've always wanted (and even save money in the process) without dieting. All you need is the insider's guide to smart, healthy, low-cost food choices. From the produce section to the frozen-food aisle, the modern supermarket is loaded with 50,000 food choices all vying for your hard-earned money. Check out this book to help you discover what nutrious secrets can guide you to the right choice for you and your family .    

Outliers : the story of success by Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band.
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Slumdog Millionaire by Vikas Swarup

Ram Mohammad Thomas has been arrested—for answering twelve questions correctly on TV’s Who Will Win a Billion? Ram has never gone to school and never read a newspaper. There is no way a poor orphan from Jimmy’s Bar could know the names of the planets or the plays of Shakespeare ... unless he cheated. Rescued from his police cell by a lawyer, Ram reviews television footage of his flawless performance and takes us on an amazing tour of his life growing up in Asia’s biggest slum—from the day he is salvaged from a garbage can, to his job with a faded Bollywood star, to working as an over-creative tour guide at the Taj Mahal, to falling in love with Nita, a young prostitute. A brilliantly conceived fable with a modern sensibility, Slumdog Millionaire is a comic and charming novel that paints an enthralling portrait of humanity.

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