The Writer’s Coin

Well the first “pick my book” event is finally over now that I’ve finished the book and am reviewing it. Overall, there are some things I would’ve done differently: make the voting easier (with a poll instead of in the comments) and maybe picking books that were better known. But oh well. It was fun […]

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We all have certain moments in our lives that kind of take us and point us in a new direction. For me, reading David Foster Wallace’s A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never do Again was one of those moments.
You may have noticed that in my Amazon Store I have every one of his books listed […]

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So I’ve had a bit of a tough run lately when it comes to books, so I’m happy to report that my current read, Interpreter of Maladies, is going great. So far I’ve read about four of the short stories and two of them have been fantastic. The title story was very good, and “A […]

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Well, I don’t know what I expected when I had my “readers” pick my next book, but in my dreams I hoped hundreds of people would be compelled by this incredibly original idea (which it really isn’t) and the chance to help out a reader who has been struggling to find a great book to […]

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I’ve been having trouble recently finding a good book to read so I figured I would give this non-fiction book a try. It had been sitting on my bookshelf for a while and I actually bought it from Borders a long time ago so I knew I would have to read it eventually (you pay, […]

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Recently I’ve been quitting a lot of books and it’s made me think about the value of reading a “bad” book vs. just putting it away and picking up one you potentially might like.
I used to read through any book no matter what, but I think since I realized that books are infinite and you […]

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This was one of the first books I ever read about investing way back in the day and it was one of the things that made me think, “Wait a minute, I can and should invest in stocks.” So I recently decided to re-read it and it’s still a great book. Some of the advice […]

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How I got here: I saw it on a few “best of 2007″ lists plus I also read and enjoyed the first two books in the “trilogy:” The Sportswriter and Independence Day.
When I saw that Ford was releasing another book to continue the saga of Frank Bascombe, I knew I would be reading it. I […]

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How we got here: I had seen this book mentioned somewhere a long time ago and forgot all about it. Then a friend of mine lent it to me and when I saw the author’s name, I knew I had to read it. Roger Lowenstein is the author of the superb biography, Buffett: The Making […]

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How we got here:
This book has been mentioned everywhere and was on tons of the “best of” lists. It’s also one of the books I committed to reading for this year.
There’s a book of short stories out there called Jesus’ Son. According to critics, it’s a fantastic book. According to my friends, it’s also a […]

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