Green Lantern: Emerald Warriors Vol 1. By Peter J. Tomasi

This Green Lantern book focus's on Guy Gardner. The former University of Michigan football player. :) Go Blue!  Guy has made a pact with Ganethet (the Guardian that voluntarily demoted himself to Green Lantern of sector 0, Oa)  and the Red Lantern leader, Atrocitus, to trick the Guardians of the Universe to let him explore the uncharted sectors.  Even though Guy has a big mouth and big ego, he has doubts and feels he is in over his head.  He is accompanied by Kilowog and Arisia to the uncharted sectors but make a couple of pit stops first.  We find out that Sodam Yat is not dead after all, and we find out that we are visited by an old enemy.  This is a great book that leads up to the War of the Green Lanterns.  I can't wait to read them.  This book gets my recommendation. (surprise... another green lantern book I like. )

Green Lantern Corps: The Weaponer. By Tony Bedard

Another really fun Green Lantern Corps story.  This one still takes place during the Brightest Day events.  This picks up where Revolt of the Alpha Lanterns dropped off.  At the end of that book the Weaponer (though we don't know his name then) finds a net made from white light energy.  He is able to craft a weapon using the white net. The Weaponer is from the anti-matter universe and the planet Qward.  He is the one who crafted Sinestro's yellow power ring.  And now he wants revenge for what destruction Sinestro has brought to his people.  He kidnaps Soranik Natu and tells Kyle Rayner to bring Sinestro to him to Qward.  With the truce between the green and yellow lantern corps, Kyle needs to find a way to bring Sinestro without starting a fight and breaking that truce.  This was a really cool story with some really interesting new characters like the weaponer and the thunderer's from the planet qward.  This was a really fun book and gets my recommendation.

Batman: R.I.P. By Grant Morrison

While sitting trying to figure what to write for this review, I wanted to write a whole bunch about it, but I couldn't think about what write without ruining it.  Long story short is that this is a crazy story (but a good crazy) that is very entertaining, and pulls batman's life apart thread by thread.  This book was planned to be apart of a five story arc.  This would be book four.  The first three are Batman and Son, Resurrection of Ra's Al Ghul, and The Black Glove.  This story can be pretty confusing at times.  Batman looses his minds after all.  This is not a book to jump into reading Batman stories. If you are a Batman fan, I would recommend reading the first three books first.  Otherwise save this book for much later in your reading.

The 4-Hour Body. By Timothy Ferriss

My wife likes to read health books every once in a while, and she was one that actually purchased this for her Kindle.  And since I'm over weight and haven't taken a single biology course in my life (I'm not sure how I went through junior high, high school, college and graduate school without ever having to take one still surprises me.), except maybe health class, I figured this book might finally give me enough technical answers and explanations to things that I might actually do something about my ever increasing waist line.  Unlike the the title may suggest, this isn't a quick fix book.  You still have to do the work, but it does focus on the Minimum Effective Dose.  Meaning putting the least amount in while getting the greatest returns.  For an example Tim uses in the book.  If you went to the beach looking for a tan and were in the sun for an hour and a half, you'd burn.  Your skin would turn red, eventually peel, and you'd be just where you were before you went.  However, if you instead broke that hour and a half into 6 chunks of 15 minutes each, by the end of the week you'd be mistaken for a hot South American.  The key is dosing. Water boils at 212 degree F.  Boiled in boiled.  Higher temperatures will not make it "more boiled".    You don't have to over do it to get the better results.  Exercise also follows the law of diminishing returns.  More is not always better. The book covers a wide verity of topics everything from the Slow-Carb Diet, using supplements, utilizing temperature to aid in weight loss, building extreme muscles, perfect sleep, and much, much (sometimes too much) more.  One of the things I really appreciated about his book was you could read as much into it technically as you like.  You knew the sections that were going to get very technical and just skip it but still get the idea of the concept.  For example you don't have to know how an internal combustion engine works to be able to drive a car.  Tim is also a techie at heart.  Being a programmer by trade, it was pretty cool to read about his body experiments for a tech geek.  All that being side, I am going to attempt to get off my tail and do something.  I'm going to give the slow-carb diet and exercise a month and re-evaluate from there.  That is kind of scary putting in writing, but I can do it.  The thing that  I think will help me the most will be the once a week, anything goes, day for food.  If you are looking to loose some weight, or just want to do a "life-hack" on your body to get the most from it, this could be a fun read for you.