My Take on Makers by Cory Doctorow
by Cory Doctorow tells the story in the near future of a two hardware hackers who fall in with microfinancing venture capitalists and invent the “New …
Category: Book Reviews
These are my thoughts on some books I have read.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – A Swedish Crime Novel
A Swedish crime novel sounds like an odd mix. But apparently Swedish crime novels are taking off. Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo …
Mission Flats – A Great Crime Novel for Your Bookshelf
What do you look for in your crime novels? Plot twists? Good cops doing good things and bad cops doing bad things? Good cops doing …
Books versus eReaders
I like this quote about books from Free by Chris Anderson (Editor of Wired magazine and GeekDad Editor Emeritus): “For all their cost disadvantages, dead …
Book Review: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
For a gripping father-son story, try The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I devoured this book in two days. Perhaps “devoured” is a poor choice of …
Book Review: Cake Wrecks
Cake decorating, humor and a blog sound like an odd combination. Jen Yates of Cake Wrecks manages to mix them all together with hilarious results …
Beyond Road’s End: Living Free in Alaska
The author lives an interesting life and can put together interesting stories. Beyond Road’s End: Living Free in Alaska is a series of stories rather …
Reading the Owly Books
Owly is a cute puffball of a bird and is almost all eyes. The other creatures that populate the stories, including a worm, smaller birds …
Beyond the Horizon: The First Human-Powered Expedition to Circle the Globe
In Beyond the Horizon: The First Human-Powered Expedition to Circle the Globe, Colin Angus details his attempt to circumnavigate the globe. The book is up …
How Shall I Tell The Dog?
In How Shall I Tell the Dog?: And Other Final Musings, the late Miles Kington offers his observations about his diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. The …
Swimming to Antarctica
I just finished reading the autobiography of Lynne Cox – Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer. She is a remarkable athlete with an …
Book Review – The Nine by Jeffrey Tobin
You would expect a book about the inner workings of the United States Supreme Court to be dry and boring. I did, which is why …
A Wall of White – My Book Review
I wanted to really like this book. But I didn’t. Jennifer Woodlief tells the story of the 1982 avalanche at the Lake Tahoe ski resort …
Joker One Book Review
Joker One is the story of a Marine platoon commander and his platoon’s deployment in Ramadi in 2004. It is a great story and great …
Book Review – High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed
This book managed to squash any latent desire I had to take up high altitude mountaineering. In High Crimes, Michael Kodas tells us about his …
Book Review: The Black Swan
I just finished reading The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. The title of the book comes from the observations of Europeans that all swans …
Book Review: Slicing The Silence
Since The Son and The Daughter came I have become an armchair adventurer rather than an outdoor adventurer. The tale of Shackleton’s adventure to Antarctica …
The Pirate’s Dilemma
The delightful Connie Crosby of Crosby Group Consulting gave me this book on her recent trip to Boston. Matt Mason traces the current web 2.0 …
Book Review: The Pirate’s Dilemma
Matt Mason traces the current web 2.0 movement back to the 1970’s punk rock culture. He starts with focus on a quote from punk fanzine …
Book Review: A Few Seconds of Panic
A few years ago, Stefan Fatsis set out to become a Scrabble champion. Now he is trying to be a player in the National Football …