Sunday, November 22, 2020

Endurance by Alfred Lansing

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 Endurance by Alfred Lansing  from 1959 is a compelling book on the twenty-eight man Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, led by Sir Ernest...
Saturday, November 21, 2020

Eat a Peach by David Chang

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 Eat a Peach by David Chang is a memoir from the chef and founder of Momfuku, now a series of restaurants on the east coast and in Las Ve...
Thursday, November 05, 2020

Creating Signature Stories by David Aaker

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  Creating Signature Stories by David Aaker  is a solid business book with the subtitle  Strategic Messaging that Energizes, Persuades and ...

Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

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Anxious People by Fredrik Backman is the fourth novel I've read from the Swedish writer, with the first two  Beartown  and  Us Against...
Wednesday, October 21, 2020

The Power of Moments by Chip and Dan Heath

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The Power of Moments by Chip and Dan Heath is a solid read subtitled Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact . The book focuses ...
Monday, October 19, 2020

Endurance by Scott Kelly

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  Endurance by Scott Kelly is from the retired astronaut who spent a year on the International Space Station, returning to Earth March 201...
Sunday, October 11, 2020

His Truth is Marching On by Jon Meacham

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  His Truth is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope by Jon Meacham  focuses on the impact Lewis, who died earlier this year, had u...
Monday, September 28, 2020

Obviously Awesome by April Dunford

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  Obviously Awesome by April Dunford is a solid marketing book subtitled How to Nail Product Positioning So Customers Get It, Buy It, Love ...
Sunday, September 27, 2020

Aligned to Achieve by Tracy Elier and Andrea Austin

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Aligned to Achieve   by Tracy Eiler and Andrea Austin is subtitled  How to Unite Your Sales and Marketing Teams into a Single Force for Gro...
Monday, September 07, 2020

The Story of More by Hope Jahren

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The Story of More by Hope Jahren is a good book following up on her biography  Lab Girl and this effort subtitled How We Got to Climate Ch...

A Very Punchable Face by Colin Jost

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A Very Punchable Face by Colin Jost is a solid memoir from the fifteen-year Saturday Night Live veteran, hired as a staff writer, and then...

Squeeze Me by Carl Hiaasen

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Squeeze Me by Carl Hiaasen is another entertaining work of fiction from the author, with the book featuring several of his recurring charac...
Saturday, August 29, 2020

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni is subtitled A Leadership Fable and the book introduction notes "it is teamwork t...

Countdown 1945 by Chris Wallace

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Countdown 1945 by  Chris Wallace  is a good book with the subtitle The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Cha...
Saturday, July 04, 2020

The Impossible First by Colin O'Brady

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The Impossible First by Colin O'Brady is an excellent book on his 2018 solo trek all the way across Antarctica. The crossing had n...
Friday, July 03, 2020

Denali's Howl by Andy Hall

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Denali's Howl by Andy Hall  is on a June 1967 climbing disaster in Alaska that claimed the lives of seven people on Denali, the highest...

Keep Going by Austin Kleon

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Keep Going by Austin Kleon  is noted as having been done because he needed to read it, a great reason to be sure, and the book subtitled 10...
Sunday, June 14, 2020

Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham

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Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham is an excellent book subtitled The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster . ...
Saturday, June 13, 2020

King of the World by David Remnick

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King of the World by David Remnick is a thorough book subtitled  Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero . Written in 1998 by the lo...

The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday

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The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday is a solid book about stoicism and the writing of Marcus Aurelius (A.D. 121-180), Seneca, and othe...