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I have to admit, I’m attracted to cool book covers. Yeah, I know you’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but I do it. The cover of Freakonomics got my attention! With a picture of an apple on the outside and an orange on the inside, how could it not? The title itself was catchy enough!

Anyway, I started this book a few months ago and after reading half of it, I wasn’t that interested so I put it down until a couple of weeks ago.

The authors start out with a disclaimer that there is no unifying theme in the book. Even though the anecdotes and examples they used were pretty unrelated, they explored the difference between causality and correlation each time so I felt like there was an overarching theme.

Levitt and Dubner looked at the correlation between sumo wrestlers and school teachers, popular names and being successful, drug dealers living with their mothers and whether or not abortion decreased crime rates.

I’d recommend this book if you’re like reading about economics and society and how two seemingly unrelated ideas could actually be very connected.

Side note: I’ve since completed another book and just started another today so I’m behind on my mini book reviews

The Moment It Clicks is basically a collection tips from Joe McNally, an American photographer for National Geographic who’s pretty known in the photography community.

Every page has a story paired with a photo and includes a description of how the photo was shot. It’s like Joe McNally is chatting with you over coffee and telling you about each of those shoots. If only..but this is as close as I can get to that for now =p

I like that I can pick up this book at any time, whether it’s just for a quick read or for some inspiration.

So far, the book’s been interesting. Maybe I’ll do a review after I’m done lol

Description from the website:
Freakonomics establishes this unconventional premise: If morality represents how we would like the world to work, then economics represents how it actually does work. It is true that readers of this book will be armed with enough riddles and stories to last a thousand cocktail parties. But Freakonomics can provide more than that. It will literally redefine the way we view the modern world.