Saturday, June 19, 2021

The Hero Code by William McRaven

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The Hero Code by William McRaven is a solid and short book with the subtitle Lessons Learned From Lives Well Lived . McRaven is a retired ...

Uncanny Valley: A Memoir by Anna Weiner

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  Uncanny Valley  by Anna Weiner is a memoir by a technology writer for The New Yorker who in her mid-twenties left a job in book publishin...
Saturday, June 05, 2021

Facing the Mountain by Daniel James Brown

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Facing the Mountain by Daniel James Brown is an excellent book by the author of The Boys in the Boat , with his latest subtitled A True St...

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

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The Midnight Library by Matt Haig is a short and interesting novel by the British writer. It's a nice read about the choices we make—a...
Saturday, May 29, 2021

The Nine by Gwen Strauss

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The Nine by Gwen Strauss is a compelling and important book subtitled The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Ger...
Monday, May 17, 2021

The Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Gladwell

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The Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Gladwell is a solid and short read first made as an audiobook and then turned into a hardcover. It expands on ...

Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World by Fareed Zakaria

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Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World by Fareed Zakaria is a short book by the CNN host that contains some interesting sections and points...
Tuesday, May 11, 2021

The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson

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The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson is a great book that’s subtitled Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race .  Is...
Sunday, April 25, 2021

The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre

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The Spy and the Traitor by  Ben Macintyre is an engrossing work of nonfiction subtitled  The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War . It...

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates

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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates is a solid and detailed book with the subtitle The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs W...
Sunday, April 04, 2021

Think Again by Adam Grant

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Think Again by Adam Grant is a solid book with the subtitle The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know . Grant is an organizational psych...

Last Call by Elon Green

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  Last Call by Elon Green chronicles the Last Call Killer who preyed on gay men in New York in the '80s and '90s and the book tell...
Sunday, March 28, 2021

Team of Teams by Stanley McChrystal

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Team of Teams by Stanley McChrystal is a solid read subtitled  New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World  from the retired four-star U.S...
Saturday, March 06, 2021

A Shot in the Moonlight by Ben Montgomery

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A Shot in the Moonlight by Ben Montgomery  is an excellent book that recounts the story of George Dinning and has the subtitle How a Freed ...

Intangibles by Joan Ryan

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Intangibles by Joan Ryan is a solid book subtitled Unlocking the Science and Soul of Team Chemistry . Ryan worked as a sports columnist in...
Sunday, February 07, 2021

Icebound by Andrea Pitzer

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  Icebound by Andrea Pitzer is subtitled  Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World and tells the story of sixteenth-century Dutch explorer Wil...

Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline

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Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline is a follow-up to his 2011 debut novel  Ready Player One  that became a best-seller and was adapted into ...

The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley

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  The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley  is a very detailed book originally published in 1964, one which I became interested ...
Sunday, January 24, 2021

The Road From Raqqa by Jordan Ritter Conn

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The Road from Raqqa by Jordan Ritter Conn is a compelling book on Riyad and Bashar Al-Kasem, brothers born in Raqqa, Syria and who remaine...
Sunday, January 10, 2021

A Promised Land by Barack Obama

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  A Promised Land by Barack Obama  is a well-written book that covers a tremendous amount of ground. The book jacket includes mention of th...