The Enemy of the People by Jim Acosta

This book written by CNN’s Chief White House Correspondent is a great inside look at what it has been like covering President Trump. The book starts during the time of the inauguration of President Trump and goes on up until during the lawsuit Acosta and CNN filed against the White House after they revoked his press credentials. What stood out to me about the book was during the times where he talked about all the threats he would receive when he’d be covering a Trump event and when the CNN headquarters received the bomb threats. Reading what he went through during that time and his fear was great to read because often times you don’t really get to understand and know what a journalist is going through. This was a tough time for him and others but he had to push through, it’s just part of the job but I’m glad we’re finally able to see what it was like because being a journalist is not an easy job, it can be dangerous, some places more than others.

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain

If you know me at all, you know I love Anthony Bourdain and I am ashamed that it has taken me this long to read his book and that I’ve only read one of his books. It gives a great inside look into not only the culinary world but also a look into his life, with restaurant tips sprinkled in. Bourdain has such a great voice that one wouldn’t expect to be able to so easily translate into a book, though that’s how he got his start after his culinary career. The way he spoke about being a chef and the restaurant business gives his readers an inside look and doesn’t come off as arrogant. He gets down to the nitty gritty of it all, nothing ever scared him and that is the biggest reason I admire Bourdain so much.

Beastie Boys Book by Ad-Rock and Mike D

This book is beyond amazing. I laughed and I cried. It’s a long, heavy book but it didn’t seem like it. The book is a compilation of essays written by mainly the two remaining members but they had other people contribute and it has a ton of pictures which I love of course. It gave an in depth look into the Beastie Boys and their early days. I loved reading about their time in New York and all the places they would spend their days. I always found it so interesting to see where these people would frequent before they became famous. They dedicated the book to the third member of the Beastie Boys, MCA aka Adam Yauch, who passed away in 2012 of cancer. The way they wrote about him brought tears to my eyes, he meant so much to them but they are keeping him alive through the stories told in the book.