Review of Phoning Home Essays by Jacob M Appeal

I received this from a giveaway as an e-book. I had never read books that were in format of essay and at first I was skeptical, but after the first essay the skepticism fled and was replaced with interest.
Hearing the word 'essay' did not inspire much interest in me because I still remember the long hours I had spent in school to finish the assigned essays and the multiple times I had to re-write them to get them just right, however Jacob M Appeal has changed my opinion about essays and the information they can contain, now when I think of essays the word 'boring' no longer comes into my mind.
But that is only my opinion, you might disagree with me completely.