Wednesday, April 29, 2020

This is Chance by Jon Mooallem

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This is Chance by Jon Mooallem is an interesting book about the 1964 Good Friday earthquake in Anchorage, AK, with focus on Genie Chance, a...

The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson

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The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson was an excellent read about Winston Churchill and focuses on his opening year as U.K. Prime Minis...
Sunday, March 29, 2020

10 Stories Great Leaders Tell by Paul Smith

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10 Stories Great Leaders Tell by Paul Smith  is a short book that covers well how to communicate a compelling message and he makes the poi...

Becoming by Michelle Obama

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Becoming by Michelle Obama was a compelling read from the former First Lady of the United States, with it containing a remarkable amount...
Saturday, February 15, 2020

The Ride of a Lifetime by Robert Iger

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The Ride of a Lifetime by Robert Iger is a solid business book subtitled  Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company ...
Saturday, February 08, 2020

The Mastermind by Evan Ratliff

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The Mastermind by Evan Ratliff  is the nonfiction account of Paul Le Roux and his global enterprise he built that trafficked in illegally ...
Saturday, February 01, 2020

Consider This by Chuck Palahniuk

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Consider This by Chuck Palahniuk is a memoir subtitled Moments in My Writing Life after Which Everything Was Different . Palahniuk was a 1...
Tuesday, January 07, 2020

The Ghosts of Eden Park by Karen Abbott

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The Ghosts of Eden Park by Karen Abbott is a solid work of non-fiction subtitled The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murd...
Sunday, January 05, 2020

Longitude by Dava Sobel

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Longitude by Dava Sobel  is subtitled  The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time  and details ...
Saturday, December 07, 2019

Working by Robert Caro

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Working by Robert Caro was an excellent book on his approach to writing from the acclaimed author of The Power Broker on Robert Moses an...
Wednesday, December 04, 2019

The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini by Joe Posnanski

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The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini by Joe Posnanski was an interesting book by a writer whose work I enjoy quite a bit and have  post...
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...