Living Oprah by Robyn Okrant. This is a library book. It's about a woman who vows to spend an entire year doing everything Oprah says. She is a little slavish about following this exactly (for example, she receives as a gift something Oprah says to 'go out and buy' so she returns the gift because Oprah did not say receiving it as a gift was permitted) but does make some interesting observations about what happens when you give over your thoughts to someone elses vision. What annoyed me though were the summary tables at the end of each chapter highlighting what she spent in time and money during each month. The font had to be shrunk to its smallest and the screen orientation flipped for them to be readable, and that got a bit tedious.
I see to be on a non-fiction kick right now because I just picked up 'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks' with a Kobo coupon. I read an excerpt and it looks super-interesting. I have noticed a trend with me and Kobo. I seem to only get books from there which are not available at Fictionwise, so my bookshelf there is a lot choosier and the handful I have bought have been very deliberate purchases. In contrast, my bookshelf at Fictionwise is littered with a ton of 'bought it on a whim due to 100% micropay rebate' kind of stuff and is much trashier
