Monday, October 12, 2015

Pitching Around Fidel by S.L. Price

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Pitching Around Fidel by S.L. Price was an interesting book from 2000 with the subtitle A Journey Into the Heart of Cuban Sports . Price i...
Sunday, October 11, 2015

The Martian by Andy Weir

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The Martian by Andy Weir was a really enjoyable novel, with the below description taken from it's Amazon page. The book was def...

Great sports writing - on Aaron Rodgers, Chris Bosh, Mark Davis, and Rodney Culver

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There were a few really good pieces of sports writing to note here that I've seen over the past few weeks, including two features from S...
Tuesday, September 29, 2015

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid

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How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid was a novel that traces through someone's life born into third-world poverty. ...

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson

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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson is the third novel in the Millennium Series on main characters Lisbeth Salander...

Great stories on family - Warren about C.J. Chivers & Joe Posnanski about his daughter

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Two pieces of writing I've read fairly recently and keep thinking on both deal with family and our interactions with and what we do for ...
Monday, September 21, 2015

Interesting business writing - on Uber, Slack, Google Cardboard, and financial manipulation

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Recently there were a few excellent pieces of business writing from the latest issues of Fast Company and Bloomberg Businessweek. From Bus...

Pirate Hunters by Robert Kurson

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Pirate Hunters by Robert Kurson was a really entertaining book about accomplished scuba diving deep sea explorers and the search for a sun...
Monday, August 31, 2015

Current writers whose work I look for

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Related to a post I did back in 2011 titled "Waiting on Writing: Good Authors - Good Books,"  I wanted to list out the current wri...

Voices in the Ocean by Susan Casey

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Voices in the Ocean by Susan Casey was a solid book on how we as a people treat the environment, animals in it and specifically as the sub...
Sunday, August 23, 2015

Great business writing - on MLB Advanced Media, Tesla, Amazon, and working a career

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There's been some really interesting business writing lately to note here, including several company profiles as well as pieces around t...
Saturday, August 22, 2015

Great sports stories - by Bissinger, Beech, Delle Donne & Doyel

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Some fairly recent sports writing to note here included ones were about heartwarming and amazing stories as well as two pieces that very muc...
Wednesday, August 19, 2015

In the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides

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In the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides was an excellent adventure yarn with the subtitle The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Je...
Friday, July 31, 2015

Great New York Times writing - by Cook, McFadden, Dove, Mooallem, and Weiner

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There's been some remarkable writing for the the New York Times I've seen over the past few weeks, including four recently done stor...

Business writing - on Mark Hurd, writing code, painting for fun, and high-priced medicine

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Some really solid business stories over the past several months included a profile from Fortune Magazine and three different features from B...
Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

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Wild by Cheryl Strayed was a memoir of Strayed's life and her 1,100 mile hike on the Pacific Coast Trail and the book struck me as exc...
Friday, July 10, 2015

Great sports writing about the Golden State Warriors - by Jenkins, Ballard, & Posnanski

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There was a series of great pieces over the past few weeks on the Golden State Warriors and their championship-winning team and players. L...

On the Burning Edge by Kyle Dickman

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On the Burning Edge by Kyle Dickman was a good book about the profession of firefighting and 2013 tragedy on the Yarnell Hill Fire where 1...
Monday, June 29, 2015

The Tiger by John Vaillant

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The Tiger by John Vaillant was a really good work of non-fiction about a man-eating Amur (Siberian) tiger in the Bikin River Valley in Fa...
Sunday, June 21, 2015

Memorable writing - on grief, mass shootings and a papal document on climate change

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A few pieces of recent writing on different subjects have struck me as particularly powerful. On grief was a Facebook post by Sheryl Sandb...