The Writer’s Coin

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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How we got here: This book has been on tons of the “best of” lists and I can cross it off my “best of” list challenge too.
Here is a book that is described as Office Space meets The Office. Pretty high expectation, right? Well, right off the bat let me say that the book is [...]

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I’ve written before on how important word of mouth is (and should be for marketers) when it comes to buying new products (like books).
Amazon has some really great features that are perfect for people like me that like to read a lot but also like to try new books that we’ve never heard of. That’s [...]

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This is a short book of essays about boxing. The author, who happens to teach English at Boston College (I had no idea), calls it “an education at the fights” because he is a professor and he organizes the essays to sort of “teach” readers what he’s learned about boxing and from boxing.
Unfortunately, you never [...]

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So after writing about the different lists and how much I like lists of the “best books of the year,” I run into this nifty little list of lists that brings together a whole bunch of top ten lists and adds up the scores, creating one list that kind of keeps track of all the [...]

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I still think that word of mouth is the best way and most trustworthy way to find out about books. You find someone (or a site) that has similar tastes and then you can trust them and try something new or off base.
I love all the “best-of-the-year” lists. If you see enough of them you [...]

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I used to never leave a book unfinished. I would plow through even the most boring book before moving on to the next one.
Not anymore. Over the past week I started and quit two books: The Art of Fiction by John Gardner and The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.
A teacher had recommended the first [...]

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