words written down

This blog is all about words because they matter, they influence, they entertain and when you put them down on a page in a meaningful order, they acquire permanence. Contained here is my writing over the past 10+ years, primarily book reviews over the past ~5 years, and I also have a book review podcast, Talking Nonfiction, available on Apple or Spotify.

Monday, November 11, 2019

Unlocking the Customer Value Chain by Thales Teixeira

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Unlocking the Customer Value Chain by Thales Teixeira was a very thorough business book featuring the subtitle How Decoupling Drives Consum...

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb

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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb was a really good book with the subtitle A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Reveal...

The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott

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The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott is a novel based out of the true story that the CIA during the Cold War worked to make available in R...
Tuesday, October 08, 2019

Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell

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Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell was an interesting book subtitled What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know , with some ...

A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell

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A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell was a good book with the subtitle The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War ...
Sunday, September 15, 2019

Sea Stories by William McRaven

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Sea Stories by retired Four-Star U.S. Navy Admiral William McRaven was an excellent book that has the subtitle My Life in Special Operatio...

City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert

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City of Girls  by Elizabeth Gilbert was a novel that felt to spend quite a while building a backstory, and which then finished very strong. ...
Sunday, August 25, 2019

The Four by Scott Galloway

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The Four by Scott Galloway was an interesting book subtitled The Hidden DNA of Apple, Facebook, and Google and it's noted on the book ...

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

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Born a Crime by The Daily Show host  Trevor Noah was an engrossing autobiography with the subtitle  Stories from a South African Childhood...
Saturday, July 27, 2019

The Last Rhinos by Lawrence Anthony

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The Last Rhinos by Lawrence Anthony with Graham Spence was another great book from the writers of The Elephant Whisperer and while the f...

The Elephant Whisperer by Lawrence Anthony

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The Elephant Whisperer by Lawrence Anthony  with Graham Spence was a remarkable story with the subtitle My Life with the Herd in the Africa...
Sunday, June 30, 2019

Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe

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Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe was an excellent book subtitled A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland and it provides ...
Saturday, June 29, 2019

Everything is F*cked by Mark Manson

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Everything is F*cked by Mark Manson was a follow up to his book The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck that I thought excellent and wrote abo...
Sunday, June 02, 2019

The Pioneers by David McCullough

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The Pioneers by David McCullough was a thorough book subtitled The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West . M...
Wednesday, May 15, 2019

The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle

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The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle was an excellent book that preceded  The Culture Code  by Coyle, with the first written in 2009 and second...
Monday, May 13, 2019

Wait Till Next Year by Doris Kearns Goodwin

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Wait Till Next Year by Doris Kearns Goodwin  was a solid memoir by the historian who wrote bestsellers on Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Theod...
Friday, April 05, 2019

The Elephant in the Room by Tommy Tomlinson

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The Elephant in the Room by Tommy Tomlinson was a an excellent memoir subtitled  One Fat Man's Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing Amer...
Thursday, April 04, 2019

The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle

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The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle was a really good book with the subtitle The Secret of Highly Successful Groups and in it, Coyle provide...
Saturday, March 23, 2019

The Last Wild Men of Borneo - Carl Hoffman

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The Last Wild Men of Borneo by Carl Hoffman was a good book about travel, adventure, and two people whose lives were wildly different than...
Sunday, March 03, 2019

American Kingpin by Nick Bilton

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American Kingpin by Nick Bilton was an entertaining book about Ross Ulbricht, who went by the name the Dread Pirate Roberts on The Silk Ro...
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