I read Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. ($13 @ Amazon) as one of the books recommended to me earlier in the year when I asked for suggestions. It was a long read, but filled in a lot of blanks about events around the turn of the century, and a lot about Standard […]
Read more "Book Review: Titan The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr."Saw the announcement by accident while doing some browsing on Amazon. Thought I’d try it out just to see. Download and install easy enough, connected to Amazon via the app and downloaded a free book – Sherlock Holmes. Paging works by hitting the space bar or moving the track bar, and the text is very […]
Read more "Kindle for the Blackberry"Just finished re-reading Orbit ($15 or less at Amazon) after picking it up for a $1 at Books a Million on a trip, had read it just after it was first released. The main character is Kip Dawson who wins a free trip into Orbit, and winds up alone and doomed when the pilot is […]
Read more "Book Review: Orbit by John J. Nance"I heard the news via a blog post by Ward Pond that one of my favorite authors had died at age 77. Parker wrote a lot of stuff, but by far my favorite were the ones featuring Spenser, the tough smart, and intellectual detective from Boston. The books led to the TV series Spenser for […]
Read more "Farewell, Robert B. Parker"A couple weeks back I asked for reading suggestions, and I got a bunch! Here’s the list so far: Wizard’s First Rule by Terry Goodkind On Writing Well by William Zinsser A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan Old Man’s War The Road The Ghost Map Titan […]
Read more "My Reading List"The Breach by Patrick Lee ($8 at Amazon) was a gift, and wasn’t quite what I expected based on the title. Bad guy now good guy Travis Chase is out on a mountain hike to find himself when he finds a recently crashed 747, which poses the obvious question – how do you crash a […]
Read more "Book Review: The Breach"I read Life and Death on the World’s Most Dangerous Mountain by Ed Viesturs ($18 @ Amazon) over the holiday break. Viesturs was the first American to summit all fourteen of the 8000 meter peaks in the world. In this book he looks at the various expeditions to K2, which he considers to be […]
Read more "Book Review: K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain"I read a lot and like to think my interests are wide, but I fall into ruts all the same. I like fiction, non-fiction, biographies mainly, and of course technical books – though those are rarely enthralling! You can see the list of some of what I’ve read here. Books shape you, often in ways […]
Read more "Recommend a Book I Should Read"The Billion Dollar Game: Behind the Scenes of the Greatest Day In American Sport – Super Bowl Sunday Another from the new book shelf at the library, The Billion Dollar Game by Allen St. John ($11 at Amazon) covers some of the history and then the prep work for the Super Bowl. I’m not a […]
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