Blood River by Tim Butcher Book Review
For me, the best travel books are more than just narratives that just tell how the author did A, then…
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10+ Books That Stayed With Me
About a month ago on Facebook, there was a chain post going around where you had to name 10 books…
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The Inner Game of Work by W. Timothy Gallwey Book Review
When you’re trying to learn something new or excel at something you’re familiar with, there’s a predictable process that we…
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The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg Book Review
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg is a book in…
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Empire of Wealth by John Steele Gordon Book Review
Let’s see where to start…you’ll only be interested in this book if your are interested in History, Economics, and American…
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The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau Book Review
First off – it’s absurdly hard to find a business book that’s not too fluffy on anecdotes of one-off successes…
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Tubes by Andrew Blum Book Review
When I publish this post, the content will zip out of the back of my computer over my head to…
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami Book Review
As a spectator, watching a running race mainly involves standing around for a while, then watching for a few seconds…
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson Book Review
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages…
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Shakespeare by Bill Bryson Book Review
With the move to Atlanta, new job, and new routines, it took me an embarrassingly long time to read Bill…
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Ready Player One by Ernest Cline Book Review
I grew up about 10 years too late and on the wrong side of the world to fully appreciate Ready…
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Moonwalking With Einstein by Joshua Foer Book Review
I’ve never thought of memory as skill until I read Moonwalking With Einstein. The book is Joshua Foer’s exploration into…
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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Book Review
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is a classic novel that tells the story of Okonkwo, a leader in an…
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Books Read in 2013
From 2007 to 2012, I read 263+ books. But I did not stop there. I haven’t kept up the same pace…
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Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver is a story of a family’s journey to the Congo in 1959. The Price…
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Don Quixote by Cervantes
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes is a classic Spanish novel that has been widely regarded as one of the…
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The Best Unlikely Sandwich
A few months ago when the New York Times wrote about PB&P sandwiches (yes, as in Peanut Butter and Pickle) – it…
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I Drank Kopi Luwak Today
In Southeast Asia, there’s a jungle cat called the Civet that loves to eat coffee cherries. The civet’s digestive system uses…
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Our Dumb World by The Onion
Our Dumb World is a satirical desk atlas that was published by Little, Brown and Company on October 30, 2007….
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God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
The God Delusion is a book by Richard Dawkins, a British evolutionary biologist and professorial fellow at New College, Oxford….
