Saturday, August 20, 2016

Hellhound On His Trail by Hampton Sides

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Hellhound On His Trail by Hampton Sides was a great book about the manhunt for James Earl Ray, the killer of Martin Luther King Jr. The boo...

The Golden Spruce by John Vaillant

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The Golden Spruce by John Vaillant was an interesting book from 2005 about the illegal felling of a giant tree off the Northwest coast of ...

The Lost Carving by David Esterly

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The Lost Carving by David Esterly was a solid book about a year Esterly spent restoring wood carvings damaged in a 1986 fire at Hampton Cou...
Sunday, July 10, 2016

Not Fade Away by Laurence Shames and Peter Barton

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Not Fade Away by Laurence Shames and Peter Barton was an excellent book from Barton, former CEO of Liberty Media, co-written with writer a...

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

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H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald was about the author training a goshawk after the recent death of her father and a creative and almost ly...
Sunday, July 03, 2016

Tribe by Sebastian Junger

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Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger was a solid book about the important topic of how divided as a society we can be. ...

The Oregon Trail by Rinker Buck

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The Oregon Trail by Rinker Buck was an entertaining and in many cases heart-warming road trip book about Buck and his brother Nick traveli...
Saturday, June 04, 2016

Pieces to make you smile - by Mooallem, Frias & Posnanski

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Three pieces of writing from over the past few weeks struck me as really well done and smile-inducing, with one from the New York Times Maga...

Neither Snow Nor Rain by Devin Leonard

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Neither Snow Nor Rain by Devin Leonard  was a really interesting book with the subtitle A History of the United States Postal Service . I...
Sunday, May 22, 2016

Interesting business writing by Oldham, Leonard, Brustein & Brodesser-Akner

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There was few different interesting stories from Bloomberg Businessweek lately, with two features and two short pieces to note here. The l...
Saturday, May 21, 2016

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain

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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain was an entertaining novel about the surviving members of Bravo Squad, U.S. soldiers ba...
Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Great writing on the effects of violence

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Some amazing writing I've seen recently detailed people dealing with the effects of violence, with three of the pieces around guns and o...
Friday, April 22, 2016

Great sports stories - by Thompson on Woods & Boyd on Palmeiro

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Two amazing recent sports stories both dealt with subjects that have gone through profound (and at least in part self-caused) difficulties, ...

The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson

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The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson was an entertaining book about traveling throughout his adopted Britain, twenty years after doi...
Thursday, February 25, 2016

What We Talk About When We Talk About God by Rob Bell

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What We Talk About When We Talk About God by Rob Bell is a book I was interested to read after I thought excellent Bell's book Love Win...
Sunday, January 31, 2016

Best writing linked to in 2015

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I didn't post as often in 2015 as in past years, but there were still some great pieces of writing I linked to and following on to my se...
Friday, January 29, 2016

The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz

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The Girl in the Spider's Web by  David Lagercrantz was an excellent work of fiction as the fourth book in the Millennium Series starte...
Wednesday, January 06, 2016

Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

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Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert was an excellent read with the best-selling author's ruminations on a creative life. She covers a lot of...
Thursday, December 31, 2015

Ghost Soliders by Hampton Sides

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Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides was a really good book with the subtitle  The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission ....

Interesting business writing - on hacking medical devices, building a self-driving car, and the Tesla Gigafactory

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Three different pieces of business writing that struck me as interesting recently included an important look at medical device security and ...