One of the most fascinating books I have read in recent months is Peter Thiel’s Zero to One. I am not a tech entrepreneur or even starting a new business. But I found Zero to One so thought provoking and interesting, that I bought it after reading a library copy. I found myself frequently recommending […]
Archives for April 2017
Book Review | Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
2017-04-27 · by ·
While studying English in college I was once (let’s be honest this happened pretty regularly) challenged about the usefulness of my degree. I recall one conversation when I was studying mythology of some kind where I was asked if studying mythology was a waste of time. The person asking me made a living from logging. […]
Book Review | The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
2017-04-14 · by ·
Meh. I will now write a soap-boxy rant review about this book; that I imagine almost no one will read, but it will at least make myself feel better. This book has over 700 pages. I’ve read a good armful of 600+ paged fiction books. After thinking about it for awhile, I decided that about […]
Book Review | Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
2017-04-06 · by ·
Several years ago I went on a trip to Hawaii. For my beach reading, I brought along Alan Greenspan’s autobiography, Age of Turbulence. It was a giant book. It wasn’t light reading, and I think I spent the whole trip reading it in between naps on the beach. It was good. It just wasn’t the […]
Book Review | H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
2017-04-02 · by ·
Beauty and tragedy and death and renewal and nature… H is for Hawk is a beautiful memoir by naturalist Helen Macdonald. Ten points to Benjamin, who recommended it to me. I read it as part of my UK reading challenge, and while it’s not directly about the English, it is a snippet-sized view of England […]
