I loved Edward Ugel's funny, self-effacing way of telling his story. There were many laugh-out-loud parts. Enough, in fact, that my husband read the book
when I finished it and enjoyed it as well.

I read it just as a good book, but the other consequence was that I started counting calories and writing down what I have eaten with good results.

I'm planning to read his book, Money for Nothing.

Because the author is an American who lives in Chili, he focused on things that would be of interest to the American reader.
He tells the reader what was going on above and below the ground daily. We find out so many things about the miners lives below
ground - how they got organized, what they did with their time, how food was divided, how they knew help was coming, etc. We
also find out what was going on above ground and how decisions were made. Much of the books tells of things we did not know.
There were many surprises along the way. It held my interest and I gave it one of my few five stars ratings.

What a funny book. It is about his bright, unedited father who is helpful, yet embarrassing like most fathers seem to be when you are a teen.

Halpern's father has quotes, usually laced with profanities, that are
memorable.

I laughed out loud at many things in the book and am anxious to share
the book with siblings and friends.

What do airline pilots, good operating hospitals, builders of sky
scrapers, and rocker David Lee Roth have in common? It's a checklist.
When surgeon Atul Gawande presented the idea of this checklist to
hospitals his ideas, at first, were brushed aside as more work, but
as time went on and with astonishing results, he was vindicated and
more and more hospitals have added this to their surgery theaters.

In this excellent book, he ties all this together in an interesting
way. I'm not a fan of books on hospitals, but there is so much more
of interest that most everyone will learn and be entertained by
The Checklist Manifesto.