FREAKONOMICS: By Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

I am currently reading Freakonomics. This book is about "the hidden side of everything".  It takes seemingly unconnected things and finds and shows the connection between them. It also shows how human nature works and effects the world we live in. This book is really deep and provokes a lot of thinking from the reader. 

I picked up this book by accident. I needed a book for class the next day, so I went to my shelf and just found a book. I looked at the title page and this is what I saw;

  

It showed a picture of an orange that had the peel of an apple. It caught my attention. "Why is there a weird fruit on the cover?" I thought to myself. I opened up the book and read the first flap. The first sentence got me hooked: "Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool?" I quickly read the rest of the flap. The questions got more and more intriguing. I wanted to know the answer to all the questions!

I looked up the authors and had an amazing discovery. One of the writers, Steven D. Levitt was a professor at the University of Chicago, which my brother attends! Just as I thought it couldn't get any better, i read on and saw that he taught economics...WHICH IS WHAT MY BROTHER IS MAJORING IN!!! I ran over to my brother and asked him if he was being taught by Professor Levitt. AND HE SAID...no. I asked him if he might be taught by Levitt in the future and he said maybe.

So, I chose this book because it had an interesting title picture, its front flap hooked me, and that it had a connection with my family.